crimson5pheonix said:
I'm pretty sure the grunts are told why their particular operation is useful to the overall strategy. But in any case, the escape plan is a tactical one and would most definitely be shared with the crew even if their lives didn't immediately depend on that plan.
That only assumes they're actually planning maneuvers. Poe had his command authority to engage hostiles directly countermanded. That alone will buy him a trip to the brig. The fact that Holdo keeps him around is a
mercy born likely of the fact that
he is gifted, and one of her few combat pilots remaining. The fact of the matter is that I wouldn't stand to want to be in the same room as him. Much less stroke his overblown fucking ego... the fact that he goes on once more to prove he's unworthy of her trust should imply only that he deserved nothing but contempt.
No ... commanders are
not expected to waste time catering to the egos of the insubordinate.
The fact of the matter is if he was a good little soldier
like he should have been the Resistance would have been in a better shape. Basically Poe's saving grace at the end was simply that he was
willing to make a last, desperate attack ... exhausting all possibilities. Beyond that, Poe is
riddled with failures of his own designs.
I doubt that since there was no way off the planet they were going to.
Arguably she didn't know that the other allied parties would not send assistance by this point. Moreover, Leia was incapacitated ... so what else did she have
but her orders and
her grasp of the strategic situation? She was presented a no win situation without any real nuances of a conventional victory without assistance. In the end she tried to live up to that singular priority above all of treating the lives of her soldiers with utmost care in the pursuit of victory. And she
fulfils that role admirably... at least until Poe tarnished what would be her final actions.
That's the thing ... Holdo lives up to the
remit of her office.
Poe does not.
I mean, Star Wars has always been on some level dumb. It's only now trying to pretend logistics and conduct matter.
But it's always been a collection of movies with frankly bullshit ideas of black and white morality.
Like if Luke Skywalker's utter contempt for his responsibilities and upstanding conduct is reflective of the 'path to being a Jedi' ... maybe they should
forbid Jedi ever holding political and military positions...?
Like, fuck me ... imagine how awesome Palpatine would have been as the Chancellor if he just said. "Look, I'm significantly limiting the powers of the Jedi. They spy on people, they're training child soldiers, they have access to deadly weapons ... Really, it's kind of fucked up. So here on the Jedi will be relegated
purely to spiritual roles with no outstanding powers related beyond theology and its instruction."
Boom!
Imagine the Jedi bursting into your office and
trying to murder you over that?
How fucking phenomenal would that be? It would be great. Imagine the jedi trying to accuse you of being a Sith because you took away their secret religious police powers and because they are deemed an illegitimate environment for the education of minors?
"I am already arranging for the transports so these children can be reunited with their families. Housed and compensated at my own personal cost. Until such time they can make suitable arrangements if they choose to depart Coruscant. No longer on religious grounds will we allow the private recruitment of these children to be trained and exposed to such barbaric, backwards practices such as to spy on their fellow citizenry, or even kill them whenever religious values and orders of the Jedi demand it ... The Republic will no longer stand for superstitions undermining our inalienable rights as people protected by the law..."
Why didn't Palpatine just do that?
Easy ... because morality is black and white, and because Star Wars is
inherently dumb.