Finn the Fashionable

Finn was NOT impressed on Canto Bight. He was amazed and horrified because he had never seen such terrible looks - he could NOT believe it.

Poe and BB-8 showed Finn a holo of Holdo's outfit and his naturally fashion-savvy brain short-circuited so he just said, "...what???"

On Canto Bight he was about to open his mouth and say, "Hey, now I know where Holdo got her outfit."

Finn said, "THIS is the ugly shit they do with all of their money and freedom?? We're coming back to steal all of their money after we burn the order down."

white person trying to create a “strong and independent” female character or whatever: hmm i think ill have this white girl treat this brown/black guy like absolute shit

holdo in tlj was really umbridge 2.0 huh

Yet more ways Holdo was an awful leader

Here are snippets from the TLJ novelization discussing Rose’s development of the baffler, a device that hides energy signatures to make ships harder to detect, and its role in Holdo’s plan with the transports.

The novelization follows up from Cobalt Squadron by Elizabeth Wein, the book that goes into much more detail about Rose and Paige’s time with the titular bomber squadron and how Rose used the baffler in action. In Rose’s last conversation with Paige, it is revealed that Rose has been tapped to help other mechanics adapt the technology she built so it can be deployed across the Resistance.

This is the reason Rose and Paige were separated and why Rose, who was previously the flight engineer on the bomber Cobalt Hammer, was not on board with Paige when it was destroyed in the dreadnought run. Actually I’m not sure why Rose couldn’t still board Cobalt Hammer. She wasn’t replaced as Hammer’s flight engineer as far as I can tell. Did they not need a flight engineer for the bombing run?

I’m calling bullshit on Rose no longer being needed on the Ninka after the techs learned from her. If Rose was not needed on Hammer anyway, why couldn’t she stay on Ninka to help adapt the technology? In Cobalt Squadron Rose and the entire team of bomber flight engineers were forever sweating to get the baffler, a very new and finicky technology, working right under intensive conditions. The bugs were getting ironed out during Cobalt Squadron, but it doesn’t seem plausible that everything was ready to go within a few hours on adapting this new tech outside its original setting. New and untried tech doesn’t… work like that. There’s always something to trip you up.

So instead of staying on to help the deployment of the technology she built, Rose is transferred back to the Raddus where she is just in time to witness her sister’s death and where she has so little to do that she’s relegated to “doing droidwork.”

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What the FUCK in Cobalt Squadron Holdo directly addresses Rose by NAME to personally request she come on board the Ninka. But a couple days later she forgets who Rose is? Holdo even tells Rose the Ninka is desperately short on techs, and yet Rose in TLJ was transferred back to the Raddus where she had nothing better to do than tase people? What fuckery is this?

Also, Holdo in Cobalt Squadron is actually a decent leader who inspires people with her speech in the wake of Hosnia’s destruction, and Rose is impressed by her. Why would Rose, only a day or two later, decide to go off and do whatever the hell she wants, fuck Holdo? There’s no consistency here.

The only way I can reconcile this in-universe is that familiarity bred some serious contempt and Rose decided in the hours she spent on the Ninka that Holdo is a horrible boss and worse human being. TLJ totally backs her on this, probably unintentionally.