[ SECRET POST #4023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4023 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This was so ridiculous - first they do nothing with his character but use him as a prop to demonstrate how too self-assured men who fail to trust judgment of women bring about distasters, and then they go with the "I like him" thing. WTF? If you wanted us to see more positive in him and go with a lighter touch, you should have shown us more than his gigantic failures. I mean, I don't mind this being the theme, I don't even mind that much that they made Poe's character pretty awful all of a sudden, but they should have committed to it a bit more (one way or another).

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that the movie was insufficiently clear about the fact that they weren't actually his gigantic failures.

[(Anonymous)]

True. It felt like the film wanted to make a point, and it basically exclusively used his character to make that point, which made it all seemed too serious and made him seem too "guilty", which translated into his later scenes, where they "forgive" him and just carry on being unconvincing or at least inadequate.

/I'm using a lot of quotations marks here, because, even though I did like the film and what it tried to do, I'm not completely sold on the execution - because it neither did go all the way in deconstructuing the "daring pilot saves the day" trope nor did it sell me enough on the "he's doing enough good to make up for the rest" thing, and I have the feeling we were not supposed to come out of the cinema feeling like Poe could just destroy the Resistance completely if you gave him one more week.... (Also, I can't forget the fact that in every other SW film all the ridiculous plans w did work and no one ever talked about anyone's insubordination or the size of collateral damage; the character did get the short shrift)