As Kathleen Kennedy prepares to exit Lucasfilm, her farewell interview with Deadline reads less like an honest assessment of her tenure and more like a final attempt to rewrite the narrative — one that once again places the blame on Star Wars fans themselves. Rather...
How did Obi-Wan Kenobi do with its now completed season on Disney+? Listen along and find out with That Park Place writers! It was a matchup in the making for more than a decade. A return to the prequel duel that set the events of everyone's favorite trilogy into...
A new patent has a striking resemblance to a Star Wars droid... Disney Parks is working on something robotic with wheels and it looks very square. A patent recently covered on the excellent website, Blog Mickey, shows two versions of a potential robot that supposedly...
There's a certain responsibility that comes with managing a major brand social media account with millions of followers. Being careless towards someone can result in a huge response from thousands of other people that may not have been expected. Worse, if the person...
Sympathy for the Disney Devil Part II: A Different Perspective on the Failure of the Sequel Trilogy The last decade has seen a lot of turmoil within the Star Wars community. The announcement of the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm was a bombshell at the time, and led...
Who is really winning the streaming wars and is Obi-Wan Kenobi a cultural phenomenon like two other media entries this summer? If you've been visiting That Park Place very much, you know that there is a bit of controversy surrounding Stranger Things and Obi-Wan...
Sympathy for the Disney Devil Recently, reviewing Obi-Wan Kenobi has put me in a bit of an awkward position - not only with the fan community in general, but myself. My review of the third episode put me on the opposite side of most fans who lost interest in Star Wars...
Every single thing points to Disney's decade-long project with Star Wars being dead. It has utterly failed. Follow along as we detail just how spectacularly it died this week. It would be hard to have missed all the developments surrounding Lucasfilm, Star Wars...
Aside from being a fan of Star Wars (and lots of other series), I have a particular soft spot for westerns. Westerns have been made since Hollywood first started churning out movies, and there's a healthy dose of western DNA in Lucas' movies, particularly the movies...
It's time for another conversation between Valliant Renegade and WDW Pro as they look at the collapse in interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as the strange marketing strategy for Lucasfilm. Also of note to readers is that this conversation was recorded prior to...
That's one way to get attention when your show is in a distant third place. You have to give it to Star Wars, Lucasfilm and Disney. They have come up with a novel concept of branding their own fans in the absolute worst terms. How that can possibly be...
This year I wasn't able to pay attention to Star Wars Celebration the way I would normally like to due to work comittments, but I've been doing my best to get caught up on announcements and wanted to give some first thoughts and impressions about announcements and...
In just two episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi, we've already had TWO chase scenes involving a young Princess Leia runnning from adult men with outstanding success. Despite her clearly slow gate, this is one princess who knows how to evade. As a result of the two chase scenes...