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Originally Posted by Locke
You only cared about 'Original Characters' because you were previously invested in them and wanted to know more.
All the new characters have been completely bland garbage.
But they didnt have to be.
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I'm not disagreeing at all, and the shame is you're right, they could have been more
Finn's a former stormtrooper, kidnapped as a child and brainwashed, probably killed in the name of the First Order. Got through that in about a minute and his primary role was to be the wise cracking wooh guy.
Daisy - I loved the inital idea of her, she was tough, raised on her own, was basically a slave. When she fought Ren, she fought like she was channeling the dark side. Who were her parents. Then the second movie over powered her and the force and her skills came easily. She completely flattened out in the third and final movie.
Poe - Best fighter pilot in the galaxy in the first one, but in the second one, became a serious ahole.
Whats her face Rose - Loses her sister, gets over it to get mad at a planet. Saves Finn from heroically sacrificing himself to save the Rebels and awkwardly proclaims her love and then is completely pushed into the background in the third moving and completely rebuffed by Finn.
I'm going to argue that Rian completely wrecked his primary characters. The biggest problem though is that none of the villains approached the level of jeopardy that Darth Vader and Palpatine provided in the original.
Hux - Was decent in the first one, conniving and in command. In the second film they made him a idiot, in the third movie he was a spy with an inconsequential death
Snoke - First movie, who is he? Plageuis, Sidious reborn, there were theories that he was Mace. In the second movie he was a guy wearing elf shoes and a bathrobe and might as well have worn a red uniform
Ren - First movie, the non surprising reveal that he's Ben Skywalker. Wasn't as much evil as a confused teenager with serious anger issues. In the second movie he was Danny from Game of Thrones, I'm going to break the wheel blah blah. In the third movie meh. He wasn't menacing, he wasn't frightening. He was just there.
I'd argue that TFA, laid down some nice beats that could have made them good characters going forward. But Rian butchered it all and made them unlikeable or hard to care about. And the third movie was JJ's attempt to repair the damage and get the trilogy over with.