I won’t even get to the shitshow that is the blatant racism in the Sequel Trilogy and what Disney has done to John Boyega, I think op and several others have already written much more eloquent things on those topic than I ever could.

I speak as a fan of Star Wars since I was, like, 6 years old or something. I enjoyed TFA, it was a good movie. Yes, it’s basically ANH with different characters but they were such awesome characters. I don’t much care for Finnrey as a ship (I’m ace af and I would have loved for a good platonic relationship, especially between a man and a woman since I freaking hate the cliché men and women can’t be friend, and I’m a little tired of sitting down to watch a movie already knowing that I’m going to be forced to watch the two protagonists get together) but Rey and Finn (especially Finn) were such a great addition to the SW franchise. I absolutely loved the idea of these two nobodies becoming the heroes who saved the galaxy, while the dude who came from the powerful and known Skywalker line ended up being the villain. It’s why I freaking hated the Rey Skywalker thing because it made it seem like that name was all that matter, as if the Jedi didn’t come from all over the galaxy, often in families where there were no other force-sensitive members. As if Rey, the nobody, couldn’t be a hero without belonging to some powerful family line.



And Finn! Like it’s already been said, he had such a great story! I wanted to see this stormtrooper who refused to kill innocent people, who helped Poe escape and finally got a name he could make his, become the hero he so obviously was meant to be. When he used Anakin’s lightsaber to fight against Kylo Ren, it was amazing and it was such a powerful scene and, for me, it cemented the idea that he was clearly force-sensitive and he and Rey were both supposed to be Jedi.

It took me a while to figure it out, but I finally understand why I hated TLJ so much, beside the obvious problems with the plot. There is such a disconnect between the TFA and TLJ as far as the characters go that honestly it is disconcerting. I ended up hating Poe and his ‘I’m the hero, I know what we have to do, listen to me’ attitude while I loved him in TFA. Finn was unrecognizable if we think about epVII and then jump onto epVIII while Rey just flatlined for me. Honestly, it’s like you can actually see the moment Disney realized poeple loved Finn a little too much and decided ‘nope, we’re gonna redeem Kylo Ren and make people jump on the Rey/Kylo ship so fast they won’t even realize what happened’. Because god forbid the lowly, brainwashed stormtrooper and the orphan girl could ever be better heroes than Kylo Ren.

