Star Wars and a Failure to Communicate

Like all card-carrying geeks, I went to the local eat-drink-and-watch-a-movie place over the weekend and saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi AKA Star Wars: The Quest for Even More Money. It was a suitably entertaining picture, albeit a bit long. Herewith is my largest issue (only mildly spoiler-y): a failure to communicate.

The resistance, being the resistance, have gotten themselves into a pickle where they are being chased by the First Order. The tactical commander, played by a purple-haired Laura Dern, has a plan. But she decides not to communicate this plan to her senior officers, including one somewhat impulsive Commander. Said Commander, not knowing the plan, green-lights an operation that ends up biting the resistance in the ass.

I'm generally very down on plots that hinge on people not telling each other things that they really should know. I'm especially down on that when it involves military organizations. Having said that, the Star Wars universe has a history of people keeping secrets. (See Kenobi, Ben in the entire first movie.)

Again, it was an irritation, not a show-stopper. The movie overall was well worth the hype.