This Life Day, Star Wars is trying to salvage the terrible wreckage of The Star Wars Holiday Special with a one-shot comic. Despite George Lucas' wish to destroy every last trace of the TV special, comic writers are getting into the holiday spirit. A preview of the Life Day comic reveals that it draws on many plot points from the original TV special. Although it's horrifically bad, The Star Wars Holiday Special marks the beginning of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, so perhaps Life Day is worth celebrating.
In 1978 (one year after A New Hope), George Lucas made a terrible mistake. Intending to keep Star Wars in the spotlight over the holidays, he produced a multi-media TV special. Lucas and his company were tied up in more important matters and left most of the story and filming to the TV company airing the special. The result was The Star Wars Holiday Special, a one-hour variety show centered around Chewbacca's family. Everyone from George Lucas himself to the actors involved to fans around the world despises the production. Anyone brave enough to watch it will find two hours of the most bizarre, mildly disturbing content in the history of television. The scrappy plot centers around an ancient Kashyyyk holiday called "Life Day." Analogous to many of the world's winter holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah, it is a time for family and gratitude. Appropriately, Han and Chewie travel to Kashyyyk for the celebration, meeting a variety of wacky obstacles on the way.
This year comic writers Cavan Scott, Justina Ireland, Jody Houser, and Steve Orlando, and artists Ivan Fiorelli, Georges Jeanty, Paul Fry, and Kei Zama are venturing to redeem The Star Wars Holiday Special. A preview for Star Wars: Life Day has been released on the Star Wars website, which reveals that the comic one-shot stays true to many aspects of The Holiday Special while fixing some of its biggest mistakes. One of the problems with the Special is its portrayal of Wookiees, which is cartoonish at best. The previews show that the comic is renaming Chewie's son from "Lumpy" to "Waroo," suggesting that writers are intentionally fixing the Wookiee issue.
The Life Day comic also expands on the holiday's meaning throughout the ages. It seems to focus more on the personal significance of the celebration than the Holiday Special. The comic will be comprised of four parts, including stories focusd on "Han missing his wife and son, a flashback from the age of the Empire, and a tale from The High Republic featuring another famous Wookiee, Burryaga." This wider range of story and narrower scope of characters will give greater insight into the development of each hero. One panel shows Han's family as he thinks of them, including a young Ben Solo.
Terrible or not, The Star Wars Holiday Special is a landmark in Star Wars history. The writers of the Life Day comic are taking on a daunting task in redeeming the infamous special. However, history is worth preserving and restoring. Living in harmony with mistakes is what Life Day is all about. Star Wars fans can see whether the Life Day comic one-shot erases memories of The Star Wars Holiday Special when it releases on November 24.
Source: StarWars.com
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