Preserving the...cringe...Star Wars Holiday Special (Released) — Page 44

I have a Blu-ray version that someone made and set out on the winds. I believe it’s an EditDroid upscale – it didn’t name the source, but the language in the .nfo made me think so.

And it’s not bad. The commentary track did nothing for me, but I have watched it through.

I assume that this disc is based on that release, but with added subtitles and supposedly other bonus features. And of course, I’m sure I’ve either seen or know everything in those special features.

But still there’s the temptation…

SKot, there have been so many commentary tracks for this thing, some good and some bad but all with some degree of misinformation.

You’re someone actually qualified to do a commentary track.

I can dream…

MattMahdi said:

Many special features even subtitles in Wookie !

So does it just say “[WOOKIEE NOISES]” every ten seconds?

MattMahdi said:

SKot, there have been so many commentary tracks for this thing, some good and some bad but all with some degree of misinformation.

You’re someone actually qualified to do a commentary track.

I can dream…

That’s actually something I’ve wanted to do for a long time…I hope I can have the opportunity at some point. Steve Kozak would be good to get on that as well, either separately or together.

–SKot

Just reviewing a load of open tabs and https://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/ appears to be gone now?

Hitting the url redirects to: https://www.adstide.com/

Archive.org has a wayback snapshot from 19th May 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20240519110721/https://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com/about/

Did anyone archive an offline copy of the site while it was up? I believe this is much harder to do with Wayback Machine copies, as it alters the base html.

I hope SKot is ok.

So it appears the HTTPS version of the URL gets redirected but the HTTP URL still works. Weird.

Zion said:

So it appears the HTTPS version of the URL gets redirected but the HTTP URL still works. Weird.

Yes, the site got hacked recently and corrupted by malware due to an exploit in WordPress…I always disliked WordPress for websites, and this doesn’t help my feelings about it.

The site is broken as well I believe in that all links from the first page give a 404. Except the link to the old (non-WordPress) Holiday Special site, that works fine still!

I will try to get it all fixed. It’s sort of halfway fixed now, but there is still work to be done to get the whole thing working again.

—SKot

SKot said:

Yes, the site got hacked recently and corrupted by malware due to an exploit in WordPress…I always disliked WordPress for websites, and this doesn’t help my feelings about it.

Good to know you didn’t lose control of the site at least, and you’re able to fix it.

WordPress seems like it always has a huge target on its back since it’s so popular. I ran a few company websites that were WordPress and almost daily we’d get email notifications about failed hacking attempts.

SKot said:

Zion said:

So it appears the HTTPS version of the URL gets redirected but the HTTP URL still works. Weird.

Yes, the site got hacked recently and corrupted by malware due to an exploit in WordPress…I always disliked WordPress for websites, and this doesn’t help my feelings about it.

The site is broken as well I believe in that all links from the first page give a 404. Except the link to the old (non-WordPress) Holiday Special site, that works fine still!

I will try to get it all fixed. It’s sort of halfway fixed now, but there is still work to be done to get the whole thing working again.

—SKot

That sucks, I’m sorry to hear that. There really are some scummy people who’ll just target anything or anyone.

Best of luck getting things back online again.