Rose is a better character than Lando was. Barely. But still.
Seriously? Lando was a pretty pivotal character and really set all the events in motion for the 2nd half of the movie. He partnered with Vader to trap Luke and in the process got Han nearly killed and shipped off to Jabba (remember?)
No Lando: no cloud city, no luke/vader duel (no “I am your father”), no carbonite, no Jabba, no reason for rotj basically.
What exactly did Rose do that was so important (besides setting free horse-llama things and preventing Finn from committing an act of selflessness)?
They could have easily had all those events happen without Lando I am sure.
You can find a way to remove any character. But Lando added quite a lot and was integral in many ways. I don’t think it helpful to argue otherwise. I am curious how you view Rose.
I view Rose as an interesting character. She represents more of the working class of the resistance, if you will. I appreciated a character like that. I don’t think it helpful to argue that she served no purpose. That is why I compared her to Lando.
Lando was “working class” too. He went from being a gambler to administrator of a city. Luke and Han were also “working class.” Star Wars is full of working class heroes, but they also have reasons to be there. You can’t cut Han or Lando out of the movies and not have it affect the trajectory of the stories. Rose could be cut because she was mostly involved in side plots that didn’t amount to anything involving the main story. Which was about running out of fuel. I think.
Eh. Luke Han and Lando were all made generals or whatever by rotj, so I don’t really view them as working class in how I was thinking of it. But who knows, Rose will probably move up in importance too.
For the rest, I disagree, see Dom’s post above. And even if Rose isn’t a “in your face directly making things happen” character, how is that a mark against her character? Certainly not every character can be alphas?