[ SECRET POST #4026 + 4027 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4026 + 4027 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Bit early today to make up for yesterday!

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #576.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

+1. A lot of the criticism, characterization wise, seems to be based on fanon interpretations.

For example, I see a lot of people seeing that Poe was OOC but, honestly? We didn't actually see that much of him in TFA, and what little we did see seems congruent with his characterization in TLJ. Look, I'm as sad as anyone that Poe isn't the sex-positive feminist softboi fandom loves to portray him as, but let's not pretend it was anything but fanon.

[mishey22]

This is almost the exact talk I had with someone after the movie. She said that she understands now what everyone was on about with Poe, that they're right, and I said "Well, yeah, but that was all based on fanon and not anything canon" but she still thought he was OOC

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'm a "Poe would be in the brig in any normal universe" person, but not everything is some feminist or anti-feminist allegory. I just didn't get "respect for women" as a plot beat from TLJ. Especially since TLJ shouts its anti-capitalist and anti-fascist ideals with a complete lack of subtlety.

[(Anonymous)]

Quite on the contrary, really, the way Poe could get a huge number of people killed due to his ego and get a slap on the wrist and a little demotion and then stage an all out mutiny and get an 'I like him ;D" for it. In both cases after defying direct orders from his female superiors.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I don't buy it given that every other political message of the rebooted franchise involves explicitly costumed villains delivering their political screeds with copious scenery chewing.

[(Anonymous)]

He didn't "get a huge number of people killed due to his ego". That didn't happen. His squadron (which was not a "huge number of people") died in the course of an attack on a really significant military objective - an attack which succeeded. And then, subsequently, a bunch of people died in a way that was not his responsibility.

He was wrong to mutiny and disobey orders, I agree, but I don't think it goes beyond that, and I think he was punished in a way that makes sense for the Rebellion.

[(Anonymous)]

No. When you disobey an order to abort a mission, deaths that occur on that mission you refused to abort are on your hands.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that the deaths of his squadron are on his hands. I don't agree that his squadron constitutes "a huge number of people", and I think you still have to take those deaths in the context of the situation, which is a military commander ordering a military attack in a war - an attack which is ultimately successful. That's not wasting peoples' lives due to ego, you matter how much you want it to be.

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It is a huge number measured against the already very low numbers of fighters the Resistance had left at that point.
And he ordered that attack despite being ordered not to.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that it was wrong of him to disobey orders.

But the deaths were still basically, fundamentally the result of fighting a war. And the attack did still end up destroying a massive capital ship.

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IA.

And not only that, but I think that the Poe stuff does fit into a much more obvious theme in the movie. There's a lot of stuff about the difficulties of communication, of misunderstandings, of the limitations of good intentions, of mistrust. I think that's definitely very present in all the stuff around Luke, Kylo Ren, the legacy of the Jedi, Rey's storyline, all of that. and the Poe stuff feels really well in line with that.

But for some reason, people have put this really wild interpretative spin on it, and seem really insistent on that interpretation.

[ninety6tears]

So it is just "fanon" that Star Wars is supposed to be in a universe where sexism isn't much of a factor? Maybe Johnson didn't think he was writing a heavy-handedly gender-based story, but it feels to me like he could only write a Strong Heroine by making a male hero fuck up next to her. And I'm a little tired of the assumption that anyone--especially everyone who read extra canon materials--who is critical of that characterization necessarily expected Poe to be flawless.