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One key difference between the two is that Holdo was already ready to sacrifice her life from the moment she decided to stay behind and pilot the cruiser, something that was necessary and Leia agreed to. While what Finn was attempting to do was established as going to be a Senseless Sacrifice, as Poe figured it out and ordered everyone to retreat beforehand.
The aesop of the movie was more against senseless sacrifices, as I saw it.
The TLJ Aesop was about not sacrificing lives needlessly, not not sacrificing. The issue is Holdo and Luke's were only necessary due to their avoidable mistakes (like Poe's which was admonished) and Finn's was when there was seemingly no other option.
But if/how we tell if something said was supposed to be taken as the Aesop is why it is set for TRS. Can't tell it Broken Aesop applies if we can't even define Aesop clearly.
Edited by Ferot_DreadnaughtHere's the issue: where's the explanation for why that's actually true? What about The Last Jedi exposits that that's the actual moral lesson it's intending to impart? If that thesis cannot be verified by the actual work as an aesop it's actually purposefully trying to deliver, it's not an aesop, let alone a "broken" one.
Thanks for playing Kings Quest V!

So, saw that adding a Broken Aesop to The Last Jedi's page would need to be approved first, so I figured to ask if this was acceptable (or if it was already added/removed)
One of the aesops was that your life is too important to throw away. However, it's underscored by not Holdo's Heroic Sacrifice to take out an entire fleet and Luke's sacrifice to hold off the First Order long enough for everyone to escape, but it's also underscored by the person giving the aesop in the first place, Rose, who nearly died to save Finn from having to sacrifice himself in the first place.