Help me

[mariness]

I am no longer a (complete) Star Wars Christmas Special virgin.*

Many of you warned me. You did not warn me strongly enough. My ears and eyes? Still bleeding.

*I only managed two minutes.

Comments

[wendigomountain]

But which two minutes? The awkward sexual tension between Han and Chewbacca's mom? The Princess Leia singalong? Or Art Carney?

I watched the highlights clip on YouTube. That is all that has saved my sanity. *twitch, twitch*

[mariness]

The Princess Leia bit. Complete with a pained look from Harrison Ford clearly stating, "God help me, get me into another movie -- any other movie -- so I never have to deal with this again. I'll even take on snakes, bugs, huge round boulders and evil Nazis."

I can't take any more highlights. My head is still hurting.

[stevenglassman]

I have the entire thing. All of it. On DVD.

Want me to mail you a copy?

I can include some protective goggles...

[mariness]

I still haven't recovered from the time you showed me the Jar-Jar porn.

And based on the two minutes I did see, I'm not sure protective goggles would be enough :)

[meandering]

1) I'm very, very sorry.

2) What I'm most amused by is that it's basically canon material.

[mariness]

In my Star Wars canon material, Princess Leia is cool. Therefore, I must respectfully disagree with you and Wikipedia on this point.

[meandering]

Well, you can just go and delete that section on Wikipedia. ;-)

[zoethe]

Oh, it's a good thing you were not here. Because our rule is that we will sit through it with you, but once you are strapped into the roller coaster, you're riding the whole thing. None of this high-grading. The pain must be complete.

[mariness]

The pain felt very complete! Trust me!

[zoethe]

Oh, no. You do not know the pain. Be grateful that you do not know the pain.

[dragonbane]

So very true. A *ahem* "friend" of mine found out that when people talked about the christmas special I thought they meant the Ewok one. He was so very "kind" to have corrected me by making me sit through this. Have you ever had your brain want to vomit directly? :P

[jackolantern]

See, I saw it when it originally aired, but it didn't seem that awful because the Seventies were chock-full of cheesy variety shows that featured otherwise respectable actors doing dumb-ass stuff. When you've recovered, try looking up "Superhero Roast" if you haven't already.

[mariness]

I now feel thankful all over again that I spent much of the 70s out of the country and without access to television....

[fbhjr]

I also saw it when it first came out...
I remember thinking it wasn't very good, but there were worse Christmas specials out there...

[wyldemusick]

I encountered the SW Christmas Special for the first time in Albany, New York, at Novacon 9 West. I fled the room in horror after a few minutes; it did a good job of twisting my view of American television for a long, long time, even after I was writing for American television (which admittedly didn't help to improve my opinion; one has a reluctance to eat sausages after seeing how sausages are made, after all.)

[mariness]

Further proof that Albany brings out the evil in all of us ;)

(I've spent a significant part of my life in the Albany area, so I can say that.)

And yeah, it certainly twisted my view of American television. Eyes. Still. Bleeding.

[dragonbane]

But driving the Taconic is FUN! Albany at least has that going for it. :)