Leia Gaga
Yes Carrie really does sing. What a girl! I love it when actors / actresses don’t take themselves too seriously, but can still treat the material with respect (even when the material is awful!). Carrie is a real trooper… although I suspect from her hazy look she might not have been entirely cognizant of what was going. Our BMS Leia really decided to bring it for the Wookiees. No holding back! Head mic and all!
This coming weekend will see many Star Wars fans attending Star Wars: Celebration V in Florida. Although we won’t be in attendance, several costumed volunteers, Joshua (Shadow Stormtrooper) and Paul (Smoking Jawa) will be handing out the exclusive promotional BMS cards that you see pictured above. If you would like to aide them and help us out with a bit of promotion we’d love to hear from you. We look forward to seeing everyone’s photos from the event. Please feel free to post them to our Facebook fan page.
And so we come to the end of the Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special. Yes, we skipped a whole menagerie of characters and situations that we might have parodied, but in the end I think what we did manage to pay homage to was a fair representation of the overall “story”. The Cirque Du Merde, Gourmand, Mermeia, and Krelman all missed out on physical appearances in the strip. *sigh* We just didn’t have the time in the end. But at the same time, they are already comedic to begin with.
I have to say that I do not hate the special. I’m certainly not a fan of it, but for me at least, the special now feels pretty harmless. Perhaps forcing myself to study it for the BMS parody helped to develop an immunity to the gag reflex it has on most during their first viewing.
Watch the final part of the Holiday Special below… probably the BEST part if we’re talking about “WHAT THE HELL?” moments… oh wait… there was that one scene with Itchy earlier…
I am just glad she actually got some of those singing jeans from her parents.
I cant help but feel the holiday special was the inspiration for the sunggie…
I could use a good pair of singing jeans myself …
(Of course, wearing them in space – with no underwear – might be a bit uncomfortable … )
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What are you talking about jeans without underwear is the most comfortable, not that i would know ;)….
Quoted for truth, dude! A little TOO comfortable..!
Now that we are over with the special do we get more Biggs ?
I’ll be at the Rebel Legion booth twice each day (thurs and fri). The “Smoking Jawa” will be the 530-7 pm appearances. Will have both on me as far as Postcards/Flyers….Bring family and friends and get some. Cameras if you have them. I’m also gonna be all over (LFL family room, RL/501 pool party,RL photo shoot, The wretched Hive Photo shoot, R2 builders room throughout CV I’m sure, etc.)
Yep, we’ll be down there handing out these cards, so come say hi and pick one up. =)
Now it’s time for us all to feel a profound sense of loss – and guilt, for not having appreciated it while it was unfolding.
Also I’ll be at the 501 photo shoot, krayt clan display in the 501 area………….
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought “snuggie” when I saw what the wookies were wearing. But then that bothers me by itself. They don’t wear clothes at all, but they do have floor length red robes for the occasion?
…I wouldn’t blame Carrie for needing a little something to get through this. Not at all.
Hey, I think I want to point something out to you real quick, man.
It’s a late thought… But you remember when Lucas went back and messed with Star Wars, right? CGI, Greedo Shoots First…
You’re not messing with history, but some things just kinda’… Changed? Originally, yes- you had the stuff from the movies, ship wise, slapped into the strip… But, I for one, never really minded that. ‘Bout a month or so ago, you mentioned replacing those with CG things.
Then Chewie gets a radical re-design.
I don’t know, man… I don’t want to accuse you of anything BAD, but it DOES seem like you’re pulling a BIT of a Lucas.
Sorry if I overstepped.
LOL. Yeah, I think we acknowledged this at some point earlier. I excuse it in a way that George Lucas can not. Star Wars is a serious family action film. Blue Milk Special is a parody cartoon webcomic. That’s our license to take liberties with our own comic. We are, after all, a series of 4 panel gag strips. That does make it hard to have a continuity or take ourselves seriously. 😉
But yes, the analogy is not lost on us. And I can understand the motivations that Lucas has in wanting to make changes. I’ve always understood where he’s coming from. AND he does have a right to play with his own creation and to tweak it. But he shouldn’t, at the same time, deprive the world of the original theatrical release, fully restored, cleaned and sharpened. Does that mean we need to give the world the original version of some of the early BMS strips? I don’t think so. The replacement of wonky lettering and rushed art is easier to accept than for the sake of looking less amateur than Lucas inserting entirely original and gratuitous scenes for the sake of having the ability (CGI) to do so. BMS shifted to CGI space craft because we simply didn’t have enough high quality movie stills of the space craft to keep using for new strips, PLUS it didn’t look cartoony… and cartoony is the BMS visual style.
But like I said, I understand why anyone would see the similarity as we’re aware of it too. Wanting to tidy up BMS has made it easier to relate to Lucas’ own desire to go back and revise his earlier films. I just think the context of the medium and genre make a bit of a difference. The gratuitous in comedy is funny itself, but in a dramatic story it is a distraction and sometimes detrimental.
Oh, and just one more point. When we changed Chewie we worked it into the story, it’s not like we went back and switched them all. We made the change a part of the story and kept the old up till that point. I was in favor of changing the old as well, but Leanne overruled it, and probably rightly so. So, no… although we are revising the odd strip, I don’t think its in the heavy-handed fashion that Lucas has used in the Special Editions, nor do I see our 4 panel comedy strip being in the same context as Lucas’ dramatic film series.
Well done. I accept the validity of your argument, and withdraw mine.
Lucas once said “Films are never finished, just abandoned” if that holds true he is just attempting to continue to tweak a never to be completed project.
BMS seems to be more of work that takes on a like of its own like a fireside story (just look at Biggs), but which could always use some brushing up, or tweaking from time to time. As long as it stays funny and true to the mix of reverance with irreverance towards Star Wars Cannon who cares? Just enjoy!
BTW since the original theatrical versions of episodes IV, V and VI are now available on DVD I must withdraw a much earlier rant accusing Lucas of keeping these from his oldest fans.
The rant still stands… in a way. Those releases of the deteriorating theatrical versions have not been restored and have very washed and fading color. These are not the films as we would have seen them when they first hit the theaters in 78, 80 and 83. Star Wars will, one day, have close to the historical importance to film as Metropolis. It needs some love ASAP.
Now just buy a film real of all the films and in 50-60 years you will be a millionaire !
nice dance routine leia!
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Carrie actually admitted she was piss drunk thriught this entire thing.