I tried to give more, but apparently there's a limit! :blush:

I've finished watching Deleted Magic, and it was terrific stuff. I was particularly amused that, at one point, after a Stormtrooper demise, the program went off into a brief excursion about the famous "Wilhelm scream," including the footage from the old western in which that scream first happened. Hilarious. The whole disc is highly party-worthy.

God, this still makes me feel like an ancient mariner.

I got the discs, too, Jesse. Thanks a bunch. Something else doin' tonight ... but Wednesday thru Friday (the actual anniversary), I'm going to cram Star Wars stuff.


Heheh, I've StarWarsd-out my condo for the week. I love being a geek!

Wow, look what the Japanese have done to Princess Leia!




scroll down for even better, ahem, views.

I dont seem to recall her ever being quite that curvy

Now there's a Leia costume I might actually wear. Just saw the buns for sale at the Star Trader last weekend...

That is really cool!

Curvy and pointy...

Ok, the Star Wars Holiday Special was everything it's despised to be. But there were, to my surprise, a couple of elements I actually liked.

One of them was the animated cartoon that featured Han, Leia, Luke and Boba Fett. The character designs were, well, curvy and pointy, and I liked 'em. It was also a nicely StarWarsy segment in a bloated 90 minutes devoid of Star Warsian goodness.

I also liked Bea Arthur's entire, and entirely weird, segment as the barkeep in the Mos Eisley Cantina.

The brief cameos by Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamil were weird ... but, damn, was Ford cute as hell back then!


The entire overarching story and setting of Chewbacca's family under house arrest on "Life Day" was beyond lame ... and the choice to start the show with a nearly half an hour of dialogue consisting solely of Wookiee grunt was one of the most WTF in entertainment history.


All in all, a bizarro tangent of Star Wars filmography ... and I'm glad to have finally seen it.





Once.


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