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Post #1164195

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Sir Ridley
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
28-Jan-2018, 5:39 AM

Shopping Maul said:

https://medium.com/@goddammitstacey/star-wars-the-last-jedi-has-a-writing-problem-a19897a9c8b9

Underneath the JGL article is this even better (IMO) article on the writing of TLJ. This one pretty well sums up why the Holdo plot was a mess…

I agree that finding DJ by coincidence was weird, that’s her best point. I somewhat agree that characters are in a similar position at the end of the movie, but if you think about it they somehow managed to fit in a lot of character growth. Poe learned a lesson or two, Luke changed his mind about things and gave hope to the rebellion and the galaxy, Finn decided to be a part of the resistance and not just help Rey, Rey decided to be a hero and not just depend on Luke, Kylo decided to go his own way and not just follow Snoke…

I think Holdo not telling Poe the plan was reasonable based on his behavior (and when he finally learned the plan it leaked to the First Order, loose lips sink ships). Holdo having to stay behind and pilot the ship could be explained in many ways. Perhaps she had to manually calculate the trajectory of the light speed maneuver, perhaps the auto pilot can’t do advanced things like that, or perhaps it could but she would have to program it beforehand and by the time she would be done there wouldn’t be time to get out anyway. Maybe the movie could have given us a reason, but I wasn’t bothered by it.