Escapist, be glad it is Christmas Day and not Christmas Eve right now, as reminding us of this would negate world peace on the good-naughty scale.

Then again, coal would help out on the heating bill...

The only good thing the Star Wars prequels (that do not actually exist, that which does not exist can not be as a plague upon us!) ever did was to convince a fantasy author to base a character off of me after I said something amusing about how terrible they were.

A part of me died inside when I watched that video. Again. Thanks for reminding me of the awfulness.

But have no fear, for in 45 minutes, we can watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special, and those are always awesome.

To all who don't want to see this: watch the Nostalgia Critic review at http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/15087-swchr

Nostalgia Critic is a guy who tortures himself to watch old horrible movies, and for the Christmas season he tortured himself for this. I would suggest watching this.

Greg Tito:
George Lucas has been reported to say that, "If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it."

Funny...we're trying to do the same with certain other elements. A sledgehammer is so much more clumsy and random than a blaster.

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Assassinator:

But have no fear, for in 45 minutes, we can watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special, and those are always awesome.

Oh god no... not RTD bastardising canon again with his mixture of direct ripoffs and forced choke moments!

I'm just going to go and cry somewhere. Hurry up Moffat, you've a fan that needs some REAL Who not this Who-lite.

Jeez, you trying to drive us to madness or something, Greg?

XKCD warned us about this! Watching the Star Wars Holiday Special's the visual equivalent of looking at the Necronomicon! :P

The_root_of_all_evil:

I'm just going to go and cry somewhere. Hurry up Moffat, you've a fan that needs some REAL Who not this Who-lite.

Still, Tennant is going to die, we all know that. I DON'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN!!! *weeps*

Well, it's starting *gulp* I don't want him to go *sniff*

Greg Tito:

What better way to celebrate the holidays than to watch the worst Star Wars-related piece of entertainment ever created, and I don't mean the prequels.

Call me wierd if you like, but actually LIKED the prequels

Reminds me of this article I just found yesterday on Cracked:

The Seven Most Baffling Moments in the Star Wars Holiday Special

It's incredibly funny.

I'm going to thank you for reminding me of this.

Seriously, I am.

I mean really.

Honestly.

I was already having a good Christmas buy now you've made it better.

Merry Christmas, The Escapist <3

May The (utter, utter) Farce Be With You!!!

Wow, that was truly horrible. Finally I can agree with Lucas about something. That special sucked.

I liked the prequels. At least I remember seeing the prequels.

Don't remember shit about the originals that I saw back-to-back when I was 9. So, they can't have been THAT good.

Onyx Oblivion:
I liked the prequels. At least I remember seeing the prequels.

Don't remember shit about the originals that I saw back-to-back when I was 9. So, they can't have been THAT good.

Heretic! Unclean!

Seriously, I grew up watching those films, and my family will still watch them every so often (last time through the trilogy was a few months ago actually). I've seen that which does not exist if we all put our fingers in our ears and sing LA LA LA! really loudly a grand total of once, and that was too many times.

Nobody over the age of 20 will ever take you seriously if you admit to liking those abominations, just saying.

Okay, lemme sum this up. The nonexistant Star Wars Holiday Special is the Star Wars movie that made George Lucas feel unclean. Not Jar Jar Binks, not the crap CGI Clone Wars series on Cartoon Network, but the does-not-exist Star Wars Holiday Special.

Besides, if it did exist, there's so many Big Lipped Alligator Moments in there, it qualifies as a Big Lipped Alligator MOVIE.

lol i saw that santa christ will erase your memory if you saw it

Mrsnugglesworth:

Jon Etheridge:
The best part about this is that you can tell Carrie Fisher really enjoyed cocain.

I thought the best part is that she didn't kill herself after she came down from the high and realized that she had effectively ruined her career.

I thought the best part was with Bea Arthur.

the ONLY actor who atleast tried to be professional.

XD Oh I thought you got the whole thing!

One day...one day I'll see the whole thing and want santa christ to wipe it clean of my memory

Honestly, I watched the Holiday Special once for a laugh. I would happily never have the experience of mind numbing boringness and wtf shown to me again. The review of the Phantom Menace is pretty funny though.

If nothing else, it managed to sum up all my inarticulate rage over the film into a 70 minuet cohesive argument of why the origional films are still the best of the lot.

Saw the 70-minute review of Phantom Menace. He has some valid points. The prequels didn't inspire the same amount of nerd-rage that most people tack on to them. (I did see the originals growing up.) The reason for this was because the only storyline I really cared about was: "How the Republic became the Empire." and "What happened to Anakin Skywalker that he became Darth Vader?" Everything else was a diversion.

In Phantom Menace there were too many characters. The original Star Wars had Luke, Leia, Han, Obi-Wan,and the Droids. Those were the ones that received any amount of characterization at least as far as the Heroes, Villains it was pretty much Vader and Tarkin.

Following the same idea, you could have had Anakin, Padme (minus her entourage, maybe still doing the "Secret Queen"-bit), Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, and the two Droids.

Maybe this is covered in the some of the younger Jedi Knight books, but we never really get a sense of how a Youngling or Padawan train to become a Jedi Knight. Something along the lines of a Jedi Training montage might have helped understand what they do in the temple, since the Jedi are supposed to be "Space-age psychic Samuari Warrior Monks" anyways.

This is why once I actually played KoTOR I almost preferred it's setting to the the Prequels even if at times it came across as a Fantasy RPG hosed down in Star Wars Juice.

It's become somewhat of a tradition between me and my friend's that we get together drink a bunch of alcohol and watch all of the starwars movies, this year we added the holiday special and the new animated clone wars abomination, because of where the movies fit in the saga they make decent intermissions where you can walk to the nearest LCBO. The pure non-fun-ness of them will sober you up if you don't. A few of us made it through it one night the entire holiday special that is, it was the worst experience of my life, there is not enough alcohol in the world to make it worth watching. (Also to those who are confused, the LCBO is the liquor control board of ontario, it's where we buy alcohol, I don't know where everyone here is from so i figure a little bit of an explaination couldn't hurt)

After all these years...it's still horrible.

Jon Etheridge:
The best part about this is that you can tell Carrie Fisher really enjoyed cocain.

WHO DOESN'T????

Nostalgia Critic reviewed this movie.

I had to scrub my eyes with gasoline for about three hours afterwards.

I saw this special on the Nostolgia Critic. It was somehow less annoying than the new SW trilogy...maybe it's because watching it made me feel like I was stoned out of my gourd.

Why did he say: "and it's not the prequels" when Clone Wars exist?

I've never understood why all the prequels are hated so much, I think episode III was okay, I can't really think of that big flaws (apart from Hayden Christensen being in it) in the film, though it wasn't very good.

Though episode I sucked hard and episode II was kinda bad, but not that bad.

I liked the prequels, but this was just BRUTAL.

Greg Tito:

If you don't agree with me, there's a 70-minute review of The Phantom Menace being talked about on the interwebs that basically points out everything that I hate about those films. The reviewer has some personality problems of his own which seem rather forced, but everything he says about the Qui-gon Jinn being the most morally corrupt Jedi ever, or how lightsaber duels are more interesting without ridiculously acrobatic fight choreography, is spot on.

You know, I thought this would be just another rant, but DEAR GOD, this is the most awesome review ever. Seriously, it's better than the Phantom Menace. Watch this review.

Jon Etheridge:
The best part about this is that you can tell Carrie Fisher really enjoyed cocain.

actually i do believe her drug of choice at the time was LSD, she said she spent at least one or two of the movies on acid the whole time and she barely remembers making the movies

cleverlymadeup:

Jon Etheridge:
The best part about this is that you can tell Carrie Fisher really enjoyed cocain.

actually i do believe her drug of choice at the time was LSD, she said she spent at least one or two of the movies on acid the whole time and she barely remembers making the movies

Having seen her recently, I think she's made the switch to either caffeine or mobile phones - when she's signing autographs while on the phone and drinking coffee, you wonder if that costume was too tight; or maybe it was just the nipple tape.