Her characterization was so light in TFA I’m not even sure a novel could flesh her out enough for me to find her interesting.
You’re telling me you’ve never found a character in a novel interesting.
That’s not what I’m saying; what I’m saying is that she has so little characterization that not even a novel could add a significant amount depth to her.
That doesn’t make any sense. If she had little to no characterization, a novel would have plenty of space to add depth.
Think of all the characters who don’t even exist before they appear in a novel. You’re saying not even a novel could add depth to them?
Not in any meaningful way…Thing is that the author wouldn’t be pulling information from the source material to further develop Phasma; she would be inventing things that would add artificial depth to Phasma. Whatever characterization is added will not be felt in TFA (which is the likely case for TLJ and IX as well) so it’s essentially meaningless. That’s just me though.