The entire StarWars Holiday Special is canon, you cowards. Yes, even the musical numbers and Chewy's all but forgotten family, argues roryhasopinions:
It’s so difficult to express the effect of fifteen uninterrupted minutes of unsubtitled Wookiee noises at the start of a dauntingly long special. Thankfully, we meet the intelligible human presence on the planet that the Empire must have settled since their occupation, in-keeping with their fascistic anti-alien policies.
Even a cantina song feels more like a cabaret number than a spontaneous musical scene. It appears the Empire shares slice-of-life broadcasts of outer rim planets in order to make those within its dominion grateful of their Imperial benevolence. With a bunch of Stormtroopers and officers gathered around the Wookiee’s TV , we see a cantina run by Bea Arthur react to an Imperial announcement of a curfew on Tatooine. Our landlady gets the iconic Modal Nodes band to perform one last drinking song.
But to embrace the best parts of a non-canon universe, you must also take its worst. It has to be totalic, all the good and the bad must be accepted as they come. This is why themust be canon, because as unloveable as it is, it belongs to part of the very long, very stupid tapestry that is. To be selective over what we accept is to be punitive over its expansive possibilities. I will take it all, everything recorded a long time ago, everything that happened far, far away.
Rory Doherty is a screenwriter, playwright and culture writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can follow his thoughts about all things stories @roryhasopinions.
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