The London-born star, who plays Finn in Star Wars, said: “I can’t wait to start shooting the next and final leg of the franchise.
“The first step is growing out my hair, so you can wait for the trailer to see why.”
*eye emoji*
Interesting.
For one thing it confirms that there’ll a time skip of some magnitude between TLJ and Episode IX. Unless they’re intent on breaking normal biological rules along with everything else.
But apart from a time skip – which nearly everyone is expecting – what could Finn having longer hair mean? Any takers on theories?
For one thing it may mean that we won’t be seeing a Stormtrooper infiltration, at least not at first, since Stormtroopers all have short hair. I mean I can imagine an Important Haircut sequence, but would the haircut have to be real? Is it practical when it means you can’t do retakes of prior scenes without a wig? I have a feeling if there was going to be a haircut scene John wouldn’t grow out his hair in the first place.
If there is a Stormtrooper uprising plot, as I dearly hope, maybe it’ll be achieved without the need for him to go undercover because let’s face it, that’s been done before and Supreme Buttface is going to sense him anyway because he’s obsessed.
Flying did not bring Finn the joy it brought Poe or Rey. Not at first. The First Order did not allow joy while flying. Finn and his unit were transported in windowless shuttles to his first battle. They were kept deep inside the corridors of Star Destroyers when they traveled between planets and star systems. Flying was an essential part of taking the galaxy from the Republic. But there was never any joy in that.
It was when Finn traveled with Han and Rey in the Millenium Falcon for the first time that he realized what flying was supposed to feel like. Flying was a freedom he had never known. The ability to control where one goes, when one wants to go. The entire universe was open at his fingertips with the possibility of flight.
But it was more than that. It was the ability to see the galaxy in a way that Finn had never been able to. He could see that when he looked at Rey’s face when she saw Takadona for the first time. He had seen the galaxy before, in controlled and restricted ways, but Rey, stuck on Jakku her whole life, had never seen the diversity the galaxy had to offer. A diversity the First Order would gladly have stamped out.
Before the First Order came to Takadona, he wanted to leave not just to get away from the war that had stolen his life, but to allow himself to see a galaxy as restricted to him as it had been to Rey. He imagined the planets the First Order had occupied and the beauty he had been unable to see before. He imagined wading into the lakes of Takadona and feeling the water against his skin, or wandering through the forests of Endor and smelling the rich, ancient soil and plants. New worlds and experiences away from the war, away from the smoke of blaster fire and the sanitized cleanliness of the Starkiller Base.
He thought that those opportunities closed on him when the First Order arrived and Rey was taken away. But then Poe took him on a supply run – standard, basic routine, designated and regulated. And it was as different from the First Order as it possibly could have been. Poe lit up when he stepped into the cockpit of his shuttle, when the shuttle lifted off the ground, and the ground faded from view. There was joy on his face and he made a point to fly over landscapes for Finn to look at. Flying was so much more than a means of transportation. Flying was joy.
A Kylostan giving Finn’s line to Kylo to make him look cool, example 378,001,597. Also nice job giving Finn, a character Kyle almost killed, the line of a character Kyle actually killed… and deliberately positioning Finn as the stodgy elder, even though he’s younger than Kyle.
love this post
See also exhibit Infinity of a Reylo being a pest on a properly tagged post.
Is it too much to ask what the original post was about, or perhaps for a link to it?
I know this wasn’t in TLJ, and a shame, since it would have made it much less shitty. But I chose this because it actually highlights two things: Finn taking control and Phasma realizing too late that her instincts about him were spot on. He did have the right stuff for leadership. He could rally others to follow him and listen to him. She spotted that he had this ability and wanted to bend it to her will, and now here she is realizing that he can destroy her. The stormtroopers are listening to him. That’s why she kills them. That look in her eyes is fear but it’s also dread that she could not successfully harness that strength of will for her twisted purposes. Finn was too good and too strong for that.
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