Ths was originally broadcast at Christmas [once only, and never repeated] but it should have been the Hallowe'en Holiday; this is the most horrifying piece of trash this reviewer has ever witnessed. I waited sixteen years to watch Episode One and even went back to see it a second time; I waited 20 years to watch the Holiday Special and felt myself age ANOTHER 20 years as I waited for the damn thing to end.
Many people think that Return of the Jedi was the beginning of the end for Star Wars. After it came the 2 Ewok movies [not canon because they were made for TV], the ewoks & droids cartoons [not canon because they were made as cartoons] and The Phantom Menace [canon, although everyone wishes it wasn't!].
This made-for-TV trash consists of a number of low-brow variety entertainment skits [a pirouetting acrobat, a singer, a glam-rock band] held together by Chewie's family on planet Kashyyyk as they wait for him to attend their life day festival.
Grandpa Itchy tugs his wookiee. Yes, a drooling senile hairy old pervert puts on a VR helmet and watches Diannah Carroll being gorgeous.
Chewie's wife Mala appears to be having an affair with local store-keeper Art Carney.
Chewie himself has no cause to be worried; he appears to be Han Solo's partner in more than one way! Harrison Ford actually rests his hand on his best friend's knee in what everyone watching [this reviewer included] took as an overtly sexual manner. Maybe we were just focusing on that because it was about the only real event in the entire show!
Luke Skywalker put in a brief appearance, and the ENTIRE audience gasped Oh god, no! as we saw the most repulsive make-up ever. Yes, the entire entourage at Jabba's palace put together look more attractive than the Lucasfilm make-up job on Mark Hamill! The creation of this horrible monstrosity was supposedly an accident; they used Theatre make-up instead of TV/Film make-up, and overdid it ... by quite a bit.
There may be a more sinister reason. As filming of ANH drew to a close, Mark Hamill was involved in a serious automobile accident. Some accounts go so far as to say that his nose was completely destroyed and had to be rebuilt from scratch with cartilege from other parts of his body. Certainly, the changes in his facial structure had to be explained by the tacked-on Wampa scene at the start of Empire Strikes Back. Is it possible that Mr Hamill's face was so badly damaged, the scarring so severe, that Lucas dared not let him appear on screen without the most hideous make-up work in history?
Troopers
This is an excellent satire on the Real-life cops shows that spew out of our televisions every evening. A Camera crew follows a bunch of Imperial Stormies as they harrass jawa traders, brutalise people involved in a domestic dispute, and generally do things that Earth cops do all the time.
Oddly enough, the events portrayed in this fan-fic spoof somewhat resemble the first half hour of A New Hope, but from an Imperial POV.
