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Originally Posted by blankall
I also thought Phasma had great potential. Seems very strange to me that they didn't make better use of her. Rian Johnson clearly wanted to make use of female characters, why not use the one that's already there and awesome. Instead he didn't use the character much at all, and then literally throws her into a giant hole.
While I found Phasma to be a relatively balanced and nuanced character, Johnson went with General Hux as the main side villain, who is basically a cartoon character.
Gwendoline Christie is also a great and well trained actor. I have no idea why she wasn't used more in TLJ.
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You know its funny because Phasma was just so badly executed.
With Boba Fett they spent Empire establishing him as a legit bad a$$, then they killed him in a silly way in Jedi.
With TFA she just stood there looking shiny, when it came time to test her she was stupid and a coward. Then in TLJ, they started establishing her, and then she got her face kicked in by what was basically a lesser Storm Trooper. She looked awesome but she was never made to be awesome, or brave, or anything but a homer Simpson in nice Armor.
Now from the nerd point of view.
The whole shiny thing really goes against the whole concept of the Storm Trooper ideal.
When you saw Trooper officers you either saw them in their black uniforms like on the Tantive in ANH. or on the Death Star
Or you saw officers in the same armor as the regular troops except they had different colored rank shoulder tabs.
What makes the concept of Storm Troopers awesome were that they were faceless, relentless, and they all looked the same like cogs in a machine, they didn't differentiate because they were made this way by design.