Everything to do with Kylo Ren was amazing and everything else kind of sucked, it was really weird.
Came here to say this
Finn and Rose simply didn't belong. You could cut almost their entire subplot out of the movie and it would have played out the same.
Why does everyone say this? The movie would have played out extremely differently if they had succeeded. They failed because they didn't get the trust worthy codebreaker. Instead they got a evil scoundral who betrayed them. I feel people miss the importance of this subplot. They would have not only escaped with the three ships they had, they would have also escaped with the crew completely alive. The resistance was done for if the vice admiral didn't sacrifice her self. The mission would have succeeded if they got worthy spies in there, also the reason why finn and rose were chosen for the mission, is because poe could trust them. The whole point of the movie was to show how important liea was to the resistance.
I'm pretty sure the whole point was that an unproven leader shouldn't refuse to tell her subordinates that she has a plan and be an ass to anyone who asks her what her plan is for no reason while intentionally feigning to not have a plan other than just letting the entire crew die.
Also, escape pods that are somehow cloaked but not cloaked if you know they are cloaked?
Also, needing to power up escape pods kind of defeats the purpose of escape pods.
Or she Holdo didnt have a plan till late in the movie and wasnt saying anything so people wouldn't panic. The movie only takes place over 18 hours and the whole thing seems really bleak from the start.
I was under the impression the code breaker disabled the cloaking. Hence the handsome sum he was paid. ---