Happy Birthday Star Wars (today!)

innerSpaceman · 05-23-2007, 09:30 PM

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.

05-23-2007, 09:30 PM	#35
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	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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