Leonard Nimoy's ode to Bilbo
Octopunk's Shatner post reminded me of this gem. How wonderfully awful. It's like that TOS episode where Spock gets emotions and the TV audiance is embarrassed for him.
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I forgot to warn you that you'll have the song stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
I haven't even watched it yet today and it's stuck in my head. I love this clip! What were they thinking?
I mean, does anything like this happen these days? Has Kevin Sorbo brought a bunch of chicks to the beach to sing a song about Harry Potter?
If it happened today, the choreography would probably be better.
My favorite part (like octo, from memory) is the very end when he suddenly pulls the Spock "don't look at me because I don't get it; no emotions" face that he used to use at the end of the episode when Bones made fun of him, and puts that button on. It's kind of like Macaulay Culkin putting his hands on his cheeks and making that "Home Alone" face whenever a camera's on him (as he used to do). He can't stop with the Spock (even though that's the whole purpose of the video).
"Can't stop with the Spock." I love it. Sounds like a TV promo for TOS syndication.
Tim Russ studied Nimoy very, very carefully and came u with a fantastic "100% purebred Vulcan who nonetheless has spent about a decade amongst humans" vibe.
Vulcans (like Klingons) are so great because the whole thing's a metaphor to get you to think about and understand human nature. It's so much fun to see situations in which humans successfully say stuff that impresses the Vulcans (because it's so logical) or the Klingons (because it's so honorable). In "Engame" (last Voyager) Admiral Janeway is treated with tremendous respect by the Klingons because she's "a great warrior." They may not understand how this small, ridgeless, weak pink creature did what she did, but, damn it, they sure are impressed with the results. Ditto Spock telling Kirk his "logic was flawless." (Kirk: "Didn't think I had it in me, did you, Spock?" Spock: "No.") (Then he does that fucking face from the Bilbo Baggins vid.)
This post = really strong coffee I just made
The Klingons change the most between TOS and everything that followed. Basically, the idea that Klingons were in any way honorable was invented around the time of TNG. Each and every time Klingons appear in TOS, they are deceitful, dishonest, scheming, mindlessly beligerent, untrustworthy, and not particularly bright (the Cylon-chief Klingon in "Errand of Mercy" doesn't quite understand what happened with the Organians, murmuring, "Is all this possible?" to which Spock replies "We have seen it with our own eyes" and then does that fucking face from the Bilbo Baggins vid). I'm glad they changed the Klingons, since the idea of an entire race who wears black turtlenecks from The Gap is kind of silly, and they weren't really plausible as master-enemies in their deceitful cold-war incarnation.
This coffee's great...I'm having more
Yes, by all means, as long as you keep bringing up the face from the Bilbo Baggins video. I like to think of the TOS directors using that: "And then, Leonard, do that face you're going to do at the end of that Bilbo Baggins video five years from now."
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