The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special
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melliciousHere's something that's not about The Mandalorian! (Still Star Wars, but hey, I gotta write about something!)
I watched the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, and it was pretty funny. I've never seen the old one.
I don't know if younger people understand this, but in 1978 you couldn't just tape things off the TV - I think that technology was probably in its infancy then, but normal people didn't start having VCRs and cable and stuff til the 80s. Something would be on at 8:00, say, on one of the maybe five channels we had at the time -- and if you didn't watch it then you were out of luck. You might not see it again for years. In fact, did they ever repeat the Star Wars Holiday Special at all? I just heard rumors about how terrible it was, later on.
Anyway, I had the vague idea that it had something to do with Life Day and Chewie's family, but that's about all I know about the original. I just looked on Wikipedia and it actually had Harvey Korman and Bea Arthur (I had no idea, but that is so very 70s, Harvey Korman was in everything).
There is some stuff about Life Day and Chewie's family in the new one, but there's also Rey attempting to train Finn, followed by a highly unlikely plot about Rey and BB8 jumping around in time to see various jedis and their padawans. Clearly that's not based on anything in the old one, since there was nothing but the original movie to jump to, at the time. It was silly, but it's Lego Star Wars, that's what you expect. Anyway, I enjoyed it. I've actually seen it twice, because Rob expressed a desire to watch something Christmassy, and I said, "Oh, I know something!" He liked it too.
(And Wikipedia also said that in fact, no, they did NOT ever repeat the show on broadcast TV or anywhere else, for many years. I think you can get hold of it these days, now that it's nostalgia and not quite such an embarrassment.)
(And it also said that it aired in November 1978, not December, so I would have been in my dorm room in Austin, and we didn't have a TV there. You had to go downstairs to watch TV. I bet if I'd gone down there it would have been on, because Star Wars was pretty much a religion at the time I was in college - at least for the geeks - but I don't think I was even aware that the show was airing at the time.)
HOLIDAILIES
I watched the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special, and it was pretty funny. I've never seen the old one.
I don't know if younger people understand this, but in 1978 you couldn't just tape things off the TV - I think that technology was probably in its infancy then, but normal people didn't start having VCRs and cable and stuff til the 80s. Something would be on at 8:00, say, on one of the maybe five channels we had at the time -- and if you didn't watch it then you were out of luck. You might not see it again for years. In fact, did they ever repeat the Star Wars Holiday Special at all? I just heard rumors about how terrible it was, later on.
Anyway, I had the vague idea that it had something to do with Life Day and Chewie's family, but that's about all I know about the original. I just looked on Wikipedia and it actually had Harvey Korman and Bea Arthur (I had no idea, but that is so very 70s, Harvey Korman was in everything).
There is some stuff about Life Day and Chewie's family in the new one, but there's also Rey attempting to train Finn, followed by a highly unlikely plot about Rey and BB8 jumping around in time to see various jedis and their padawans. Clearly that's not based on anything in the old one, since there was nothing but the original movie to jump to, at the time. It was silly, but it's Lego Star Wars, that's what you expect. Anyway, I enjoyed it. I've actually seen it twice, because Rob expressed a desire to watch something Christmassy, and I said, "Oh, I know something!" He liked it too.
(And Wikipedia also said that in fact, no, they did NOT ever repeat the show on broadcast TV or anywhere else, for many years. I think you can get hold of it these days, now that it's nostalgia and not quite such an embarrassment.)
(And it also said that it aired in November 1978, not December, so I would have been in my dorm room in Austin, and we didn't have a TV there. You had to go downstairs to watch TV. I bet if I'd gone down there it would have been on, because Star Wars was pretty much a religion at the time I was in college - at least for the geeks - but I don't think I was even aware that the show was airing at the time.)
HOLIDAILIES
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