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- Aug 11, 2019
Hard disagree. Finn is a Stormtrooper. That should've been his character. After every "kill the bad guy" story, there remains a question of what should we do about the bad guy's war machine and the cogs in it. Plus you have heroic Star Wars stormtroopers IRL (the 501st). Having a heroic Stormtrooper character (rogue or not) in a Sequel Trilogy is mandatory.
So there's an autistic Force user and a Stormtrooper. You've got to have a normie. Poe should've been that normie and a neutral character archetype (like a bounty hunter or something), so the autistic Force user can be a Rebel and get hugged by Zombie Carrie Fisher.
Finn had so much potential, if he constantly struggled with the killer soldier nature he has been taught his entire life and the new man he was trying to be, that alone would have been more investing than the entire sequel trilogy. Phasma was his perfect foil because she represented his old self that was bound to her will.
If I had my way, I would have had him getting constantly defeated by Phasma in ep7 and 8 and be his big bad (like Kylo is to Rey, at least in theory). In ep 9, we would finally get the final match, one she is looking forward since she doesnt want Finn to join her but rather kill her to take her place since to her, if she isnt the strongest soldier, then she isnt worth to live as anything else. I imagined in the end they just go hand in hand since they either lost their weapons or decide that weapons are "cheat tools" (yes, a freaking hand to hand battle in Star Wars between two non force users, dont tell me you have ever seen that before), I imagine it being something akin to the last fight in MGS3/4. He barely comes out ontop and gives her a warrior's death like she wanted (she tells him to take her place now, Finn says he isnt stronger than her, he is better than that, he is FREE).
Welp, the writer inside of me took over again, silly me. We got a painfully mediocre character instead