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Originally Posted by blankall
The opening scene of the Force Awakens had me so pumped for Fins character. A somewhat obvious, yet great, concept to explore the psychology of a storm trooper. That opening scene was so visceral, with its depiction of violence. And Phasma seemed like such a great secondary villain. They could have done a bit of a Theon/Ramsay angle with that.
Then.....we get Finn the wise cracking swashbuckling sidekick.
The very idea of two competing directors both doing everything they could to undo what the previous one had done is pretty comical. These are films with $300-400+ million dollar budgets and no one thought to have a plan ahead of time or reign in the pettiness of the directors.
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I mean honestly, they could have done so much with Finn, especially trying to have him overcome a life time of conditioning.
They could have shown a young man with serious psychological harm trying to over come the fact that he probably participated in some pretty evil acts as a storm trooper.
He could have been a really interesting study, instead he got over his defection in about 8 seconds. Then in the second movie he became the bland woo guy. Then in the third movie, he was really nothing more then a NPC character.
I think out of all of the characters he was the most dissapointing.
And with Palpatine, I give the PT credit, they made him an awesome villain, that carried through to the OT and even his arrogance that lead to his death was kind of a cool payback moment to order 66.
In the ST he was a monster of the week with a pole jammed up his butt. His logic and reasoning, and the Sith eternal was just incredibly stupid and went against everything that made the Sith a cool and secretive small cult.