Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
...DJ had been caught, though?

But the situation was nothing whatsoever like what happened in ANH; Kenobi needed a fast ship (something he seemed could be plausibly found even on a backwater planet like Tatooine), as opposed to Finn and rose needing a master code breaker, which necessitated calling up a person with the contacts to know such a person, who could recommend one and only one who would be able to do it and be trustworthy (which already undercuts the whole "sure this random person we just met will be trustworthy and we should expect everything to work out fine!" bit that is supposed to be subverted later on), and then stumbled by sheer luck onto someone else.

It's as close to what happened in ANH as it is to The Wrath of Kahn. Which is to say, not at all.
Well yeah, that's why it all went to hell as soon as something unexpected happened. Finn and Rose were trying to play the story like it was ANH, not quite being idiots about it but definitely being pretty foolish. A lot of things that go wrong in TLJ do so because of ill conceived attempts to emulate the legends and stories they grew up on, and otherwise taking them at face value instead of using their brains to try and solve the problem.