lizbee | (Reply)

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I personally felt like Poe was really in character to how he's been portrayed in the comics.

That's really good to know! I have been keeping up as best I can with the new novels but not with the comics yet. I'm glad that it's established characterization then and not just plot convenience for the movie to keep the side characters busy. I really appreciate your commentary, it makes me better understand where the Poe subplot was coming from.

I think Holdo was deliberately set up to be disliked by the audience in that cliche "Here's an authority figure that is antagonizing a protagonist character, but wait they had Reasons!(tm)" Like I knew the way the script was playing out that she obviously had information that Poe and the audience didn't have so clearly there was going to be a big reveal that she was right all along. Which is why I didn't appreciate that we were supposed to be angry with her for blocking a protag's action. I haven't read the Leia novel yet, but now I'm very intrigued because I wanted to like Holdo from the get-go in the movie and also I need more Leia-centric stories in my life.

Thank you again for the commentary! TLJ was a challenging non-typical Star Wars movie so there's a lot to chew on.