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Post #1222417

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NeverarGreat
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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3-Jul-2018, 5:23 PM

DominicCobb said:

I fail to see why her actions are illogical (or “throw the universe into chaos” haha okay), in or out of the world of the film, but whatever, you do you. You seem to be doing exactly what Hulk is suggesting, only accepting ‘what you would do’ as correct, and everything else as plot hole, whether it makes sense for the characters or not.

You don’t see why her actions are illogical? I suppose they aren’t, presuming that she’s a particularly poor leader. For example:

-She fails to adequately enforce discipline on her ship (not locking Poe up even after he breaks onto the bridge and accuses her of treason)
-She twice resorts to platitudes in the face of direct questions for basic, unclassified information (Poe is clear that he just wants to know if the is a plan, not its specifics)
-Her eventual plan has multiple points of failure, and even fails at two of those points
-She waits until almost a dozen of the escape ships have been destroyed before taking any action to help them
-Her two big tactical decisions rely on rules of the universe that don’t make sense on a basic, physical level yet seem to work anyway (1: She relies on ‘cloaked’ escape craft which are nevertheless visible to the naked eye, and which are discoverable on a ‘decloaking scan’ or any life sign scan which the First Order should be running constantly. 2: The surprise of her hyperspace ramming maneuver relies on every officer in the First Order failing to comprehend that light speed can be used as a weapon, making it dramatically unsatisfying as a solution to the problem, beyond the larger issues with basic military strategy in Star Wars history).

…and most of these things would be fine if the movie treated her as a poor commander with an even worse subordinate, but as I said, her plans still work merely because the movie says so and her counterproductive platitudes are clearly meant to exemplify the message of the movie’s protagonists. She is clearly the protege of Leia, and dies a hero in the most epic way imaginable. Why should I care about the Resistance if it is being led by people like this? No wonder their allies don’t come to the rescue.