{"id":455231,"date":"2026-05-18T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:44:18","slug":"all-eyes-on-grogu-can-baby-yoda-save-star-wars-from-falling-into-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455231\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on Grogu: Can \u2018Baby Yoda\u2019 save Star Wars from falling into obscurity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of the cinema release, one writer asks where it went wrong\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Din Djarin and Grogu at an event for 'The Mandalorian and Grogu'. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b9306fae-be8c-4863-9834-729c5aa6de8c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Din Djarin and Grogu at an event for &#8216;The Mandalorian and Grogu&#8217;. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From The Force Awakens to farce never-ending, the past decade-and-a-bit has been rough on Star Wars fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Or should that be ex-Star Wars fans? Of all Disney\u2019s accomplishments since acquiring the interstellar franchise from George Lucas in 2012, the most impressive has been to turn the greatest saga in sci-fi into another piece of pop slop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the cinema release, one writer asks where it went wrong Din Djarin and Grogu at an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9618,93,61,60,6992,2140],"class_list":["post-455231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}