Would you have been happier if he just snapped Finn’s neck with the force and then proceeded to decapitate Rey with one swift swing of the blade? Powerful villian wins. Roll credits.
He should have done what he ended up doing to Finn anyway but without getting hit by him. I mean, imagine Han or Lando walking up to Vader with a lightsaber and actually getting in a shot.
This is actualy a really good example and it did give me pause for thought.
But.
As we’ve discussed, Kylo is not Vader. He wants to be, but he isn’t yet, and when Finn faces him, Kylo is weakened mentally and physically.
Also, Han and Lando are both just ‘scoundrels’. They learnt to fight in bar brawls and street fights while Finn is a trained warrior, who may even have had a bit of training in fighting against lightsabers or similar weapons (this is where somebody throws out some EU fact about how Han did a year at the imperial academy or whatever but i’m going to ignore that).