Sarla
Thakral (1914-2008) was an Indian aviator, the first woman in her country to fly
an aircraft. She obtained her pilot license in 1936, at the age of 21.
She was the first woman to obtain an ‘A’ license in India, after she
accumulated over a thousand hours of flying. In addition to this, she was an
artist and business woman, designing clothes and jewellery.
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.
Since it’s Finn Appreciation Week here’s my small contribution.
In TFA, I always got the impression that Kylo believed Finn to be Force sensitive. People have used this scene as evidence of that for years now:
Kylo sensed SOMETHING from Finn. And then later, as we know, he knew immediately that it was Finn who had defected. People like to talk a lot about how Kylo was fixated on Rey, and I suppose he was, but they ignore how focused he was on Finn as well.
It’s my opinion that in Kylo’s scene with Snoke where they talk about an “awakening” in the Force that Kylo was referring to Finn, specifically the scene at the beginning where they looked at each other on Jakku. That, I think, was the awakening Kylo was talking about.
Then, at the end, once again we see Kylo’s fixation on Finn, and I think this stems partially from his belief that Finn is Force sensitive. People like to pretend he was looking at Rey in that bridge scene, but the camera specifically zooms in on Finn. They were the ones making eye contact in this moment, not Kylo and Rey.
So…yeah. Kylo sensed that Finn was Force sensitive and they were the real hero/villain dynamic in this movie thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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