My biggest issue is the entire plot device for half the movie didn't need to happen/made no sense.
30 minutes into this episode we see the Emperor has the ability to track through light speed, and the resistance is forces to stay out of range while their leader, Leia is unconscious.
A new leader/commander is appointed, however, it is not Poe, who is in fact demoted for being reckless.
When Poe, the greatest pilot in the resistance, and what seems like the most respected fight, asks what the plan is, he is told that they are heading to a new planet and will escape in the smaller pods that the emperor won't be monitoring...
No wait. Instead the new commander (can't remember her name) hides that there is a plan, because... well... I guess you don't want the remaining pilots in your fleet to know the plan??
This causes a 30-45 minutes of pointless scenes on a Casino planet, where I guess we needed some force fed message that anyone with money is an arms dealer and hates animals.
We then have a mutiny of the command ship (So clearly other pilots and crew think the new commander is incompetent as well) because she doesn't share the plan for the remaining 400? people, to teach??? Poe a lesson?
Then they enact the plan, but she stays behind because the main command ship doesn't have autopilot, or a heavy brick to put on the gas.
But luckily she can sacrifice herself to save the day...! Yay... But why didn't the other ship just light speed into the fleet when they were about to be out of gas. Better yet, why didn't the ships split up? They clearly knew they were running to a new planet, and most ships wouldn't have enough gas. Why didn't they go in different directions, or even have the non main command ship light speed away?
Once this horrid 1 hour of the movie was over, the last half was pretty enjoyable!
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