Chat corner 88: Christmas special

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve doesn’t exist, so here’s The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) and see you all in 2023. May it be a kinder one.

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Comments

[astromech1138]

I'm too chicken to watch. Someone talk me into (or out of) it!

[extrapenguin]

It's actually pretty funny! It resembles an anthology movie in some way, with several excursions into musical performances delivered via "oh look, there's something on the holovision!", a cooking show parody, an animated segment, and Jefferson Starship. Also the main characters of the frame story are Wookiees, the first fifteen(?) minutes of the movie are entirely in wookiee noises, and there's an amazingly touching sequence when the Imperials come to search the Wookiee house. It's weird and trippy in places, but I do not regret watching it.