Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 13 Audacious Moments That Have Divided Fans

13. Poe Leading The Bombers To Their Death

2016's Rogue One went to great lengths to show the real cost of warfare in a way that no Star Wars movie before it had done; and yet, the fact that its events occurred outside of the core series may have lessened its impact somewhat.

The Last Jedi opens on a sequence which strives for a similar effect, and may well be one of the bleakest moments of the series to date.

It starts out like any other Star Wars space battle. Oscar Isaac's Poe Dameron continues down his path as this trilogy's equivalent of Han Solo, as he ignores the orders of Carrie Fisher's Leia and stages a cocksure attack on a First Order Dreadnought.

However, what initially seems like a courageous one-man assault is in fact merely Poe setting the stage for a larger attack by a fleet of Resistance bombers - all of whom wind up slaughtered.

The attack may be deemed a succeess in that it results in the Dreadnought's destruction, hence Poe regards it a proud moment - even though it lessens him in the eyes of Leia, who is more concerned with the loss of Resistance lives. This apparent lack of empathy for his dead comrades casts Poe in a different, perhaps less heroic light, after The Force Awakens established him as a good-hearted eternal optimist.

Poe's devil-may-care attitude is shown to have real consequences, demonstrating that the drive to buck authority and follow your gut - a path he continues down in his later conflict with Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo - are not always positive character attributes, even if past Star Wars movies have tended to lionise these qualities.