"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ..."
Hello everyone!
Here it's finally starting to get a little colder, which means that it's time to pull out all the music and movies that makes us all want to be all cozy and happy at home. For me, this generally means Hallmark because, let's face it.
NOBODY does Christmas like Hallmark does it.
No matter how many other movies they film and other subcategories they have at their disposal, Christmas is still their biggest marketing niche of the year. They normally release at least 30 new movies, though the number may be lower this year due to the pandemic, but they've been up to the 50 already.
However, nope, not Hallmark tonight.
And Life Day in the 2020 LEGO Holiday Special!
Links to all previous Star Wars-connected blog posts will be found at the bottom of the page, as always.
As for tonight's post, read on!
The story begins with none other than Master Yoda narrating, and if you want to know how the little green hobgoblin managed this feat when he's supposed to be in spirit mode, let me tell you: I have absolutely no idea.
But my best guess is he's partying with the Grinch and the Whos somewhere.
ANYWAY, some of our favourites from the galaxy are back, including but not limited to Finn, Rey, BB-8, Poe and Chewbacca, and apparently, they plan on flying to Chewie's home world to celebrate Life Day with his family.
My best guess is that this is a nod back to the other infamous holiday special (which I have not yet watched, but plan on doing eventually), but either way, it's going to turn into some hysteria, don't worry.
While this is all going on, Rey is desperately trying to teach Finn how to be a Jedi - again, this is PROBABLY something Disney is trying to correct from what actually happened in the movies, but that's just my two cents - and having very little luck with it. Finn isn't exactly responding to all the helpful information from the ancient Jedi texts, and so Rey is trying to figure out what she's doing wrong.
This leads her to discover something about a key to the past in one of the texts, and she rushes off, promising to be back for the party.
She and BB-8 find what to me looks like Grinch's mountain, and honestly, at this point, that would totally make sense. He collects everything, why not weird space-time keys?
Speaking of keys, Rey finds the one she needs, and discovers it can open portals through time, taking her back to whenever, basically.
If you think that's recipe for disaster ... you're right.
Because not only does she land with all our past favourite Jedi - aka Obi-Wan, Anakin, Luke - but she ALSO manages to alert none other than Vader and Palpatine that something's going on.
Palpatine, unhappy with the mug Vader got him for Life Day, sends his apprentice to hunt down this key, which unleashes a bizarre turn of events in which we portal-hop through all the major moments in Star Wars history (pick any of the big ones from the movies and it's probably in here), and in the process they collect EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THESE MOMENTS.
The action takes a beat to pause when encountering the adorable Baby Yoda and Mando, because even Vader can't stand that cuteness.
Then we're off, landing on Tatooine at the start of A New Hope, and EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER is there (including but not limited to all three Prequel Obi-Wans, both Han Solos, half of Darth Maul, Storm Troopers, and the like). And once they dust themselves off, it's OK Corral of the wild wild Tatooine desert!
Rey and Vader bounce again, however, and this time Vader steals her key to take it back to Palpatine, leaving her alone with pre-anything Luke, who has no idea what's going on, but helps her rebuild BB-8 anyway.
Vader, meanwhile, gives the key to Palpatine, and they land themselves with Kylo Ren, who awkwardly tells Palpatine he's ... kinda dead, in the future.
So zappity, zappity, zap zap, Palpy makes Kylo his new apprentice and sends Vader to grab Luke from Endor.
On the flip side, Rey is visited by a vision of Yoda, who shows her what she's been missing the entire time her nose was stuck in the ancient texts: all the masters and apprentices learned, yes, but they were also THERE for each other, as friends and family. She then manages to open a portal with Luke's help, dashing to where the other Luke is facing off with the bad guys, and Vader has no clue whose side he's actually on.
At that point, honestly, neither does the viewer, but it's a heck of a lot of fun watching Palpatine get a lightbulb moment as he hurtles down the reactor shaft AGAIN.
Rey then leaves that timeline and collects everybody from Tatooine (oh yeah, they've been duking it out all this time) before she returns to her own time, leaves the key, and hurries to the Life Day Party.
Which, let me tell you, is a story ALL on its own, because Poe kind of doesn't have the best organisational skills in this one, so help is called in, they now have a DJ, Lando's there to boogie and there's karaoke and a whole lot of food.
This is what Rey arrives to, happy to finally be back where she belongs, with friends and family, and as an added miracle, it snows on Kashyyyk!
Leaving the heroes frolicking in the snow together, we get a parting bow from Master Yoda, complete with bowler hat (which caused my sister to need her inhaler as she wheezed with laughter), and best wishes to us all.
Really, other than what I wrote above, there is nothing for me to add to this. It is 40 minutes of pure, undiluted fun, time-travel hilarity, Storm Troopers who STILL haven't figured out how much their IQ is, and a zappity-zap-zap!
I could go on and on and tell you how funny and fun this is, but instead I encourage you to watch it yourself.
It is WELL worth it!
xx
*images and video not mine
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