{"id":45895,"date":"2017-05-12T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45895"},"modified":"2017-05-12T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:31:43","slug":"wheatons-livestream-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/05\/wheatons-livestream-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaton’s Livestream Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, The Next Generation<\/em>‘s Wil Wheaton<\/strong> began livestreaming readings of books on his twitch.tv\/itswilwheaton<\/em> channel.<\/p>\n

During these readings, which come from random Choose Your Own Adventure<\/em> books, Wheaton has his viewers decide what the main character in the story will do as Wheaton reads the book.<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to do something that would give people a break from all the horrible in the world at the moment and give something for me to look forward to as performer every week,” said Wheaton of his newest project.<\/p>\n

Recently, Wheaton took the reading live when he made an appearance at the Buena Vista Branch Library<\/em> in Burbank, California and doing the reading in person as opposed to online was a bit nerve-wracking for the actor. “I go around the country and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I’m like, ‘Great. Fine. Whatever,’ he said. “Coming to speak to about sixty kids, I am scared to death. So please be kind.”<\/p>\n

Wheaton chose The Third Planet from Altair<\/em> and The Cave of Time<\/em> and the children jumped in enthusiastically. In the Altair<\/em> book, they had to decide if the main character would “choose to enter a hibernation chamber in the alien spaceship he\u2019s on in an effort to survive the trip to a distant planet or continue to try to make contact with his old ship.”<\/p>\n

Choosing the contact option resulted in the main character “becoming deeply depressed and losing all will to survive.”<\/p>\n

“Wow. I mean, that is an incredibly dark ending for kids,” said Wheaton. “I’m an adult and that was hardcore.”<\/p>\n

So Wheaton and the kids went back a few pages and opted for the hibernation chamber option instead, which “resulted in the main character landing on a planet similar to Earth.”<\/p>\n

Wheaton does the livestream readings weekly on his Twitch<\/em> channel on Mondays at 6 PM Pacific time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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