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August 2012

Jammer’s Reviews: TNG Season 6, Episodes 20-23

TNG: Frame of Mind
Riker is trapped in a mental ward. Aren’t we all.

The last time I posted feels like quite a long time ago (discussions of the Priceline Negotiator notwithstanding), probably because, well, it kind of was. Right after my last TNG update, I got pulled into a fairly significant homeowner project that occupied a very busy couple of weeks, which somehow derailed my entire writing process. I don’t know what it is, but keeping things going sometimes feels like a freight train. It’s all about the momentum; as long as it’s moving along, it keeps on moving along. But once it stops, it’s somehow hard to get things going again. Suddenly I looked down and six weeks had gone by. (Read more…)

Priceline Negotiator lives!

Seven months after supposedly being killed in a fiery bus explosion, it turns out the Priceline Negotiator lives after all, apparently because Priceline realized that William Shatner was more useful to them alive than dead.

In a new commercial, it turns out the Negotiator has been surfing the waves, having retired from the old life. But now the shadowy hotel-booking outfit is trying to pull him back into his money-saving-message-spreading ways. Will he accept?

I always thought that Priceline’s decision to kill the Negotiator, even if price negotiating was no longer to be their business model, was an odd choice. Why not just change what his character does, if negotiating was no longer to be his way? When you have such a recognizable pitchman, what’s the advantage of starting over? (Read more…)