Why were Star Wars 4,5,6 before 1,2,3? Because in charge of sheduling, Yoda was.
@zedek_6 жыл бұрын
Approved.
@bradfordwebster31816 жыл бұрын
Thank you, this made my day.
@1000teresa4ever6 жыл бұрын
conwayd 007 A joke it was.
@Penminfire6 жыл бұрын
Roses are red Violets are red The revolution will come And the gulag for you
@jameslove11626 жыл бұрын
conwayd 007 missed the joke, you did.
@quadeong74536 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think seeing Harrison Ford traumatized pretty hilarious.
@Crlarl6 жыл бұрын
Quade Ong He was really high in that interview.
@quadeong74536 жыл бұрын
Carl Siemens seriously? It seemed more like PTSD
@Crlarl6 жыл бұрын
Quade Ong PTSD, from a variety show?
@quadeong74536 жыл бұрын
Carl Siemens from the holiday special
@bearb1asting6 жыл бұрын
Best part
@perpetualgrimace6 жыл бұрын
That Mark Hamill clip at the end tho
@Scarletraven876 жыл бұрын
Warning. Big Virus above me.
@ikickedtheshitoutofapigeon63656 жыл бұрын
Doran Martell 😂😂
@estebanfortu10926 жыл бұрын
Where can I get that video?
@estebanfortu10926 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/art3iZqIu6iRknU.html There it is
@ishaneejoshi16136 жыл бұрын
CHILLS
@nakenmil6 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the Holiday Special contains the first appearance of Boba Fett in Star Wars (it was released before Empire), and is also the first time we learn his name and hear him speak.
@Wallbeige6 жыл бұрын
Suicide seems like an option after reading this
@mn-mq6ml5 жыл бұрын
Nope, that's not true, he was seen in some celebration thing before that
@troyjardine58505 жыл бұрын
Even before this Boba Fett was in the deleted Han and Jabba scene. Though he doesn't speak and the scene wasn't in the theatrical cut.
@commandercaptain46644 жыл бұрын
@@troyjardine5850 Fett was a real actor digitally added to the scene (though not Jeremy Bulloch).
@trawlins3964 жыл бұрын
@@mn-mq6ml that was a parade.
@jasonj92356 жыл бұрын
"Everything in Star Wars has a story..." Except for Snoke.
@skidooshlayman126 жыл бұрын
And Rey's parents.
@skidooshlayman126 жыл бұрын
And how Leia learned to use the Force.
@skidooshlayman126 жыл бұрын
And why Finn and Rose saved animals but not slave children.
@skidooshlayman126 жыл бұрын
And How Ghost Yoda can cause lighting and bonk people on the head.
@HarryBillyBobGeorge6 жыл бұрын
I love The Last Jedi, but I laughed.
@ryaquaza3offical4 жыл бұрын
Some people: “omg the Phantom menace or The last Jedi are the worst Star Wars films to come out of the series” Me, an intellectual: “y’all see Chewbacca celebrate Christmas yet?”
@collegebro854 жыл бұрын
Ryaquaza 1 exactly, say what you want about any of the films, but they totally missed the mark of ever becoming worse than this special!!
@drobnoxius94834 жыл бұрын
*LIFE DAY!!!!*
@matthewibelievethemanbonwh34454 жыл бұрын
Gamingbeaver
@liammerc41294 жыл бұрын
after watching episode 9: omg Last jedi and Rise of skywalker are the worst star wars films to come out of the series. RIP Star wars
@evawoodcock63924 жыл бұрын
"The phantom menace was watchable" ABSOLUTELY NOT. I had to skip multiple parts of that movie. Also I really like the Last Jedi and rise of Skywalker or whatever they are called
@xdavebmx6 жыл бұрын
They forgot to mention that this bad special also introduced several things that stayed in the Star Wars universe. Chewbacca’s home planet and Boba Fett was also introduced here first
@charlesajones774 жыл бұрын
The first episode of The Mandalorian mentions "Life Day". Does that mean the SWHS is canon?
@thema19984 жыл бұрын
WHAT?! The Mandalorian actually mentioned "Life Day"? Wow! 😆
@sminthian4 жыл бұрын
You know, I wonder if The Mandalorian is going to do a remade Holiday Special...
@lukestrawwalker4 жыл бұрын
@@thema1998 Yeah the blue fish guy he captures in the ice planet cantina does, when he goes downstairs to "evacuate his thorax" (take a dump and we see the ship's "space toity" behind him as he's chatting about how he hoped to be home for "Life Day" (the first time we saw a toilet in the Star Wars Universe AFAIK...) So we know that "Life Day" is now a thing... as for the Holiday Special (which I just recently saw at a friend's house over Christmas) well, maybe it's like that season of "Dallas" that was all "just a dream"... I guess maybe Chewbacca got some bad mushrooms or something LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
@thema19984 жыл бұрын
@Benjamin Ahlers Bea Arthur's character is canon too. She's mentioned in Disney's EU.
@edgemaxxer15733 жыл бұрын
Life day exists but the holiday special doesn't
@KGBeast.3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: I actually have part of the original script from this special. The part where Leia sings the life day song. I keep it in very good condition. My father brought it around 1995 in an auction before I was even born. It must've been a fortune, he was obsessed with collecting everything Star Wars
@ZaneKun332 жыл бұрын
pog
@parvchetri0995 Жыл бұрын
Nicee. You must feel special lol
@KGBeast. Жыл бұрын
@@parvchetri0995 I feel (holiday) special
@parvchetri0995 Жыл бұрын
@@KGBeast. hahaha nice pun there lol 😆
@FIRING_BLIND Жыл бұрын
Thats AMAZING
@marktheinfinitelytired4 жыл бұрын
Explanation....The 70’s and cocaine.
@ComicBookGuy4204 жыл бұрын
I was thinking they were on hallucinogens, but sure, we'll go with coke😂
@aprilmoore29174 жыл бұрын
Must have been... or peyote...
@ComicBookGuy4204 жыл бұрын
@@Tomanton22 I did, unfortunately... Kid😂 I'm old enough to have seen Star Wars in the cinema
@kelakotana4 жыл бұрын
R2D2, STOP SNORTING THE COCAINE
@Justin-Hill-19873 жыл бұрын
Cocaine was the 1980s, weed and doobies were the 1970s.
@ifurkend6 жыл бұрын
That's why we can't have pink Vader in Battlefront II.
@brianpogue39436 жыл бұрын
Or Vader at all, for that matter.
@VeryNiceKanye6 жыл бұрын
Brian Pogue what
@Breyze_6 жыл бұрын
NORDENKID joke on EA putting 1/3 of the selling point behind a paywall
@scorcher55_696 жыл бұрын
DEDxGaMeR - except they fixed everything. I haven't paid an extra dime but have all the characters
@Breyze_6 жыл бұрын
SCORCHER55 _ yh they fixed it, but that doesnt change the fact that they tried it. something like that SHOULDNT NEED to be changed in the first place
@mr.person57883 жыл бұрын
"There are rules for what belongs in this universe" Disney: How about no
@RocStarr9133 ай бұрын
George Lucas has no control over it anymore.
@MasterSkywalker.4 жыл бұрын
*"Everything in Star Wars has a story"* *Except for Knights Of Ren...*
@duodbzsonic4 жыл бұрын
Give it a while mark my words at least they’ll get expanded in the comics and at best they may show them in whatever clone wars like animation pops up for the sequels in a few years
@atley43284 жыл бұрын
You mean Star Wars Resistance?
@tchy72463 жыл бұрын
or Snoke
@hwatooo94983 жыл бұрын
They literally have one though. Read rise of Kylo ren.
@marcopedro20173 жыл бұрын
Stop hating the sequel alot of people love it
@thesebsanimationstudios14554 жыл бұрын
2:03 Harrison Ford: get off my show... Conan o'Brien: but, it's my show.
@bengarbaag71144 жыл бұрын
Just here to remind everyone that The Mandalorian made the Holiday Special canon.
@3rdalbum4 жыл бұрын
Not really. Only "Life Day" became canon, but the other nonsensical events of Holiday Special are not canon.
@bengarbaag71144 жыл бұрын
@@3rdalbum That cooking show exists in the Star Wars universe and you can't convince me otherwise.
@buckjohnson37484 жыл бұрын
@@bengarbaag7114 if you go to her wookiepedia article she is counted as canon as mentioned in the galaxy edge cookbook
@MaxEverywhereSystem4 жыл бұрын
C H R I S T
@firehazzard84974 жыл бұрын
@ThePOKOkitty It does, Solo made it canon.
@user-kx2ht6mo1b6 жыл бұрын
Happy life day
@Nugcon6 жыл бұрын
you too
@GenX-RadRat6 жыл бұрын
Happy life day to you too!
@pomponi06 жыл бұрын
Happy life day!
@liloiax226 жыл бұрын
...so what do we celebrate on Life Day?... Do we celebrate the fact that we lived through watching this n DIDN'T commit suicide??? lol
@Cowboymeisje6 жыл бұрын
Can't celebrate Life Day without a few death sticks.
@theylied17766 жыл бұрын
Star Wars was the first time Studios understood the power of Merchandising and Licensing. They learned this lesson because 20th Century Fox signed all rights over to George Lucas and watched him become a millionaire overnight. Geroge Lucas, when he owned LucasFilms, made more from his Merchandising and Licensing than he ever made from the Box office.
@Mikewee7776 жыл бұрын
theylied1776 , Pokemon also lived with this marketing mantra.
@mikem44323 жыл бұрын
the hokey sing and dance was not.. and the casting was really these TV personalities that had no place in anything SW
@XiaoLynn6 жыл бұрын
I love how Anthony Daniels face changed at 1:35 when question about Holiday Special came out.
@commandercaptain46644 жыл бұрын
Kenny Baker was like "dodged that bullet".
@KeepOnDreamingDude6 жыл бұрын
I may have gone too far in a few places....
@KLK016 жыл бұрын
KeepOnDreamingDude too*
@KeepOnDreamingDude6 жыл бұрын
thanks
@iNuchalHead6 жыл бұрын
It's like [bad] poetry.
@BugMed6 жыл бұрын
It's like poetry it rhymes...
@_anttinpa_90936 жыл бұрын
666 likes
@user-pw5by5jw8p6 жыл бұрын
2:35 Why the hell did I think 2001:A Space Odyssey was released in 2001?!?!
@FindecanorNotGmail6 жыл бұрын
It _was_ screened in quite a few places in 2001 ...
@wilfredynunez52636 жыл бұрын
沈煜詳 You're not alone.
@brennenlaforest85456 жыл бұрын
Because you're an idiot
@BlackPixel15 жыл бұрын
Maybe because 1984 was released in 1984?
@TheJosep705 жыл бұрын
Because millennials.
@FRISHR6 жыл бұрын
At least it doesn't have paid loot boxes.
@sideswipe84436 жыл бұрын
ha
@scorcher55_696 жыл бұрын
They fixed it
@OnionYeeter4 жыл бұрын
It does
@user-tv9rt5ud2s4 жыл бұрын
My father watched it when he was 6 in Peru. He says it still tromitises him till this day. They advertised it as the Thanksgiving special there, and in Latin America, Thanksgiving well isn't a thing, so that was extremely confusing to them. But then to add, they called it something else in the special, so it was even more confusing.
@lumionesty50455 жыл бұрын
Rule #1 of Star Wars: We don’t talk about the holiday special
@Cjnw5 жыл бұрын
Normie
@caronstout3549 ай бұрын
Rule 2: WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE HOLIDAY SPECIAL
@lt.bagelbites69694 жыл бұрын
“All around 2011” The last Jedi: **released in 2016** Unfortunately, history will not see it for you that way
@darthvader82294 жыл бұрын
Lt. Bagel Bites 2017*
@bestboutgaming32124 жыл бұрын
Hey, we got Jake Skywalker in 2017
@allenvarghese51266 жыл бұрын
Q: Why is Yoda such a good gardener? A: Because he has a green thumb.
@supremeoverlordess86646 жыл бұрын
Delete your account please.
@areyouthicc99476 жыл бұрын
Sandcastle • Green fingers and a green thumb
@dromingo68816 жыл бұрын
He can grow good kush?
@mitchellmaytorena11376 жыл бұрын
D bro I grew quite the variety of kush this summer. At least 6 of my plants had kush genetics. I highly recommend Blessings OG Kush bred by Gage Green Group. It has the most abundant and absurdly large trichome heads I've ever seen.
@brianpogue39436 жыл бұрын
Why the long, hairy face?
@ParzivalTheThird3 жыл бұрын
“The current trilogy is telling new stories” Debatable.
@masterofsoccer16 жыл бұрын
I know now what I will give my friend for Christmas
@ElfriedeRose6 жыл бұрын
masterofsoccer1 bought it for my dad off ebay.
@casecao84126 жыл бұрын
Guys, suicide is bad!! Stop encouraging it!
@ilikepigeons61014 жыл бұрын
You're evil
@mikinguyen50466 жыл бұрын
At least now I know why it's there
@stephw13634 жыл бұрын
Me too.....i knew it couldnt be actual choice if George Lucas wouldnt be named in credits.
@maninredhelm6 жыл бұрын
Video did not do an adequate job demonstrating how cringey that special was. You might get the impression that it was like what would happen if the Phantom Menace had a high school drama production budget. And that would indeed be bad. But it was soooo much worse. Think Phantom Menace, high school budget, but also crossed with The Captain & Tennille Show. No, the originals, not the MXC versions. Because that would have been fantastic!
@jasonmullins71156 жыл бұрын
maninredhelm The Star Wars Holiday Special was probably best summed up A.V. Club contributorNathan Rabin, who described it as being “written and directed by a sentient bag of cocaine.”
@AsTaFTheRealOne6 жыл бұрын
Why do you mention Phantom Menace as something bad when it's a good movie?
@Crlarl6 жыл бұрын
That's because it's not the point of the video. The video is about explaining the EU and why TSWHS exists.
@Wired4Life26 жыл бұрын
^Exactly, Carl.
@mosesramirez63306 жыл бұрын
+maninredheim So true. It wasn't really that it just didn't fit the universe, as the video implied--it was objectively bad in every possible way, even if you weren't a Star Wars fan.
@NCPhotography6 жыл бұрын
I like how Vox takes the time to read and replay to most of the comments on this video!
@nicholascgoss5 жыл бұрын
“Oh around 2011” OMG Lucas was pretty damn accurate!
@user-lo8ju3qf2o4 жыл бұрын
Nicholas Goss that’s scary of how accurate
@jothePianoMaster136 жыл бұрын
"You can't play with it"??. ..someone needs to tell this to Rian Johnson
@RocStarr9133 ай бұрын
Johnson arguably played with it very badly.
@cillianbrouder6 жыл бұрын
I watched it. I was committed to completing it. I got drunk halfway through (Christmas Eve), but I still watched it. It was one of the most difficult things to watch. I dare you all to try it out!
@jsl151850b6 жыл бұрын
No thanks.
@cillianbrouder6 жыл бұрын
Saeid Radder don't do it I was only joking, for the love of all that's good don't do it!
@LAV-III6 жыл бұрын
Cillian Brouder your to late I saw the whole thing from the cooking channel with the bantha meat to the tatooine curfew to the robed wookies I'm going to Barry my self 6 feet deep now.
@cillianbrouder6 жыл бұрын
Saeid Radder it kind of gets ingrained into your thoughts doesn't it?
@LAV-III6 жыл бұрын
Cillian Brouder gunna try to watch as many star wars facts videos as I can to was a way the memorize I will not sleep well to night
@AtticusAmericanus6 жыл бұрын
"Every character has a story" Up until now....
@yankeeforcestudios54314 жыл бұрын
Eh
@jevinday4 жыл бұрын
Harrison Ford's reaction to the mention of the Christmas special on Conan is the best. So funny.
@titan133760 Жыл бұрын
Especially when he (jokingly) tried to choke Conan
@TravelingTal3 жыл бұрын
Imagine being a 7th grader (Like me) that had to sit through that mess as it happened in 1978. I was diagnosed with childhood PTSD because of it.
@Tychoxi6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Nerdwriter1.
@KristinaPup6 жыл бұрын
i think a lot of the video essay scene on youtube, including Vox, is following his lead, so i think we can expect a lot more of this style for a good while
@ocara500006 жыл бұрын
that's exactly what I thought, wow!!!! I LOVE his work
@EphraimRyan4 жыл бұрын
@@KristinaPup No I think he meant the guy LITERALLY sounds like Evan, the guy from Nerdwriter1
@davidstone12936 жыл бұрын
Nice perspectives on the creation of the SW Holiday Special. It is also well worth noting that CBS wanted the special long enough to fill a full hour time slot to sell more commercial air time, so filler material was added which contributed to the train wreck.
@alias36604 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have that interview clip from the end with Mark? I need to hear the rest!!
@ultimatecomicfan24334 жыл бұрын
Its almost haunting. What could have been if fans did not attack the prequels.
@WilliamNicholas1234 жыл бұрын
Life day was mentioned in the Mandalorian
@zero69kage4 жыл бұрын
I kind of love how these weirder things from Star Wars are finding their way back in just in a more creative way.
@maddog23146 жыл бұрын
I wish the Timothey Zahn books were cannon. So good.
@AbelYuen6 жыл бұрын
They were. But I'm okay. Thrawn is back. :)
@preserver77776 жыл бұрын
Canon is hat you want it to be....!
@yuzzem646 жыл бұрын
The storyline for the Ewok movies came from George Lucas so it was his idea or at the very least he approved the inclusion of a shape-shifting witch (Nightsister) into the Starwars universe.
@phantomspaceman6 жыл бұрын
Well Flash Gordon had bird men and sorcerors so why the hell not? Also reminds me of Buck Rogers.
@RT420696 жыл бұрын
"You can't play with it now" Then please explain The Last Jedi
@Theo-bk6qj4 жыл бұрын
Well it worst than The Last Jedi
@commandercaptain46644 жыл бұрын
The so-called "fans" won't allow anyone to play with it.
@AmazingJayB514 жыл бұрын
Last Jedi was good, clear your mind and watch it again.
@hello-gy6xk4 жыл бұрын
TLJ wasn’t that bad. It was definitely not worse than TPM/AOTC.
@Wired4Life24 жыл бұрын
@@AmazingJayB51 The *best* _Star Wars_ film since 1980.
@Blitz-ww8kh4 жыл бұрын
It's a shame that Disney has now ruined the sequel trilogy
@TheStarBot4 жыл бұрын
"New Star Wars Bad, gives me upvotes"
@yourfriendcurtis6 жыл бұрын
Please put out a video on the whole Net Neutrality situation!!!!
@Lucas-Weidner6 жыл бұрын
life of curtis they already did.
@mosesramirez63306 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fteIfqiYub--coU.html
@fastronaut9093 жыл бұрын
This cleared up some stuff for me. I remember watching Caravan of Courage and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor as a kid and noticing that they didn't seem to fit within the Star Wars universe.
@AdvancePlays6 жыл бұрын
As much as I do despise the Holiday Special, I can't help but love that it actually exists.
@Squidchard6 жыл бұрын
This is so amazing....I did not have to FORCE myself to watch this video....
@skyrimisntforthenords65676 жыл бұрын
Alexander Hamilton .
@XavierbTM12216 жыл бұрын
Alexander Hamilton
@xqwerssqwer93966 жыл бұрын
How does a bastard
@Squidchard6 жыл бұрын
Orphan
@janeistired39215 жыл бұрын
That joke was pretty forced
@masseysmoviemadness14116 жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic video. Superbly produced, edited, compiled etc. Thank you!
@leJpeg6 жыл бұрын
Last day of Net Neutrality possibly, anyone nervous?
@kiro92916 жыл бұрын
can people like you stop mentioning this kind of thing that has nothing to do with the video for once
@CharlesTheClumsy6 жыл бұрын
No I live in Sweden.
@CharlesTheClumsy6 жыл бұрын
Kiro It kind of does actually.
@TheWaross6 жыл бұрын
7.3 billion people don't care.
@jeremyadcox65076 жыл бұрын
Vox Hmm...that's not suspicious at all. Yep I clicked on that vox account, and it's a fake. Nice scam.
@mercinary0016 жыл бұрын
Ah! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
@aprilmoore29174 жыл бұрын
No - this is like those giant centipedes in the south - nothing kills them! They just keep wriggling... ew...
@patriot17244 жыл бұрын
I watched all of the Christmas special and it is 100x better then Disney Star Wars movies
@goku8621 Жыл бұрын
No
@spookyrosev64676 жыл бұрын
**Cue fan boy rage comment with unnecessary arguments here**
@ghost_ship_supreme6 жыл бұрын
dcruz453 *_Disney arrives_*
@boimann75836 жыл бұрын
SpookyRoseV fuvk you bicth
@spookyrosev64676 жыл бұрын
You know this comment thread is WHAT I WAS SATIRIZING!
@ilikepigeons61014 жыл бұрын
BoiMann 'fuvk' yourself mate
@joshuab24376 жыл бұрын
You forgot the Star Wars Ewok Adventures: Caravan of Courage and Battle for Endor.
@richerDiLefto3 жыл бұрын
I actually loved those movies when I was a child. It’s doubtful an adult could stomach them for too long.
@ArtistTheArtist056 жыл бұрын
Love how Harrison Ford just grabs at Conan when he says "I have a little bit of the tape"
@Daedhart6 жыл бұрын
KotOR is still cannon, damit!
@joshuaj85106 жыл бұрын
Canon*
@JameZayer6 жыл бұрын
So should Dark Forces & Jedi Knights .....but.... We got Rogue One blowing it up
@jessstuart74956 жыл бұрын
Just wait until Disney starts running out of ideas after episode 20. They'll eventually get to it. They just want to market it on their terms.
@Kyle444shell6 жыл бұрын
Jess Stuart oh god I honestly hope they don’t make any more Star Wars episodes after this trilogy. Hopefully they just stick to doing anthology movies. Star Wars is actually getting better again after the prequels and I would rather end now on a high note than get a bunch more episodes and end on a low.
@chromiumdog64536 жыл бұрын
Nope, it's not canon, either. It's a space opera not the friggin' gospels of st george.
@bcubed726 жыл бұрын
Now that "The Last Jedi" is out, this is no longer the worst SW-themed product out there...
@81OH4Z4RD6 жыл бұрын
I was almost 10 when the special aired, had experienced Star Wars, and was so excited for this special. It was a different time, when if you loved a movie you had nothing to relive it but memories (pre-merch) and in the case of Star Wars a wait of 3 years for another chance to be immersed in that glorious universe. Television had 2 channels, 3 if the weather was right, and programming sucked. This special was to be an amazing gift, a treasure, something to focus on and relish and memorize and rehash endlessly with friends. And it was sooooooo bad. Like soul-crushing bad. Not as bad as a trump presidency but close.
@81OH4Z4RD6 жыл бұрын
Just trying to put it in perspective. If you are offended, my condolences.
@petergray27126 жыл бұрын
81OH4Z4RD I was seven when I watched, and I thought it was bizarre and off putting.
@81OH4Z4RD6 жыл бұрын
Totallly agree Pete. Star Wars presented such a fantastic but coherent universe. The holiday special seemed obscene and insulting by comparison. I'd completely blocked my memories of the thing until being reminded that it existed, and it didn't spoil the immersion and thrill of watching the next chapters in the trilogy.
@81OH4Z4RD6 жыл бұрын
No worries. I am afflicted with a political fury that has tainted all aspects of my life for the past year. You make a valid point and i will make an effort to focus my political energy in a more constructive direction.
@cybercat296 жыл бұрын
I was 11 when this special came out. At the time, I thought it was a special that was going to be shown every Christmas. It had some great parts (Bobo Fett cartoon) while some were not so great (Carrie Fisher did not look well and seemed to be in a daze). Years later, I read about it and I could understand why Lucas had burned the entire script and wanted to destroy any records of this special.
@Germania96 жыл бұрын
Do a video on shoegaze.
@MeetAlexChannel6 жыл бұрын
yes please!!!
@phuturephunk6 жыл бұрын
...I mean, are they going to just put Tycho on loop or something?...
@MeetAlexChannel6 жыл бұрын
do you even shoegaze bro?
@inquisitorchristopher85276 жыл бұрын
Asobi Seksu
@ps1hagrid7264 жыл бұрын
0:33 OMFG I remember my dad showing me the star wars holiday special cuz we where big Star Wars fans, but in the end we got nightmares from Chewbacca’s family.
@lukestrawwalker4 жыл бұрын
I got nightmares from Mark Hamill's hairdo... OL J R :)
@deirdregibbons56093 жыл бұрын
This was a great analysis. I like your comments that these early "Star Wars" projects were the first attempts to define the universe before the official definitions were created. People were letting their imaginations go wild. Some projects were great and some, like the holiday special, were really strange. It's like that whenever you are expanding a universe. I was a kid when saw the holiday special. It was weird, for sure, and I was disappointed in much of it. But I did like some of the segments (like the animated short and the closing time segment). I also liked the idea that Chewbacca had a family and the Life Day celebration. I did not like the Dionne Warwick virtual reality segment and the cooking show. I also remember the first Marvel comics and how delightfully odd they were. I liked the Holiday Special screenwriter's comment that they wanted to have fun with the concept. That is a great view to have when you think of the kids playing with the figures and dreaming up their own stories. I just don't think it worked out with a variety show format.
@ailaxvo64_6 жыл бұрын
-Christmas- *_LIFE DAY_*
@jacobdaniel41666 жыл бұрын
"Everything in Star Wars has a story..." except the main antagonist they spent a movie building up just to lazily kill off.
@chillinnchipin23364 жыл бұрын
Hold up, so none of Disney's extra story books, that should have explained the story gaps that they didn't explain, aren't cannon.
@fendixantana4 жыл бұрын
naw they are
@davilolv8244 жыл бұрын
Yes, since ep 7, all content except TCW and a few comics aren't canon. Everithing made after is
@tysondennis10166 жыл бұрын
My theory on the Star Wars Holiday Special is that it's in-universe Imperial propaganda used to make the beloved Rebel leaders look stupid, so that people would side with them. And Life Day is hideously misportrayed, because of Imperial human supremacy. Or, it's awful quality is used to torture Rebel sympathizers until they change sides/commit suicide/turn to stone/go insane/blind and deaf to cope with what they saw/a combination of the above.
@chromiumdog64536 жыл бұрын
It may have only been screened once in the US but it was screened TWICE in Australia (at least in Sydney it was), a few years apart. I watched the first time (we were on holiday - out of town - at my grandfather's place) and the next time we had a vcr, so I taped it.
@kensuke03 жыл бұрын
This did a great job not talking about the holiday special that much.
@ole.boye775 жыл бұрын
"You can´t play with it now" lol
@stub20224 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget exiting the drive-inn after watching Star Wars from the back seat of mom's '71 Fastback. It was a life-changing movie.
@MordianShock6 жыл бұрын
Great to see a mostly positive piece on the Expanded Universe, although The crying mountain, and the Crystal Star are a bit of a low blow!
@PieEater6 жыл бұрын
This is the worst and best Star Wars Show at the same time
@Mikewee7776 жыл бұрын
Pie Man ; but #Spaceballs !
@buttersstotch20144 жыл бұрын
“There are rules in this universe” Someone should tell rian Johnson that
@chaseroush65036 жыл бұрын
Here's the scenario: In 1978, CBS was still controlled by the same old men who were making TV shows in the 50s, the kind of shows with Borscht-Belt humor. They were the same kind of men who still wore thick-rimmed glasses and used Vitalis in their hair, and had no idea what to make of this genius maverick George Lucas. They looked at the script and the project and said, "What is this, some kinda space-ape-dog opera? Throw some songs in there! And Art Carney! The kids are gonna wanna see Art Carney!" This is also a condition known as "Dirk Richter Syndrome" as in, "Dirk Richter is 73, and he's dead." While the SWHS had its heart in the right place, the interference from the studio heads who had no idea what they were doing turned it into a laughingstock. As for the original SW cast not wishing to acknowledge the special, I think it's kind of a Dorian Gray thing... they'll spontaneously die if they address its existence.
@getraided90234 жыл бұрын
I actually really liked the cartoon in the middle of it
@CryptidCountdown6 жыл бұрын
That end part with Mark Hamill and him talking about his new role in the new movies was really cool.
@13orrax6 жыл бұрын
they should do this again with new generation SW on purpose
@josephgarfield33636 жыл бұрын
13orrax that would be amazing.
@DemonicRemption6 жыл бұрын
+13orrax Don't even joke like that...Shame on you...
@hofficalz6 жыл бұрын
It'd be so horrible. They should totally do it
@trentonpallone27424 жыл бұрын
An EU would require people to contribute things outside the movies, considering how Disney nuked the last one and destroyed coherency with the latest movies. Am doubtful anyone will bother making content for star wars to anything to the same degree.
@caronstout3549 ай бұрын
"With special guest star..Nicholas Cage!,
@russellfamily50786 жыл бұрын
As an expanded universe aficionado, I approve this video. But the idea that EU fans were merely "disappointed" is not true. We were PISSED! Sure, there's a LOT of crap in the Expanded Universe, but much of the storyline is simply amazing and could have easily been adapted into multi-billion-dollar grossing movies (examples include material from the first several novels in the "X-Wing" series). Instead Disney opted for a shallow copy of A New Hope that took no risks and left any fan who has invested any serious amount of time into Star Wars yawning. (IMO, even The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were better than The Force Awakens.) What I would have done: throw out all the comics, the graphic novels, and the New Jedi Order, and keep the Thrawn Trilogy, the Bounty Hunter Tales, and the first several X-wing novels.
@treebear83646 жыл бұрын
you have to think from a business perspective. They were going to introduce star wars to the new generation of star war fans. Force awakens was a good introduction to the franchise for new audiences.
@henryw1106 жыл бұрын
I actually liked NJO,it was sorta edgy and ridiculous in a lot of places but the idea of an epic story touching pretty much every person in the galaxy and forcing them to fight an external enemy was pretty neat. I also quite liked a lot of the Vong internal politics and how they were shown to be a very much vulnerable enemy, even if they seemed to be destroying the entire galaxy.
@JameZayer6 жыл бұрын
Are we going to touch on how Rogue One copied the concept of Dark Forces?
@ghost_ship_supreme6 жыл бұрын
Disney isn't interested in managing a complicated universe, lore, and fan base. They just want to make money. Atleast they're not Fox... oh wait... _(fox Disney merger)_
@josequezadas47876 жыл бұрын
Ñmuertos
@daveyjoneslocker47036 жыл бұрын
I’m glad they wiped the canon. I still enjoy the EU, but I don’t want Disney adapting novels or tiptoeing around the overly saturated EU.
@amog8496 жыл бұрын
David Jones I respectfully disagree with you. When Disney was considering buying the rights to Star Wars, they should’ve thought about the potential challenges with the EU. If the EU is as over-saturated as you claim, they could’ve made movies based on events in it. Instead, Disney relegated the Star Wars canon and injected their own narrative into the franchise, which is a little bit insulting to me, a long time Star Wars fan. I haven’t seen the new movie, but Ep VII was pretty dreadful, and Rogue One was largely forgettable, IMO.
@macrondo58526 жыл бұрын
Oh sorry they haven't oversaturated it already lol
@troodon10966 жыл бұрын
Fully agree. Hey I understand people like the Expanded Universe, and just because it's no longer official canon is no reason to stop. But if they wanted to tell new stories, having to deal with the very varying quality of stories in the EU, some of which flat out contradicted each other, would have been too much of an obstacle.
@TheDrexxus6 жыл бұрын
EU already had too many stories and too much info that contradicted itself. That doesn't make for good canon when multiple canon sources are pointing to each other and saying it is wrong. It NEEDED to be wiped, otherwise you just had to decide as an individual what you simply want to believe more which you can already do with none of it being canon. Can you imagine the lunacy of expecting every single person who would ever write new movies for star wars being expected to read all of the expanded universe just to make sure there were no potential conflicts? Don't be absurd. EU had to go, no way around it. It was a good call.
@hightreason5 жыл бұрын
for a second i thought this comment was about brexit
@HarryBillyBobGeorge6 жыл бұрын
To be fair, "why all the long hairy faces?" is just as bad as "Your heart is as cold as this planet," "I don't like sand," and "This is how we win, by saving what we love."
@jaredj6316 жыл бұрын
THE PREQUELS WHERE NOT THAT BAD!!! Come at me.
@therandomchicken65176 жыл бұрын
Jared Jeanotte prequels weren't worse than the originals
@zammmerjammer6 жыл бұрын
Yeah. If you look at the original work print for Star Wars 1977, it was completely unwatchable. There were so many people working behind the scenes that saved the first movie from being forgettable campy trash.
@liamgarrison33696 жыл бұрын
TPM and AOTC are pretty bad. However, I’ll be honest. I love ROTS. That’s easily one of the most entertaining Star Wars films
@Stigsnake56 жыл бұрын
Atleast the prequels gave us plenty of memes, what classic scenes and lines can you remember from the sequel trilogy so far that are not marvel style quips?
@DemonicRemption6 жыл бұрын
+Jared Jeanotte Dude, I love the prequels to death, and yeah they're flawed... But compared to THIS they're Citizen Kane and Casa Blanca...
@luckystriker8424 жыл бұрын
I actually really like the theory put forth here. Star Wars is popular, Pink Lady and Jeff hadn't killed off variety shows, and put that against the backdrop of the cinema scene at the time? To keep Star Wars in the public consciousness, a holiday special variety show is as good as anything.
@BlitzOfTheReich6 жыл бұрын
I was so pissed when they scraped the EU. I absolutely loved the storyline behind Lwhekk, the Emperor reincarnated in Byss, the Yuuzhan vong, Thrawn, and Emperor Fel.
@MGSBigBoss776 жыл бұрын
Mark Hamil's last comment there from 1983's Good Morning Britain are so ironic now! Given he did hand down Excalibur to another generation, only for Luke to toss Excalibur over his shoulder saying; "to hell with all that."
@TheMorris3606 жыл бұрын
To whomever is in charge of this video's settings: Please ban this BIGSURPRISE account that is replying to every comment
@TheMorris3606 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@Mksterk19986 жыл бұрын
Morrís Whenever someone says 'whomever' I think of The Office. 😂
@roberts37416 жыл бұрын
I haven't even watched this yet and I can tell you exactly why it happened. You won't understand it, but it's the truth. I was 3 years old in 1977, and though I didn't have any point of reference at the time, I can honestly say that the experience was unlike anything seen before or since. It was an absolute phenomenon. A movie about space and ships and lasers and aliens, which were really just the setting for the hero's journey story that everyone is familiar with everywhere. It was brand new and exciting, but worn out and familiar. The toys didn't come out until I was 4 - in 1978, and the movie was re-released that year as well. There were no vieo store rentals, so there was no way to watch it unless it came out in theaters again. I had "the story of star wars" which was a cassette that was narrated by Roscoe Lee Brown and featured quotes from the movie ( you can find it on YT). But people wanted more. Hard to believe now, but George Lucas and company we're worried that people would forget about star wars if they had to wait 3 years between it and the empire strikes back, so the variety hour thing was put together looking at it now, it's absolutely awful, but seeing Han, Leia, Luke and Darth Vader again was amazing. I remember hoping it would be a tv show. Before the internet, the holiday specialwas so obscure that people like me wondered if we really saw it, or if it was just some weird delusion. No one talked about it or wrote about it . For all we knew it didn't exist. But of course then the internet happened and here we are. So it happened because Star Wars was a phenomenon unlike anything anyone had ever seen before, and they we're worried that people would lose interest in it if they had to wait three years. As for the bizarre cameos, like Bea Arthur and Art Carney - that really does speak to how universally loved the movie was. Everyone had seen it, everyone knew about it, and everyone thought it would be fun to be a part of. It was even bigger than the Beatles because it crossed generations.
@tigress16996 жыл бұрын
"Around 2011"
@pbcoop626 жыл бұрын
Only off by 4 years.
@Sasquatchvideos385 жыл бұрын
But still a close prediction
@childeroland25696 жыл бұрын
There's no explaining the holiday special. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
@t_h_e_o43034 жыл бұрын
What if i told you there's a full movie on youtube Harrison Ford: *forcechokes him to death even tho he is not force sensitive*
@cocaccount63363 жыл бұрын
Vox:"More than 40 years after the first release, Star Wars hadnt stop evolving." Me after seeing Treadspeeders:"You meant devolving?"
@rh54666 жыл бұрын
I have very vague memories of watching Star Wars, the first one, probably in the early 80s, on TV; broadcast by one of the major networks. It was the same movie we all know and love, but because it was on TV it had commercial breaks every 15 minutes or so. What I remember was there being short, say, 15 second segments of the Flintstones which served as an intro and outro to those commercial breaks. It was Fred and Barney looking up at the night sky and cracking jokes about "the wars up there" and stuff like that. My friend tells me I've lost my mind and there was never any such Star Wars--Flintstones crossover. He's convinced that in the dark recesses of my mind I'm conflating a network presentation of Star Wars (which could very likely have happened) with some Flintstones Christmas special or something like that. Maybe they were both on at roughly the same time. Does anyone out there in the KZfaq world have any idea of what I'm talking about? Did anyone else ever see Star Wars on TV with quick, commercial intro/outro spots featuring the Flintstones? I think I am losing my mind.
@PinkisaBlackmag6 жыл бұрын
*did anyone else get chills from that last clip of Mark Hamill?*
@KeithofRoss6 жыл бұрын
I recall having the record when I was a kid. My sister and I loved it! We listened to it every Christmas!
@joannaleiserson91206 жыл бұрын
The writer they interviewed seems almost angry that the Holiday Special was so badly received, as if people should've appreciated its experimental brilliance. As if the Holiday Special isn't *universally* and *objectively* bad.
@danachos6 жыл бұрын
Interesting fact: The Harvard quidditch team has (had?) it in their constitution that no team function were to ever air the holiday special after one fateful end of term party
@alienlife77544 жыл бұрын
So . . . Guys that played a lame made up game came down on the holiday special? Rocks and glass houses man . . .
@robinchesterfield426 жыл бұрын
Answer: Unspurprisingly, it's "they wanted to make a quick buck and keep cashing in on the franchise (before it was a franchise)." Personally, I think the coolest things about this video are the little clips of 1977 and the very first Star Wars craze. It's just cool seeing people from 40 years ago just being people, but in all the retro clothes and hairstyles. :)
@ciervo426 жыл бұрын
6:30 that's Mexico, that's me!! :DDD
@thysonsacclaim4 жыл бұрын
Which one?
@xr4ti5484 жыл бұрын
6:09 This visual cue pretty much explains what happened to Star Wars.
@SuzukiYNathie4 жыл бұрын
elaborate?
@MindHunger4 жыл бұрын
This is called Learning From Your Mistakes.
@DaiBenduMonk6 жыл бұрын
I think this is what Disney’s going through. Every release is “Special”, I just hope George lives long enough to smash it all.