Holiday Special (Page 2 of 2)

This. As much as we all hate it, you can't hate it until you've sat through the whole thing.

I have yet to finish watching the HS, I managed to sit through the first bit until I saw Boba Fett and shortly after that I had to turn it off lol

Zivi, I could totally see that. The animation does remind me a lot of Heavy Metal and now I know why. Sweet. ^_^

The problem is that none of it's written down, I think Corben is DEAD, and McQuarrie isn't talking.  Nobody involved with Heavy Metal had the slightest inkling of the success it would become, and the print we have "restored" to DVD isn't even from the original; that was thrown out.  It's from a theatrical print that someone found in a can.  And this was in an era where movie prints were commonly recycled for elements, so we're lucky it survived at all or we'd be stuck forever with that awful VHS release.

Basically all we have to go on is a man in his 50's who may not even be remembering correctly who was friends with people formerly at Nelvana and Heavy Metal.  So while it is information, it's also unfortunately absolutely unprovable so if this were Snopes, there'd be a Yellow button next to the listing for this.  About the only thing that can be "proven" out of all of the above is that

A) Nelvana internally had a sequence for Heavy Metal, and declined to be involved.

B) Nelvana commonly re-used bits and pieces of incomplete things.

c) Nelvana dropped out of contributing to Heavy Metal at the last minute to do Rock and Rule.

D) Han Solo in the Holiday special Boba cartoon looks a LOT like a parody of Han Solo.

E) Boba looks kinda like the Space Hunter.

You can glean from these details that the above MAY be true, but you can't actually prove anything.. and amongst Star Wars history it's hard to "prove" anything anyway, as Lucas is prone to make attempts at retconning _reality_ when he feels like it.

Remember: In the 80's Lucas used to pretend the Holiday special never existed.  Period.  Anyone who asked him about it, he had no idea what they were talking about.  It wasn't until fans started bootlegging it around that he had to admit that it did, in fact, actually exist.

Yeah now we can say real holiday with the special threads to read and innovative..

Ah, the Holiday Special, bane of my existence. I watched it and was like, this is the most stupid thing I have ever seen. Then I came to the Boba Fett section and I thought, this awesome, but still stupid. So what do I do after that? I willingly watch it again.

This past Christmas morning I watched the rifftrax version of the Star Wars Holiday Special for the very first time and I have to tell you that it wasn't that bad. Now the teenage mutant ninja turtles 1993 holiday special is running-out-of-the-room embarrassing! Just horribly bad!

The holiday Special show cases the...bad and weird side of the Star Wars universe. It’s only redeeming quality is (you guessed it) Boba Fett! Sure the cartoon he appears in isn’t so good but Boba steals the show for his awesome voice and betrayal at the end.