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[Ionian]

What pisses me off most about all of this is not a single article has addressed the treatment of Admiral Ackbar and the fact his role was literally just a throwaway one.

That dude was a legend.

 

[Ornlu]

What are you talking about? Honestly? You think Disney sidelined Finn to appease some small % of racist Star Wars fans? Let's just think about that.

What is the #1 complaint from many old school Star Wars fans about the new movies? Its either Rey being a Mary Sue or the bastardization of Luke Skywalker. They were willing to turn the hero of millions of fans into a weird hermit who drinks fresh squeezed alien boob milk and reminisces about trying to killing his nephew because he had a bad dream. They didn't give a shit about what Star Wars fans thought about these movies. They certainly were not catering to whatever tiny number of them were racist enough to have a problem with Finn touching Luke's old lightsaber.

That is a stupid take. Try harder next time.

The poster is just shitposting and trying to get their post count high enough to troll in politics, most likely.

 

[Stryda]

The poster is just shitposting and trying to get their post count high enough to troll in politics, most likely.

Not really interested in posting in politics. The Threads in there are way too toxic tbh. I prefer social/pop culture topics

not sure you understand what "shitposting" is though.

I think my posts are pretty detailed and fact based. They've gotten plenty of likes too.

This is a discussion board not an agreement board. Learn to respect others opinions without throwing insults Or accusations.

 

[Yoboman]

Dude had the charisma of a toe nail

 

[luffie]

This comment section is fucking weird, I've gotta say.

Boyega is right. The initial marketing for the first movie had him front and centre. They made it look like he was gonna be the main dude and his initial story started out intriguingly. Then it turns out nope, Rey's the one.

All he said in that quote is to not make it seem like non-White characters are gonna be a big deal in the story and then back-pedal when things are heating up.

Disney is fake-woke. When it counts, they can't commit.

Respect to Boyega for calling them out. He's right. It was obvious what they did and it was bullshit.

nah, it's not. He just can't accept he is a side character, he is not some "black main character". If you replace his skin color, his arc will stay the same. As much as he accuses disney of being fake woke, he is also fake woke of accusing them of shafting him because of black. Nobody owe him a "main cast" role.

Just look at captain Phasma, she was hyped in articles and also in posters, turns out to be just another storm trooper. Should they give her more nuance? Perhaps, but they certainly didn't reduce her role because she is "white".

The entire characters in the movies were pretty badly written, even for Rey and Kylo. He should stop spinning this into a race issue.

 

[jdforge]

how much more does america need to suck black peoples cocks

 

[Bridges]

In fairness, like several others here have already said, that first movie really seemed like it was gearing him up to be much more important than he ended up being. He was my favorite part of The Force Awakens and I do think he should've been treated more like a main character for the movies that followed, but this wasn't racism, it's pretty obvious the directors had competing visions. It's Disney's fault for episodes 8 and 9 not really following through on what was set up in episode 7 but not every poor decision is rooted in racism, and like everything else when you call everything racism it seems like you're crying wolf and it's harder to take your word for it when something is done that is rooted in racism.

His character's girlfriend has it far worse. They spend all of episode 8 ramping her up as his love interest and then in episode 9 he barely cares about her and is visibly thirsting over Rey the whole movie. Her character is basically irrelevant to anything going on in the trilogy, at least Finn sometimes did things that mattered.

 

[Stouffers]

China

 

[Jon Neu]

Jar Jar Finn is mad because he thought he was going to be the love interest of the main white female, but he ended up with the fat asian lady.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Looks like Boyega isn't liking his movie career and is taking a page out of Kaepernick.

When the chips are weeding down, cry racism and hope for endorsement deals.

 

[Silent Duck]

when you look at the Last Jedi screentime, it's quite baffling that he gave Luke Skywalker more screentime than Finn.

With scenes as awesome as this, is there any wonder why Luke had more screen time?

A pivotal and emotionally powerful moment essential to an already amazing plot.
Luke just found out that his best friend, Han, had died in Tokyo Drift. Now he wants Justice for Han and intends to make Deckard Shaw pay in Fast and the Wars-ious 10.

Or at least I think that happened... I may have fallen asleep during the movie and dreamed the whole thing.

 

[Tazzu]

Finn was agreed by most as one of the few good things about TFA, I don't see why Disney reduced his part in the later films.

 

[YCoCg]

Finn was agreed by most as one of the few good things about TFA, I don't see why Disney reduced his part in the later films.

Because TLJ had to "sUbVeRt eXpEcTaTiOnS"