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    7 months ago

    His enthusiasm for the danger made it pretty clear to me. But even then, what you’re describing is just a lack of evidence for recklessness, not evidence against him being reckless. Nothing he did in TFA suggests to me that he wouldn’t have done what he did in TLJ, it’s just that in TLJ the situation didn’t work out so well for him

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      7 months ago

      His enthusiasm for the danger made it pretty clear to me. But even then, what you’re describing is just a lack of evidence for recklessness

      Exactly. This makes it confusing when the TLJ tries to call him reckless, because there’s been no evidence to suggest that, either in this film or the previous. The film tries to point to the bombing run as evidence, but it was clearly necessary and not an example of recklessness. An enthusiasm for danger is not the same thing as needlessly wading into it.

      Nothing he did in TFA suggests to me that he wouldn’t have done what he did in TLJ, it’s just that in TLJ the situation didn’t work out so well for him.

      In TLJ, he’s trying to prevent the entire rebellion from getting smoked by two dreadnoughts. Taking out one of them halves the firepower being aimed at them. The rebellion would have been obliterated had Poe not done what he did, Holdo maneuver or no.