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I agree with all of this, and I haven't even read the supplementals. I felt that Poe's recklessness was very much in line with the passion and idealism we saw from him in TFA, and the zeal that led him to ignore even Leia's orders when he saw a chance to strike a real blow for the Resistance -- he truly believed that Holdo was putting all their lives in danger by being too conservative, and that Leia would never have agreed to such a passive-seeming plan.

I don't think he underestimated Holdo because she was female, or that he would have agreed to her orders more readily if they had come from a male general -- indeed, I've yet to see anything in the new trilogy that smacks of misogyny to me, which is one of the reasons I love it so much. I think he underestimated her because she was an outsider and he didn't know if he could trust her, and he was too afraid of her making the wrong call to wait and find out. Which is presumably why Kaydel and others sided with him in the mutiny, because they felt the same way.

And yeah, to me it was clear that Poe's character arc was "hotheaded pilot learns the perspective and wisdom he needs to become a true leader," which I expect is going to be really important in Ep. 9 when Leia's gone. I'm fine with all of that, I just felt like he should have been more strongly reprimanded for his actions in the mutiny.