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thirstygregory Mar 23, 2026 +166

I loved his intro in Ep 7. He was totally wasted once Kylo sliced him.

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IceIsGestapo777 Mar 23, 2026 +68

He should have been force sensitive. Not Jedi but sensitive. He should have had a second fight with Ren. He should have had scenes training with a light saber of sorts.

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JDDJS Mar 23, 2026 +53

He was apparently force sensitive. Remember that whole thing he wanted to tell Rey in the last film but never did? Apparently it was that.

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AffectionateSwan5129 Mar 23, 2026 +19

He was gonna say my name is Finn Skywalker

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IceIsGestapo777 Mar 23, 2026 +11

Pfffft lol wasted

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JDDJS Mar 23, 2026 +11

Yeah, but we get to see him Jedi training with Rey in the non-canon Lego Holiday Special. Is that a win? I have no idea.

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BakedWizerd Mar 23, 2026 +12

I thought that was just some sappy romance shit.

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JDDJS Mar 23, 2026 +7

Nope. JJ said that's what he was trying to say. Idk why he just didn't say it in the movie though.

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Ker807 Mar 23, 2026 +5

He probably didn't want to steal her thunder

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I_NEVER_LIE_1337 Mar 23, 2026 +13

I remember thinking the trilogy was gonna be finn starts as stormtrooper (somewhat bad guy) and Rey starts as a good guy and they was gonna switch where Rey gets consumed by the dark side and finn becomes a jedi and they are good fighting it out

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Vastergoth Mar 24, 2026 +4

That would have been very cool thematically, but Disney wouldn't allow it and I quote Kathleen "The first female Jedi" to be made evil they wouldn't have the guts to comitt to such high stakes storytelling. I even thought it would be interesting if Kylo Ren starts evil and switches back to the light and Rey goes from light to dark embracing her inner Palpatine, I guess 🤔 But Disney wanted Rey as their new Disney Jedi Princess no way they would greenliight her going evil.

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IceIsGestapo777 Mar 23, 2026 +2

Also thought this.

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Hairy_Selection8568 Mar 25, 2026 +1

He shouldn't have been force sensitive, Jedi, or even ever had a lightsaber in his hands. He should've used that electric mechanical arm extension weapon he used halfways through Episode 7 when they are meeting with Maz Kanata on Takodana and get ambushed. The beauty of Star Wars is the variety but Disney was so afraid of making anything new. Chewie has his Crossbow, Han his Blaster, and Boba Fett had multiple iconic weapons that all made them feel unique. Let Finn have his own weapon and he'd stand out instead of just be... whatever... he was.

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Ratattack1204 Mar 23, 2026 +7

Would have been better for him to have just died heroically fighting Kylo tbh

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MooNinja Mar 24, 2026 +3

I loved the promise of his character, but not at all the character that we were given. I wanted to see, at very least, a former storm trooper that heralds a "new order" of clones and storm troopers that turn from the programming and join the ((whatever the Rebel Alliance ends up being by the end of the movies)) to end the Empire for good. We got a weird love story instead.

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MetaCognitio Mar 23, 2026 +3

The first 15 mins of Ep7 were amazing.

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Galahad_the_Ranger Mar 24, 2026 +4

I remember the air leaving the cinema when Kylo stopped that blaster shot mid-air. It was so cool and filled us with so much hope this trilogy might be good

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keiths31 Mar 23, 2026 +482

Well in Disney's defense, they pretty much messed up that whole trilogy. I watched them out of a feeling of needing to see all nine. Not because they were entertaining.

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Original-Clue-3364 Mar 23, 2026 +117

Ah, well said. Nothing wrong with female leads, Rebecca Ferguson is my all-time favorite so I don’t mean this as a knock on women leading roles. However, Disney put way too much stock on their golden girl and I just didn’t like her character. Not to mention turning our new hope into a lazy, grumpy old man. They f’d up bad with the last 3 films.

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SwoopsRevenge Mar 23, 2026 +101

The sequel trilogy works so much better if Rey turns heel and Finn has to be trained to turn her back or defeat her. Finn was an interesting character in the first film but Disney went all in for girl boss. It’s great when it fits the story. Rey’s character didn’t.

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Oubliette_occupant Mar 23, 2026 +60

I was so there for “ex-stormtrooper turned Jedi”, but that would have been too cool, apparently.

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Karsh14 Mar 23, 2026 +53

Also would have made perfect sense why he quit being a stormtrooper in the opening scene. The force called out to him and he became force sensitive. The force awakens, if you will.

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rdg4078 Mar 24, 2026 +24

Write that down-WRITE THAT DOWN

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Redditeer28 Mar 24, 2026 +3

I think he's a more compelling character if he chose to be good rather than the force doing the heavy lifting.

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ShitchesAintBit Mar 24, 2026 +2

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kamil3d Mar 24, 2026 +10

Yep, I honestly thought THAT was gonna be the movie... Even at the end of the first one I thought Finn still might be the guy. The second movie, I left just confused and disappointed, and I never watched the third one.

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Flashjordan69 Mar 24, 2026 +4

He didn’t need to be a Jedi, just ex stormtrooper turned rebel is cool enough. So many wasted opportunities.

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Oubliette_occupant Mar 24, 2026 +4

I feel like Maximus in Fallout is getting to be what Finn should have been.

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Ok_Paint8152 Mar 23, 2026 +2

Kyle Katarn died for this smh

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Torontogamer Mar 24, 2026 +7

I mean, add growth or an arch of meaningful challenge to Rey ? Nahhh

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Original-Clue-3364 Mar 23, 2026 +6

Yup - but no way in hell Kennedy was going to have their golden girl turn. It wouldve added much more depth for sure.

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He_Who_Walks_Behind_ Mar 23, 2026 +18

Iger has admitted that the failures of the sequel trilogy are his fault. Kennedy wanted to plot them out, but Iger insisted on making them as quickly as possible to recoup the cost of buying Lucasfilm.

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KINGGS Mar 23, 2026 +19

Iger is art poison. He nearly destroyed Twin Peaks and has been a wrecking ball through his whole career.

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JayJax_23 Mar 23, 2026 +7

Disney is. Outright cancelled or botched the handling of 2 of my favorite franchises in Star Wars and Power Rangers. Then cancelled some of my favorite marvel shows

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the-futuremind Mar 23, 2026 +14

Why does everyone assume it was Kennedy who didn’t want to turn the golden girl and not the directors involved? Gilroy specifically called out during the Andor press tour that he was given an extraordinarily long leash by her to do as he wished creatively.

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dumuz1 Mar 24, 2026 +1

The Last Jedi could have had a great cliffhanger ending if the last shot were Kylo offering his hand to Rey

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CloseToMyActualName Mar 23, 2026 +34

Rey was fine as a character, the problem was giving JJ Abrams the helm. Whenever someone gives Abrams a franchise he just makes action blockbuster fan-fiction. He did it with Star Trek and he did it with Star Wars. The one "good" thing George Lucas did with the prequels was demonstrate how important the aesthetic of the originals was. Disney was able to replicate that with the streaming shows, but Abrams lost it for the movies.

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themilkywayfarer Mar 23, 2026 +10

The fact that they killed off Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible in the dumbest way possible still annoys me to this very moment. I'm not going to spoiler tag this because I'm saving you (dear reader who didn't watch the movie yet) from some shred of the irritation, by saying that they kill her and it's stupid.

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Original-Clue-3364 Mar 23, 2026 +5

Ugh yes. But the way Ferguson is saving her people from the Silos is redeeming all of it!

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themilkywayfarer Mar 23, 2026 +4

Oh I'm here for that show and anything she wants to do until forever probably.

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jmarquiso Mar 23, 2026 +1

They had a schedule to keep. I hated it too.

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Loud-Log9098 Mar 23, 2026 +3

They go against the message too, that anyone in the galaxy can rise up and be a hero except these aren't nobodies they have deep seated roots to powerful characters. Find being unrelated to anyone and being the hero would have went over better with me.

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Lishio420 Mar 24, 2026 +2

The first one of the sequel triliogy was still servicavleq. It was essentislly just nostalgia baiting with like at least half the plot points being carbon copied from the older tiltles (thing i liked least was the casting of Kylo Ren... i mean sure make him an edgy crybaby, but at least cast a good looking actor and not Adam Drivery unless you wanna make the character even more revolting) The 2nd movie is just a random juxtaposition of bullshit including the butchering of Luke, and WTF was the point of Rose kissing Finn???? And do we even have to talk about Palpatine somehow returned or the many plotholes regarding the Star Destroyer fleet and the battle on top of them

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N00BAL0T Mar 23, 2026 +4

No everything wrong with the female leads. Making them all perfect Mary Sue's who are all perfect is not good writing, it's fan fiction. Any actual good development they cut out the movies because it made them not look perfect. Not to mention most of the main female leads never get any reprimands for any of their actions and are treated as what they do in the movies are the right choice. Rey ignoring Luke's advice, holdo creating unwarranted suspicious and incited an almost coup because she never trusted the literally most loyal guy on the ship, rose tiko ramming finn who was going to sacrifice himself almost killing both of each other and putting the resistance in peril for a selfish 1 sided reason before sexually assulting finn, mainly all in the 8th movie but let's not sit here and hand wave to not talk about problem in the room. Disney fumbled the female leads, people love po, people love finn. You ever wonder why? Their not perfect, they have flaws. Disney thought making a strong female character was to just implant toxic male traits on to female characters but guess what. That makes them just as unlikable as the toxic male characters. Their are so many great female characters in media leia, Ridley, Sarah connors, nami, Lucy from fallout literally it's not hard just don't make them toxic Mary Sue's where showing up every male character is somehow a likable trait.

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Original-Clue-3364 Mar 23, 2026 +1

Touché.

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galaxyfudge Mar 23, 2026 +3

Rebecca Ferguson???? You mean Daisy Ridley, right?

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Original-Clue-3364 Mar 23, 2026 +12

No, I was saying Ferguson is my all-time favorite woman lead. I did not like Ridley at all and felt she was too flat an actress for the Rey character.

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bufftbone Mar 23, 2026 +4

I believe they were saying Rebecca is their all time favorite so by knocking Daisy’s character wasn’t a diss at women in general.

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JayJax_23 Mar 23, 2026 +1

All they literally had to do was make it clear Rey was a student of Luke’s. Then at least her being on par with Kylo makes logical sense or better yet make Rey an master at Luke’s academy could’ve gotten a more seasoned actress(Not to say Daisy was bad)

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MetaCognitio Mar 23, 2026 +5

I didn’t even bother with the last one.

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appleparkfive Mar 24, 2026 +4

Same here. I didn't mind the first new one. I understood the groundwork of it being a parallel to the original, and needing to actually feel like Star Wars. They should have just had the same person make all three. The second one is where they fucked up, pretty obviously.

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Worst_Choice Mar 24, 2026 +3

You did more than me. I watched 2/3. The second one was so bad I never watched the third.

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BigMax Mar 23, 2026 +9

Yeah, agreed. I don't know why people think this was a racial thing, when the whole trilogy was fumbled in a lot of ways, and lots of other characters weren't treated well. When you have a trilogy, but then only make one movie at a time, with different writers, who only care about their one movie without knowing what the overall story is, you're going to have characters that get treated poorly. If someone writes part 1, and then someone else comes in with their own ideas, and there's no overall story... of course they might not know what to do with every existing character. There's a lot of cases of racism in the world. I don't think this was one of them.

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TheWorclown Mar 23, 2026 +11

> I don’t know why people think this was a racial thing. To be fair, Finn had decreasingly amount of screentime and relevance to the trilogy as a whole, when he was built up in TFA as a major player and a person with whom the Force connected with him, given how he wielded a lightsaber during the final duel with Kylo Ren. He even stopped appearing on the posters and marketing material for the trilogy. It’s unconfirmed but highly suspected to be at the insistence of China, a massive market, and with Disney nakedly trying to just get every last penny out of the trilogy rather than making a coherent story, I could see the arguments that racism absolutely took place. Not domestic, but abroad.

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Scary-Suit-6431 Mar 23, 2026 +4

We live in a day and age where something can be considered racist even without racist intent, his role getting smaller was due to mismanagement of the trilogy. Minimising him on the Chinese poster was definitely racist intent.

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Stillill1187 Mar 23, 2026 +3

I never saw the last one. All I can think about is telling my 10-year-old self that: one day they gonna make prequels! They’ll come out in a couple of years, you’ll kind of like them, and then you’ll kind of dislike them in high school, and then years later, you’ll revisit them and find them charming. Then when you’re an adult, they’re gonna make a bunch of sequels. You will not watch the third one of these sequels because you have lost so much interest. There will also be spinoff movies and TV shows just like you always wanted, but there will be of such inconsistent quality, you will not watch them.

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rhinosaur- Mar 23, 2026 +8

Force Awakens was good I will die on that hill

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SoftwareAny4990 Mar 23, 2026 +10

Its a good setup movie. I think the parallels to New Hope were a bit to on the nose. They had something to go on so it was satisfying for me.

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fumar Mar 23, 2026 +4

The first half is fine. Introduces us to all the characters, gets them doing things, and then starkiller base happens and the movie gets dumb as shit.

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KimJongEw Mar 23, 2026 +20

The New Hope remake?

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Resolution_Powerful Mar 23, 2026 +18

The death star wasnt big enough, so they made it bigger

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Tight-Abalone4703 Mar 23, 2026 +10

The empire remake was garbage

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Itchy-Beach-1384 Mar 23, 2026 +9

This comment is triggering the shit out of me because of how it disproved and proves so much of the dialogue surrounding episode 8 in one line. People who love episode 8 pretend it tries a bunch of novel shit, but its literally just pieced together scenes from episodes 5 and 6. Same group of people pretend Luke was treated as a golden boy who never failed in the OG, when one of the highest regarded Star Wars films and the film they just watched a rip of ends with him broken and dying until he is rescued by Leia after failing to save Han. Meanwhile in Empire we watch Luke willing to sacrifice everything, his jedi path, his life, his masters trust to save his friends. So in their knockoff they make him a f****** coward who abandons his friends to die alone and has to be taught by f****** Rey that he needs to return.

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Phillip_Spidermen Mar 23, 2026 +3

A familiar/safe story isn't the worst place to start a new trilogy reboot. The real issue was that they then made two more remakes trying to go in opposite directions after that.

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Dismal-Apricot9889 Mar 23, 2026 +3

Force Awakens was good because it was pure nostalgia fuel while setting up some interesting storylines and mysteries. It represented hope for the franchise. It set up dominos that we all were interested in how they’d fall. Because it was all setup, it lived and died on how well the sequels did with the story. It’s a film that was made far lesser because the sequels screwed up the setup.

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Phillip_Spidermen Mar 23, 2026 +3

Yeah, JJ's mystery box writing put a lot of the heavy lifting on the next movies to answer "what is actually going on?" It's not inherently bad, but it's definitely harmed by the next movie not being interested in giving those answers.

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Broken-Digital-Clock Mar 23, 2026 +3

It had some potential, that was ultimately incinerated by the Last Jedi dumpster fire.

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fumar Mar 23, 2026 +2

Why? It hit you with enough member berries and lens flares? It's a deeply flawed movie when you view it at part 7 of a 9 movie epic.

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Grungy_Mountain_Man Mar 23, 2026 +3

I'll die on the hill that most of the problems with the trilogy can be traced back to TFA. I'll agree its not the worst of the 3 movies, but its not good either. TFA is the movie where \-new characters like Finn and Rey are establishes Rey as a Mary Sue, and already sidelines Finn has nothing better to do with his life than yell Rey and chase after somebody he just met. \-han solo becomes a deadbeat dad/husband/leader that loses everything he ever had meaningful in his life. \-luke goes MIA and abandons his friends, family, and the galaxy at large. \-Leia is a failed leader that under her watch empire 2.0 rises complete w/ deathstar 2.0, emperor 2.0, and vader 2.0 with rebellion 2.0 fighting them, The movie doesn't even attempt to explain how any of that came to be and hand waves all that off-just consume product and don't ask questions. \-introduces characters and plot points that go nowhere (luke's lightsaber, captain phasma, knights of ren)

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MetaCognitio Mar 23, 2026 +4

A good second movie could have rescued it all. Instead it made it all worse. Far worse.

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MoonoftheStar Mar 23, 2026 +1

I had fun with it.

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Far-Earth-886 Mar 23, 2026 +1

Me too, did you also wonder how those 3 movies were even a part of the same trilogy?

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fenderputty Mar 23, 2026 +1

One of the worst parts of Rise of the Skylwalker, for me, was just completely dropping Finn's story. He's going through some emotional shit with Rey and it's just dropped for the dumb love story at the end. No effort to close it off.

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Vitalalternate Mar 23, 2026 +1

I never went back to watch any of the last trilogy a second time. They were so disappointing.

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Arguments_4_Ever Mar 24, 2026 +1

The first movie was cookie cutter and predicable, but not terribly insulting. The second one was a massive slap in the face to all Star Wars fans, and the third was a massive slap in the face to all cinema fans in general.

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Dry_Jellyfish641 Mar 24, 2026 +1

I recently watched Andor, it shows Disney can do social commentary in Star Wars without sucking

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Low_Interview_5769 Mar 23, 2026 +9

They didnt really sideline him, more they butchered everything

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RedHeadedSicilian52 Mar 23, 2026 +90

Unfortunately for Boyega, Finn doesn’t seem like one of Dave Filoni’s pets in the way that Ahsoka that that character played by Katee Sackhoff are.

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HappyHarry-HardOn Mar 23, 2026 +66

No reason he should be - for better or worse his character is pretty uninteresting

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ldnk Mar 23, 2026 +61

His character COULD have been interesting. The problem is the path they took with him in the next two films made him bland and uninteresting. I just don't see how you undo his character arc and make him a fascinating character.

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Apolloshot Mar 23, 2026 +38

Seriously people forget Finn’s story in Force Awakens was pretty great because of how much they F’d it up in the sequels.

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Broken-Digital-Clock Mar 23, 2026 +9

Rian Johnson turned him into a janitor.

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1850ChoochGator Mar 23, 2026 +7

They set him up to be interesting so people are pissed that he’s not. Everyone saw they were planning to do something with him and it never materialized.

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Phillip_Spidermen Mar 23, 2026 +9

>I just don't see how you undo his character arc and make him a fascinating character. If he ever appeared in a sequel, it would have enough of a time jump to explain some character development/skill growth. There are plenty of directions they could go with Finn from where we last saw him. Just think of what they were able to do with Maul, and his last arc in the movies was "getting cut in half and falling down a hole dead"

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Penguini_Lamborghini Mar 23, 2026 +7

Same with Boba Fett, who famously was also a "look cool for twelve, then get my shit rocked and peace out forever" type of guy until he also wasn't.

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Phillip_Spidermen Mar 23, 2026 +5

And they made a cool show with that template, they just gave it to the other Mandalorian The issue with Boba Fett was less "there's nothing to do with this character" and more "they picked things to do that people didn't like."

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Magikrat Mar 24, 2026 +1

They could have made the whole trilogy interesting, but they focus-grouped it to death and cast too large of a net for anything to be important at all.

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Phillip_Spidermen Mar 23, 2026 +39

“Former child soldier for the enemy, turned resistance leader and force sensitive” should be pretty interesting

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Grabthar-the-Avenger Mar 23, 2026 +8

*“Put him on a space horse and let him ride into battle against Palpatine”* *“Wait, JJ back up, horse? Wait, did you say Palpatine? Where did he come from???”* *“Don’t worry, I’ll address that in fortnite”* I will never understand why anyone gave JJ the time of day at Lucasfilm

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Existing_Set2100 Mar 23, 2026 +5

To some extent, though we have had a lot of redemption stories in Star Wars.

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Wazula23 Mar 23, 2026 +11

Shame it wasn't.

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DrPepperKn1ght Mar 23, 2026 +1

I honestly thought that was going to be the bigger story

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I_eat_mud_ Mar 23, 2026 +11

His character had the potential to be the most interesting character in the sequels, and then they threw it out and he just became another sidekick. They touch up on his potential slightly in The Rise of Skywalker, but don't really do anything with it then either. It would've been really cool to see a whole trilogy worth of a former Stormtrooper escaping his brainwashing, reckoning with becoming a "traitor," and exploring his own force sensitivity. He could've been such a great character, but they just never properly used him

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jasdonle Mar 23, 2026 +4

We don’t even get one single scene with him grappling with what he’s done as a stormtrooper.

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DueCartoonist4864 Mar 23, 2026 +6

In the prequel book before Episode VII came out, he was a pretty cool character. The movies butchered him completely. Another among the list of reasons, why I dislike the sequel movies.

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SoftwareAny4990 Mar 23, 2026 +2

Which is the writers fault. "Former storm trooper...something...something...might have force powers". Trilogy ends.

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goomyman Mar 23, 2026 +5

The last Jedi fd everything lore related. Who is Rey? No one. Haha see funny. Who is Snope? No one knows he’s dead now haha. What’s was Luke doing? He’s a crazy hermit now. Throws light saber. Haha. Also he died, but because he force projected too hard I guess? And btw the entire resistance is destroyed and everything’s fd. The end. It was like the writer and director threw away the force awakens script and wrote their own story. Which was an OJ chase in space. The last Jedi is literally IMO one of the worst movies of all time. Not because it’s really bad (it’s pretty bad)- lots of movies are really bad… like dragon ball evolution is probably the worst worst. But because of how much it disrespected the lore and the setup before it. It was one of the few films where I felt the director did this on purpose. Like gremlins 2 levels, but trying to make a serious movie and failing. Lots of sequels are terrible or make the previous films worse - but this was a Planned! Trilogy from the start. Did the writers and directors never talk to each other. Did they have zero plan? Like the amount of failed leadership and lack of direction for this to happen is insane for it not to have been purposeful. Even the actors were hinting at it being a hit piece. It was also Kathleen’s first major influenced film which started an era of similar movies. Of course the 3rd movie while written into a complete corner was like ignore that second movie, and felt like it was written in a month because it probably was. And it was probably a worse movie to watch - I couldn’t even finish it.

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ill_be_huckleberry_1 Mar 23, 2026 +1

Wasn't always that way.

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duaneap Mar 23, 2026 +1

He was in TFA. Lots of potential.

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Jonas_VentureJr Mar 23, 2026 +1

Give his character to Tarantino and see what happens

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Dangle76 Mar 23, 2026 +1

They destroyed his character. Everything after episode 7 for Finn should be retconned

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Euphoric-Taro-6231 Mar 23, 2026 +2

How do you know that? Filoni haven't even work on Finn's time period.

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SoftwareAny4990 Mar 23, 2026 +65

They did him dirty. So dirty I would rather see them forget about it and move on to something else.

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brinz1 Mar 23, 2026 +15

Attack the Block is still a fantastic sci-fi film

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Tiny_Ride6418 Mar 23, 2026 +9

They cloned Tyrone is also fantastic.

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Infamous-Schedule860 Mar 24, 2026 +1

I'm trying to think of a character in the new trilogy that they didn't do dirty. Kylo Ren is maybe the only exception, but even he was a botched character by the end

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hashtaglurking Mar 23, 2026 +4

It's too late, though. He might be the only want that wants a Finn TV show.

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CosmicJam13 Mar 23, 2026 +18

How dare they make him wield a lightsaber and then not turn him into a Jedi! Disney you psychos!

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Agitated-Ad-504 Mar 23, 2026 +5

Talk about wasted opportunity.

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welltherewasthisbear Mar 23, 2026 +6

All the Disney Star Wars movies except Rogue One were wasted opportunities

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Kind-Shallot3603 Mar 23, 2026 +5

Wasn't he shitting all over Star Wars last year???

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CrissBliss Mar 23, 2026 +40

I know most comments are “Finn got done dirty.” I guess I’m in the minority that never found him very interesting. Even in episode 7. I liked him a lot with Oscar Isaac’s character though.

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Justryan95 Mar 23, 2026 +36

The premise of a Stormtrooper turn cloak is quite interesting. After the literal first main premise they messed up his character.

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OhScheisse Mar 23, 2026 +15

Maybe you didn't find his character interesting because they didn't write him properly, which is the issue. He was hyped up at first and then nothing was delivered.

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CrissBliss Mar 23, 2026 +3

I was fine with it being Rey personally. To my knowledge, we’d never had a female Jedi in live-action before, so I was excited for that. Also, considering the episodic films primarily focus on the Skywalkers, I figured it would primarily focus on Ben Solo vs Finn, Poe, Rose, etc. I think John did the best with what he had. I think he’s funny and actually has a significant amount of screen-time in the ST. Actually more than Adam Driver sometimes. But I didn’t really connect to his character much.

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cranktheguy Mar 23, 2026 +3

I really like the concept of a disillusioned stormtrooper. It was an interesting peek behind the masks.

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Hefty-Comparison-801 Mar 23, 2026 +9

Yeah they fucked up the Finn character - started with a promising arch to no reason for him at all. That being said - this happened because he was Black? How do we know this? And the part about warning Disney not to sideline a Black character again? Characters sometimes get sidelined due to factors beyond their control. Why do we have to make it racial?

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GreatDanish4534 Mar 24, 2026 +3

I mean, Disney did take him off the poster for TFA for those sent to Chinese theaters while keeping him on the others.

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Foreign_Rock6944 Mar 23, 2026 +29

Boyega is such a doofus. One of those “let’s make everything about race” types.

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Ok_Buddy_3324 Mar 23, 2026 +13

Having watched interviews with him, his sense of entitlement because of his race makes him really tough to like.

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Wyatt821 Mar 25, 2026 +1

Still mad he derailed the last Jeremy Saulnier film.

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DestinysHand Mar 23, 2026 +42

But they didn't sideline a "black character". They sidelined a character, who happened to be black. What they did with the character was a waste but his race was irrelevant.

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KingJTt Mar 23, 2026 +23

Deliberately sidelined him on the poster for China btw

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22LOVESBALL Mar 23, 2026 +7

So they sidelined a black character then

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hanburgundy Mar 23, 2026 +3

I wonder if there’s a way to call a mulligan on the neutered “Stormtrooper Revolt” storyline they had planned for him. Maybe he’s working to de-radicalize the remnants of the First Order.

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Own_Fisherman1199 Mar 23, 2026 +3

Disney needs to put Star Wars on ice for a while before they damage the brand any further

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JustABrokePoser Mar 23, 2026 +7

I thought he snubbed the idea of coming back and the fans on interviews, now he's fighting for "sidelined" characters he doesn't even like?

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FafnirSnap_9428 Mar 23, 2026 +8

" After Warning Disney Never to Sideline Black Characters Again" . So that's why he's talking to Disney now? Because he scolded them?

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The5thBeatle82 Mar 23, 2026 +7

He should’ve become the Jedi in the trilogy.

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Houseplantkiller123 Mar 23, 2026 +1

That could've been cool, but I would've loved it more if they gave his character more interesting things to do. He was a former stormtrooper, so seeing him lead/team up with an elite strike team would've been an awesome use of some characters without needing to be a jedi. Finn+Poe+Mr. Kim+BB-8 going after Empire supply lines with a couple of ace pilots and a former stormtrooper familiar with Empire logistics could've be super fun to watch. After a few successful runs, one goes entirely off the rails when Kylo Ren shows up because someone has been knocking over resupply convoys. You could probably fill an hours of good screen time with that, and let Rey do the Jedi stuff versus Snoke.

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Significant-Kale-463 Mar 23, 2026 +17

The writing for his character was bad and he overacted most scenes. Bad combo, even in Star Wars. I’d rather have more Kelly Tran.

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SoftwareAny4990 Mar 23, 2026 +14

They did the same thing to her lol

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CrissBliss Mar 23, 2026 +5

JB didn’t seem super supportive of her though.

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JDDJS Mar 23, 2026 +3

They sidelined her even worse. While Finn is completely irrelevant in the last film, he's at least there. Rose is off screen for almost all of the film.

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CrissBliss Mar 23, 2026 +1

Agree. They all but cut her out completely.

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-GTX Mar 23, 2026 +17

No one cares about him or his character though. Even the movies were dumb

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yawn18 Mar 23, 2026 +6

Hard disagree. Hes one of my favorites just off potential. Now did Disney take that potential, stomp on it, and throw it away? Yes. But Finn in the first movie is one of my favorites in star wars.

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CosmicJam13 Mar 23, 2026 +3

The first movie was good it set good things up.

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SpiffShientz Mar 23, 2026 +17

I still remember seeing that clip of him holding the lightsaber and thinking he looked so f****** cool. Give us Jedi Finn you nuts

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theonewhoknack Mar 23, 2026 +7

I'm kinda surprised we never got a standalone Jedi Story that has nothing to do woth balancing the force or a galactic war. I want something like the opening of return of the jedi where its something small scale.

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vradic Mar 23, 2026 +4

They baited and switched us so hard on that.

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uncultured_swine2099 Mar 23, 2026 +2

There might be something to this. I was thinking he could show up in the Rey movie, and she is starting a jedi academy.

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Scruffylookin13 Mar 23, 2026 +4

Career must not be doing to hot after all the shit he's talked about Star Wars.

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kinetik Mar 24, 2026 +4

John Boyega, to me, is just unlikable. I was happy to see him as a stormtrooper, but after watching him, he’s not a good actor and his personality comes through and ruins it for me. Same thing in Pacific Rim Uprising and it stinks. I’d rather an actor more into their craft and more humble like Daniel Kaluuya or Denzel Whitaker any day.

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KAL-EL8569 Mar 23, 2026 +6

All these people saying they did him dirty...his character sucking is on them however his lousy acting is on him...and it wasn't cause he was black or some conspiracy it was just because he's was bad all around.

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Impossible_Log9234 Mar 24, 2026 +6

No thanks. After seeing Boyega constantly taking shots at Rian Johnson, I don't want him to return to the SW franchise. Plus, his character sucked.

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Devilofchaos108070 Mar 24, 2026 +1

Rian Johnson made a terrible f****** movie.

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Impossible_Log9234 Mar 24, 2026 +1

That's subjective. And since then, Rian has made 3 extremely acclaimed and successful Knives Out movies. John has done what?

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MostlySoberWizard Mar 23, 2026 +2

Well, he was the only character given a coherent backstory. That's kind of the whole issue.

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ronnydazzler Mar 23, 2026 +2

“Lemme tell ya, ‘Star Wars’ always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space.” Huh?

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bigntazt Mar 24, 2026 +2

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

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happyhappykarma Mar 24, 2026 +2

Maturing was realizing that JJ Abrams "Mystery Box" method of writing is just a pretentious way to say "I'm just gonna wing it."

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2hats4bats Mar 23, 2026 +2

Finn could have done more for sure but I wouldn’t describe him as “sidelined”

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ricoimf Mar 23, 2026 +3

It’s not his character alone, the whole sequels are boring and a gigantic mess and he is tide to a project most people at Disney just won’t to forget about. It’s just an unfortunate situation for him. Call it collateral damage

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BoredomRanger Mar 23, 2026 +4

Very odd of him to mention diversity fumbling when Disney has spent the last 8 years full steam ahead into ‘diversity first’ plot lines.

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McFoogles Mar 24, 2026 +3

Make it gay and lame!

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Groovy66 Mar 24, 2026 +1

Kathleen Kennedy pondering…I like that idea…

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plonkman Mar 24, 2026 +1

Gay AND lame? Interesting...

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merliahthesiren Mar 24, 2026 +3

I never had high hopes for the trilogy, but I really did think he would have a bigger role. They totally shafted his character.

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sk4v3n Mar 23, 2026 +7

boring character from a not too interesting actor on second thought, it fits Disney Star Wars perfectly...

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EmployeeNo4241 Mar 23, 2026 +8

Agreed. They are all so generic and predictable. The plot, characters, and dialogue feels like it’s written by AI. Zero soul in these movies.

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Nada_Bot Mar 23, 2026 +5

Finn was an awful character and John Boyega is a terrible actor. That was a horrible movie - nothing to do with race.

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OkDirection8015 Mar 23, 2026 +3

More whining again? Why just black characters?

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DeerNo4308 Mar 23, 2026 +4

He was terrible in Star Wars.

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LiffeyDodge Mar 23, 2026 +2

I wish they took his character somewhere. Why would he be wilding a lightsaber if he didn't have potential?

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jcamp088 Mar 23, 2026 +3

Because they had no idea what they were doing at any point during the production of those 3 films.

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Duck-Still Mar 23, 2026 +2

How to fix the Sequel Trilogy: Finn wakes up from coma after TFA. “… I just had the dumbest dream about Palpatine coming back.”

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maladaptive_drmr Mar 24, 2026 +1

“…somehow”

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_Monosyllabic_ Mar 23, 2026 +1

I wish they would just Patrick Duffy the sequel trilogy. The Finn character was fine but my god.

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HummaKavula95 Mar 23, 2026 +1

Good guy. But couldn’t possibly care less about his character lol

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Bbryant90 Mar 23, 2026 +1

I think Disneys best option at this point is to start a new trilogy with James Mangolds Jedi origin movie and focus solely on that. No more random spin-offs

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gls2220 Mar 23, 2026 +1

I'm sure Disney can't wait to work with him again.

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Meekie_e Mar 23, 2026 +1

They'll just make the black characters super duper tiny on the poster again.

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onebluephish1981 Mar 24, 2026 +1

John Boyega can take his overacting elsewhere.

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plonkman Mar 24, 2026 +1

I'd watch another film where Finn get's killed at the start and he's not in the rest of it.

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S-on-my-chest Mar 24, 2026 +1

Fun fact - if you invested in Disney over 10 years ago the stock price is nearly identical, so you’d only have lost buying power to 3% annual inflation year over year!

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Appropriate-Today779 Mar 25, 2026 +1

this dude needs to get a life. He has been bitching about star wars for years now

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OutrageousGifts Mar 25, 2026 +1

The failure of those movies has NOTHING to do with being black.

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Red-Sun-Cinema Mar 25, 2026 +1

John Boyega "Warned Disney Never to Sideline Black Characters Again". That's some funny shit for a nobody sideline actor who hasn't really amounted to much post Star Wars and wasn't anybody to begin with. What was he going to do? Boycott working for Disney?

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