SW: Christmas Special

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valarltd linked to the animated segment of the Star Wars Christmas Special on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0QqVCAlT5s if you want to see it)

Haven't seen it since it originally aired on TV. I remember the live action parts being rather dumb but the cartoon is actually kind of cool and it gives Boba Fett his only decent role in the entire franchise.

I thought at first that the animation might have been some early Peter Chung work. The characters are kind of stylized with interestingly rubbery faces. Turns out that it was Nelvana, makers of Rock and Rule, Rome-0 and Julie-8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu01t-g6Egk) and some other fun stuff. It's kind of sad that Nelvana mostly did horrible Saturday Morning cartoons like 'The Raccoons' (complete with disgustingly uncircumcised penis-noses) they had the potential to do so much more.

Comments

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Paul Rudish began working at 15 on the Rainbow Bright Movie. 17 isn't too young, and it was the 70s.

And I loved Rock and Rule.

We have a VCR tape of the special. It was my 11th Birthday Present and the best I got that year. (I remember that as the year of Sweet Honesty, meaning I got about 8 different variations of it from well-meaning relatives on all sides as a hint to take a bath and be a girl)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

"Sweet Honesty" smells like teen spirit? :)


And yeah. Rock and Rule is pretty good except for the end (I have to admit that I was really rooting for Mok. :)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Pre-teen spirit at least.

I couldn't be a girl. I was too busy being Han Solo.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

All in all probably a better thing to be so long as you shot first. :)