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man101 posted...

Also Leia and Holdo refusing to tell anyoe on the ship their plan was just stupid movie logic to give the audience the idea that Holdo may be a villain or inept, and so they could have the big heroic revelation followed shortly by a sacrifice. There is zero reason Holdo could not have told Poe immediately what Leia ended up telling him anyway after they had abandoned ship.

I can think of several reasons:

1) Poe was not part of the command staff and, therefore, had no right to that knowledge.
2) The Resistance was having trouble with morale and desertion (Rose comments on this in her opening scene), so the more people that know the plan, the better the chance it winds up leaking back to the First Order from someone who is either opportunistically trying to save their own skin by selling out the Resistance (I.E. the exact thing DJ did) or someone who gets captured during an escape attempt and blabs about it during interrogation.
3) Poe wasn't exactly in anyone's good graces at that point of the movie and for good reason. The last time he ran into a plan he disagreed with, he ignored a direct order from the beloved leader and got half their starfighter wing (including all of their bombers) destroyed, been demoted as a result, then lied to his new CO by pretending that demotion never happened. In a real life military, Poe wouldn't have gotten a slap in the face and a demotion for that, he would have been arrested and brought up on charges of insubordination and dereliction of duty and, depending on how strict the Resistance's military code of justice is, he would have been looking at either a long time behind bars or a summary execution.

Lo and behold, when he does wind up finding out about Holdo's plan and decides he doesn't like it, he conspires with Finn and Rose about a new one, which leads directly to the Resistance nearly being annihilated as a result. Had Poe actually done as ordered, the Resistance could have gotten away largely intact (minus the loss of their ships), waited for the First Order to pass on, confident that their job was complete, then started broadcasting from Crait with far more time to rally allies than they wound up with.

man101 posted...

Also the bombing run in the beginning is a bigger physics clusterfuck than the hyperspeed bomb. Why do the bombs fall out without gravity?

Apparently they're "magnetically charged" to "fall" away from the bomber. I don't really like that explanation myself, but it isn't even Star Wars's worst abuse of space-gravity physics (that title goes to Episode III's opening battle, where a tilting ship somehow causes gravity to shift, despite the fact that "down" on a ship is always relative to the ship itself).

Blighboy posted...

The mechanics of Star Wars have never made sense and should not be a priority.

This has always been my view as well. If you think too hard about Star Wars and its mechanics - any of it, right back to the originals - you will wind up seeing some pretty glaring holes. None of the movies are immune to this and they all suffer for it to greater or lesser extents.
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