Here’s a pretty good article about the film: https://www.avclub.com/part-kurosawa-part-wile-e-coyote-the-last-jedi-boldl-1821291545
RE: Ackbar vs. Holdo, the author of this piece has a good point in a response to a comment:
Lotta folks seem to think that her role should have gone to good ol’ Admiral Ackbar, but I get Johnson’s intention: Everybody likes Ackbar, and the audience needs to be fooled into Poe’s point-of-view.
This completely. The other thing about Ackbar is… I’m sorry guys, he’s kind of a joke. When he showed up in TLJ everyone laughed. I think a lot of peeople wouldn’t buy the drama of him in an expanded role.
JEDIT: I need to be better about keeping all my responses in one post, rather than 4 back to back.
I don’t get this whole “He’s a well developed character already, he should have kamikazed the star destroyer” when he’s hardly a character at all. What do we know about him? What is his personality? It would have been the same as Holdo, but we could have gone “Oh, I’ve seen him before.”