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Since I've never actually watched it before, I'm going to live tweet the Star Wars Holiday Special. I've heard it's truly terrible so I may not make it through. A Thread 🧵
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Wow, even the opening scroll is insane, it's just unanswered question,.and teasing that a golden girl argues with greedo?!
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Each sentence had at least 3 exclamation points . . .
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For some reason they couldn't use the actual millennium falcon set?
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. . . they stopped in the middle of a fire fight for Chewie to give Han a hug.
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The second scene is all about Chewie's family but you know how they don't subtitle Chewie in English? They're also not subtitling the wookie-only scene and it is *long*
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This is like the first 30 minutes of Wall-E except not adorable
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A galaxy far far away is clearly what gave us 70s interior design
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The baby Wookie is now watching a hologram of gymnasts backed by music that sounds like someone continually falling onto a $7 Casio keyboard.
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I don't know if it's the dye job or what but I'm not 100% convinced this is actually Mark Hamill
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The way Luke is delivering these lines it's like he's trying to seduce Chewie's wife
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Looks like they couldn't get a hold of the actual Darth Vader suit for this scene
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A wookie in an apron is watching an alien Julia Child and following along
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The TV chef has 4 hands that's clearly just someone behind them like it's that Whose Line cooking game
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On the upside I now know how to pronounce the Wookie planet of Kashyyyk
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So much Wookie-speak. It's like they didn't even bother making a script and just improvd the few English lines
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*Another* gymnast hologram sequence
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. . . now Chewie's dad is watching something that I'm like 80% sure is Wookie porn
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It hasn't been an hour and they're on their third hologram performance
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And for no apparent reason this hologram is Jefferson Starship
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They're doing another English scene (finally!) and the dialog quality is *slightly* above Attack of the Clones
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They've now switched to an animated segment for no apparent reason
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I feel like I'm watching GI Joe
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Hey they're introducing this new Boba Fett character! I hope he doesn't do much, seems to die, and then gets his own TV show 40 years later
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They're searching for a talisman that makes things invisible because apparently the One Ring is around somewhere
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"Hey you can draw Harrison Ford's face right?" "Uh sure"
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I'm still not sure why this whole segment is animated and how the baby Wookie is watching it
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I think the script writers just forgot about Chewie's dad for a while. almost everything is in this one house where they all are and I haven't seen him for like 30 minutes
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. . . Baby Wookie is assembling a thing from an instruction video. Nothing is happening other than the instructor giving assembly instructions and the Wookie following along and they're showing all. of. it.
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It's amazing. Each scene has as close to zero connection to the previous one as possible.
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I never really saw Golden Girls so just fill in your own reference here
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Don't worry, he drinks through his head
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. . . Bea Arthur is doing a musical number now
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Offered without comment:
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ngl this song kind of slaps
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2020 Dec 24 Mood +2 🙂

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Han Solo just tripped a stormtrooper to death
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1970s Harrison Ford's hair was fantastic
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The wookies are crying but I'm not sure why because they *still* aren't subtitling or having anyone translate.
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uhhh the wookies picked up snow globes, held them up, and were suddenly wearing red robes and transported so they're now walking into the sun?
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2020 Dec 24 Mood 0

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C-3PO was already in the sun?
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They're lowkey addressing Droid sapience in a throwaway line
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Were you worried they were only going to have 1 musical number? Fear not!
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Leia looks like she wants Chewbacca. I ship it
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"We've gotta fill like 3 more minutes!" "Ehhhh just throw a blue filter on top of some footage from A New Hope"
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Aaaand we're back from the sun with no explanation, but lost the humans
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And that's all folks
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All in all I think the only the that the Mandalorian can learn from this is get a Golden Girl to do a musical number. Give Betty White a call
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