History WhatAnIdiot / StarWars

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to leave an expendable droid in charge of the ship, or to ask a volunteer among the crew to do it, anything except the captain GoingDownWithTheShip. Considering the Resistance is severely undermanned and lacking specialized staff, preserving all of its strategists and high-ranking officers should be a priority.\\
'''Instead:''' Vice-Admiral Holdo decides to do it herself, even if this means Resistance will lose one of their best commanders.\\

* As the ''Supremacy'' is destroying the Resistance evacuation transports, a sensor officer reports to General Hux that the ''Raddus'', a ship that only has Vice Admiral Holdo on board, is preparing to jump to lightspeed.\\

'''Instead:''' Poe sends Finn and Rose entirely alone and in their own, despite they are respectively a former Stormtrooper with NoSocialSkills and a lowly mechanic, none of which is trained in spywork or has ever been in a place remotely resembling Canto Bight. As a result, they commit a stupid mistake right after landing and are captured without ways to get to the Master Codebreaker.
* Finn and Rose are in jail in Canto Bight, and while discussing their mission to find a codebreaker to infiltrate the First Order flagship ''Supremacy'', are approached by DJ, who claims he can do the job they need.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to remember that BB-8 sticks like a sore thumb with them. The First Order astromechs and most of its gear are painted black, while BB-8 sports the Resistance's orange and white colors, and they doesn't have a quick way to safely camouflage it. In that case, they should leave it hidden somewhere, carry only their radios and recover it later before escaping the ''Supremacy''.\\

'''Instead:''' [[PoorCommunicationKills She refuses to tell them anything]] until the very last possible moment. and when Poe objects to this apparent lack of options, she outright dismisses him, not without a staggering display of rudeness, due to him recently being demoted. This ultimately causes a huge amount of mistrust between the two of them, and so Poe, being all free and unchecked, sends Finn and Rose off on a disastrous mission that allows the enemy to realize their plans and provokes a mutiny that wastes a lot of precious time for the Resistance - [[NiceJobBreakingItHero all of which]] forces Holdo to sacrifice herself to give the Rebels time to escape.\\

'''For Added Stupidity:''' When Poe starts a mutiny against Holdo, believing she's going to get them all either killed or sold to the First Order, his partisans (which might actually compose the majority of the Resistance staff, given that no visible crewman in a crowded hangar opposes or objects the mutiny) include one of the very bridge commanders of the ''Raddus''. The implication is that almost everyone in the chain of command that wasn't Leia, Holdo and maybe her senior officers was completely left in the dark too, including those that would probably be in on a need-to-know basis, therefore prompting everybody in the ship to believe they were being led to their deaths. This makes their mistrust towards her and their frustration by the continued deaths a perfectly reasonable reaction, which highlights further that Holdo ''massively'' mishandled the situation.

'''For Added Stupidity:''' The design of the ''Fulminatrix'' concentrates its point defense weapons on the topside, and its colossal autocannons, its primary weapons, on its underside. The bombers could have approached it from below and taken out the autocannons if not the entire ship without risking at attack from any of the point defense weapons.\\
'''Instead:''' Poe sends the bombers to attack the dreadnought from the very side that it has its heaviest defenses, and has to go through all the needless trouble of attacking the point defense weapons on the dreadnought and face all the fighters that are being launched in that direction as well.

'''You'd Expect:''' That right after the speech introducing herself, Holdo would tell everyone what her and Leia's plans are: to use their main ship as a decoy while the remaining rebels escape inside small cloaked transport ships. Even if she suspects there is a risk of the plans being leaked to the First Order or even an outright traitor among them, this is simply not a situation where secrecy can be held; any possible spy could still leak the plan during its very execution, when Holdo cannot keep the crew from knowing it anymore, and they would be exactly as screwed if caught. (In fact, although it is due to an ''external'' leak, this is exactly the moment in which it ends up happening.)\\
'''Or:''' If Holdo is that determined to keep it secret, she could at least proclaim that she has a great plan that needs the crew's trust, for the sake of morale if nothing else. She seems to be known to the Resistance as a great tactician, so they have no reason not to believe in her good judgement with a few clues. Moreover, the claim would still be unspecific enough to impede any spy from learning anything decisive for now.\\
'''Alternatively''': Even if she is right to withhold her plan from Poe, Holdo should at least try to keep him in check. Poe is a loose cannon and has a tendency to break rules, so if Holdo genuinely distrusts Poe and wants to maintain order, she should just lock him up in the brig or order someone to keep an eye on him.\\
'''Instead:''' [[PoorCommunicationKills She refuses to tell them anything]] until the very last possible moment, and when Poe objects to this apparent lack of options, she outright dismisses him, not without a staggering display of rudeness, due to him recently being demoted. This ultimately causes a huge amount of mistrust between the two of them, and so Poe, being all free and unchecked, sends Finn and Rose off on a disastrous mission that allows the enemy to realize their plans and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causes the deaths of hundreds of Rebels]], forcing Holdo to sacrifice herself to give the Rebels time to escape.\\
'''For Added Stupidity:''' When Poe starts a mutiny against Holdo, believing she's going to get them all either killed or sold to the First Order, at least half of the ship's crew sides with him (maybe even the entire crew, given that no visible crewman in a crowded hangar opposes or objects the mutiny), and this includes one of the very bridge commanders. The implication is that almost everyone that wasn't Holdo and Leia were completely left in the dark too, including those that would probably be in on a need-to-know basis, therefore prompting everybody in the ship to believe they were being led to their deaths. This makes their mistrust towards her and their frustration by the continued deaths a perfectly reasonable reaction, which highlights further that Holdo ''massively'' mishandled the situation.

'''You'd Also Expect:''' Given the first destination of the mission, Poe to have someone knowledgeable in infiltration and familiar with the galactic high class accompany Finn and Rose. Any mistake could end up with them captured in a planet full of scumbags and probably First Order sympathizers, or even worse, in the very First Order flagship, any of which could compromise the already precarious current state of the Resistance. After all, Poe's in a ship with the entirety of the Resistance and it's later shown he has many loyal men among them, so it would be surprising there's absolutely nobody in his command who could do the work.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them not to trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happened to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows to be able to hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do. Thus, after escaping, they should use their stolen yatch to return to Canto Bight (hopefully this time without parking on a forbidden zone) and sneak into the casino to meet the Master Codebreaker. If DJ wants some payment for helping them up to this point, the codebreaker looks like a healthy man and could surely afford to pay him as a favor to Maz, remembering to tell DJ to keep his mouth shut about what he knows.\\
'''Instead:''' They buy DJ's story and continue the mission with him instead of the Master Codebreaker, trusting the mission on a random rascal with no connections to the Resistance and only minimal proofs of his competency and loyalty. Shockingly and luckily for them, DJ's claims end up being more or less true, but when the situation turns dire in the ''Supremacy'', he betrays them to the First Order.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu and the other Masters to take preventative measures to ensure the security of the Order against a threat that they now expect. They should evacuate the Padawans from Coruscant to some secret location, increase defensive measures around the Temple, and order all their available spies to discreetly investigate the Chancellor and his closest political allies. Many Jedi are away fighting in the Clone Wars, but it should be still some non-combatant staff in the Jedi Temple who could believably do some intelligence work with the help of their Force powers.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu to expect severe resistance from the Chancellor, as he should know full-well arresting a Sith Lord can be extremely dangerous, and thus to take any available measure to ensure the mission doesn't go awry (or at least to stay in a position of force regardless of the arrest's outcome). Aside from his three Jedi, Windu should take with them a clone trooper contingent, or to prevent any possible struggle in the chain of command given Palpatine's authority, an assault team of any non-governmental allied force they can find (as it would be shocking that the Canon Jedi Order has no armed support staff to guard its temple and many properties), which they should also use to watch out the exits of Palpatine's house. Of course, they should make sure the whole arrest is recorded and registered in order to prevent the incident from being played any other way in a legal courtroom. As a just-in-case measure, he should send out a message to as many Jedi as possible that the Chancellor may be compromised and to expect the worst, since if things go wrong, then they'll all be fugitives. Having someone doing MissionControl from the Jedi Temple and being in radio contact with them would be useful too to alert the order if something goes wrong.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu to remain serene and calm Anakin down, as the latter is visibly flustered and could commit a mistake fatal for both of them. The master could consider cutting Palpatine's limbs off and taking him into custody: Palpatine would be rendered unable to use a lightsaber and severely impaired to use the Force in an offensive way while awaiting trial, and in the outlandish case he'd be found innocent despite they have now irrefutable proofs he's a Sith Lord, they have the technology to replace his limbs. Even if Anakin had his own reasons to be nervous, it would have greatly placated his moral scruples about the execution.\\

'''Instead:''' They split up and fight the villains one-on-one. Yoda simply loses and Obi-Wan... see below.

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to raise the twins together in a safe planet like Alderaan and have Obi-Wan train them in the Force since their childhood. They have no real reason to separate the twins, as there are millions and millions of humans in the galaxy and the Empire doesn't know Padme gave birth specifically to a boy and a girl (it actually doesn't know she gave birth, period), so nothing about it is going to lead Vader to them. Also, by doing so, they are providing the best life possible for them and ensuring no clueless innocents like Owen and Beru are being needlessly endangered. Training them from childhood would increase exponentially their power and usefulness to the Rebel Alliance, and would allow Obi-Wan and Yoda to avoid the mistake committed by training Anakin when he was too old and angsty.\\
'''Alternatively:''' If raising them in separate planets is really indispensable, they have a lot of options to keep them safe that way. An influential politician like Organa could not only adopt one of the twins himself, but also have some other family of his trust adopt the other and bring him up in another system, preferently one discreet like Alderaan but not a wasteland like Tatooine. Obi-Wan could still train both by seasons, possibly trading it with Yoda in Dagobah, and still have time to train to become one with the Force.\\
'''Instead:''' Organa adopts Leia and raises her in Alderaan, while Kenobi takes Luke to Tatooine and basically forces Owen and Beru to adopt him without even changing his surname from his father's. Understandably, the latter action creates a great measure of distrust in Owen, who actively opposes Luke from having nothing to do with his legacy through his life, fearing he would become another Vader. None of the Skywalkers receives any word of the Force until certain events drive Luke to become a Jedi at his twenties and with his own baggage, thus taking a much greater risk with him than they had taken with Anakin (and Yoda has the nerve to ''complain''). Even worse, despite not having Leia trained, Organa still has her involved with the Rebellion, which puts her in the Empire's sights without any of what would be her best resources against it.

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to return to the Resistance and tell them exactly the planet's location. As seen in the prequel comics, Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance base in D'Qar to investigate, so there's no reason given about why he could not simply travel back to them. Even if something impedes him from returning to D'Qar, there should be many ways for the Resistance to transmit secret information, given that they are a clandestine network after all. Finding any informant who could communicate with the Resistance and send them the vital info should not be too difficult for someone who works for them.\\
'''Instead:''' Tekka contacts the Resistance, only not to send the location, but to ask to meet with a messenger in a remote place so he can hand him a physical map leading to it. This just multiplies the risks of losing it and doesn't make it any safer or more secret for the Resistance, as proved by the arrival of Kylo Ren.\\

'''You'd Also Expect:''' The Resistance to make sure Tekka remains safe from the First Order's clutches after the meeting, as he knows too much and could endager the search for Luke if he is captured afterwards. He is also a valuable ally to the Resistance thanks to his experience and knowledge of Jedi lore, not to mention a personal friend of the Skywalker family, so they have a lot of reasons to protect him.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to mind-probe Poe at the very moment in order to know what's up with him and where's the map. Poe might have destroyed it, buried it under some rock or passed it to some accomplice in the village, anything other than having it on his pocket while dealing a potentially suicide attack. Ren should also order his Stormtroopers to register the X-wing and scan all the surroundings to be sure. The fact that Poe's astromech is absent from his fighter should have raised a few eyebrows by itself.\\

'''Or:''' Qui-Gon to take out his lightsaber, shove Watto in a closet and steal the hyperdrive (and possibly the kid for good measure). If this sounds a bit savage, it must be noted that Qui-Gon has already tried to literally steal from Watto, and using full-fledged mind control rather than simply physical coercion, so it is improbable this will count as a bigger infraction of the Jedi Code. Moreover, [[AssholeVictim it's not like Watto wouldn't deserve it.]]\\

'''Instead''': He leaves Anakin to a ''painful death'', assuming that it would be left to the will of the Force... [[DoomedByCanon and has to deal with the consequences.]]

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu and the other Masters to take preventative measures to ensure the security of the Order against a threat that they now expect. Perhaps by evacuating the Padawans from Coruscant and moving them to some secret location and increasing defensive measures around the Temple.\\
'''Instead:''' Despite knowing that the threat exists and who it is likely coming from, they do ''nothing'' to prepare for it, seemingly assuming that the Temple is sacrosanct and nobody would ever think to attack it directly.

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu to have Anakin's testimony recorded and him placed under secure guard in case this is a ruse or Palpatine sends someone to kill Anakin for his betrayal. Then to present the testimony to the Senate or another lawful authority who can have Palpatine removed from power, all while seeking proofs of his Sith allegiance, which shouldn't be terribly difficult to find now that they know where to look. Finally, if there is a need to take down Palpatine by force (no pun intended) at that precise moment, he should do everything he can to ensure maximum advantage.\\
'''Instead:''' Windu decides to go remove Palpatine right there and then and rushes to his private quarters in the dead of night with just three other Jedi Masters accompanying him. Palpatine kills those three, and while Windu does manage to gain the upper hand, Anakin rushes to the scene and ends up distracting Windu and allowing Palpatine to kill him as well. Afterwards, Palpatine speaks to the Senate and plays the entire thing as the Jedi Order being dangerous fanatics who attempted to assassinate him in order to take power, which is a very believable interpretation of the events.

'''You'd Expect:''' Windu to expect severe resistance from the Chancellor, as he should know full-well arresting a Sith Lord can be extremely dangerous, and thus to take any available measure to ensure the mission doesn't go awry (or at least to stay in a position of force regardless of the arrest's outcome). Aside from his three Jedi, Windu should take with them a clone trooper contingent, or to prevent any possible struggle in the chain of command given Palpatine's authority, an assault team of any non-governmental allied force they can find (it would be shocking that the canon Jedi Order has no armed support staff to guard its temple and many properties), which they should also use to watch out the exits of Palpatine's house. Of course, they should make sure the whole arrest is recorded and registered in order to prevent the incident from being played any other way in a legal courtroom. As a just-in-case measure, he should send out a message to as many Jedi as possible that the Chancellor may be compromised and to expect the worst, since if things go wrong, then they'll all be fugitives. Having someone doing MissionControl from the Jedi Temple and being in radio contact with them would be useful too. \\

'''Instead:''' Windu rudely ignores Anakin, forgetting he's still a significantly dangerous Jedi who is openly unsure of his alignment at the situation, and instead moves in dramatically for the kill, which drives Anakin to act reflexively to stop what he sees as a murder. His reaction ends up making Windu lose his arm and his lightsaber, leaving him open to be killed by Palpatine.

'''Or:''' Incapacitate Palpatine the best way he can come up with, search for any record system he should delete, and return to the Temple to warn the other Jedi about Sidious, claiming that the Chancellor killed Windu if they ask too many questions (which is technically true, even if it leaves out Anakin's own role in his death). After all, Anakin has lied to them before (all the time, in fact) and it would be both natural and in-character for him.\\

'''Alternatively:''' While previous experience has proven that number doesn't necessarily improve odds against a single lord Sith, especially when one of the fighters is significantly less powerful than the other two, a 900-year old Jedi like Yoda should be able to concoct a strategy against Sidious without turning Obi-Wan into a load. Having Yoda duel Palpatine to distract him while Obi-Wan sneaks around and jumps him on the back at the first opening could be a start, and might have been decisive in an instance like Yoda's and Sidious' BeamOWar from the film.\\
'''Alternatively Alternatively:''' Even if Yoda can't see a way of effectively combining their forces against Sidious, he should still bring Obi-Wan with him to the Senate building. For what they know, sending him to face Anakin alone might perfectly equate to send him to his death, as they don't actually know whether Obi-Wan might be able to defeat TheChosenOne now that it has turned to the Dark Side. On the other hand, Obi-Wan could be useful in Coruscant to eliminate or distract all the guards and soldiers Palpatine could summon to the building, as well as assisting Yoda himself if he is forced to flee.\\

'''Instead:''' He says, "You underestimate my power". After Obi-Wan tells him "Don't try it", Anakin jumps at Obi-Wan. With Anakin stuck on the momentum of his jump and open to attacks, Obi-Wan finds the perfect chance to do a lightsaber move that takes off as many of an opponent's limbs as possible. If Obi-Wan underestimated anything, he underestimated Anakin's tendency to lose limbs.

'''Instead:''' They have a secret ceremony, which Palpatine finds out about and the rest is history.

'''You'd Expect:''' That since they must take down two horrendously powerful Sith Lords who are, however, conviniently separated at the moment, the heroes would gang up on Palpatine and then turn their, hopefully still combined, attention to Vader (or vice versa). There is absolutely no need for a simultaneous attack - the worst case scenario has already happened, and even if Palpatine sends a distress signal, it's very unlikely that Vader would be able to come to his aid in time.
'''Instead:''' They go and fight the villains one-on-one. Yoda simply loses and Obi-Wan... see below.

'''Instead:''' He decides she doesn't need to know, sending Finn and Rose off alone and without support. Because of how they stand out and because they're on their own, they get arrested quickly, have to rely on luck to escape, and have to settle for DJ, who betrays the Resistance and causes hundreds of deaths. Furthermore, when he finally does tell Holdo, it's hours after the fact, so she's angry, shocked, and refuses to support the plan because he went behind her back.
'''You'd Also Expect:''' Given the first destination of the mission, Poe to have someone familiar with infiltrations and the galactic high class accompany Finn and Rose. Any mistake could end up with them captured in a planet full of scumbags and probably First Order sympathizers, or even worse, in the very First Order flagship, any of which could compromise the already precarious current state of the Resistance. After all, Poe's in a ship with the entirety of the Resistance and it's later shown he has many loyal men among them, so it would be surprising there's absolutely nobody in his command who could do the work.\\
'''Instead:''' Poe sends Finn and Rose entirely alone and in their own, despite they are respectively a former Stormtrooper with NoSocialSkills and a lowly mechanic, none of which is trained in spywork or has ever been in a place remotely resembling Canto Bight. As a result, they commit a stupid mistake right after landing and are captured without ways to get to the Master Codebreaker, and later commit a worse mistake yet by trusting in someone they had no reason to trust. Elaborating on that... \\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them not to trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happened to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows to be able to hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do. Thus, after escaping, they should use their stolen yatch to return to Canto Bight and (hopefully this time without parking on a forbidden zone) sneak into the casino to meet the Master Codebreaker. If DJ wants some payment for helping them up to this point, the codebreaker looks like a healthy man and could surely afford to pay him as a favor to Maz, remembering to tell DJ to keep his mouth shut about what he knows.\\

* Having chosen the last point of You'd Expect from the previous point, Windu rounds up several Jedi Masters to arrest the chancellor.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Windu to expect severe resistance from the Chancellor, as he should know full-well arresting a Sith Lord can be extremely dangerous, and thus to take any available measure to ensure the mission doesn't go awry (or at least to stay in a position of force regardless of the arrest's outcome). Aside from his three Jedi, Windu should take with them a clone trooper contingent, or to prevent any possible struggle in the chain of command given Palpatine's authority, an assault team of any non-governmental allied force they can find (it would be shocking that the canon Jedi Order has no armed support staff to guard its temple and many properties), which they should also use to watch out the exits of Palpatine's house. Of course, they should make sure the whole arrest is recorded and registered in order to prevent the incident from being played any other way in a legal courtroom. As a just-in-case measure, he should send out a message to as many Jedi as possible that the Chancellor may be compromised and to expect the worst, since if things go wrong, then they'll all be fugitives.\\
'''Instead:''' He and the masters decide to make the arrest alone, without any surveillance, support or register whatsoever, and judging for the three Jedi's attitude and skill, without being prepared for severe resistance from Palpatine. They also don't bother giving out any alert to the Jedi stationed across the galaxy about the Chancellor's possible ties with the Sith. The results end up being disastrous for everyone; three of the four Jedi Masters die ''within seconds'', Anakin's intervention leads to Windu's death and the failure of the mission, and Palpatine capitalizes on the clumsiness of the incident to play it like the Jedi tried to murder the chancellor. On top of that, the truth dies with Windu, leaving every Jedi in the galaxy off-guard for Order 66.

'''You'd Expect:''' That since they must take down two horrendously powerful Sith Lords who are, however, conviniently separated at the moment, the heroes would gang up on Palpatine and then turn their, hopefully still combined, attention to Vader (or vice versa). There is absolutely no need for a simultaneous attack - the worst case scenario has already happened. Even if Palpatine sends a distress signal, it's very unlikely that Vader would be able to come to his aid in time.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to return to the Resistance and tell them exactly the planet's location. As seen in the prequel comics, Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance base in D'Qar to investigate, so there's no reason given about why he could not simply return to them. Even if something impedes him from traveling back to D'Qar, there should be many ways for the Resistance to transmit secret information, given that they are a clandestine network after all. Finding any informant who could communicate with the Resistance and send them the vital info should not be too difficult for someone who works for them.\\

'''Or:''' If Poe is really that convinced they will not search for BB-8 at all after they find him, he should stay around the X-wing, make it quickly look like he destroyed some small item to make them believe he just disposed of the map, and finally eat his gun to ensure he will not be interrogated and the secret will die with him.\\

'''You’d Expect:''' Being the seedy bastard he is, to ignore the droid for now and send his thugs to steal it from Rey later. He doesn't even know if the droid is even for sale, not only because it is a kind of droid people in the galaxy use for assistance and companionship, but also because it's not a secret that Rey considers Plutt a money-grubber and might have even considered to seek another purchaser for the droid.\\

'''Alternatively''': Even if she is right to withhold her plan from Poe, Holdo should at least try to keep him in check. Poe is a loose cannon and has a tendency to break rules, so if Holdo genuinely distrusts Poe and wants to maintain order, she should just lock him up in the brig or keep an eye on him.\\
'''Instead:''' [[PoorCommunicationKills She refuses to tell them anything]] until the very last possible moment, and when Poe objects to this apparent lack of options, she outright dismisses him, not without a staggering display of rudeness, due to him recently being demoted. This ultimately causes a huge amount of mistrust between the two of them, and so Poe sends Finn and Rose off on a disastrous mission that allows the enemy to realize their plans and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero causes the deaths of hundreds of Rebels]], forcing Holdo to sacrifice herself to give the Rebels time to escape.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them not to trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happened to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows to be able to hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do. After escaping, they should use their stolen yatch to return to Canto Bight and (hopefully this time without parking on a forbidden zone) infiltrate the casino to meet the Master Codebreaker. If DJ wants some payment for helping them up to this point, the codebreaker looks like a healthy man and could surely afford to pay him as a favor to Maz, remembering to tell DJ to keep his mouth shut about what he knows.\\
'''Instead:''' They buy DJ's story, which, shockingly and luckily for them, ends up being more or less true, and continue the mission with him instead of the Master Codebreaker. However, when the situation turns dire in, he betrays them to the First Order.\\

'''Or:''' Qui-Gon to take out his lightsaber, shove Watto in a closet and steal the hyperdrive (and possibly the kid for good measure). If this sounds a bit savage, it must be noted that Qui-Gon has already tried to literally steal from Watto, and using full-fledged mind control rather than simply physical coercion, so it is improbable the latter will count as a bigger infraction of the Jedi Code. Moreover, [[AssholeVictim it's not like Watto wouldn't deserve it.]]\\
'''Or:''' Failing all of that, Qui-Gon sells the Queen's ship and then uses the money to buy another ship or passage to Coruscant. The ship's hyperdrive may be damaged, but it's still a personal transport of the ''Queen of Naboo'' in otherwise excellent working order. (Considering that the Queen was willing to let Qui-Gon use it as a betting chip, selling it would hardly be off the table.)\\

'''You'd Expect''': Amidala to have brought some proof of the invasion, given the only reason the Trade Federation is getting away with this nonsense is how effectively they're blacking out communications. If she had recorded her harrowing escape from the planet, that alone would have been proof enough. If nothing else, she could have brought in Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan (who, as Jedi, have a fair bit of clout) as witnesses to confirm her story; which would also allow them to bring their own charge against Nute Gunray for trying to ''kill'' two ambassadors sent by the Chancellor himself, and actually succeeding in killing the pilots who brought them to Naboo.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The Trade Federation would take advantage of having a fortified position and simply wait for the Gungans try to penetrate it, firing from behind the walls which are a few dozen feet high and look sturdy. Or, perhaps, use this thing called "Orbital Bombardment" to brutally obliterate the army without losing a single Battle Droid, using the massive flying spaceship that they have in orbit.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to keep the fight at long range and use the Force when possible, as a) they already know he is a very dangerous swordfighter, reinforced after he unveils the second blade of his lightsaber in front of them, and b) even if they don't know the extent of his Force powers, it's improbable that he is strong or skilled enough to overpower them at once in said field, and if he was, they wouldn't be any more screwed than trying to engage him in a lightsaber contest.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Maul is obviously leading them to the pit room, where he can hope to use the architecture to isolate them in order to handle them individually. They follow him there and put zero care on this possibility, so the Sith executes his game plan successfully.\\
'''For Added Stupidity:''' Maul uses the place's MalevolentArchitecture to his advantage, while they don't seem to even consider trying to do the same. Force pushing him out of the catwalks seems a pretty intuitive option to try in order to soften him up (or downright finish him by DisneyVillainDeath given the depth of some of the nearby falls), particularly because, as said above, it would be improbable that Maul could block them both at it. However, for some undiscernible reason, they prefer to attack him with lightsaber slashes and nothing more.

'''Instead:''' Jango gives Zam [[AnimalAssassin a couple of venomous millipede creatures]] to slip into Padmé's room. She dispatches a droid which flies up to Padmé's window and releases them inside and Anakin easily kills them. A thermal detonator would have gone off in ten seconds and vaporized the room.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Up to her attack, she had gone completely unnoticed by Obi-Wan, meaning she could have perfectly disappeared without leaving a trace. Instead, she blew this possibility by choosing to attack an opponent she should have known she couldn't defeat easily.

'''Instead:''' She picks Jar-Jar Binks, a guy with virtually no experience in politics. Jar Jar subsequently ends up being manipulated into convincing the Senate to approve the creation of the Grand Clone Army of The Republic, the ''last'' thing Padmé would have wanted. The only consolation that comes from this is that Obi-Wan got rescued and eventually would go on to train Luke Skywalker in ''A New Hope'', but nothing else good comes from this.\\

'''Instead:''' They send Anakin, who is alone and inexperienced, as if there was no other Jedi available around in the entire Temple. To make it even worse, Obi-Wan is well aware that his Padawan is infatuated with the person he will have to protect and he has been having nightmares about his mother. And yet, he doesn't mention it to Yoda and Windu and just tells them Anakin is too "arrogant". The reactions of Yoda ["many Jedi are arrogant, I don't care"] and Windu ["Anakin is supposed to be the Chosen One, I don't care"] are priceless, especially if you remember how they treated Qui-Gon and Anakin back in ''The Phantom Menace''.

'''You'd Expect:''' Them to either have an affair without getting married (which, according to WordOfGod, would have been more or less acceptable to the Jedi), OR for them to stay forcefully JustFriends, OR for Anakin to just leave the Jedi Order altogether for her - he doesn't have that many friends there and there are plenty of other ways he could indulge his ChronicHeroSyndrome and/or love of flying in civilian life, especially given the incoming war.\\

'''Or Even:''' As WordOfGod from Lucas himself confirmed that while Jedi can't get married, they ''can'' have sex[[note]][[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1989505.stm source]][[/note]], come forward and admit Anakin is the father, but claim it was just casual and neither her nor Anakin have any feelings for one another.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The New Republic Senate to remilitarize and immediately dedicate all its efforts to deal with it. It is painfully evident the First Order is a menace for the their young democracy: it officially spouses the Empire's totalitarian ideology and openly intends to restore the Empire's glory by any means necessary, has already broken the terms of the Galactic Concordance treaty, and has access to massive resources, troops, fleets and possibly even superweapons (and even if their members tried to keep any of this a secret from the Republic, it's doubtful they could have fooled an investigation in depth of their territories and fleets, as the Resistance's meager activities proved quickly). In any case, the New Republic should gather all its remaining military might, demand the First Order to dissolve and disarm itself, and get ready for a new galactic war in the very probable case the terrorists refuse. The risk of not doing so is letting the First Order develop freely and make their move first, endangering many worlds and the very existence of the democracy they fought so hard at the Galactic Civil War to achieve.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to return to the Resistance and tell them exactly the location. As seen in the prequel comics, Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance base in D'Qar to investigate, so there's no reason given about why he could not travel directly back to D'Qar. If something impedes him from doing so, there should be many ways for the Resistance to transmit secret information, given that they are a clandestine network after all. Finding any informant who could communicate with the Resistance should not be difficult for someone who works for them.\\
'''Instead:''' Tekka contacts the Resistance, only not to send them the location, but to ask to meet with a messenger in a remote place so he can hand him a physical map leading to it. This just multiplies the risks of losing it and doesn't make it any safer or more secret for the Resistance, as proved by the arrival of Kylo Ren.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' If Tekka really wants a personal rendezvous, he should choose a densely populated planet, preferently in an urban environment, where a few people can easily lay low, have a secret gathering, and scatter among the crowd if discovered. Even if the bad guys tried to crash the meeting, the First Order causing an armed disturbance in a public place would forcefully attract the attention of the New Republic and help to validate Leia's claims about their terrorist activities. Moreover, a very populated planet would also be convenient in case either Tekka or the emissary lost their means of transport, as there would be probably plenty of available ships and pilots for hire to get them out. Finally, Tekka should also give them a complete map so the Resistance doesn't waste time in finding Luke before any leak could lead the First Order to him as well.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them not to trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happened to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows to be able to hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do. After escaping, they should use their stolen yatch to return to Canto Bight and (hopefully this time without parking on a forbidden zone) infiltrate the casino to meet the Master Codebreaker again. If DJ wants some payment for helping them up to this point, the codebreaker looks like a healthy man and could surely afford to pay him as a favor to Maz, remembering to tell DJ to keep his mouth shut about what he knows.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Rose and DJ have a pass because they are presumably unfamiliar with First Order equipment (not to mention DJ might secretly give a crap about being captured, as he has vital info he could use for bargain), but Finn is a former First Order stormtrooper himself. He should be the least probable of the three to believe such ruse was going to work.

'''Instead:''' After making the Stormtroopers merely register Poe's clothings, Kylo orders him to be taken away without barely looking at him. It seems they even abandoned the X-wing or never realized BB-8 wasn't in its socket. Only in the ''Finalizer'' Kylo decides to probe his mind, only to discover that the map is still in a droid rolling through Jakku and that the First Order has wasted a precious amount of time to catch it before it reached some possible contact (which is exactly what happens).\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Them not to trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happened to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows to be able to hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do. After escaping, they should use their stolen yatch to return to Canto Bight and (hopefully this time without parking on a forbidden zone) infiltrate the casino to meet the Master Codebreaker again. If DJ wants some payment for helping them up to this point, the codebreaker looks like a healthy man and could surely afford to pay him for the Resistance's sake, also telling him to keep his mouth shut about what he knows.\\

'''Instead:''' Finn empties a paper bin and drops it on top of BB-8 to make him resemble a MSE-6 repair droid. Naturally, BB-8's resultant camouflage is flimsy at the best, as it even hits a random Stormtrooper in his way due not to see clearly. As a result, a First Order astromech scans it and sees through the disguise, alerting the First Order on them.\\
'''Even Worse:''' Rose and DJ have a pass because they are presumably unfamiliar with First Order gear (not to mention he might secretly give a crap about being captured, as he has vital info he could use for bargain), but Finn is a former First Order stormtrooper himself. He should be the least probable of the three to believe such ruse was going to work.

'''You'd Also Expect:''' If Tekka really wants a personal rendezvous, he should choose a densely populated planet, preferently in an urban environment, where a few people can easily lay low, have a secret gathering, and scatter among the crowd if discovered. Even if the bad guys tried to crash the meeting, the First Order causing an armed disturbance in a public place would forcefully attract the attention of the New Republic and help to validate Leia's claims about their terrorist activities. Moreover, a very populated planet would also convenient in case either Tekka or the emissary lost their means of transport, as there would be probably plenty of available ships and pilots for hire to get them out. Finally, Tekka should also give them a complete map so the Resistance doesn't waste time in finding Luke before any leak could lead the First Order to him as well.\\

'''Alternatively''': Even if she is right to withhold her plan from Poe, Holdo should've at least tried to keep him in check. Poe is a loose cannon and has a tendency to break rules, so if Holdo genuinely distrusts Poe and wants to maintain order, she should've just locked him up in the brig or keep an eye on him.\\

* Finn and Rose are in jail, and while discussing their mission to find a codebreaker, are approached by DJ, who claims he can do the job they need.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' They wouldn't trust his claim, due the sheer improbability that they happen to be imprisoned next to a man with exactly the unusual type and level of skills they are looking for. Even if he shows them that he can hack a cell door lock system, it is still a relatively common skill in the galaxy (heck, R2 does it every film) and doesn't mean he is necessarily qualified for the job they need him to do.\\
'''Instead:''' They buy his story, which, shockingly and luckily for them, ends up being more or less true. However, when the situation turns dire, he betrays them to the First Order.\\
'''For Added Stupidity:''' DJ made it very clear in his conversation with Finn that he held no allegiance to the Resistance. He does not even lie about the fact he is a potential turncoat.

'''Instead''': Hux completely and utterly misreads Holdo's intentions and dismisses it as a distraction, probably because he has no concept of self-sacrifice because EvilCannotComprehendGood.\\
'''The Result''': By the time [[OhCrap he realises what's about to happen]], it's too late. He can scream "FIRE ON THAT CRUISER!!!!" all he wants, they're not going to get an opportunity to fire because the weapons are trained on unarmed escape pods heading in the direction the ''Raddus'' isn't in, and there's no time to take evasive action. Because Hux wasted his opportunity to prevent this, the First Order's flagship is irreparable and has to be scuttled, around twenty Star Destroyers have been reduced to scrap, and Holdo has probably [[TakingYouWithMe taken a lot of First Order soldiers with her]].

'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance to send a small squad of fighters. They would still few enough to go unnoticed and could watch from orbit and provide a diversion for one of them to flee with the map if the First Order arrives. Even if the Resistance fleet is severly undermanned, this a mission of utmost importance for their goals, and sending more than one starship is essential to ensure the map leaves Jakku and reaches them.\\
'''Instead:''' They send one man with a droid in a single fighter. The rendezvous is effectively discovered and attacked by the First Order while their messenger is grounded, and even worse, a rogue shot disables his starship by sheer bad luck, leaving him effectively stranded on Jakku and without a way to communicate with the Resistance.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' The Resistance to ensure Tekka remains safe from the First Order's clutches after the meeting, as he knows too much and could endager the search for Luke if he is captured afterwards. He is also is a valuable ally to the Resistance thanks to his experience and knowledge of Jedi lore, not to mention a personal friend of the Skywalker family, so they have a lot of reasons to protect him. Poe should at least ask Tekka his next plans and how will he depart from Jakku if that's his intention, as if Tekka happens to have a starship hidden somewhere in Jakku, it could be useful for Poe to know in case his own X-wing is rendered inoperable.\\
'''Instead:''' Poe asks nothing, instead focusing on the map. By what can be inferred, his mission was just taking the map and forgetting about Tekka.

'''Instead:''' He tries to buy it outright, even breaking a basic rule in bargaining (namely, not to let your seller know you are strongly interested on something) and offering her a quantity which judging for Rey's awe is clearly more than she has been ever offered, which could have made her suspicious of the droid’s value. In any case, Rey ultimately refuses to sell BB-8 out of pity, and only then Plutt decides to call his thugs to steal the droid without more trouble.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' His goons to either whack Rey unconscious from behind or one of them to hold her in gunpoint while the other grabs the droid. Given that there seems to be little to no law enforcement in Jakku, they could simply sneak on her and vibroshiv her on the back – it's not like she is a great source of income for Plutt anyway.\\
'''Instead:''' One of them distracts her while the other throws a blanket over BB-8, in plain sight and right next to her, and with both being apparently unarmed. When she realizes and kicks him away, the first just attempts to awkwardly restrain her in a feeble bodylock, allowing Rey to bite her way out and club them with her staff.

'''You'd Expect:''' Given that Kylo knows that Rey can use the Force to some extent and is certainly dangerous even if she isn't trained, he'd make sure to limit her options in the meantime. She's already restrained, but it would be good to have her either watched by many guards so she cannot influence them easily or alone in the room so she has nobody to work with.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance members aboard to immediately check out Finn's identity and involvement with the recent facts. After learning he is a First Order deserter, they should lead him to a cell or containment place in the base, where they can interrogate him and keep him isolated (and protected) until confirming within their possibilities whether he is really on their side. Poe himself, if his name is called, shouldn't be so quick to trust him only because Finn helped him to escape in already messy circumstances. In any case, Finn should remain there for the rest of their mission to Starkiller Base in the perfectly possible case he is a spy sent to infiltrate their headquarters in D'Qar. The possibility should always remain given that Stormtrooper desertions are stated to be rare and the Resistance doesn't have Force users who can probe his mind.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Leia of all people should have a lot of reasons not to immediately trust Finn's and Poe's great escape, given that she was herself part of a similar Imperial scheme in order to find the Rebel base in Yavin IV.

'''The Result''': By the time [[OhCrap he realises what's about to happen]], it's too late. He can scream "FIRE ON THAT CRUISER!!!!" all he wants, they're not going to get an opportunity to fire because the weapons are trained on unarmed escape pods heading in the direction the ''Raddus'' isn't in, and there's no time to take evasive action. Because Hux wasted his opportunity to prevent this, the First Order's flagship is irreparable and has to be scuttled, around twenty Star Destroyers have been reduced to scrap, and [[TakingYouWithMe Holdo has probably taken a lot of First Order soldiers with her]].

'''You'd Also Expect:''' If Tekka really wants a personal rendezvous, he should choose a densely populated planet, preferently in an urban environment, where a few people can easily lay low, have a secret gathering, and scatter among the crowd if discovered. Even if the bad guys tried to crash the meeting, the First Order causing an armed disturbance in such a public place would forcefully attract the attention of the New Republic and validate Leia's claims about their terrorist activities. Moreover, a very populated planet would also convenient in case either Tekka or the emissary lost their means of transport, as there would be probably plenty of available ships and pilots for hire to get them out. Finally, Tekka should also give them a complete map so the Resistance doesn't waste time in finding Luke before any leak could lead the First Order to him as well.\\
'''Instead:''' Tekka chooses Tuanul, a small, pauper village isolated on the desert world Jakku, whose meager population is composed of miners and squalid scavengers with few means to leave the planet. The place is so insignificant that a First Order strike team can cause a massacre there without anybody in the Galaxy realizing, and when they take out the Resistance emissary's starship, the receiver of the map ends up unsupported and lost in a desert nowhere to go. Even worse, the map Tekka has brought is not even complete, so the Resistance is still in the dark even after recovering it.

'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance to send a small squad of fighters. They would still few enough to go unnoticed and could watch from orbit and provide a diversion for one of them to flee with the map if the First Order arrives. Sending more than one starship is essential to ensure the map leaves Jakku and reaches the Resistance, as even if their fleet is severly undermanned, this a mission of utmost importance for their goals.\\
'''Instead:''' They send one man with a droid in a single fighter. The rendezvous is effectively discovered and attacked by the First Order while their messenger is grounded, and even worse, a rogue shot disables his starship by sheer bad luck, leaving him effectively stranded on Jakku and without a way to communicate with the Resistance.

'''You'd Expect:''' The New Republic Senate to remilitarize and immediately dedicate all its efforts to deal with it. It is painfully evident the First Order is a critical menace for the their young democracy: it officially spouses the Empire's totalitarian ideology and openly intends to restore the Empire's glory by any means necessary, has already broken the terms of the Galactic Concordance treaty, and has access to massive resources, troops, fleets and possibly even superweapons. The New Republic should gather all its remaining military might, demand the First Order to dissolve and disarm itself, and get ready for a new galactic war in the very probable case the terrorists refuse. The risk of not doing so is letting the First Order develop freely and make their move first, endangering many worlds and the very existence of the democracy they fought so hard at the Galactic Civil War to achieve.\\
'''Instead:''' Not at all. Despite countless proofs of the opposite, most of the New Republic Senate doesn't consider the First Order a serious menace, preferring not to think on another war even although it is clearly within the intentions and capability of the First Order, and those like Leia Organa who dare to consider military action are shunned as extremists and paranoids. Leia is forced to cobble together a clandestine movement with little military hardware and even less money in order to try to counter the First Order.\\

'''You'd Also Expect:''' If Tekka really wants a personal rendezvous, he should choose a densely populated planet, preferently in an urban environment, where a few people can easily lay low, have a secret gathering, and scatter in the crowd if discovered. It would also convenient in case either Tekka or the emissary lost their means of transport, as there would be probably plenty of available ships and pilots for hire to get them out. He should also give them a complete map so the Resistance doesn't waste time in finding Luke before any leak could lead the First Order to him as well.\\
'''Instead:''' Tekka chooses Tuanul, a small, pauper village isolated on the desert world Jakku, whose meager population is composed of miners and squalid scavengers with few means to leave the planet. Even worse, the map he gives them is not even complete. As a consequence, the mission and potentially the fate of Luke and the entire galaxy become a frantic search for an item lost in nowhere.

'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance to send a small squad of fighters. They would still few enough to go unnoticed and could watch from orbit and provide a diversion for one of them to flee with the map if the First Order arrives. Sending more than one starship is essential to ensure the map leaves Jakku and reaches the Resistance, and even if the latter is severly undermanned, it is a mission of utmost importance for their goals.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to MindProbe Tekka to get all his information about Luke Skywlker's whereabouts, or at least take him to his Star Destroyer, the ''Finalizer'', where he could work on him more comfortably. The First Order wouldn't even need the map if Tekka happened to know where it leads to, which should be the case given that he was who investigated it (a knowledge that is confirmed in the prequel comics). Moreover, taking Tekka alive to interrogate him would be useful in any case, as he is still an ally to the Resistance who might know other interesting pieces of info.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to understand that the situation has got out of hand and that he cannot capture Rey alive or gain his grandfather's lightsaber anymore. He is wounded, tired and facing a foe that seems to become stronger with every minute passing. She has just beaten him in a Force contest for her lightsaber, now is pushing him to his limits in swordfighting, and it's probable she will end up dominating him, if not fair and clean, at least by sheer attrition. In that situation, he should capitalize on his only moment of superiority and immediately try his best to push her to her death down the cliff. Snoke should reasonably approve that he killed her to save his own life, and Kylo can always lie to him about what happened really in the duel, possibly even claiming that she took her life before being captured, which would be the truth FromACertainPointOfView.\\

The theatrical ''Franchise/StarWars'' films have a galaxy's worth of stupid moments.

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to return to the Resistance and tell them exactly the location. As seen in the prequel comics, Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance base in D'Qar to investigate, so there's no reason given about why he could not travel directly back to D'Qar. If something impedes him from doing so, there should be many ways for the Resistance to find and transmit secret information, given that they are a clandestine network after all. Finding any informant who could communicate with the Resistance should not be difficult for someone who works for them.\\
'''Instead:''' Tekka contacts the Resistance, only not to send them the location, but to ask to meet with a messenger in a remote place so he can hand him a physical map leading to it. This just multiplies the risks of losing it and doesn't make it any less safe or secret for the Resistance, which gets proved with the arrival of Kylo Ren.\\
'''You'd Also Expect:''' If Tekka really wants a personal rendezvous, he should choose a densely populated planet, preferently in an urban environment, where a few people can easily lay low, have a secret gathering, and scatter if discovered. It would also better in case either Tekka or the emissary lost their means of transport, as there would be probably plenty of available ships and pilots for hire to get them out. He should also give them a complete map so the Resistance doesn't waste time in finding Luke before any leak could lead the First Order to him as well.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance to send a small squad of fighters. They would still few enough to go unnoticed and could watch from orbit and provide a diversion for one of them to flee with the map if the First Order arrives. Sending more than one starship is essential to ensure the map leaves Jakku and reaches the Resistance.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to MindProbe Tekka to get all his information about Luke Skywlker's whereabouts, or at least take him to his Star Destroyer, the ''Finalizer'', where he could work on him more comfortably. The First Order wouldn't even need the map if Tekka happened to know where it leads to, which would be most probably the case (confirmed in the prequel comics). Moreover, taking Tekka alive to interrogate him would be useful in any case, as he is still an ally to the Republic who might know other interesting pieces of info.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to return to the Resistance and tell them exactly the location. As seen in the prequel comics, Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance base in D'Qar to investigate, so there's no reason given about why he could not travel directly back to D'Qar. If something impedes him from doing so, there should be many ways for the Resistance to transmit secret information, given that they are a clandestine network after all. Finding any informant who could tell the Resistance should not be difficult for someone who works for them.\\

'''Instead:''' Tekka chooses Tuanul, a small, pauper village on the desert world Jakku, whose meager population is composed of miners and squalid scavengers with few means to leave the planet. Even worse, the map he gives them is not even complete.

'''Instead:''' They send one man with a droid in a single fighter. The rendezvous is effectively discovered and attacked by the First Order while their messenger is grounded, and even worse, a rogue shot disables his starship by sheer bad luck, leaving him effectively stranded on Jakku and without a way to communicate with the Resistance.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to MindProbe Tekka to get all his information about Luke Skywlker's whereabouts, or at least take him to his Star Destroyer, the ''Finalizer'', where he could work on him more comfortably. The First Order wouldn't even need the map if Tekka happened to know where it leads to, which would be most probably the case. Moreover, taking Tekka alive to interrogate him would be useful in any case, as he is an ally to the Republic who might know other interesting pieces of info.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to mind-probe Poe at the very moment in order to know what's up with him and where's the map. Poe might have destroyed it, buried it under some rock or passed it to some accomplice in the village, anything other than having it on his pocket while dealing a suicide attack. Ren should also order his Stormtroopers to register the X-wing and scan all the surroundings to be sure. The fact that Poe's astromech is absent from his fighter should have raised a few eyebrows by itself.\\

'''For Added Stupidity:''' When Poe starts a mutiny against Holdo, believing she's going to get them all either killed or sold to the First Order, at least half of the ship's crew sides with him (maybe even the entire crew, given that no visible crewman in a crowded hangar opposes or objects the mutiny), and this includes one of the very bridge commanders. The implication is that almost everyone that wasn't Holdo and Leia (including those that would probably be in on a need-to-know basis) were completely left in the dark too, therefore prompting everybody in the ship to believe they were being led to their deaths. This makes their mistrust towards her and their frustration by the continued deaths a perfectly reasonable reaction, which highlights further that Holdo ''massively'' mishandled the situation.

'''And then:''' Han gets the bright idea of swinging close to the superstructure of the ''Avenger'' and parking right on top of the garbage disposal shaft, which is a blind spot. Lord Vader demands a status update.\\
'''You'd think:''' Needa, who says out aloud that the Falcon is too small to have a working cloaking device, would think that it's hiding on a blind spot or something of the sort, and in any case tell Vader that he's still in pursuit in order to save face. Star Destroyers like the ''Avenger'' have a squadron of TIE Fighters on board, and Needa could order his fighters to inspect all the blind spots around his ship to make sure the Falcon isn't hiding on his own hull.\\

* The Resistance has been contacted by their explorer Lor San Tekka from the planet Jakku: he has discovered where Luke is, and asks for a messenger to give them a piece of the map to him.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The Resistance to send a small squad of fighters. They would still few enough to lay low and could watch from orbit and provide a diversion for one of them to flee with the map if the First Order arrives. Sending more than one starship is essential to ensure the map leaves the planet and reaches the Resistance.\\

'''Even worse:''' In the prequel comics, it is revealed Tekka borrowed a starship from the Resistance to investigate and chose himself the planet where he would meet their emissary. There's no reason given about why Tekka could not have travelled directly to the Resistance base in D'Qar, from where he took off in the first place.

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to MindProbe Tekka to get all his information about Luke Skywlker's whereabouts, or at least take him to his Star Destroyer, the ''Finalizer'', where he could work on him more comfortably. The First Order doesn't even need the map now that they have the man who wrote it himself out of his own research. Moreover, taking Tekka alive to interrogate him would be useful in any case, as he is an ally to the Republic who might know other interesting pieces of info.\\

'''Instead:''' Greedo strikes up a conversation with Han, comfortably sitting at the table, while not noticing one of Han's hands going under it. Where his blaster is. One gunshot later, Greedo is dead.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Tarkin to consider it. If the Alliance is attacking a specific point of a moon-sized battle station with only a light squad of fighters and bombers, it is painfully obvious that the rebels believe there is a structural weakness of some kind and are targeting the hell of it. While it is admittedly reasonable to think this might be a BatmanGambit to get the station's commanders out and gun them down while they are vulnerable, the Death Star surely contains enough fighters and ships to escort Tarkin's personal spacecraft and protect it from any attack until it can get to safety. Meanwhile, if the weak spot attack turns to be real and the Death Star blows up, Tarkin will die inside not matter what.\\

'''You'd think:''' Needa, who says out aloud that the Falcon is too small to have a working cloaking device, would think that it's hiding on a blind spot or something of the sort, and in any case tell Vader that he's still in pursuit in order to save face. Star Destroyers like the ''Avenger'' have a squadron of TIE Fighters on board, and Needa could order his fighters to inspect all the blind spots around his ship to make sure the Falcon isn't hiding on his own hull.
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* Emperor Palpatine clearly desires to turn Luke to the Dark Side of the Force because he basically has all of his father's potential, but not the crippling injuries that make him a DarkLordOnLifeSupport. To achieve this, he emotionally antagonizes Luke and then gets him and Vader to start dueling to the death. Eventually Luke literally disarms Vader in a fit of rage and has him at his mercy.\\

'''Instead:''' They send one man with a droid in a single fighter. The rendezvous is effectively discovered and attacked by the First Order while their messenger is grounded, and even worse, a rogue shot disables his starship by sheer bad luck, leaving him effectively stranded in Jakku and without a way to communicate with the Resistance.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Ultimately dominating Finn by stabbing him in the shoulder with his cross guard, Kylo knocks him down with a slash in the back, but he then contents himself with leave Finn lying alive and breathing instead of finishing him off for good.

'''Instead:''' He and the masters decide to make the arrest alone, without any surveillance, support or register whatsoever, and judging for the three Jedi's attitude and skill, without being prepared for severe resistance from Palpatine. The results end up being disastrous for all four Jedi Masters, as Anakin's intervention into the confrontation causes the mission to fail and leads to all the Masters dying, and Palpatine capitalizes on the clumsiness of the incident to play it like the Jedi tried to murder the chancellor. On top of that, the truth dies with Windu, leaving every Jedi in the galaxy off-guard for Order 66.

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to MindProbe Tekka to get all his information about Luke Skywlker's whereabouts, or at least take him to his Star Destroyer, the ''Finalizer'', where he could work on him more comfortably. The First Order doesn't even need the map now that they have the man who wrote it himself. Moreover, taking Tekka alive to interrogate him would be useful in any case, as he is an ally to the Republic who might know other interesting pieces of info.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Him to do the same with Finn. He should be an even easier prey to his eyes, as while Rey has proved to be an inexplicably powerful Force user who had a slight chance to parry the attack, Finn has not. With both of them knocked out, Ren would have enough time to recover his beloved grandfather's lightsaber, cut the unconscious Finn and Rey in small pieces (or try to drag Rey alive as per Snoke's orders) and go away before the planet explodes.\\

'''Even Worse:''' Ultimately dominating Finn by stabbing him in the shoulder with his cross guard, Kylo scores a heavy blow with a slash in the back, but he then contents himself with leave Finn lying alive and clearly breathing instead of finishing him off for good.

'''You'd Expect:''' Kylo to understand that the situation has got out of hand and that he cannot capture Rey alive or gain his grandfather's lightsaber anymore. He is wounded, tired and facing a foe that seems to become stronger with every minute passing. She has just beaten him in a Force contest for her lightsaber, now is pushing him to his limits in swordfighting, and it's probable she will end up dominating him, if not fair and clean, at least by sheer attrition. In that situation, he should capitalize on his only moment of superiority and immediately try his best to push her to her death down the cliff. Snoke should reasonably approve that he killed her to save his own life, and Kylo can always lie to him about what happened really in the duel, possibly even claiming that she took her life before being captured, which would be certainly the truth FromACertainPointOfView.\\

'''Instead:''' Poe sends the bombers to attack the ''Fulminatrix'' from the very side that it has its heaviest defenses, and has to go through all the needless trouble of attacking the point defense weapons on the dreadnought and face all the fighters that are being launched in that direction as well.

'''You'd Expect:''' That right after the speech introducing herself, Holdo would tell everyone what her and Leia's plans are: to use their main ship as a decoy while the remaining rebels escape inside small cloaked transport ships. Even if she suspects there is a risk of the plans being leaked to the First Order or even an outright traitor among them, this is simply not a situation where secrecy can be held; any possible spy could still leak the plan during its very execution, when Holdo cannot keep the crew from knowing it anymore, and they would be exactly as screwed if caught. (In fact, although it is due to an ''external'' leak, this is exactly the point when it ends up happening.)\\
'''Or:''' If Holdo is that determined to keep it secret, she could at least proclaim that she has a great plan that needs the crew's trust, for the sake of morale if nothing else. She seems to be known to the Resistance as a great tactician, so they would have no reason not to believe in her good judgement with few clues. Moreover, the claim would still be unspecific enough to impede any spy from learning anything decisive for now.\\

'''For Added Stupidity:''' When Poe starts a mutiny against Holdo, believing she's going to get them all either killed or sold to the First Order, at least half of the ship's visible crew side with him, including one of the very bridge commanders. The implication is that almost everyone that wasn't her and Leia (including those that would probably be in on a need-to-know basis) were completely left in the dark too, therefore prompting everybody in the ship to believe they were being led to their deaths. This makes their mistrust towards her and their frustration by the continued deaths a perfectly reasonable reaction, which highlights further that Holdo ''massively'' mishandled the situation.