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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
CC, my only thoughts in expansion to yours on Finn is that he's the unknowing Trooper. Yes, he's been in the First Order since many moons ago, but I kind of thought it more like a theory class vs a practicum. He's trained and trained and trained...which is nothing, the first time a gun with real 'bullets' (or a power clip, in this case, I suppose) is put in his hands and he's told to go and kill those people over there.
It's all well and good to train and practice and all that, but there is a big difference between "I can do this!" in practice to "I can do this!" when you are really shooting at real people.
That's the difference I saw with Finn, and why he had such a hard time of it. Especially after seeing someone who was likely a friend of his gunned down...all of the sudden, this isn't games and paper targets. This is real. And he wanted no part of it.
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I think it was a bit of a thing to me, especially when Kylo talks to Hux about the use of Clone Troopers, and Hux replies that his clones are basically every bit as good as the Clones were.
Since we didn't see any of the other Troopers blanching at the actions of the first order, I would expect that there was a lot of indoctrination in their training.
Like I said, I have trouble seeing a person raised from his crib to be a soldier in the first order would blanche so quickly at the sight of these atrocities.
He clearly didn't have troubles working at the Star Killer base as he willingly entered the combat against the villagers and didn't seem to have his moment until he saw the one trooper die.
Like I said, maybe its nitpicking but he didn't act like a soldier that had been trained from the grave to simply fight, and do sanitation work.
I just think it would have been better if he had been wearing the Orange markings of a Storm Trooper NCO and had seen enough death and destruction in his life to want to leave it.