Chat corner 161: Star Wars Hotel

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

This week's topic is "The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel", the 4-hour video by Jenny Nicholson. Disclaimer, I have not seen it, but it was on The Rec Center and I figure that if you haven't seen it yet you might want to, and if you did you might want to talk about it.

Comments

[seascribble]

I have to say that having never watched a video essay before and also going FOUR HOURS?! when I first saw it mentioned, I really enjoyed having it on while I did dishes/aquarium maintenance/laundry and glancing at it once and a while. It sucks both that her experience was so awful and that the entire venture was so poorly managed, but the video was entertaining and I probably will watch more of her stuff.

[yourlibrarian]

I have watched some video essays before but not many and also, like you, never tackled something this lengthy. But I think she tackled a lot in it and very little of it was repetitive. There were just a lot of issues addressed both before and after the actual evaluation of her particular stay.

I would add that I think her conclusion is both pretty devastating but also entirely true. It's a shame because Disney is throwing away something of great value that doesn't have an exact price tag but absolutely affects their long-term earnings.

[jennaria]

The video kept abruptly stopping for me, so I'd have to go into YouTube and restart the playing. But it was worth mostly-listening to, in my opinion - and also made me feel infinitely better about not having saved up enough to go myself to the hotel!