Burdokva said:
Poe? He’s a … great pilot? Mind you, this was so bluntly expressed (“woohoo, what a great pilot!”) in a visually so over the top scene that didn’t have an ounce of suspense and doesn’t hold a candle to Han, Lando or even Wedge’s gripping space combat scenes, that I cringed. What else is about him? He’s… brave? And this was the character I wanted to like the most. I love flying and aviation, I love space sims. Pilots are the greatest. Oscar Isaac is an enigmatic actor. Yet, I couldn’t care a bit about Poe. He was just there. A pilot. Flat and blank.
Poe was underdeveloped. I have never been shy about saying that.
Daisy Ridley’s Rey. Bless Daisy for giving the character soul and charm but besides the strong thirty initial minutes what is there so much of a character development for Rey? She learns about the Force and how to fight using a lightsaber. Adding that on top the fact she was a skilled hand-to-hand fighter, pilot, mechanic and adventurer, I doesn’t really add much. And about her character itself, nothing changed. At the end of the movie she’s determined, brave and purposeful. Just as she was at the beginning! What exactly was the growth arc here?
Really? Rey is an orphaned child who at the age of 19 has tricked herself into believing that her parents are coming back thus creating this prison in her mind that she is unwilling to escape. She spends almost the entire film running away from her destiny until she can’t and finally succumbs and through her experiences chooses to travel to Luke even though she could have gone back to Jakku. Aside from that she found her stay on Jakku to be unbearable as she had to work her ass off to survive after she strode out on her own and when she wasn’t working she tried desperately to achieve some type of peace through sleep. Also even though there are a lot of scumbags in Nima Outpost she still hasn’t been corrupted by her environment as her front is easily breakable and the real Rey shows herself after minimal prodding. But one way that she has been corrupted is that she is definitely prone to anger. Her first instinct when being told Finn had stolen Poe’s jacket was to run after him and hit him with her staff. She also called upon the Dark Side of The Force when she defeated Kylo Ren as stated by the novelization and her face after when she was looking down upon him. She gets attached to people very quickly as she thinks Han could be the father she never had and you could count her considering Finn a friend despite seemingly having none in the beginning of the film, but Finn sacrificed so much for her that there’s nothing you could call Finn other than a friend. Speaking of Finn, seeing as how she believes his lies without doubt even though he’s a terrible liar and she still believes her parents are coming back she has shown herself to be quite naive. She’s has also shown traits of both humility and arrogance as she attributed Finn being saved from the Rathtar as just being luck.
I think that’s all I can think of
Finn, okay. Boayega brought a lot of energy and had charm but I think the dialogue was a bit forced, and I couldn’t really get the sudden jump from a “coward” to a “hero”. Really, people think Jun joining the Rebellion after the Empire kills both of her father figures in a couple of days rushed but Finn suddenly turning full circle on his view of running and hiding from the First Order because of a girl he met a couple of days ago normal? Right. Well, at least TFA setup the character enough for a lot of possible future development but it did not really advance him within the movie that much.
That’s not why Finn defected…Finn defected because The First Order slaughtered an entire village and he was about to be reprimanded for not killing the villagers. Did you watch the movie?