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The Star Wars Christmas Special Still Exists
rapturizer noted the critical news that "Fans of "Star Wars" have a chance to see a free screening of the notoriously bad 'Star Wars Holiday Special' next week in Minneapolis."
Nothing brings out the Christmas spirit like watching what may very well be the worst TV ever produced. Sadly however, I'm not sure that this is the worst *Star Wars* merch ever made.
Santa shot first!
for the notoriously bad prequels
Don't worry, Lucas fixed it up this time. All of the blasters and light-sabers have been replaced by walkie-talkies and Santa shoots first.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I'm torrenting this with all the files set to dont download because its so bad.
For those of you awaking in your tauntaun right now
As a matter of fact, I was.
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Whenever I try to share some of my Malla and Lumpy centric Star Wars fanfic with people, they always turn me down and say something like, "The Star Wars Christmas Special doesn't exist, George Lucas even said so," or, "The events of the Christmas Special aren't canonical." Well, who's laughing now, fuckers?
This might be just whats needed to eliminate fans that somehow survived the prequels!
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OK, go find a copy of Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and listen to it 20 times in a row.
It's *that* bad.
The Star Wars Christmas Special makes the KISS special look like Casablanca.
Can it really be worse than Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor?
No, it's not that bad. Those were trying to be serious and lacked in almost every department.
The Star Wars Holiday Special was meant to be a holiday song & dance special, set with Star Wars characters. The plot is reasonable for kids and the acts are amusing. There's even the introduction of Boba Fett, with more characterization of the character than in either ESB or ROJ. There is imagination portrayed in most of the costumes and acts acts and especially the Wookie house set (a 1970's dream home hung a mile high up a tree), but it's certainly targeted at the 4-10 year old audience it was written for (it's designed that way because it's a home they can feel comfortable with).
If you want it to be a serious entry in the Star Wars saga, you'll of course be seriously disappointed. But that would be missing the point entirely - this is the Carol Burnette show set on Kashyyk meant to make kids happy and drive home the point that it's important to be with family on the holidays. If there's no room in your heart for such a use of the Star Wars Universe, then holiday fare from Dickens and Geisel would be recommended viewing.
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The answer is none. None more bad.
Excerpt from Interview:
MAXIM: "Any plans for a Special Edition of the Holiday Special?"
George Lucas: [hangs head] "Right. That's one of those things that happened, and I just have to live with it."
Hehe.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
My best memory of that song is from a radio show presented by British comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They played the song and added commentary. It went like this:
William Shatner: Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes...And she's gone. [weird echo effect]
Richard Herring: William Shatner obviously thinks you actually have to *be* on LSD to sing this song.
If further reinforcement is needed, I loaned my VHS copy to a coworker. It literally drove him to drink - he was a teetotaler until he'd sat through the Holiday Special.
It is far, far worse than the Ewok movies.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
There are six legitimate installments of Star Wars canon. A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage, The Battle for Endor, and The Star Wars Christmas Special.
Racist? I didn't realize you could be racist against a fictional species. I mean, I don't think Gungans even have race; they all seem to have the same basic body type and skin color. Jar Jar says "meesa" a lot, but I assumed that was brain damage.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
It's a trap!
I've seen it. It's bad. Really bad. I think this is what drove Carrie Fisher to do drugs. She was in it, and she had to say the lines, and the lines were bad even by Lucas standards, and I cringed with every word. It was torture by proxy; what Jabba did to Leia was nothing compared to what Lucas did to Fisher in that special...
The only way Lucas could fix this is by digitally replacing it with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Don't forget when Conan O'brien confronts Harrison Ford with a clip! http://www.videosift.com/video/Conan-asks-Harrison-Ford-about-the-Star-Wars-Holiday-Special
Closer to the exit?
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
And I’m not even sure it’s what’s depicted in this image here: ^^
http://pictureisunrelated.com/2009/09/15/if-i-have-to-live-with-this-image-so-do-you/
(As it says: If I have to live with this image, so do you. ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
You mean what the term “EPIC FAIL” was invented for, before it was used for every dumb shit? ^^
No wait, I have a new term for a failure of *biblical* proportions:
BIBLIC FAIL! — When something is as bad as *half the world* falling for a fantasy story book, believing it is real, and adjusting their whole lives to it for thousands of years! ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Ahhh the 70s - the lost decade where almost everything produced for TV was fueled by drug experimentation. Or sounded like disco. Or worse - had a little of both (Buck Rogers) so it could be twice as craptacular.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
2:45. The singing... I can feel brain cells dying.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
OMG, yes. Yes it really is worse. I mean, I was able to sit through Ewoks: Battle for Endor all the way through. I couldn't finish watching the Christmas special. I would liken it to being digested in the sarlacc pit (pre-special edition) for thousands of years.
"Battle for Endor" - you mean the second half of "Return of the Jedi"?
Bow-ties are cool.
You can't jeer, you can't make comments - you're too busy laughing. It's that bad.
No, the laughter is false, just intended to cover the noise of the weeping. It's that bad.
Bow-ties are cool.
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I love Slashdot. Where else can the cultural merits of the Star Wars Holiday Special be compared to transcendental truth and the entire hope of a species?
The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
Luke, be a Jedi toniiiiiight, just be a Jedi toniiiiiight.....
(I know it's not from the SWHS, but I'm sure people on /. will know it)
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