chooky
1d ago
An obvious lesson here is that you just go fix things without asking or telling anyone. There is a bridge at a park near me that I re-decked one day because it was rotting and I use it all the time. But god don't ever send an email asking about it first if fixing it is something you are willing to consider!
I think this works in business too. No, do not go coordinate a monthslong marketing campaign with the idiots in marketing or let them have any input; just implement the feature that makes clients' lives better (assuming you are competent enough for this to indeed be the case). Seeking approval is just the opposite of a Cover Your Ass paper trail.
How could Snoke possibly become a threatening bad guy in the absence of, lol, having Palpatine somehow return earlier? Having a half-bit Palpatine was a huge mistake; the First Order should have been some combination of a) overwhelming military resources and b) stupid Dark Witches bullshit trying to regain the Force as an advantage. Snoke is a horribly bad villain from the bottom up.
Another big problem with TLJ is that most of the non-Jedi stuff (Rose, etc) is just incredibly cringe.
I do agree that this is somewhat interesting as meta commentary in TLJ: everyone is stuck trying to rehash the original trilogy, characters and fans alike. But the movie doesn't do enough with it, and, worst of all, RoS fatally ignores the critique made by TLJ instead of transcending it, which dooms both movies' critical value.
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