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- #1351946
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- The Last Jedi: Legendary (Released)
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Why was the Finn & Phasma fight cut? I’d love an explanation that can fully convince me on how pointless it was in the original movie. So I can get over it in V4 and beyond. I know it was worthless for Phasma to get a her own big action moment, but I thought it was such a big moment for Finn to be able to say “Rebel Scum” to her that it didn’t matter.
I could also see that removing Finn defeating his old Stormtrooper Captain is to fit with the lack of that subplot of him starting a Stormtrooper uprise against the First Order in the original drafts of Episode 9. Or the change could be because Finn shows that he has become unselfish by that point in the story with his attempt of self-sacrifice on Crait. And you don’t NEED to ALSO see him fight Phasma and defeat her. The arc of his character in the film is understood just with the Crait sequence. If it was just that, I can understand that.
But I dunno, it doesn’t quite sit right with me when I think about it. I might just need to watch the again from the start with an open mind towards this.
It’s not a HUGE issue. And I don’t mean to complain, since I love everything else that’s been done. These edits have been almost mind-bogglingly well edited, lol. I would go back to V2 to get me preciousssss scene back, but all of the improvements and changes since then have been too good to forget about. So I’d love to be more okay with the loss of this scene.