Lucas Disowns The Holiday Special
Cthulhu's Librarian
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Eridanis said:I'm pencilling this in! Don't bail out on me!
Well, somebody will need to bring a VCR. I can bring the tape, but that's all I am willing to do in order to corrupt all of you who have never seen it. It's sort of like The Ring. You watch it, and a little part of you dies from the humiliation (or is it the boredom?)
Villano
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RangerWickett said:
Star Trek 5. Greatest. Movie. Ever.
It's so bad, I love it. I can't help it. I love Battlefield: Earth, too.
Although, I'd still argue that, as bad as it is, it's still better than Generations.
Kirk: We're inside of a cosmic anomaly which creates a paradise so perfect a man is willing to destroy planets to reach it. It's so wonderful no one ever wishes to leave.
Picard: We have to go.
Kirk: Okay.
I'll take, "What does God need with a starship?" anyday.
Krieg
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DMH said:
After it initially aired Lucas refused to allow it to be broadcast ever again (thus touching on the old news aspect of this story), he has also reportedly tried to find a way to suppress it from being shared via the 'net (which is probably nothing more than a rumor, Lucas surely knows the futility of that).
I do know that in the past Lucas has actually denied that the Christmas Special even existed, which is kind of hard for him to do these days.
One great thing about the internet is that it keeps alive things like this that otherwise would have been buried. For years I insisted to friends that I remembered seeing Bobba Fett on a cartoon before ESB came out, every single one of them thought I was full of it...or nuts. lol
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devilish
Explorer
My guess would be since there's some plot points about
Wookies in the next Star Wars movie (at least, it seems so
on the trailer), that Lucas wants to make sure the
holiday special doesn't get thrown into "his canon".
Avoiding early questions of "Where's Itchy, Lumpy and Mala?"
just a guess,
-D
Wookies in the next Star Wars movie (at least, it seems so
on the trailer), that Lucas wants to make sure the
holiday special doesn't get thrown into "his canon".
Avoiding early questions of "Where's Itchy, Lumpy and Mala?"
just a guess,
-D
Rodrigo Istalindir
Explorer
The Star Wars holiday special has the distinction of being the first thing I ever recorded on a VCR. Back then, they were still ferociously expensive for the consumer, but my Dad had bought one at the university for playing back seminars that had been recorded, etc. So he brings home this hundred-pound suitcase sized monstrosity and we spend an hour figuring out how to hook it up.
It also had the distinction of being the first thing I ever taped over. The next day, as a matter of fact.
It also had the distinction of being the first thing I ever taped over. The next day, as a matter of fact.
