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Star Wars Holiday Special Reaction! (Patreon)

Published:
2022-12-25 18:00:03
Imported:
2023-04

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Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Edited Reaction Alongside the regular multi-part full, you now have the option of watching an edited version of the full movie reaction with 10-15mins of Picture-in-Picture. You can watch this edit in the player, or alternatively you can download it to your computer using the button underneath each part.

Comments

Jenny Chalek

OMG! What an Xmas treat! Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season, whatever you celebrate!

Anonymous

oh dear… 💀

Jenny Chalek

Oh, and Happy Life Day!

Ryan

During the '70s, there were a ton of variety specials based on various IPs like this, and this one became especially notorious for clashing so badly with what the franchise would later become (keep in mind that this was just a year after the first film, and people even had no idea who Yoda or Lando Calrissian were yet). George Lucas had nothing to do with it, and refuses to this day to acknowledge its existence beyond wishing he could destroy every copy (a wish now of course long made impossible once this taped copy found its way onto the Internet). Though you may recall that the first episode of The Mandalorian actually entered Life Day into official canon, as the perp Mando captures in the opening sequence says he was hoping to get home in time for it. Bea Arthur's character also appeared in some of the novels, joining the Rebellion after losing her bar.

Anonymous

Tbf. if you watch Tales, Kenobi, Bad Batch, Rebels, Solo and Rouge One it’ll be a few years until you reach the OT 😅 (I want to emphasize that Rebels is pretty nice!! 👀) Honestly since it was sooo hard to sync this I was glad you provided a cut-version with PiP 😂😂 Oh, and the cooking show bit was probably offensiv (since it’s the 70s), but in my headcanon this was either the first drag character OR the first trans character in Star Wars 😊

Anonymous

Yeah, those thumbnails are most apt, Jess. That’s also a most lovely festive look that you’re sporting. I’m going to start by apologizing if I'm incoherent in my comments. You’ll probably be able to tell I've perhaps had a bit too much to drink. Nothing terribly serious, just a fair amount of beer. Similar to your strategy, I wasn’t going to be having anything stronger than that whilst sharing this special with you. In actuality, though, beer’s tame for this special, because one would need to drink the amount of alcohol that gets knocked back in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? if one is to get through the Star Wars Christmas Special, in my experience, anyway. So, although I may not be so think as you drunk I am, there is still the voice in my head saying, “Tom, you’re not sober.” to which, my response to that is, “Boy, I would really resent that if I wasn’t drunk right now!” Thus, if I'm incomprehensive in my comments, again, I do apologize about that, Jess. I also might have to space my comments out some, and if that proves too much, I'm sorry about that too. I would like to be very clear that I didn’t vote for this as this is, in my opinion, the nadir for Star Wars. To borrow from Roger Ebert’s review of Freddy Got Fingered I believe it was, (HORRIBLE film, by the way.) this special, “It doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel, it isn't the bottom of the barrel, it isn't below the bottom of the barrel, it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.” It came out a year after A New Hope and it is frankly a goddamn miracle that the franchise survived this. It's amazing that they got all the primary players from A New Hope to be in this, save for Peter Cushing and Alec Guiness for obvious reasons, as well as no David Prowse or Kenny Baker. Practically everyone involved with this does not have much positive to say about it. George Lucas has freely admitted that he wishes he could track down and destroy every bootleg copy of it. Mark Hamill states that he knew it would be terrible the second that he read the script. Mention this to Harrison Ford and he instantly looks like he wants to murder something. Carrie Fisher confessed that she was high on cocaine whilst making this. Amusingly enough, she had a copy of the special. And I don’t recall if it was her daughter, Billie Lourd or someone else who said this, but apparently whenever Carrie hosted a party at her house and she wanted people to vamoose, she would put on the special to send a message “You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” to which people would get the message and begin vamoosing. Your dawning realization of just how much time we would be spending with Chewie’s family all without any fucking subtitles was priceless. I had a similar moment myself when I first saw it. That's a fair comparison you made with the droid arc in Clone Wars. I did get a big kick out of you dancing along to the random holographic Ringling Brothers scene and then later, the random Jefferson Starship music video. Great though Art Carney is, it's odd seeing him in this. Harvey Korman, much as love him to pieces, he also is a jarring presence in this. Harvey as the space Julia Child is one of the most horrifying images I have ever seen. My first time seeing it, I screamed bloody murder, and I wish that I had had the strength to rip my eyes out of my head. But even blind I would see that nightmarish image forever. Watching it again this time, I grabbed myself a fresh beer and just started chugging it for the duration of the stir-whip derangement. Your reaction to that portion of the special was most appropriate. And, yes, hard to tell based on the low quality of the video, but I agree there is a shared feeling of discomfort, that’s all I'm going to say about that. Concerning the Diahann Carroll segment of the special, one, your reactions to the whole thing were reactions for the ages. Two, no I do not have that on my Christmas playlist. And three, yeah, you were pretty much spot-on with your initial surmise as to what Grandpa Wookie was watching. And that’s all that needs to be said about that part of the special. Yeah, a touch farcical how the Imperials try to intimidate Chewie’s family, particularly seeing as how Imperials don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets, and Wookies are known to do that. Thus, you rightly observe that the Imperials might wish to consider a new strategy and not piss off the Wookies, lest they run the risk of the outcome, as you succinctly put it, “Mala’s about to wreck these bitches in her house; let me just say. Ok.”

Anonymous

Now, there are some bright spots in this. First, James Earl Jones as the voice of Darth Vader. I can never be upset about that. Second, the samplings of the classic John Williams score from A New Hope, your dancing along to that was delightful by the way. Thirdly, this special marked the debut of a simple man making his way through the galaxy, like his father before him, Boba Fett himself. It's interesting in retrospect how the special predates the casting of Jason Wingreen as the voice of Boba to Jeremy Bulloch’s physical portrayal, yet the voice they got for Boba in this sounds remarkably similar. This is of course over two decades prior to Jango’s debut, and with it, Boba’s backstory being revealed, hence why Boba does not sound like Temuera Morrison. Well, that and Temuera was around eighteen I think when this came out. Then there’s the scenes with Bea Arthur which are surprisingly good, or at least nowhere near as terrible as most of the rest of the special. Bea herself said that she genuinely had a good time on this. I loved your reaction to Bea’s musical number, and again, your dancing along to it was just such a delightful part of the reaction. I've heard jokes about how the Empire is enforcing the curfews on Tatooine because the Emperor badly wished to have the saloon permanently closed so that Bea could align with the Empire and join the Dark Side. I like to imagine the Emperor saying things like, “Soon this Tatooine saloon will be crushed, and Bea Arthur will be one of us! And if we are most fortuitous and our plans yield an abundance of prosperity, we will also have Bea’s mother, Sophia, to join us as well! It will be most relishable to reminisce and regale with her the tales of youth!” And in terms of bright spots of the special, we of course have Anthony Daniels returning as C-3PO in this, thus, when watching this for your reaction, I was genuinely happy for you, Jess, knowing that at the very least, at the absolute minimum, you would get to see your King in this, and it would mean that your King would brighten things up considerably for you in this special. Much as I wish I could say that the same would be the case for me as well, unfortunately, my King had yet to make his debut in the franchise at that point in time when this special aired. My King would not debut until about a year and a half after this special, as a matter of fact, and it would be I believe it was another year following that until the casting of Ian McDiarmid as my King. Alas. Still, having said that, I will say that 3PO was a welcome presence in this, and Anthony was delightful as per usual as 3PO. Your screams of joy when he appeared and all that you said about 3PO in his scenes, that was everything, Jess. Anthony, by the way, has also been vocal about his opinions of the special. He says he still has the script for it, though he refuses to look at it, and has referred to the special as a turd. I will say that the idea of a C-3PO song and dance number does sound most tempting. I KNEW that one bit of dialogue that 3PO had would get you right in the heart. So, in the end, I am quite pleased that you enjoyed this more than I and other Star Wars fans did. And though I still think the special is putrid beyond belief, I confess that I genuinely had a nice time sharing it with you; it was most lovely. I'm also happy to hear that this December has been somewhat less hectic for you, thus allowing you to have the opportunity to spend time with friends, family, and loved ones. As someone who anymore is quite a Grinch, I appreciated you saying, “You do you.” in the final moments of the reaction. You mentioned revisiting the original trilogy, and I would relish revisiting the trilogy with you, if that is something you are wishing to do. This was fun. Thank you very much, and a very Merry Christmas to you, Jess.

Ryan
>>98252137

The really funny part is that the tape includes a commercial bragging about how huge Star Wars was when it came out the previous year, to which no one can resist adding "And then tonight happened."

Ryan
>>98252155

It's also pretty amusing how much Han's notorious stretched face in the animated segment resembles his eventual son Adam Driver.

Ryan

Oh, and if you're wondering about Mark Hamill's hugely made-up face here, he'd just been in a disfiguring car accident that forced them to really pile the stuff on to make him look remotely presentable. This was also why Empire Strikes Back opens with him getting attacked by the Wampa, as his face was still healing and they didn't want a repeat of the hell the fans gave them for his appearance here.

Anonymous

Oh you didn't Sesska, why!?! Even if it was the most voted for thing, why would you put yourself throug this!! When Carrie Fisher was hosting parties that went on too long and hangers-on wouldn't leave, she put this on to clear them out and it worked every time!!

Kelvin

looooooooool

Anonymous

Merry Christmas Jess!

Brodie Vickers

What a treat.. 😬😄Merry Christmas!🎄

David Vandervliet

I remember being a boy of 7 watching this, and most of it boring me a bit, the music numbers especially. But the cartoon of course stuck with me. And the Jefferson Starship video for some reason. the Circus less so. I remember Diahann Carroll and her silver hair, but no had no memory of the content of her song. Anytime an actual character who was in the movie appeared tho, was cool for me as a child. Even just stormtroopers. Especially Han's scenes with Chewies fam. It gets weird when you realize the Chewie's wife Malla was played by the same actor who played Kloog, the big guy with the fangs in the Star Trek episode The Gamesters of Triskelion...

Anonymous
>>98251354

tbh with the cooking show bit, i think the part that was uncomfortable wasn’t necessarily *that* aspect, but more so the makeup they used for the actor in that scene… cuz, yeah… 😬

Anonymous

As I commented in the wrong place earlier, the animated sequence was the first actual appearance of Boba Fett and the forked weapon he was holding while riding the serpent was recreated for Din Djarin on The Mandalorian. Din's bounty in the first episode also made mention of "Life Day". Also, Chewie's family has been brought into the canon with his son appearing in one of Chuck Wendig's "Aftermath" novels.

Anonymous

You said in your Labyrinth reaction someone had done drugs. I'm only fifteen minutes into this and it's trippy AF.