Tag: poe dameron

absolxguardian:

lj-writes:

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

Please enjoy this page from the most recent Poe Dameron Comic in which Leia explains the whole plan to Poe (even the bits he isn’t a part of!) in a flashback while he carries out her orders without a problem, which I am posting for no particular reason whatsoever right now.

Yeah, I like how Poe already earned Leia’s respect and trust, and had an integral part to play in the plan that gave his commanding officer any reason to tell him the plan.

I also like the way Poe already understands Leia’s form of both femininity and leadership and trusts her to make good calls, and follows her orders without assuming she must be crazy or a traitor.

These are things I say also for no particular reason whatsoever right now.

Yes, understanding your leader’s form of femininity is of key importance in military operations. 

Yeah, it helps you recognize them as a competent leader and strategist and not underestimate them or assume they must be traitors.

So does introducing your next in line in the chain of command to everybody before they’re actually forced into a position of command.

Yeah. Everyone needs to know absolutely everyone else in the militia, just in case, for example, all of your leadership gets killed at once and only one or two admirals are left, then everyone can already be on board. Letting anyone possibly not know anyone else is just bad planning, not a completely reasonable logistical scenario.

Failure to communicate is failure of leadership. If someone wants to be recognized as competent they need to act competently, which Holdo did not.

Poe has a big problem with commanders who seem incompetent. His reaction to Holdo is very similar to his command back in the New Republic Navy (a dude mind you), just with a lot smaller stakes. It’s rid or die with Leia, but has problems with anyone else, partially as their fault (Holdo was telling everyone jack shit and Deso wouldn’t do anything about the First Order).

Also thank you guys for pointing out Leia should have introduced Holdo beforehand, I’ve never considered that part before.

Poe just didn’t understand Deso’s form of femininity… 😊

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

kerra-holt:

mythopoeticlicense:

Please enjoy this page from the most recent Poe Dameron Comic in which Leia explains the whole plan to Poe (even the bits he isn’t a part of!) in a flashback while he carries out her orders without a problem, which I am posting for no particular reason whatsoever right now.

Yeah, I like how Poe already earned Leia’s respect and trust, and had an integral part to play in the plan that gave his commanding officer any reason to tell him the plan.

I also like the way Poe already understands Leia’s form of both femininity and leadership and trusts her to make good calls, and follows her orders without assuming she must be crazy or a traitor.

These are things I say also for no particular reason whatsoever right now.

Yes, understanding your leader’s form of femininity is of key importance in military operations. 

Yeah, it helps you recognize them as a competent leader and strategist and not underestimate them or assume they must be traitors.

So does introducing your next in line in the chain of command to everybody before they’re actually forced into a position of command.

Yeah. Everyone needs to know absolutely everyone else in the militia, just in case, for example, all of your leadership gets killed at once and only one or two admirals are left, then everyone can already be on board. Letting anyone possibly not know anyone else is just bad planning, not a completely reasonable logistical scenario.

Failure to communicate is failure of leadership. If someone wants to be recognized as competent they need to act competently, which Holdo did not.

heroicfinn:

literally in a movie where a white man that was already paralleled to Hitler slaps a black man that’s on his knees and another white man spends the entire movie manipulating someone and using her to literally take over the entire evil organization trying to take over the whole ass galaxy if you write an article about how the real bad guy was a Latino man trying to keep his people from dying because a total stranger wasn’t telling anyone what the plan is and people were dying you’re racist and a stupid asshole

worth-three-portions:

Part 3 of three. I’ve decide that from now on, what I draw will be taking place in an alternative timeline which I shall call the “Four buns AU” where everything is the same as it was at the end of TFA, except Rey has her hair in four buns instead of three, and TLJ never happened 😀

Here are parts #1 and #2. 

I love Finn and I love John and they deserve all the good things in the galaxy!!

obstinaterixatrix:

obstinaterixatrix:

basically every tlj defense post I’ve seen focuses on old fans being nostalgic. these posts fail to address any sincere criticism of the writing in the movie itself, namely that the entire resistance subplot amounts to: trust authority no matter what, even when it looks like it’s working against your best interests.

if the person in charge insults you and demeans you at every opportunity, if the person in charge does literally nothing to earn your trust – and actually goes out of their way to sabotage it by being needlessly cryptic instead of saying ‘yes, I do have a plan, trust me’ for at least AN ATTEMPT at reassurance – just put your life in their hands because they’re in charge and hope is like the sun or whatever. like come on, it’s not about hope. it’s about leadership.

people can make the argument that, maybe holdo doesn’t want to take the time to actually connect with the people she’s leading, because either they trust her, or they don’t. that’s still pretty garbage leadership. you know what would be better leadership? listening to concerns, and actually responding to them without dismissing them entirely.

this is such an incongruous payoff for a series that supposedly revolves around taking down space fascism, a series that should probably take a harder stance against legitimizing leadership that’s uncomfortably close to authoritarian. and maybe that’s a reoccuring problem in star wars writing, I wouldn’t know because I’m not familiar with the series.

holdo has a great design, an incredible moment with leia, and by far the coolest scene in the entire movie. if there was a payoff that was about how communication and trust is important – in both directions, not just a one-way bias in favor of leadership – the resistance subplot could’ve been a lot more meaningful.

look, different strokes for different folks, but this is – imo – a pretty big flaw, and you can like the movie without dismissing all criticism as ‘people being mad for no reason’ or whatever.

look guys. authority that refuses to listen is bad. authority that makes no attempt to communicate or explain literally anything is bad. authority that goes out of its way to insult, demean, & dismiss subordinates is bad. authority that hides compassion under layers of aloof contempt is bad. authority that likes troublemakers, actually, is bad and uncomfortable if that authority spends the entire time insulting, demeaning, & dismissing that ‘troublemaker’.

poe’s character arc is packaged as him needing to realize that sometimes, the most heroic thing isn’t flashy cool shit. this isn’t conveyed well in the film because 1) the emphasis on holdo’s plan isn’t that it’s heroic, it’s that people are shocked it even exists in the first place, and 2) the most heroic thing holdo did was THE flashiest, coolest shit in the movie.

finnobliterateshux:

Y’all can’t tell me Kes didn’t rejoin the Resistance. He left the Rebellion with Shara to have a family and you bet your ass he’d get back in the fray to fight for his son and future generations to be able to do the same.

Like imagining him saying goodbye to Shara’s grave, promising to fight for their son and for a future Poe might build.

“I promise I’ll be back.” He strokes the gravestone. “No matter what. If not in body, I’ll still be here.”

Touching his forehead to the sunwarmed stone he whispers, “It’ll only be a little while. I promise, Shara.”