This dude should not be anyone’s hero. 

Raw beets are delicious. 

#1 is the ballgame. Learned this lesson best by having a daughter. I found that my annoyance disappeared when I just stopped and analyzed why I was impatient and angry at my daughter.

Still use a 4s. I see no need to get a new one. But lately, even photos and videos that are texted from newer phones are shrunk and compressed so that they look like garbage. This only started happening a few weeks ago.

Why tell Poe any part of the plan, then? Why tell him just enough to piss him off?

Exactly.

Yeah, this presumes that her plan is some complicated operation that has multiple moving parts. It was a straightforward evacuation. Her big idea was to cloak the ships and fake out the First Order. This is not something that needs to be kept secret, like the invasion of Normandy.

They do know how the First Order is tracking them. That’s the whole point of the subplot on the casino planet.

When have I ever said Poe had a right to know Holdo’s plan? People overestimate Poe’s importance because he’s played by one of the leads, but he was not alone in wondering what the hell was going on.

Loose lips sink ships was a PR campaign for the Allies during WWII as a way to warn people from endangering ships that were engaged in a years-long sea war.

You are echoing the point I made. McClellan’s fear of engagement was the precipitating issue for Lincoln, who was learning as he went. As you said, McClellan didn’t just screw up once. He disappointed Lincoln several times, but the firing offense was after his “victory” at Antietam.

You’re thinking of our “peacetime” military, where to be sure, this is true. Poe’s actions would get him run out of town.

Crew morale is low because the Resistance ships are running out of fuel and getting picked off one by one. You know what would cheer them up? Knowing that there was a viable plan for their safe evacuation.

Who’s saying that Poe is owed anything?

Again, following your logic, what possible reason does Holdo have to withhold this information from everyone on board? It’s not just Poe that she doesn’t tell, after all.

He’s not demoted to “pilot”. He’s demoted to Captain. And his demotion is a very weak excuse for keeping a perfectly sensible evacuation plan a secret from the entire ship.

They all know where the rendezvous point is. It’s not a secret.

For the zillionth time, Finn & Rose are not on that ship with DJ if Holdo simply tells people what her plan is.

DJ is only a problem because Holdo didn’t tell people what her plan was. Finn & Rose would’ve never met him if they’d known there was a perfectly viable escape plan.

Poe is not a pilot. He’s a wing commander, that’s senior leadership. Him arguing with Holdo is completely plausible even in our own military.