I gotta admit that there was one heartwarming moment. At the conclusion, after Chewbacca’s dramatic return to his family, the group gathers to celebrate “Life Day” and to be inspired by the song stylings of Princess Leia(RealPlayer).
(sniff Chewbacca actually made it home in time…it’s just so beautiful sniff)
Ah. I knew about the wreck, but was under the impression that it happened between the filming of Empire and Jedi, i.e. after the special was made. That explains that.
It was worse than Manos?!? Ye gods, just goes to show what little taste I had at the tender age of 8 (I can hear my brother saying, “so what’s changed?”). I saw Manos: Hands of Fate some years back and I still have the scars on my face from trying to claw my eyes out. And almost the worst thing about it is that it was filmed about two or three miles from where I am right now. One of my friends watched it being made. The poor man.
About all I remember from this thing is the cartoon with Boba Fett (in which he is apparently one of the good guys). The rest I have mercifully blanked from my memory. (I vaguely remember the wookies grunting, but that’s about it.)
My favorite from around that time is still the episode of The Muppet Show with Mark Hamill, C3PO and R2-D2.
No cite I’m afraid, but I was once told that the original outline for ROTJ did involve wookies instead of ewoks. (Ever notice that Wook-ie and E-wok are pretty much the same word flipped around?) Lucas changed his mind at the last minute because he decided that he wanted the Ewoks to be “low-tech” and that the Wookies had already been established as “high-tech” (due to Chewbacca apparently being the engineer on the Millenium Falcon).
The fact that the Ewoks probably have more toy marketing potential probably affected that decision too. :rolleyes:
Y’know Skopo, that is what I remember to. But what I remember is that it was so staged. The other stormtrooper is in the background searching through stuff, while the stormtrooper in the foreground just grabs the toy and rips the head off without even looking at it. Not even a sneering (such as you can in stormtrooper armor) “I’m such a baaaaad stowmtwoopah”. Then he drops it without so much as a glance inside the toy. So any pretense of searching for hidden weapons or a wookie’s stash is gone. I can just see the director thinking “Uhhh do something damaging to the place, here, grab this toy and rip the head off”
I saw it when it originally aired. I was about 12 and I was so gung-ho to see it! You could have put ANYTHING related to Star Wars in front of me and I would have lapped it up. Anything, that is, but this. It was so awful I couldn’t sit through the whole thing. I gave up on it when Jefferson Starship came on.
Life lesson learned.
You are sooo going to hell for that.
Isn’t there something under Geneva Convention against doing that sort of thing? I mean seriously, that’s sick. 
My other trick was making them sit in the same room and listen to “We Built This City” by Starship nonstop for several hours.
I’ve done some things in my past I’m not proud of.
My favorite part: R2D2 holding a pair of friggin PLIERS.
Good ghod. After looking at the linked page, I am so glad I never saw or even heard of this thing. I was a major Star Wars geek (saw it 11 times in the first year, and spent the rest of the time trying to build the sandcrawler out of Legos), and it probably would have scarred me.
Worse than Manos? The UNMiSTied Manos?
That’s pretty scary to think about.
shudder
Oh, and don’t rip on Ewoks! Ewoks RULE!!!
Yub Yub Commander!
Well the special may suck, but Carrie Fisher can carry a tune. And the song itself is kind of unique, and not half bad - a countermelody over the “Star Wars” theme. Kind of child’s play for a decent composer, but not bad.
Esprix
Well, they did until the Endor Holocaust.
I’ll agree with you there, Esprix, it does not fall to the level of William Shatner/Leonard Nimoy material. But after the plodding, ponderous story of “Life Day,” to see it wrapped up by a sincere, majestic song by Fisher in full Leia garb was too bizarre.
I read somewhere that the rush to get the project out forced the producers to basically shoot the thing live to film. There was little editing and almost no post-production, apart from cutting in the animated sequence and some stock footage from the movie. That explains the poor pacing of the show, though the entire concept seems to the product of some rather “enhanced” brainstorming.
Snort! Amateur! You really wanna toughen them up/grind them down, you would have made them listen to “It’s a Small World After All” like I did.
Bah. “it’s a small world holiday,” thank you very much.
Esprix
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LIES!!! ALL LIES!!!