Post by Laan Kro on Oct 5, 2004 8:50:03 GMT -5
I looked everywhere before starting a new thread, so if this is redundant my apologies:
A friend of mine surprised me with an ancient video earlier this week, an original copy of the Holiday Special taped right from the TV. It was complete with 1970's Kenner comercials for the 12 action figures and two ships available at the time.
After about ten minutes of torture I was reminded that we tend to look back on memories with rose-colored glasses. Don't get me wrong, it was fun to take a walk down memory lane, but all I kept saying was, "Thank God for the Empire Strikes Back!" and "Oh, what SW could have been!"
It's like how I explained it to my wife (who, let's say, wasn't here for quite as much of the seventies as I was) Back then we didn't have video stores to go rent SW, in fact, most of us didn't have VCR's at the time. A movie would run for a few weeks or months, and then you waited for it to run on HBO, and then that was it. We didn't know there would ever be an ESB, or a ROTJ, and especially the PT, so the Holliday Special was the best fix for some new addicts.
I say all that to say, if you get a chance to see (or re-see) the Holliday Special, jump at it. It's a big piece of SW history and it'll make you count your blessings!
A friend of mine surprised me with an ancient video earlier this week, an original copy of the Holiday Special taped right from the TV. It was complete with 1970's Kenner comercials for the 12 action figures and two ships available at the time.
After about ten minutes of torture I was reminded that we tend to look back on memories with rose-colored glasses. Don't get me wrong, it was fun to take a walk down memory lane, but all I kept saying was, "Thank God for the Empire Strikes Back!" and "Oh, what SW could have been!"
It's like how I explained it to my wife (who, let's say, wasn't here for quite as much of the seventies as I was) Back then we didn't have video stores to go rent SW, in fact, most of us didn't have VCR's at the time. A movie would run for a few weeks or months, and then you waited for it to run on HBO, and then that was it. We didn't know there would ever be an ESB, or a ROTJ, and especially the PT, so the Holliday Special was the best fix for some new addicts.
I say all that to say, if you get a chance to see (or re-see) the Holliday Special, jump at it. It's a big piece of SW history and it'll make you count your blessings!
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