This is just short of making my Christmas Special playlist, and the bias is all mine, but it’s still just good enough to star this year’s Christmas special edition of Saturday Night Showcase.
While Disney seem to fail to understand Star Wars and what makes it work, LEGO seems to have a bit more understanding. While the movies take more of a “kid playing with LEGO” tone the shows and direct-to-video movies go more for parody in a LEGO-y world. The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is no exception.
It’s Life Day just after the final defeat of the First Order. It’s a time of peace and celebration, but Rey’s attempts to teach Finn how to be a Jedi is meeting with failure. (I’d say it’s because Finn doesn’t need to be a Jedi, but enough fans disagree that Atomic Cartoons is running with it.) Traveling to an old Jedi Temple, leaving her friends to set up a Life Day event, Rey ends up joined by BB-8 in a trip through time…and we all know what time travel in a comedy can lead to. Which it does. It’s not a battle to save Life Day but the history of the LEGO Star Wars universe, as both Rey and party planner Poe Dameron both need to learn the secret of Jedi training and the holidays. Enjoy.
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