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HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

ZenOfThunder posted...

It's not a "minor problem" either because having poor communication between Holdo and Poe has a huge impact on the plot. There would be no Finn/Rose subplot if the communication was better, and if there was it would probably be a lot different.

But the entire point is to have a hothead pilot character who doesn't deserve to know what the plans are and makes mistakes because of it. They wanted to subvert the trope.

Maybe Holdo needed interaction with non-Poe characters, but she does fine as a leader. Everyone else has faith in her leadership and she ends up handling the mutiny effortlessly. The fact that Poe was able to figure out part of her plan from a visible display screen implies that she WAS telling other people, just not Poe because he got demoted and clearly isn't trustworthy. Stuff like that doesn't necessarily need spelled out. Every single thing Poe does in the movie justifies her not telling him in the first place!

I think that this is all a completely logical conclusion, but I feel like you're writing your own context in here a little bit. It's not at all clear to me that Holdo's leadership was trusted aside from the scene where she was introduced (which says nothing about whether or not her leadership actually held), it seemed like things were pretty close to being out of control, and it's just not really clear why she chose to handle Poe the way she did.

Honestly I thought at some point that they were trying to set up Holdo as a villain, like I was reading into context clues that she actually was going to betray people, so it was just kind of weird.

This really felt like a series of scenes that would have worked better if I understood where both sides were coming from. Instead they handled the fact that Holdo's plan was actually good like it was a plot twist, which was totally unnecessary. They could have told us everything and the resolution would have been finding out whether Holdo or Poe would take control of the situation - and whether or not their plans would work. But they withheld Holdo's intentions from us for some reason which I think was totally unnecessary given that they turned out to be good.