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StarSword Since: Sep, 2011
2023-01-30 17:29:20

This is really a question for the "Is this an example?" thread on the forum, but (being something of a self-appointed expert on this film since it's easily my favorite of the sequel trilogy)...

It's definitely not an example of Informed Wrongness. As you said, neither Poe nor anyone else had any way of knowing that the First Order could track them. Poe was demoted for disobeying a direct order from his de facto commander-in-chief (not merely a superior officer) and getting their entire bomber complement blown up for a (based on what was known at the time) operationally unnecessary objective, which meant that Holdo couldn't trust him to obey her own orders, either (not to mention that even if she gave him his CAG post back, there's no fighters left for him to be CAG of). And after he laid hands on her in the meeting room, Holdo would have been fully within her rights to throw him in the brig until further notice; her only mistake was trusting him to obey orders to sod off to quarters until she needed him to fly a transport off the Raddus.

It's also not an example of Moral Luck (which probably needs to be made NRLEP and In-Universe Examples Only): that describes a character being praised or condemned for things they had no control over. Poe disobeyed orders, therefore he had full control of the circumstances.

Edited by StarSword Trust me, I'm an engineer!
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