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@ohiofi Bea Arthur would beg to differ
...just a little
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If you have the time use something to clean up the SFX at the end when the wookies are spiritually gathering together, give them some kind of ethereal bridges to be walking on which would also hide the stage sfx errors
and generally just do a tighter edit and that should get you down to a 48m made-for-TV hour.
i am like this close > < to actually trying this bullshit just to see what happens
why is my brain like this
i think i figured out how to re-edit the Star Wars Holiday Special to make it... not good, gods know, but... tolerable
hear me out
(or don't)
but the key part is:
you switch the two musical numbers.
grampa wookie gets his horrible classic rock (and in VR so nobody else has to listen to it)
the stormtrooper that trader guy is trying to distract gets the disco pr0n.
creepiness factor drops like a rock because if you're gonna distract a stormtrooper pr0n seems like a pretty good idea
and the trader guy is way smarter. all the fumbling is him changing the software for pr0n.
next cut harvey korman down to a cameo, centre the boba fett cartoon, and cut it to like an hour
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Here's the graph of activity on #chewbaccadon back on Friday night, a wordcloud where I excluded only chewbaccadon, and a wordcloud where I excluded both chewbaccadon and #starwarsholidayspecial. @diazona
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Sorry for doing this twice, but I thought the hashtag was #starwarsholidayspecial. It was chewbaccadon. So originally I had found 224 toots on starwarsholidayspecial. In actuality there were 447 on chebaccadon, so I reran the fetch and the analysis.
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@diazona Sorry (not sorry) I missed the viewing! I ran some numbers and some word clouds for #starwarsholidayspecial though.
Summary of #starwarsholidayspecial generated at Sun 15 Dec 2024 11:54 EST.
- We looked at 224 toots posted between Fri 13 Dec 2024 20:00 EST and Fri 13 Dec 2024 23:37 EST by 8 different participants across 8 different servers. techhub.social contributed the most toots at 105
- Most toots were from 'David Zaslavsky' (@diazona) who posted 105
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Picked up and read comments in order for #Chewbaccadon of the #StarWarsHolidaySpecial tonight.
For me, the animation bit was great, the Bea Arthur bit I appreciate so much more now that I've seen a lot of musicals.
It looked like everyone was doing the best of their abilities at the time of the material they had.
This was basically a bad variety show. There were plenty of them in the 1970s. There's a reason you don't really see blu-rays for them.
Happy Life Day!
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@jonny@neuromatch.social The Star Wars Holiday Special. It was a multimedia extravaganza (pejorative)
#Chewbaccadon #StarWarsHolidaySpecial
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@jonny The legendary #StarWarsHolidaySpecial
It does indeed live down to expectations
xkcdSo Bad It's Worse
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@hollie @Taweret I mean even at its worst #Monsterdon kind of hits a sweet spot of being comically bad but not brain-meltingly bad
(and by "worst" I mean worst movie, definitely not worst viewing experience)
Special shoutout to @Taweret and #Monsterdon for inspiring this whole thing
THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN
I can't stress that enough
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@diazona Just her complete lack of giving a fuck about this whole thing is a chef's kiss moment
"yeah I showed up high as fuck, i read this script. what're you gonna do about it?"
Also, the absolute best part is Carrie Fisher's first scene once it becomes obvious that she's so high she can barely deliver her lines.
This may be because I am a terrible person but that part's pretty great.