a Thanksgiving Special...not a Christmas Special

There's no mention of turkey, pilgrims, or giving thanks (as the specific point of the day). Not to mention that Thanksgiving is not in November in some countries (it's early October in Canada), while many countries don't have thanksgiving at all. So, Christmas seems a bit more likely. I know that when a holiday special came on TV in November when I was a kid, I would be thinking Christmas, unless another holiday was specifically named.

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The actual Star Wars Christmas special is Meco's Christmas In The Stars : The Star Wars Christmas Album, it came out in 1980 and starred Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and Ben Burtt as R2-D2 and Chewbacca. It featured a song called, "R2-D2 We Wish You A Merry Christmas" which was Jon Bongiovi's (Jon Bon Jovi)first actual professional recording. It also boasted a song that made it to #69 on Billboard's Hot 100 titled, "What Do You Get A Wookie For Christmas(When He Already Owns A Comb?)". You can find all of this on YouTube.

I don't see where it is ever stated or implied that Life Day has any correlation with the secular Earth holiday of American Thanksgiving or any of its specific traditions.

Yes, it appears food is prepared for a celebratory meal. But that tradition is not exclusive to any of the known human Thanksgivings. Feasts are part of many other holidays, Tellurian or otherwise.

Another case in point - it is fairly well-stressed throughout this documentary that gifts are purchased as well as given on Life Day. That is not an acceptable tradition of Thanksgiving, which is specifically about expressing unconditional gratitude for non-material things.

Moreover, there are songs associated with the Life Day. Other than an infinitesimal sample of entirely novelty tunes - most famously "Alice's Restaurant" and an abysmal Adam Sandler offering, there is simply no musical tradition specifically associated with Thanksgiving.

And most importantly, there is a quasi-religion element to Life Day in the form of an en masse teleportation to a giant tree hidden in a star - the space travel being initiated by what must be emphatically and incontrovertibly called magical snow globes. As far as I know, snow globes have no connection with Thanksgiving. Plus, late December earthling holidays originated in the Northern Hemisphere during the period of shortest daylight in order to counter seasonal depression. Taking a trippy sojourn in red robes to a massive celestial fusion reactor is absolutely a religious celebration of light in the same way that Saturnalia, Yule, Hanukkah and Christmas are. With snow globes.

Life Day has far more in common with circumsoltice Terran holidays of bright lights and generosity than the single American one that celebrates the imperial oppression of indigenous people through violence, genocide, intimidation and the usurpation of their lands. Oh wait.