If Poe had said something along the lines of ‘Retreat, nothing can stop it now!’, then it would have been clear that Finn was acting out of pure unthinking hatred for the First Order.
“The cannon is charged, it’s a suicide run! All craft, pull away!”
“Retreat, Finn! That’s an order.”
“Finn? It’s too late!”That doesn’t imply a suicide run could not be successful. It might only imply Poe is not willing to sacrifice the few people they have left. Additionally unlike Poe Finn knows the technology, and obviously feels he has a chance of taking out the weapon.
Dre, come on man. Do you like having the same argument over and over? Because I don’t, I really really don’t. I mean I guess I was asking for it here, but I was trying to demonstrate a separate and specific point (i.e. what NeverarGreat personally thought would clarify the scene for him is basically already there in slightly different wording).
No, because NeverarGreat used the words “nothing can stop it now”. This is not implied in the movie. In fact the movie sets up Finn as th expert knowing about the miniature Death Star tech. Finn obviously feels he has a chance of destroying the weapon. The movie depicts Finn as a man accepting his fate, not a guy just acting like a lunatic out of hatred for the FO, behaviour he never displayed before. It’s not me adding confusion to the intentions of the scene. It’s the movie. Some of the intended sentiments are there, but it has just been poorly executed in my view. The success of such a scene is all in how it is set up. You show Finn acting irrationally in the face of FO early in the film. You set up Poe as the person knowing about the technology, and you have him tell Finn his suicide mission is futile. Then you have Rose rescue Finn before he kills himself in vain.