The Horns of Nimmon

[Starflower]

Never seen this one before.

ooooo a space ship!

Wow. These guys have wierd hats and ocordians on their arms.

Of course, the classic wise and patient leader and impatient follower.

Fun stuff, green guns and people in yellow jumpsuites.

Sad people in yellow jumpsuites. =(

The plot unfolds.... a war!

Boom! Something explodes and the power goes out!

Shakey! Shakey!

Awww.... poor girl asking the other guy to look after her.

Dang, the guys with wierd hats are dead.

0_0 I don't like K-9's voice in this one.

OMG! Four's hat is squished!

Wow... Romana's in red..... very very red.

Ofcourse. As he says "What could possinly go wrong" and something goes wrong.

The imfamous blackness.

Ouch. Something blew in K-9 and hit Four. =(

Oh no! K-9's broken down!.... ok. He's better. =)

Oh noz! The space ship in the blackness!

:/ dang. Only of the men in black is dead.

0_0 A guy just came out of a wall!

THESE GUYS HAVE HUGE FIN THINGS ON THEIR ARMS! 0_0

Dun dun duuuunnn....

I like Romana's boots

Shiney lights!

Now let's walk through the shiney lights

K-9's too loud. XP

Four's eyes are huge!

Oh no! Gravity level is going up!

Ohhhhh.... their sacrifices. Sad day., =(

Wow. This guy has a HUGE collar.

Romana's being so optomistic.

Lol Doctor tried to take Romana's sonic screwdriver.

There he goes walking through walls again.

Why is K-9 covered in paper?

Wierd echoey voices....

=( Doctor got left behind.

EEK! A creepy glowy horned thing....

No noz! Planet is heading toward them! Yes, hug K-9!

Ooooo eee oooooo

Recap!

Cute! K-9 gets a first prize ribbon!

You tell him Romana!

Ofcourse, it's the whole 'conquer the universe' thing.

Dang it. Romana lost her sonic screwdriver.

Explosions, banding, crashing, springs, poor ol' Tardis.

Lying person. Romana tells the truth.

Dang. Now that guy fell through the wall.

Doctor counting down... yay! It works!

Lost in the confusing coridoors

Walls keep changing.

The rocks on the scanner picture look like a person with his arms and legs out.... unside down.

Wierd husk rockish person.
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I'll finish later.

[clocketpatch]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-8np3aw-Cw

... the episode in very funny sum-up. I love the wardrobe malfunction. I love the over-acting. I love the fact that something as awesome as this could be produced and then subsequently watched by millions of people.

[jjpor]

Yeah, Romana _is_ awesome, especially when she's going crazy at that spaceship crewman: "Turn back - NOW!!!" and doing that angry-Romana face and everything. As I said recently, it rivals McCoy for sheer crazy/angry amusement value. I think she probably got like that at Four sometimes, when he _really_ ticked her off (as he seems the sort to do). Although she maybe didn't call him a despicable worm. One moment that I think sums up Four/Romana II perfectly; where she's busy fixing the spaceship so that he can concentrate on the important task of annoying/mocking the co-pilot - now, that's teamwork! Also love the bit where Romana runs off and just leaves the kids at the mercy of the Nimon - I think she thought they were supposed to be following her or something.

I think this is one of those stories where it seems a little churlish to go pointing out the faults too much - I mean, sure, it's no Talons, or whatever story you want to go holding up as the pinnacle of Who-ness, but it is unadulaterated 24-carat fun. I mean, old Soldeed isn't just chewing the scenery; he's biting off great chunks and swallowing them whole. It kind of goes beyond bad acting into some strange, stylised, realm of its own where you just have to stare and wonder.

I quite like the Nimons (and, yeah, they're cheap-looking, but I really don't think the cheapness of the effects is a legitimate criticism where oldWho is concerned - they did their best with what they had); not only are they obviously bull-like in keeping with the whole Minotaur thing, but their heads also look kind of like those of locusts when you look at them from some angles. No idea if it's deliberate, but it seems strangely appropriate considering their convincingly mundane and scummy motive for doing what they do, which they go about it in a satisfyingly callous and underhanded way. Similarly, the Skonnons are down-at-heel, tinpot would-be galactic overlords with no idea of just how badly they're being had, and would appear not to get any better for their close call with the Nimons according to the Doctor's summing up at the end. And I can see where they're coming from with the Nimon's platform shoes; they're supposed to be cloven hooves like bulls have, I guess; too bad they're no good for chasing people in.

And Janet Ellis, the girl in the yellow jimjams, later ended up as one of the presenters on Blue Peter, before quitting amid some silly sort of scandal, I seem to remember. Her daughter was later a popstar.

[magnusgreel]

Heh heh heh... power complex.... thanks Doug...

[jjpor]

Mar 17, 2009 3:48:09 GMT magnusgreel said:

Heh heh heh... power complex.... thanks Doug...

Hey, that's why they brought him on board!

[magnusgreel]

I like the idea of the decadent former power that thinks it has an inherent god-given right to an empire, and thinks it can somehow work to have an empire handed to them on a platter! It reminds me of a great cartoon I once saw, entitled "The death of civilization", where a scrawny little Roman in a toga is holding his hand up to a huge barbarian to block his way into Rome, saying "Halt! I am a Roman!"

[jjpor]

You're right; even at its silliest and cheapest, there was still a lot of great worldbuilding and ideas going on in late 70s Who; Nimon's one of those stories that has more to it than you maybe suspect the first time you see it; people who write it off completely along with the rest of that era do so at their peril.

[magnusgreel]

That sounds like a threat...!

[jjpor]

Or maybe a promise... ;D