5/24/2023 0 Comments Star wars chewbacca song barChewie howls at him and Han Solo, Smuggler Hero of the Rebellion, Mr. Han Solo, whose appearance in this is making me realize that THIS SHOW will be the first Star Wars artifact with the OT crew I have recapped yet, is griping to Chewbacca about how he’s going to have to take a detour around the Imperials that are hot on their heels. Well this seems pretty standard issue, right? We open with a space battle in progress, and the Millennium Falcon mid-skirmish. It is time for me to embrace my destiny - I give you The Star Wars Holiday Special. May you all have the best Life Day ever. With that: an early happy holidays from Snark Wars, my lovely readers. Once you’ve lived through it, and doubtlessly emerged a forever changed human being, I invite you to collect yourself and whatever parts of your sanity remain, settle in with a beverage of your choice, and enjoy the following recap. I suggest you hunt down a copy for yourself and enjoy, preferably roping in some of your Star Wars fan friends to watch with you while you’re at it. This sounds like the only thing we’ve all ever needed Star Wars to give us. I know what you’re thinking: this sounds incredible on every possible level. You know: all things that are part and parcel of a proper Yuletide Season. This led the powers that be to the sound decision that if there was one thing Star Wars irrefutably needed to fill the gap between Obi-Wan’s “I was once a Jedi Knight, same as your father” and Vader’s “ I am your father”, it was a campy 1970s holiday special: one that included musical numbers, celebrity cameos, and a brief, spliced-in animated portion about a bounty hunter who hadn’t even been in a single second of the actual film canon yet. Or at least it used to be, before Disney decided that we’ll just be getting new Star Wars content every year for the rest of the eternity because none of us really needed to be functioning human beings anyways.) Anyways, back then, while Team Star Wars set to work deciding what kind of insane heart-punching Jedi pathos to throw at us in the next saga film (and boy, did they ever come up with a doozy for Empire,) the public demanded more. Star Wars is kind of like a plague of locusts that descends on humanity every handful of years. This was at a time when Star Wars Fever was at a peak (or, you know, one of its peaks. The Star Wars Holiday Special came out in the time between the release of the enormously successful original Star Wars film, and its little-known, low-budget follow-up The Empire Strikes Back. If you haven’t, first let me queue things up by giving you a brief explanation of WHAT it is (as though I could ever really do this justice in a few sentences.) If you have seen it, you know I am not wrong. I can’t really provide a substitute for what you might discover when you watch it yourself, which you 100% absolutely should do. So - here’s the thing: The Star Wars Holiday Special is an experience. Clearly this is where my life has been leading me. In some ways, I suppose I should always have expected things to come to this point. Yes, I’m actually doing this: I’m taking a brief break from this site’s usual TCW-and-Rebels fare, and in honor of the upcoming holiday season, I’m going to recap all one hour-and-36-minutes of The Star Wars Holiday Special.
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