Instead of taking action to forestall it she chose to sit by and do nothing

Then at the end she made the wonderful decision to sacrifice herself, leaving the alliance without a fleet and without any leaders

But the important thing is that Poe was wrong about everything.

All that heroic stuff that we expect from dashing pilot male leads? Completely wrong.

"you cant solve your problems by jumping in an X wing and blowing everything up"

Worked pretty frigging good for the first trilogy.

Worked good for the first movie and the first part of the last jedi too

But that's toxic masculinity. This time we're going to try losing all our ships and getting 90% of the rebels killed.

Finn? Wrong about everything. Poe? Wrong about everything. Luke? Wrong about everything.

Han? Wrong. Dead. Chewie? Vegetarian now.

thats meritocracy talk - in the new world order - everyone is equal - lowest common denominator

no heroes, no villains

Yeah they couldn't even make a good villain.

how coo would it have been to see an old and crazy powerful luke

rey makes it back to the island and luke is doing crazy force shit

General Hux was a caricature. Snoke was just pointless. Kylo isn't even a villain. He's a love interest.

im never going to see another star wars for one reason

TLJ killed the storyline

Star Wars to me is the original trilogy and nothing more. Everything beyond the unedited first three movies was a mistake.

That wouldve been awesome, to have something to show luke's years of experience

I kept hoping for that right up to the moment he died

Thought he was going to block all the lasers or pull rocks to build a wall as he was being shot at

maybe they could have a dearth vader droid - that can somehow take jedi's abilities to use the force for itself

Anyway, they don't need Luke. They have Leia. She can apparently fly and come back from the dead.

And Rey is so strong she doesn't even need lessons.

Im not really sure where the storyline will go from here

It doesnt even seem like the rebels have a chance anymore

No republic, no allies, no fleet, no leadership

I imagine it will be something about her parents

I don't even want to see it. My friends will drag me to it and I'll have to smile and try not to ruin their fun.

I heard they're trying to get a role for Lando somehow.

but hes an iky man ... far too much toxic masculinity already

Lando has privilege points now.

I really dont want to accept that explanation for the writing, yet I cant think of any evidence that contradicts it

Perhaps solo will have some male positive actions in it

Well, you have Finn and Poe left. Finn is mostly characterized by running away and being wrong. Poe is mostly characterized by disobeying and getting people killed.

Poe is pretty much guaranteed to die.

He has no love interest, no real reason to be kept around. His death would be a useful plot device.

So they could have him do something self-sacrificing, or have him die due to betrayal.

But he's a dead man walking.

And Finn's role in the next film is to realize that he's only infatuated with Rey and actually loves Rose. And he'll show this in some climatic scene by repeating the words Rose told him at the end of TLJ.