A Modest Proposal To End The Fandom Feud Forever

[Awesome Possum]

Star Wars fans are more divided than ever. OT fans hate PT fans and ST fans. PT fans hate everything, especially Mr. Plinkett. ST fans are just happy to be here like golden retrievers. Some hate ROTJ, some TLJ and everyone hates AOTC. But we can unite on one thing and one thing only, a "film" that defiles all that is good. More an entity than a movie, a creation that defies all logic and understanding.

I speak of course of The Star Wars Holiday Special. It being both close to the 40th anniversary of it's one and only airing and a dark time for Star Wars fans, it is a perfect time to watch it in it's entirety. I propose we do this to truly understand what bad Star Wars is because it is Star Wars at it's absolute worst in ways that someone who has never seen it is incapable of comprehending. We must do this for the good of the fandom and the franchise, a penance for our division when we should be united, and a reminder that things can get far worse than we dare to imagine.

So join me in misery and stare into the depths of obscure Star Wars media. This is our cave on Dagobath, a test against the Dark Side. What will we find? Only what we take with us.

 

[Refuge]

I have never seen this delight you speak of. The Star Wars Holiday Special.

I'm in.

 

[Awesome Possum]

You aren't afraid?

You will be. You will be.

 

[Refuge]

You aren't afraid?

You will be. You will be.

Bring it on

 

[Jinn]

Star Wars fans are more divided than ever. OT fans hate PT fans and ST fans. PT fans hate everything, especially Mr. Plinkett. ST fans are just happy to be here like golden retrievers. Some hate ROTJ, some TLJ and everyone hates AOTC. But we can unite on one thing and one thing only, a "film" that defiles all that is good. More an entity than a movie, a creation that defies all logic and understanding.

I speak of course of The Star Wars Holiday Special. It being both close to the 40th anniversary of it's one and only airing and a dark time for Star Wars fans, it is a perfect time to watch it in it's entirety. I propose we do this to truly understand what bad Star Wars is because it is Star Wars at it's absolute worst in ways that someone who has never seen it is incapable of comprehending. We must do this for the good of the fandom and the franchise, a penance for our division when we should be united, and a reminder that things can get far worse than we dare to imagine.

So join me in misery and stare into the depths of obscure Star Wars media. This is our cave on Dagobath, a test against the Dark Side. What will we find? Only what we take with us.

This doesn't feel bombastic enough.
Try this *Hopes that link works*

 

[OCD Geek]

Well, it is almost Halloween. And nothing's scarier than Chewbacca's grandpa whacking it in the living room to Art Carney-provided VR porn.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Well, it is almost Halloween. And nothing's scarier than Chewbacca's grandpa whacking it in the living room to Art Carney-provided VR porn.

I hear those growls when I close my eyes in a silent room.

 

[ALF]

So join me in misery and stare into the depths of obscure Star Wars media. This is our cave on Dagobath, a test against the Dark Side. What will we find? Only what we take with us.

Nothing like a little Stir-Whip to froth up the Holiday Special vibes. Here's a delightful 10 hour edit to share with the good folk of the BBS!

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Spoiler

The Stir-Whip thing is actually one of the better parts of the Holiday Special. If you can fathom this.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Harrison Ford looks bored, Carrie Fisher looks wasted, and Mark Hamill is wearing an awful shade of lipstick.

 

[Gaith]

I have no feud or beef with any fans. However, I also have a modest proposal to "unite" the fandom, if that's even possible: if Disney is so hungry for Star Wars content, why not make a three-season Disney Play adaptation of the Thrawn Trilogy? Recast the parts, of course, and no need to break the bank with unnecessarily lavish sets and/or production values. Just adapt the books, taking plenty of time for the dialog scenes, and offer them up as an alternative OT sequel experience.

 

[Campe]

I have no feud or beef with any fans. However, I also have a modest proposal to "unite" the fandom, if that's even possible: if Disney is so hungry for Star Wars content, why not make a three-season Disney Play adaptation of the Thrawn Trilogy? Recast the parts, of course, and no need to break the bank with unnecessarily lavish sets and/or production values. Just adapt the books, taking plenty of time for the dialog scenes, and offer them up as an alternative OT sequel experience.

While I love the Thrawn trilogy, I don’t want to see this happen. It is best as a book trilogy. If you want to “see” those as a alternate to the ST, can’t you just read them and envision them? I did that in the early 1990s and a few times again since then.

The best thing about this? No budget limitations.

 

[Gaith]

While I love the Thrawn trilogy, I don’t want to see this happen. It is best as a book trilogy. If you want to “see” those as a alternate to the ST, can’t you just read them and envision them?

Fair enough, and I can and do just that, but my years-ago purchase of three (used) old books hardly contributes to Disney's bottom line...

 

[JD]

I watched the Holiday Special in it's entirety once, and that was more than enough.
My reactions pretty went back and forth between this

this

and this

I actually did kind of enjoy it from a WTF is this, kind of perspective.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Harrison Ford looks bored, Carrie Fisher looks wasted, and Mark Hamill is wearing an awful shade of lipstick.

If you watch closely you can see the exact moment Ford realized he was too good for it. At that moment he stopped giving a shit about acting.

It’s during Carrie’s drugged out musical number.

 

[Jayson1]

I also have never seen the Holiday Special but I feel Janet is right. This seems like a good time to do it. Every year I want to sort of spend December having a big Christmas marathon and I should include. I would say over maybe a few weeks I would be happy if i could get 10 Christmas movies in. If I did it now my list would be.

1 Star Wars Holiday Special
2 Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of Mars kidnaps Santa or whatever the title is.
3 It's a Wonderful Life It's weird but I haven't seen it in awhile yet growing up it was on all the time.
4 Christmas Story-Use to watch bits and pieces on TBS and it's endless marathon but it's also been awhile since I watched it from beginning to end.
5 Bad Santa=I love this movie.
6 Black Christmas=I think this is the one with a killer Santa. It's another movie I have never seen and have no real good excuse.
7 Gremlins I feel like I watched it not to long ago so not sure if it will make the list.
8 Elf=Another I haven't seen in awhile.
9 Both "Eureka" Christmas specials. I really enjoyed those when that show was still on tv.
10 Nightmare Before Christmas=Another I should have already seen.

I didn't include "Scrooged" or "Natinal Lampoon" since I feel like I watched them not that long ago. Also have no clue if "Doctor Who" will have a Christmas Special. Also one movie I want to see but I suspect it will suck because I think it was a Lifetime movie is a "Groundhog Day" type of movie were some guy keeps relieving Christmas over and over.


Jason

 

[Jinn]

Also have no clue if "Doctor Who" will have a Christmas Special.

It will!

 

[Awesome Possum]

I somehow know Bea Arthur's song by heart. It's in my head.

 

[Trekkin]

If the ‘Holiday’ was always meant to have been Halloween, that explains so much.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

If the ‘Holiday’ was always meant to have been Halloween, that explains so much.

More like American Thanksgiving.

 

[Trekkin]

That’s your version of our Christmas, right? Where the family gets together, stuffs their faces, drinks endlessly, then screams a lifetimes worth of grievances at each other?

Because that still sounds about right.