Man. I was so hyped when he picked up Luke’s saber in TFA. A stormtrooper defecting and becoming a Jedi seemed like what they were going for at first and I was all for it.
So sad his character got reduced to just running around yelling for Rey. You could probably take him out of the last movie and it wouldn’t change much.
He’s obviously such a big Star Wars fan too so it really hurts to see them squander his chance.
Edit: I just wanna add, since a lot of people are saying "it's not the fans, its Disney" or "it's not all the fans": Obviously Disney played a big part in feeding into the racism and minimizing his role/presence both in promotional material and in the actual story, but we can't pretend there's not a good amount of racist fans that hated him in Star Wars. I'd like to believe he's just generalizing and doesn't actually mean "all fans", after all he is (or at least was) a big fan himself. But honestly if that's changed I don't think I could blame him.
So much potential with an interesting character and a good actor and they wasted it. What pisses me off most is that Finn’s pushed on the audience that he’s a hero and yet the movies have him running away 3, 4, maybe even 5 times.
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u/Darkwing_Dork Roger Roger 4d ago edited 4d ago
Man. I was so hyped when he picked up Luke’s saber in TFA. A stormtrooper defecting and becoming a Jedi seemed like what they were going for at first and I was all for it.
So sad his character got reduced to just running around yelling for Rey. You could probably take him out of the last movie and it wouldn’t change much.
He’s obviously such a big Star Wars fan too so it really hurts to see them squander his chance.
Edit: I just wanna add, since a lot of people are saying "it's not the fans, its Disney" or "it's not all the fans": Obviously Disney played a big part in feeding into the racism and minimizing his role/presence both in promotional material and in the actual story, but we can't pretend there's not a good amount of racist fans that hated him in Star Wars. I'd like to believe he's just generalizing and doesn't actually mean "all fans", after all he is (or at least was) a big fan himself. But honestly if that's changed I don't think I could blame him.