Part of me is sad, because Nimoy seems like an awesome person in general and he brought life to a character that will likely live on forever.
But this day had to come, and while it is sad it is not tragic or unexpected (I was expecting this to happen when the news of his hospitalization came a few days ago), and it does nothing to lessen his accomplishments.
Thankfully, William Shatner is too stubborn to die so we will always have one of the "Big 3" with us.
My first ever experience with Nimoy was Seaman, on the SEGA Dreamcast.
He honestly felt like a friend. That whole wacky bizarre talk to you fish game was insanity, but the way that every time I turned on the Dreamcast, you'd just hear him say "Hello, this is Leonard Nimoy, and welcome back. Today is..." And he'd give you this quick update.
He made it feel like I was doing this crazy science experiment WITH someone, and just made that whole thing go from a bizarre game to an actual memorable experience.
From then on I always read what I'd see he wrote, watch when I saw he was on tv, and listen whenever I heard his voice. And I think I'm a little bit better a person for it. Thanks, Leonard.
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Boston is his home town, I wonder if there will be a memorial or anything somewhere. PAX is next week.
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God...this hits me really hard. Normally I am saddened but not hit like this with these sorts of things. Came close with Robin Williams as I loved his work but Leonard Nimoy was...he was someone I feel like...shaped me a bit. Growing up I watched stuff like Transformers and He-Man but I remember first being introduced to Star Trek with the movies early on then found out my father loved the classic series. We watched them together at times and I always felt that his portrayal of Mr. Spock was someone I gravitated towards because he was so logical and was into science. Before the age of 10 I was already doing the, as my mother called it, "Spock eyebrow raise" which I still do to this day.
The story you are about to hear is true. By which I mean, it's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer... Is no.
He was so culturally ubiquitous and omnipresent since I was a kid, it felt like he was floating in the background my whole life. I guess because of that I expected him to live forever.
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It's the internet, so I give it T minus 30 until someone comes along to point out that he wasn't, you know, a real space hero. He was "just" an actor. And, of course, that person will be massively missing the point.
In one respect, Leonard Nimoy absolutely was, like the rest of that cast, an actor burdened with (as a critic I read once put it) a very ambiguous relationship to the role that made him most successful.
But the interesting thing is that he made his peace with that. He didn't spend his life complaining that he'd always be identified with this one character, but eventually embraced both it and the fact that it had touched and changed millions - literally millions of people! I mean, can you even imagine that? - for the better.
At a time when the rest of American culture was sending out messages of war and violence and outdated gender norms and, most of all, fear - fear of the Russians, fear of minorities, fear of science, fear of change - Spock was just quietly bro-ing out on the Enterprise, showing us by example how to be better, more worthwhile people.
The character was written to be smart, but because of Nimoy's portrayal, what everyone remembers about Spock is that he was wise. Unlike too many people I've encountered in the real world, he didn't use his intelligence to make other people feel small. He didn't abuse or harangue. He was tolerant or even indulgent of people's "illogical" quirks and eccentricities, greeting every new facet of human behavior with a raised eyebrow and the all-purpose declarative: "Fascinating."
Leonard Nimoy, the man, embraced all of that. He could have flipped the world the bird and crashed a BMW on a coke bender on the PCH to prove to us that the qualities we projected onto him were, after all, those of a fictional character, but he made the strange and odd and wonderful choice to just fuckin' roll with it instead and start attending NASA shuttle launches and promoting science education and supporting the humanities and generally doing his bit to try and make that fictional world inch a little bit closer to reality.
Yeah, say what you will about Takei, but where everyone else lost an icon, he just lost one of his oldest friends today. That's gotta hurt something fierce
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But this day had to come, and while it is sad it is not tragic or unexpected (I was expecting this to happen when the news of his hospitalization came a few days ago), and it does nothing to lessen his accomplishments.
Thankfully, William Shatner is too stubborn to die so we will always have one of the "Big 3" with us.
My first ever experience with Nimoy was Seaman, on the SEGA Dreamcast.
He honestly felt like a friend. That whole wacky bizarre talk to you fish game was insanity, but the way that every time I turned on the Dreamcast, you'd just hear him say "Hello, this is Leonard Nimoy, and welcome back. Today is..." And he'd give you this quick update.
He made it feel like I was doing this crazy science experiment WITH someone, and just made that whole thing go from a bizarre game to an actual memorable experience.
From then on I always read what I'd see he wrote, watch when I saw he was on tv, and listen whenever I heard his voice. And I think I'm a little bit better a person for it. Thanks, Leonard.
somewhere in that crowd, I'm pretty drunk.
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Pretty big bummer.
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Loved them in this commercial.
In one respect, Leonard Nimoy absolutely was, like the rest of that cast, an actor burdened with (as a critic I read once put it) a very ambiguous relationship to the role that made him most successful.
But the interesting thing is that he made his peace with that. He didn't spend his life complaining that he'd always be identified with this one character, but eventually embraced both it and the fact that it had touched and changed millions - literally millions of people! I mean, can you even imagine that? - for the better.
At a time when the rest of American culture was sending out messages of war and violence and outdated gender norms and, most of all, fear - fear of the Russians, fear of minorities, fear of science, fear of change - Spock was just quietly bro-ing out on the Enterprise, showing us by example how to be better, more worthwhile people.
The character was written to be smart, but because of Nimoy's portrayal, what everyone remembers about Spock is that he was wise. Unlike too many people I've encountered in the real world, he didn't use his intelligence to make other people feel small. He didn't abuse or harangue. He was tolerant or even indulgent of people's "illogical" quirks and eccentricities, greeting every new facet of human behavior with a raised eyebrow and the all-purpose declarative: "Fascinating."
Leonard Nimoy, the man, embraced all of that. He could have flipped the world the bird and crashed a BMW on a coke bender on the PCH to prove to us that the qualities we projected onto him were, after all, those of a fictional character, but he made the strange and odd and wonderful choice to just fuckin' roll with it instead and start attending NASA shuttle launches and promoting science education and supporting the humanities and generally doing his bit to try and make that fictional world inch a little bit closer to reality.
What a fascinating choice.
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I literally just finished watching the Plinkett review of Star Trek 09.
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So he deserves to die. Clearly.
Perhaps it's time to begin investigating options for personal growth on your part, friend.
There's a time and place for talking about that but it's not here.
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so glad they kept the spock-ability when they replaced the old $5s.
He did that, right up to the point where he fucking left it. The world is a worse place than it was a day ago, because he's not in it anymore.
I usually don't give two shits about celebrity death, but for some reason this one fucking HURTS.
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if the US used that kind of money the Goonies wouldn't be the same movie!
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ok fuck why is it the one Riker does that makes me cry
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