{"id":2800,"date":"2013-03-29T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2013-03-29T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T19:00:50","slug":"all-right-now-youre-overacting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/29\/all-right-now-youre-overacting\/","title":{"rendered":"All Right, Now You&#8217;re Overacting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know why fans of the original <em>Star Trek<\/em> such as myself love William Shatner so much? It&#8217;s because of stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4hnBp7x2QAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been making the rounds today and I found myself laughing as hard on the sixth viewing as the first. You don&#8217;t see Patrick Stewart doing this sort of thing. I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>(Actually, from what I know about him, Stewart probably <em>would<\/em> do a good-natured, self-deprecating advertisement like this. It&#8217;s just that his show &#8212; <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, for my non-Trekkie Loyal Readers &#8212; never produced a scene as iconic &#8212; or, admittedly, as corny to modern eyes &#8212; as the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4SK0cUNMnMM\">Kirk vs. Gorn<\/a> confrontation from the original-series episode &#8220;Arena.&#8221; Which, incidentally, is one of my favorites, despite the obvious shortcomings. Great message and, in context, surprisingly tense storytelling.)<\/p>\n<p>But you know what&#8217;s really cool about Shatner doing this ad? Besides his willingness to poke fun at his age, I mean? The game he&#8217;s shilling for isn&#8217;t even based on <i>his<\/i> version of <em>Trek<\/em>. The characters and scenery are obviously modeled on the Abrams reboot. And unlike his costar Leonard Nimoy, Shatner didn&#8217;t even have a cameo in the reboot flick. (It probably says something about Abrams-<i>Trek <\/i>that an ad for a tie-in game is trying to cash in on the good will fans have toward the original <em>Star Trek<\/em>, rather than using actors or scenes from the rebooted series. Or am I just being churlish?)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, speaking of Shatner&#8217;s age, does he look great for a man of 82 or what? We should all age so gracefully&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You want to know why fans of the original Star Trek such as myself love William Shatner so much? It&#8217;s because of stuff like this: This has been making the rounds today and I found myself laughing as hard on the sixth viewing as the first. You don&#8217;t see Patrick Stewart doing this sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}