STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI FINN DISCUSSION

Star Wars the Last Jedi gave us a story on Finn, the ex-First Order Stormtrooper. In the film we saw Finn go on his own adventure with Rose and BB8 where we saw him follow through on the main lesson of the film, that being "failure" is an option. Spoilers ahead for the Last Jedi as we will discuss Finn and his journey in the film as well as his future.

In the Last Jedi, Finn wakes up from recovery after his fight with Kylo Ren. Finn immediately tries to escape but is caught by Rose, so Finn, Rose, and BB8 go on a mission as instructed by Poe to find a hacker on Canto Bight, then sneak onto the First Order Supremecy so they can shut down their hyperspace tracker on the Resistance. In their mission, things go awry as their hacker, DJ, turns on the team and Finn faces down with Captain Phasma before he, Rose, BB8 flee the Star Destroyer failing their mission. Finn goes to Crait to meet with the rest of the Resistance where he flies a ship to fight the First Order. Finn is about to sacrifice himself before Rose saves him as the two form a relationship. Luke Skywalker buys time for the Resistance to leave Crait as they are greeted by Rey and Finn with the Resistance leave on the Falcon.

Finn failing the mission contributes to the theme of failure, as that is the ultimate fate of each character's arch in the film. They all fail their mission, well except Luke. Finn's mission may have seemed pointless, however, it contributed to a theme of the film, one which was not illustrated clearly which is why people are annoyed at Finn's story, as it felt like it did not achieve anything/

In the film, Finn felt like a character that got the short end of the stick. There could have been a more interesting story for the character instead of what happened. What I wish happened is that with the First Order tracking, Finn, Rose, and BB8 go to Canto Bight, find DJ who is the hacker they are looking for. The four go to the Supremacy to shut down the tracker, however, they do not find a tracker. Instead, Finn, Rose, and BB8 are turned on by DJ who alerts the First Order of their presences as he does in the film. Finn and Rose are captured, with BB8 escaping. Finn and Rose are brought to Snoke who they learn is the thing that tracked the Resistance. Finn and Rose are taken away by General Hux and Captain Phasma for their execution.

When Rey is bought to Snoke by Kylo, Snoke would have said something like "I saw your friends early, I hope to destroy them, and their leader." That would refer to Leia, building up to Kylo's turn on Snoke, which would go the way it does.  The Resistance ship crashes into the Supremecy as Finn and Rose escape with the help of BB8, and they go to Crait as in the film. The only difference I would have here in the film is that Rose does not kiss Finn, but what happens at the end is that Finn kisses Rose on the forehead when she is injured, mirroring what happened to him at the end of the Force Awakens.

With this alternate story, Finn basically fails his mission like he does in the film, but his story is closely tied to the main story of the film, giving Snoke more of a purpose and making Finn feel more connected to the story. With this alternate story, a lot of the Canto Bight stuff could be narrowed down shortening the length of the film, which was a complaint I had with the film.

Anyway, John Boyega was great as Finn in the film, but the character felt a little under-serviced with his plot not feeling like it matters as the theme of failure in the film was not expressed, as well as his story being isolated from the interesting plots of the film. I hope that Finn is given a better story in Episode IX because this character can be so much more than this film gave him. Please comment on your thoughts on Finn in the Last Jedi down below. As always thanks for reading, take care.

Comments

Post a Comment

Trending

THE FLASH "SUBJECT 9" REVIEW

Image
Season 4 Episode 14: Finally, with the Winter Olympics over, we are back with a brand new episode of the Flash, where we see DeVoe's plan develop as he is in Becky's body, and it is racing with DeVoe against team Flash to find the ninth bus Meta-Human, that being the Fiddler. Spoilers ahead for the latest episode of the Flash, let's recap. Opening up the episode is Barry Allen returning to work at the Central City Police Department after his name was cleared as an innocent man. However, Captain Singh tells Barry that the mayor told him that it is best if Barry takes some time off work, so Barry packs up his things and leaves. At STAR Labs, jobless Barry meets Cisco and Ralph who got a box of forgotten items from the Meta-Human bus. Inside they find a CD which Cisco' vibes and discovers that a woman named Izzy, a country singer was on the bus. Meanwhile, DeVoe discovers that Becky's body cannot handle all the dark matter from the Meta's so he has the trans
Read more

RICK AND MORTY REST AND RICKLAXATION REVIEW

Image
Season 3 Episode 6: Rick and Morty are back for a new episode, and this week we have a new version of Rick and Morty, toxic Rick, and toxic Morty. So spoilers ahead for the episode, let's recap the episode.  Rick pulls Morty out of school after he discovers that Jessica is single. The two go on a mission retrieving a crystal on a Death Star trench run. After almost being killed on their adventure, Rick decides that he and Morty need to go to a spa and relax. At the spa, Rick and Morty go into a sauna which takes out what the individual considers "toxic" about themselves. Coming out of the sauna is a brand new trusting Rick and a confident Morty. However, trapped inside the sauna is a toxic version of Rick and a toxic Morty, in a toxic waste land, where Rick is acting like a god, creating toxic electricity, and Morty is super insecure. Back at home, Morty is doing well in school, however, Rick discovers that they left their toxic parts behind, as he get
Read more

THE FLASH "CAUSE AND XS" REVIEW

Image
Season 5 Episode 14: Hey everyone, we are back with a brand new episode of the Flash, directed by Rachael Talalay, and Killer Frost herself, Danielle Pannabaker. In this episode we see Nora get herself caught in a time loop, and with Barry out of the picture, she has no idea on what to do. So spoilers ahead for this episode, let's recap. The episode starts off with Cisco finding a meta-human cure, however, it needs a month to be synthesized, so Barry takes it into the speed force for an hour, as time moves differently in there. With Barry gone, the team goes to do separate things. Cisco goes on a date with Kamilla, Sherloque helps Caitlin with some things, and Iris goes to write a story at her office. At her office, Iris is captured by Cicada, who takes her on the rooftop. After getting an alert, Nora runs to the rooftop where Killer Frost breaches in, and Cicada kills Caitlin. Nora freaks out, and runs away, rewinding time to just after Barry left. Back in time, Nora writ
Read more

AGENTS OF SHIELD BOOM REVIEW

Image
Season 4 Episode 13: On Agents of SHIELD we learn who Aida is based off, there were two storylines I will cover them both, so spoilers ahead, let's recap. In the world episode, Shockwave, the watchdog leader tries to make Senator Nadeer and Inhuman, but in doing so he becomes an Inhuman, and then the whole office they were in explodes, killing Senator Nadeer. Daisy, Fitz, Simmons, and Jeffery go and investigate the crime scene, but they do find on security cams that Shockwave was in the office earlier.So Daisy and a squad of SHIELD agents capture Shockwave and put him on the bus.Fitz and Simmons do some more test on the bus and find out that there was an Inhuman she'll on the scene, and that Shockwave is an exploding inhuman, they warn the others, and Jeffery along with Fitz tackle Shockwave into the containment pod and eject it before Shockwave explodes. Shockwave lands on the ground and blows up a diner, so SHIELD comes.Fitz and Simmons built a storage holdi
Read more

STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI REVIEW ... SO SPOILERS

Image
Episode VIII: We are here with the spoiler review of Star Wars The Last Jedi, and when I mean spoilers, I mean spoilers, so please do not read this if you have not seen the film, you can check out the non-spoiler review of the film. So let's quickly recap the film and then discuss the good and the bad of the film. The film focuses on Rey visiting an old Luke Skywalker in exile on Ach-To. After having difficulty getting through to Luke, R2D2 manage to persuade Luke to train Rey in the ways f the force. After some training, Luke discovers the full extent of Rey's abilities and how she can be influenced by the dark side. Rey finds a force cave on Ach-To where she experiences a force vision of a mirror realm herself. While on her trip, Rey has force connections with Kylo Ren where he tells her the truth about Luke, which scares her. Rey confronts Luke on this but he tells her what really happened on the night Ben Solo turned to Kylo Ren. Rey believes that she can redeem K
Read more