I finally watched it tonight. It really is one of those things you have to experience in its sheer awfulness. Chewbacca was married. As Mary Jo Pehl once pointed out, it’s proof that “everyone is in a relationship but me”. Also, Chewbacca has a son. Basically the entire show is just about his family. Sure, Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were in it too, but they were mostly cameos. Also it had Art Carny, Bea Arthur and Jefferson Starship. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a band called Jefferson Starship. I guess the 70′s were a long time ago. I mean, when they made this, it was a year before the Pirates won their last World Series.
And out of the main three characters, Harrison Ford looked somewhat normal. Just a guy in a bad movie because of his contract. Carrie Fisher looked stoned out of her mind the whole time and Mark Hammil’s face was covered in so much makeup that you could mistake him for someone else. Then there was the famous cartoon that introduced Boba Fett. It was actually kind lame. I mean he’s supposed to be working for Vader, but he ends up saving Luke and Han and then taking off when they find out what he’s up to. And it’s hard to tell if the cartoon itself was supposed to be official canon or just a cartoon.
The funniest part about the show was that the version on Google Video had a bunch of 70′s commercials. It seemed like a large majority of them were made for women in their mid-30′s, the typical Star Wars crowd, I guess, including an odd panty-hose commercial where the woman showed how good the crotch was.
Bad stuff, but good bad stuff. And Iowa won again to get their record up to 8-0. Yeah. Awesome.
