r/BeAmazed 14d ago

Miscellaneous / Others She played one hell of an amazing character.

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u/Mother_Idea_3182 14d ago edited 14d ago

The Storm Trooper deserter was such a good starting point!

Totally wasted. In less than 24 hours, the deserter was shooting at his brother in arms shouting Woohoo.

It becomes a character I can’t comprehend or empathise with in less than 2 minutes of film.

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u/PrimalBunion 14d ago

Even John boyega was pissed about how Finn's story went

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u/FeelTheFreeze 14d ago

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.

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u/pchlster 14d ago

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?

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u/timsredditusername 14d ago

He was stopped and told not to fight what he hates but instead to save what he loves or some nonsense like that.

(The people he hated were trying to kill the people he loved, basically requiring him to fight them to save the loved ones.)

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u/The-WideningGyre 14d ago

No, his sacrifice, which would have helped people, was sabotaged by Rose, ruining it and not accomplishing anything.

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u/SamediB 14d ago

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.)

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u/GeekyGamer2022 13d ago

Finn: "I am going to sacrifice myself because if I don't then all my friends will die"
Rose: "Ima stop him because I want a hug"

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u/Myotherdumbname 14d ago

They made you think he was going to be a Jedi

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u/TerkYerJerb 14d ago

Also we still have to know what he had to tell Rey

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u/TheBladeRoden 14d ago

"Non-force sensitives can lightsaber fight now?"

"Non-force sensitives can lightsaber fight now!"

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u/Midnight_Skyfaller 14d ago

No one in Star Wars values life unless for a second it’s intrinsic to move the plot forward. This is across almost everything.

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u/fortunesofshadows 14d ago

Ashoka didn’t kill any clones after Rex woke up from order 66

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u/Midnight_Skyfaller 14d ago

Ashoka is one of the less murderous protagonists in Star Wars. Very true.

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u/-J-A-M- 14d ago

This was odd to me because she released maul who goes on to kill loads of them and crash the ship lol so she might as well have killed them anyway

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u/fortunesofshadows 14d ago

In her mind. Maul killed the clones. Not her

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u/-J-A-M- 14d ago

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

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u/Equally-Nothing 14d ago

Wait… what? How is it her fault?

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u/-J-A-M- 14d ago

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

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u/Lordborgman 14d ago

Kyle Katarn.

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u/KimberStormer 14d ago

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.

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u/GutturalMoose 14d ago

Honestly, I woulda been happy with a storm tropper centric movie way more than what we got 

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u/TheTrueMilo 14d ago

Andor episodes 4, 5, and 6 did a “deserting black stormtroopers” arc better than the sequel trilogy with a fraction of the budget.