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Ouch, best of luck with the hard drive recovery guys.

I watched Call the Midwife at my parents over Christmas - felt like they'd picked a bunch of Fremen to play anyone with remotely blue eyes.

Yeah, it was called Sam Street originally.

I assumed she just felt that she didn't have to explain herself to an unruly and recently demoted subordinate, but yes she could have avoided a lot of trouble if she'd just come clean.

Poe endangered the fleet, the plan would have worked perfectly if he hadn't sent Flynn to get the code breaker, which is what led to him telling Bernicio del Toro about the plan, which led to the transports being fired on as they left the cruiser.

If Poe hadn't disobeyed orders the Dreadnought would still have been able to track them through hyperspace, and it would have likely ended them before they even got to that point.

Poe and Maz's plan would have worked - it's not entirely their fault that Finn and Rose are fuck-ups.

Not sure about it going nowhere, but did feel like it scuppered the ticking clock, with them caring more about giant bunnies and the evils of the elite than their rapidly exploding mates.

Depending on how it's shot, people on CGI creatures can leave me cold - this felt like another 'watching someone else play a game' like the Hobbit platformer.

It led to DJ spotting Holdo's plan (the one that involved no-one in the FO fleet looking at a window) and it led to the godawful Tiny Tim scene at the end.

It just highlighted the bits I hated and was preachy to boot.

Poe didn't screw up as far as I can see.

He saved the fleet.

I believe it was Gruber pouring petrol over Giant that was the tipping point.

It's as much behaviour that could be imitated as it was violence.

There were some unpublished bits in Beyond 2000AD

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/beyond-2000-ad/4050-72221/

PS I love Artie Gruber.

The Cam Kennedy twitter feed posted a link over there - C4 programme 'Signals' from the late 1980s covering amongst other things, the launch of Crisis.

Includes a feature on Jim, amongst others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yt_OgoNKo&feature=youtu.be

So sad to hear of Jim's passing - he drew some classic Dredds (and Skizz of course)

"Some of them are stars" seems apt.

Seemed more than three at the time.

I'd rather have had some active saboteurs on both the FO and resistance side, it might have given that air of paranoia and people throwing spanners in the works rather than just being dumb.

I wouldn't have minded seeing it all ending up on Canto Bight rather than Crait, seems like that might have brought the war home to the elite rather than giant bunnies running amok.

I can buy a souped up freighter being able to outfly star destroyers, but frigates/capital ships all moving in a slow line and not one of the FO can jump ahead to cut them off? Bah.

Also, was there any reason for the fleet to not just split up, rather than being picked off in an easy to shoot straight line?

I'd have to watch it again, but from what I recall...

if Poe had obeyed orders, isn't it likely the Dreadnought would have followed them through space, and destroyed the whole lot (or at least the capital ships).

Didn't his disobedience save the fleet?

IIRC No - [spoiler]the fleet was destroyed anyway. The plan (that he was unaware of) was to get everyone down to the secret base in shuttles without the pursuers noticing so that they would destroy (almost) empty ships when they inevitably caught up with them. If anything, he CAUSES the massive loss of life, because his stupid side plot to find the codebreaker ends up with Del Toro revealing this plan to the FO (some people have said "if Poe didn't know, how could he reveal it", but del Toro is clearly eavesdropping in the scene where Poe finds out)[/spoiler]

[spoiler]with that Dreadnought still active, the fleet and the main cruiser would have likely been destroyed way before they'd got to the secret base, or launched the transports or even got to his and Maz's plan to find the codebreaker.[/spoiler]

I'd have to watch it again, but from what I recall...

if Poe had obeyed orders, isn't it likely the Dreadnought would have followed them through space, and destroyed the whole lot (or at least the capital ships).

Didn't his disobedience save the fleet?

Thrusters/jets/ some kind of magnets.

Not sure why the bomb bay doors should bother anyone - look at the death star hangar with the falcon.

A force field that keeps the air in but lets solid objects in and out... same deal with the bombers.