Re: Bounty Hunters
Well, what I know about the Holiday Special, is that is was done by Jefferson Starship or something, Not Lucasfilms, hence not being able to get it anywhere.
To my knowledge it was only screened once on TV or something so if anyone was lucky enough to tape it then they're damn lucky!
From what I've seen of it, they go to Chewies home planet and meet his olds and his son and his wife.
I'd like to bring up that rumor that was swirling around about Sing during the summer. She was an outcast padawan who was rejected by the council when brought forward to be a Jedi Knight. She brought shame and humiliation upon herself and her master. Sing then dissapeared for several years and finally resurfaced on several scum planets like Tatooine as a highly skilled BH who(unbenaused to most) used dark side powers in her profession. Then she was discovered by and secretly oredered by Palpy to kill Schmi Skywalker. Sing's arrival on Tatoooine to kill Schmi corrosponds with the arrival of Anakin/OB1 and the Queen to free the slaves. Palpy also secretly sends his new Sith lord. So, a slave war erupts involving the Jedi vs. the Hutts, while both Sing/Sith work the sidelines so to say. It's here Anakin has his gladiator-esque fight in front of the Hutts(like Luke and the rancor). Later, with Shmi saved OB1 faces down the sith, who causes a distraction while Sing grabs Schmi and in front of Anakin(defeatec by her force skils) kills her! Now get this, Sing's former master is Qui-Gon!! It says in 2-3 sources that QG had 3 padawans, the first became a knight making QG a master, his last was OB1 who became a knight and his second was unspoken of, but wasn't a knight and caused him disgrace before the council. That, coupled with Sing's rumored force powers has caused many to surmise that a bombshell in Ep2 will be Aurra Sing being the former Padawan learner of Qui-Gon, and then Sing would kill Schmi Skywalker at the bidding of Palpatine!
Sing and QG
I thought it said somewhere that Sing's master was a "mysterious 'dark' Jedi woman" or something like that. And according to EU(I know I shouldn't) QG other apprentice was Xantos, but QG acciedently killed his father and Xantos turned into a Dark Jedi, but not a Sith. I do like the idea of Sing killing Shmi per Palpy's orders but I don't think she will be QG's former apprentice.