Clapping back, but I think you might have misread a small nuance of what I was saying. I never suggested that Holdo was Yoda (more on that in a second), my argument was that the author of the original piece seemed to be fine with good or bad mentoring as long as the mentor was male. My argument was not about the relative qualities of the mentorship as much as about the gender of the mentors.

Now, and I am just playing Vader’s advocate here, Yoda was blind to Palpatine’s rise under his very nose, created the clone army who destroyed the Jedi, and trained Darth Vader (who killed the younglings). After 400 years of experience, he was unable to fully train Luke, get him to be patient, or get him to see reason.

Perhaps, and I suggested this in one of the longer pieces that I linked in my response, Luke’s journey in Last Jedi was CRITICAL because the failure of the Jedi was the biggest begged question unanswered but festering in the center of the Star Wars universe.

Now, all of that said, I do agree Holdo should have shared the larger plan with her command team and that command team should have briefed subcommand. I am not sure what she did is at the failure level of creating the clone army…but, I totally get what you are saying.

Finally, don’t get me wrong, I love Master Yoda…I am just saying, the history of the Jedi (and of the heroes of the Alliance) is rife with failure (often massive and catastrophic failure).

In all seriousness, thank for the thoughtful reply!