A friendly reminder that in A New Hope, Han Solo left the rebellion before the Death Star attack because he didn’t want to get involved in the cause. But he came back eventually.
Finn wanted to leave the rebellion at first, too, before he decided to stay and fight for them.
And yet I never see Han being demonized for his “desertion” the way Finn is. I wonder why that is…
Also, Luke or Leia never tazed Han, and even in they did, I doubt we’d get tons of meta about why Han “deserved” it.
how do people not understand how powerful finn is as a character and a person
EVERYWHERE HE GOES HE CHANGES PEOPLE’S LIVES AND SAVES THEM. he put the spark back into poe when poe was at his lowest point and ready to die!!! he went back for rey when no one else ever had, and showed concern for her when nobody else had!!! he helped rose come up with a plan that could have saved the resistance in tlj and gave her the chance to HELP and be a hero she never thought she could be!!!
literally just by existing and doing what he thought was right
he is the reason starkiller base got taken down! at one of the resistance’s lowest points he was the one who stepped up and said no, we have to believe and have hope and trust that someone will respond to our message and we have to give them time to do it!
he fuckin creates and facilitates change EVERYWHERE HE GOES. he INSPIRES people. people inherently TRUST HIM. the universe tears open around finn everywhere he goes and that’s why everyone in the free world looks at him like he hung the fuckin moon. because just by existing and making a choice despite a lifetime of having no choice, he made the galaxy a better place and changed lives for the better. and basically, i love the male lead and co-protagonist of the new trilogy, without whom none of the events of TFA or TLJ would have been able to happen
that single deleted scene is exponentially better than anything in the last jedi and the fact that rian johnson filmed it and then cut it is proof that his final brain cell died a very long time ago and the very reason for my being alive is to destroy him
still can’t stop thinking about that reply from the official star wars facebook account that finn needed to “learn how to care about others”
I mean, it’s not like he went on a suicide mission to save everyone in the Resistance, or spent two movies protecting Rey, or felt such overwelming empathy that he couldn’t shoot when ordered, right?
Anyway, here’s ten paragraphs about how Snoke’s throne is a giant vagina and Reylo is canon
If the answer to the question “why did that character do that?” is “because the plot required them too” then there’s something fundamentally wrong with both your plot and your characters.
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