Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s premiere has lit a match to the Star Wars fandom. The first two episodes include their share of mysteries, introducing followers to At Attin, the house of the younger stars of the present, its mysterious Great Work, and the pirate base often known as Port Borgo. Eagle-eyed followers have seen many various Easter eggs within the two episodes, together with one which hearkens again to essentially the most notorious piece of Star Wars media of all time.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special premiered in November 1978 and was panned virtually instantly. Taking a web page from the range present format that was standard on the time, the Holiday Special was thought of a failure, with George Lucas and Lucasfilm doing all the things they might to maintain this system from ever being proven once more. For years, the one strategy to watch it was to purchase a bootleg copy and it’s since been uploaded to YouTube however not Disney+. However, over time an attention-grabbing factor has occurred: a lot of it has been made canon. Star Wars: Skeleton Crew takes place years after the spinoff’s 1ABY (after Battle of Yavin) date, however the brand new present has introduced yet one more piece of it into canon.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special Introduced Multiple Characters and Concepts Into Canon Over the Years
The Star Wars Holiday Special revolved across the vacation often known as Life Day, a pseudo-Christmas celebration within the Star Wars universe. The present’s framing system takes place on Kashyyyk, the homeworld of the Wookiees, and focuses on Chewbacca’s household — his spouse Malla, his father Itchy, and his son Lumpy — ready for Chewie, Han, Luke, Leia, C-3PO, and R2-D2 to go to for the vacation. Wookiees don’t communicate English (or Basic because it’s recognized in numerous items of Star Wars media) and the present stored this up, besides there was no droid to translate their growls and no subtitles. Of course, there are human characters within the present that really do communicate English, however the present has a number of Wookiees talking Shryiiwook with out viewers understanding what they have been saying.
The present additionally included appearances from Diahann Carol for a very creepy sequence with Itchy and Lumpy watching a circus-like efficiency (that’s referenced within the first episode of Skeleton Crew), a cooking present from a four-armed chef performed by Harvey Korman named Chef Gormaanda, Bea Arthur taking part in a personality often known as Ackmena who runs the Mos Eisley Cantina in a sequence that ends with a track, a cartoon that comprises the primary look of Boba Fett, a music video from Jefferson Starship, and the end result of the principle plot, when the heroes of the unique trilogy arrive to have a good time Life Day.
More of the present than most individuals notice has been made canon, in each Legends and Disney canon.
Life Day is the obvious of this stuff; this vacation has been referenced in a number of items of Legends and canon media. Chewbacca’s household was additionally made canon in Legends, however their names have been modified to be extra Wookiee — Malla grew to become Mallatobuck, Itchy grew to become Attichitcuk, and Lumpy grew to become Lumpawaroo — one thing that has survived the canon changeover. Boba Fett joined canon, though it’s by no means been positive if the occasions of the cartoon he appeared in have been truly canon. Akmena was referenced within the Legends novel Fate of the Jedi: Allies and was made canon in 2016, talked about in Star Wars: Complete Locations after which within the quick story “The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper” from the anthology From a Certain Point of View.
Gormaanda’s cookbook — Travels with Gormaanda: Cooking within the Core — was talked about in Star Wars Galaxy 7, {a magazine} made for the Star Wars TTRPG, and as part of The New Essential Guide to Droids, making her first canon look in a brief story known as “A Recipe For Death” in Tales from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Aliens: Volume One. She was first visually proven within the 2022 reference ebook Star Wars: The Life Day Pop-Up Book and Advent Calendar. However, this was a simplistic icon within the ebook; she’d get a extra detailed look on a variant cowl for the fortieth concern of Star Wars: Bounty Hunters. This newest Easter egg brings yet one more a part of the Holiday Special into canon.
The Star Wars Holiday Special Has Been Made Almost Entirely Canon
There was a time when the Star Wars Holiday Special was essentially the most derided piece of Star Wars media. Most individuals wished to overlook it ever occurred, however apparently the inventive minds behind numerous Star Wars media have determined in any other case. Legends was recognized for taking bit characters and giving them advanced backstories, and the Holiday Special isn’t any completely different. Characters like Ackmena and Gormaanda grew to become part of the mythos, and Disney’s canon has adopted this instance. At this time limit, it’s simpler to determine elements of it which might be canon than elements that aren’t.
The query of whether or not the occasions of the Holiday Special are literally canon has at all times been a murky one. Much of it has been made canon over time, and this newest Easter egg from Skeleton Crew — exhibiting the circus that Lumpy watched as a program for youngsters within the Star Wars universe — brings one other facet of it into canon. Looking in any respect of this, the Star Wars Holiday Special appears to be wholly canon, right down to the precise occasions of this system. It’s truthfully stunning that Jefferson Starship’s look hasn’t been canonized as some type of band within the Star Wars universe, taking one of many closing elements of this system that has by no means been canonized and bringing it into the official universe. Disney ought to lastly simply launch it on Disney+, putting it within the timeline of Star Wars. They’ve mainly achieved all the things however truly come out and mentioned it’s canon.
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew airs each Tuesday on Disney+.
