Star Wars Holiday Special

I don't care what anyone says. Lucas can do no wrong. Everything "Star Wars" is flawless gold. Jar-Jar is a cherished part of Star Wars continuity, and so is the Holiday Special. Don't let anyone tell you different. Happy Life Day!

I saw a small part of it on youtube a few years back but never saw the whole thing. I'll have to do that one of these days

Paeter wrote:I don't care what anyone says. Lucas can do no wrong. Everything "Star Wars" is flawless gold. Jar-Jar is a cherished part of Star Wars continuity, and so is the Holiday Special. Don't let anyone tell you different. Happy Life Day!

Paeter, I'm giving you a negative geek cred vote on this, simply because having watched a great fan edit of Star Wars, I'm convinced that Jar Jar, the Gungans, and probably the Ewoks were NOT a necessary part of the show to make the story good.

as for the Holiday special, I give my own self a negative geek credit, simply because I've never actually SEEN it.

I've watched the Holiday special just as a StarWars fan, couldn't figure out why it took me 20 years to hear it existed.....well till about 5 min into it!! I had a hard time beliving Lucas made it. I likely won't watch it again, but its an interesting bit of history now!! Then again I'm not hardcore. I just like a good starwars show. I had no issue w/ Jar Jar or w/ the new clone wars shows. If you can believe that 100's of races exist, surely not all of them are skilled and graceful...would have to be a couple kookie ones!! There was a couple of Ewok spinoffs to if you really wanna go down that road!

CreatorsPixels wrote:I've watched the Holiday special just as a StarWars fan, couldn't figure out why it took me 20 years to hear it existed.....well till about 5 min into it!! I had a hard time beliving Lucas made it. I likely won't watch it again, but its an interesting bit of history now!! Then again I'm not hardcore. I just like a good starwars show. I had no issue w/ Jar Jar or w/ the new clone wars shows. If you can believe that 100's of races exist, surely not all of them are skilled and graceful...would have to be a couple kookie ones!! There was a couple of Ewok spinoffs to if you really wanna go down that road!

I think it took me slightly longer to realize the holiday special existed, so I turn in som egeek cred for that as well. I love the new Clone Wars series. Too bad we know where it'll end. And I do see your point about there being all kinds of civilizations inhabinting the universe. Kookie, annoying, and quirky ones as well as the suave, debonaire, and normal kinds.

Ok, well I will admit it was really only 2 years ago I found it. I thought it was made in the 80's though. After checking, it was made in 1978 I see, so I guess that is more like 30 years for me.

Drew.Rub wrote:

Paeter, I'm giving you a negative geek cred vote on this, simply because having watched a great fan edit of Star Wars, I'm convinced that Jar Jar, the Gungans, and probably the Ewoks were NOT a necessary part of the show to make the story good.

Oh, I agree. That was actually all thickly applied sarcasm. I'm a Star Wars fan, but plenty of things about it drive me nuts. Basically you can read that entire post of mine as a "Bizarro World" post and discern my actual opinions about Lucas, Star Wars, Gungans and the Holiday Special.

Which is why I recently said on the show that the Star Wars franchise out of Lucas' hands = MASSIVE improvement.

That said, every Star Wars fan should force themselves to watch the entire Holiday Special once... preferably with friends you can laugh, groan or scream in horror with.

Paeter wrote:That said, every Star Wars fan should force themselves to watch the entire Holiday Special once... preferably with friends you can laugh, groan or scream in horror with.

I"ll have to find some friends to fit that bill. Mindspike, you up for it!?

My Christmas Gift to you guys.

















How long is this thing?



Part X was blocked by Fox on grounds of copy Copyright (like anyone actually got that far)

Stang, Rickster. Now I have to find some time to actually watch it! You're about to make my wife a Star Wars widow, you realize that?

I'd totally be down to watch the Holiday Special, but there's a rock I have to hit against my head first!

Drew.Rub wrote:Stang, Rickster. Now I have to find some time to actually watch it! You're about to make my wife a Star Wars widow, you realize that?

I didn't post the whole thing I kind of gave up after I saw Part 10 was blocked and I couldn't find Part 11 and there was at least 15 parts that I saw if anyone knows another plae to watch it let me know

Then there's the Holiday Special we all could have gotten behind: https://youtu.be/QMmaO6MzK4E

I will see your Star Wars Holiday Special . . .

And raise you one Donny and Marie Osmand Star Wars special . . .

http://strangersandaliens.com/2012/12/starwarspecial/

Only ten minutes long. Time dilation makes it seem longer.

And one thing they knew that George Lucas didn't? That Luke and Leia were brother and sister . . .

Oh, and as far as geek cred goes . . . I saw the Holiday Special on TV!!! When it aired!

It was a second Star Wars movie, as far as little Benjy Avery was concerned. Little Benjy Avery didn't consider if it was canon or not . . . it happened, it was Star Wars, it was real.

Ben, I feel your pain. I can never completely erase the memory of that "special." On TV.

I'm surprised that it hasn't been relesed on DVD it seems like even if it's bad A lot of Star Wars Fans would want to own since it's Star Wars and it has the first apperence of Boba Fett in it.

The Boba Fett material HAS been released on the Blu-Ray, I believe. But none of the rest.

Sad, really.