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BakonBitz posted...

The frustrating thing is that I totally appreciate Rian's viewpoints and what he was trying to do for the franchise (which is why I'm willing to give a Rian-directed trilogy a shot), but doing it in the middle of a damn trilogy that wasn't his to begin with was a mistake.

I actually very much appreciate what he tried to do with the second film, but I don't think it was a very well made movie. One of the problems I had with it, perhaps the biggest, is that Holdo has nowhere near enough character development to justify the smug unwillingness to tell anyone what's going on while the rebellion is crumbling around them. Watching the film, I actually thought it was possible she was a saboteur. So I wound up agreeing with Poe, Finn and Rose. I found it pretty disconcerting that the movie goes to great lengths to chastise those characters for not following her plan. I certainly wouldn't have followed her plan.

I'm sure that wasn't his intention as a director, but coming into the movie with zero knowledge, and given the limited information I had about her, I could only conclude that her actions were irrational. Although that did not turn out to be the case, hindsight is something the characters don't have. I'm not so sure it was the goal of the director to convey that kind of message, but nevertheless that's how it panned out to me.