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PostPosted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 11:40 pm    Post subject: Star Wars Holiday Special ... Reply with quote

Is on YouTube.

I'm afraid...
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Star Wars Holiday Special ... Reply with quote

lol

jmanski wrote:
Is on YouTube.

I'm afraid...

https://rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=186751#186751

My son and I watched it two years ago on the 40th anniversary of when it first aired (when I watched it in my childhood). It's pretty cringy.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I haven't summoned the courage to watch it yet.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disney+ has a new Lego Star Wars special I see...

I think I'll watch it...some time...
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dredwulf60 wrote:
Disney+ has a new Lego Star Wars special I see...

I think I'll watch it...some time...


It is definitely worth it. Fun, like all the Lego Star Wars stuff, and a bit silly and semi-satirical.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MrNexx wrote:
Dredwulf60 wrote:
Disney+ has a new Lego Star Wars special I see...

I think I'll watch it...some time...

It is definitely worth it. Fun, like all the Lego Star Wars stuff, and a bit silly and semi-satirical.

The animated Lego Holiday Special far better than the 1978 live action Holiday Special, even with zany 'Bill & Ted' style time travel involved.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The old Holliday special is without a doubt much more "true" to star wars than some more recent additions to the franchise IMO.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have a strong argument against that.

The animated Lego Holiday Special is still better though.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whill wrote:
I don't have a strong argument against that.

The animated Lego Holiday Special is still better though.


The LEGO Star Wars cartoons are surprisingly well done.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have not seen the original Star Wars Holiday Special you can not truly understand how those of us who lived and loved Star Wars in the 70's were tortured and traumatized for our love... It was what I saw when I entered the cave on Dagobah...and it will forever haunt me.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I only saw the original Star Wars once in the 70s, but I did have the storybook that I read several times and kept the movie alive in my mind. I didn't have that for the Holiday Special, but I wouldn't have wanted it if I did. I remember not caring for the Holiday Special while I was watching it, but it was too forgettable to be that traumatizing. Until I watched it again a few years ago, I had almost completely forgotten it.

Watching it now though, now that is traumatizing.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw it live, in 1978. Even as a 9 year old, it sucked.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would rather read the Dark Empire comics (which I still haven't) than try watching this.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2022 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yora wrote:
I would rather read the Dark Empire comics (which I still haven't) than try watching this.

Dark Empire has a couple neat ideas, but you really aren't missing much. It's poorly written and rather silly, with horrible artwork. But after seeing TRoS, I have to say I do have a slightly better appreciation of DE.
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