She also used that same insanely jacked physique to play Captain phasma in Star wars, even though they completely wiffed her character and wasted her time lol
They made you think he was going to be an important character, then in the second movie he went on a useless side quest, then in the third movie he basically did nothing.
Didn't he do a suicide charge in order to protect everyone, only to be stopped because he was supposed to realize that he was supposed to be fighting for other people?
And somehow going way faster in her speeder than he was while doing a suicide charge.
Holdo and Luke were allowed to give up their lives to save others; but Finn? Absolutely not apparently. (Maybe there is a message there. If we're generous.)
Yeah I just thought they could’ve just wrote it so maul breaks out on his own then there’s no moral conundrum over if she’s responsible for the deaths by letting him out haha
she knew that letting maul out would cause many clones to die but she still does it to cause a distraction, even though she’s above killing the clones it’s apparently okay if she lets maul out to do it for her. See what I mean if they just wrote it so he escapes on his own then her saying not to kill the clones then immediately letting the guy loose who 100% will definitely kill everyone on the ship and does by causing it to crash wouldn’t sound hypocritical. Just my opinion haha but it did bother me abit when watching it haha
I honestly thought the end of Episode IX was heading for a great payoff for this. He found another deserter friend. The good guys were totally outnumbered by the bad guys. They were headed for some communications tower thing. OK, I thought, this is great: Finn is going to get on the comms and broadcast to every storm trooper: "You think you have to do this. But you don't. We got out. You can too. You have nothing to lose but your chains, etc!" The stormtroopers throw down their weapons, or turn them against the evil Nazi officers, the day is saved! Maybe they even realize everyone in the world has the Force and there is no need for Jedi, as set up in the previous movie! Sure, the journey was pretty bad, but the payoff seemed like it was going to be great.
But no. Lando from nowhere for no reason, le epic moment for some shitty CGI cartoon sidekick to fist-pump or whatever. I never understand when these writers line up the dominoes perfectly and then just kick everything down instead.
No fr. The insult to injury was when they came out with a novel about Phasmas backstory and she was high key fucking monster. Like the woman who did the shit in that book is not the woman who put the shields down for a man that she trained. (I clearly have a lot of feelings about this, my bad lol)
I remember it being a fantastic read. (Granted it was 2017 and I was in the peak of my insufferable Star wars fan bullshit) But you will have a newfound fire about how the character was treated afterwards.
This. I thought the character looked so cool and nothing really happened. To be fair, Boba Fett looked really cool originally and also was wasted in the originally movies.
Boba wasn't in the first movie, had a hell of a stage presence in 5th (only bounty hunter to find Han, has demands granted by Vader, gets to collect his bounty twice), then had a weak exit in Jedi.
Phasma never got any buildup, was introduced as a main face of the new empire, yet she drops the shields to Starkiller Base at the first threat in Force Awakens, then has a 20 second "fight" scene in Last Jedi before "dying"
The Episode 7 novelization is pretty great, expands on Phasma & Finn’s backstory, and all the New Republic politics. It’s probably the second best novelization next to Revenge of the Sith, which is an actual 10/10 read
Eh. It was pretty blatant Captain Phasma was never really going to be a character. . . I feel like it's very clear Disney created the character for the purposes of having another toy to sell.
They wasted her time though absolutely. I don't even think they've released books or comics or anything giving depth to her character like has been done historically with every other Glup Shitto character.
Sort by old and check the comments above yours, they show how disney/sw released cool backstory info and such and the movie character was a pale comparison to that.
I bet JJ was going for a Boba Fett type hype towards her and Rian had her die like Boba [at the time] did.
I kinda liked her book that went into her origin. It was written by one of my favorite scifi authors at the time Delilah S. Dawson who wrote the Shadow series under pen name Lila Bowen
I don't think so, unless it was an Easter egg that went totally over my head. I've only seen it once. I didn't like it much (which I recognize is controversial.)
You’re prob right, I’m confusing with the new trilogy. Give RO another watch if you have time, it’s definitely my favorite SW film outside of the original trilogy (and maybe Ep III, I have a soft spot for that movie)
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u/V__Ace 14d ago
She also used that same insanely jacked physique to play Captain phasma in Star wars, even though they completely wiffed her character and wasted her time lol