Well, this is the first and hopefully that last, I ever attempt with fate. I personally felt that the time has come in the month of December to explain my full thoughts on this one true real life Holiday Special of Star Wars. I've seen this a good number of times mostly I spaced them out in terms of years but now with 2023 becoming s**ty enough as it is I figured the time is now to talk about the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. Through the course of my young years, I'll admit I've heard of it, but mostly through interviews especially when they did an Attack of the Clones Webisodes series most notably talking about Boba Fett since they were diving deep into his origin, but in all fairness, I never thought much of it other than hearing that Boba's first appearance was not in Empire but the Holiday Special. But again, I was so young I didn't care much about it, though thanks to the internet, mostly YouTube, the Star Wars Holiday Special is officially out now, all ninety minutes and more baffling than ever.
The Star Wars Holiday Special is a 1978 American television special that originally aired on November 17th, 1978, on CBS. It is set in the universe of the sci-fi based Star Wars media franchise.
Now, you're probably asking as to why this long-lost Star Wars film is so infamous moreover why you can't find this anywhere except YouTube, well to give you that answer in a nutshell this special was so bad that even George Lucas had to buy all the master copies to make sure it was never broadcast ever again it's that bad. And sure, you can say well it can't be that bad right, well in worst but entertaining movies go the best way to give these movies credit and great to watch is that they must be unintentionally funny. Though the problem with the Holiday Special is that it's a 90 minute movie but not even close to being funny at all, the story is set primarily on Chewbacca's home world where it could possibly set around Chewie's family and all there really doing is just being a normal family but you can't understand them because there's no subtitles so you can follow the story as it goes along, it's kind of like Star Wars Seven, Eight and Nine where they follow new characters like Rey, Finn and Poe and you're favorite characters Luke, Han and Leia are just side characters and you want more of Luke, Han and Leia, that's basically what the Holiday Special is but you don't understand a single word on what Chewie's family is saying, and it's not being rude in all but it really should be wise to follow a family that you can understand rather than being bored out of your mind on Wookie's just growling at each other. A lot of fun facts I've learned about the Holiday Special for which I think is pretty funny when you think about it especially when you learn that George Lucas actually gave a copy of the Holiday Special to late Carrie Fisher as a gift for recording A New Hopes DVD commentary and She claims that she only plays the special at parties when she wants her guests to leave, which to me is just pure genius because now I am going to play the Holiday Special every time I have to attend a family reunion. A lot of facts about the special made a ton of sense because while watching it I began to question why Mark Hamill looks weird and apparently, he was involved in a nasty car accident for which cause some serious injury's upon his face but yet for some reason he was able to film this as well as Empire which I don't really know how they were able to pull that off. Even watching the Special all by itself sure it's not bad in terms of length wise cause 90 minutes is not bad when it comes to something bad but when you watch it whole you begin to have this severe headache while watching the movie because you are so bored out of your mind and your also not understanding why this special happened and why would even George Lucas himself would even make this happen, but yet it's made and still exists. I would never in a million years want to make anyone watch the Star Wars Holiday Special to anyone I loved or make my enemies watch it. That’s the truth even if you don't believe me or not. Though that being said to all of the Star Wars fans out there who use to hate the prequals or the new sequels of the Star Wars Saga, I would strongly suggest watching this on YouTube to understand what is truly bad, and I've thirty-six years old and I've seen numerous debates in terms of which trilogy is bad moreover I can say I have my personal reasons but now that I'm old and tired of this debate in terms of which is bad and I personally believe that the Star Wars Holiday Special is that one Star Wars film that needs to be seen by everyone.
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