[ SECRET POST #4023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4023 ⌋

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Comments

[ninety6tears]

Yeah, that was stupid. It was just not a well written conflict so I refuse to take sides.

I also thought it was really unnecessary and manipulative within that story to make Holdo subtly unlikeable at first in ways that aren't really cleaned up by the end when it's "haha, gotcha, she's the good guy" like her dismissing Finn, a person who had and fully deserved Leia's trust, as "some storm trooper"?

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is the crux of the problem and why, at least on an emotional level, it's not as straightforward as "Poe didn't follow orders." That doesn't mean Holdo was in the wrong or Poe is absolved, but... it's messy, unresolved, and unsatisfying. I can't really articulate what I'm getting at, but I agree the movie seems to be manipulating the audience to dislike Holdo.

I also feel the whole thing borders on "Give the Idiot Ball to Character A so that Character B will look better in comparison" and I hate that.

The picking apart of the situation that's been done in this thread really isn't resolving this part of the issue for me.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yeah, there is a bit of that going on. I found that entire plot line to be poorly written, with a lot of "hey, we're a misfit adventure story" competing with "hey we're a war story."