therealsongbirddiamondback:

akirakan: boss-hoody: A character who is visually interesting, but has very little lines, and doesn’t really do much, yet somehow develops a huge fan following. They thought they had the formula. “Cool design. Mysterious and bad-ass”, they thought that was the golden formula. Then this guy shows up. I legit don’t understand the fascination with this guy. BECAUSE HE’S A STORMTROOPER WHO PUT UP A FUCKING FIGHT!

That riot control stormtrooper was literally the most menacing villain of the movie for me. I am not fucking kidding.

Kylo Ren was a fucking joke from start to finish, and the movie seemed to agree with me, since it kep poking fun at him until even his Big Bad Evil Guy Moment landed flat on its face because of how pathetic they’d showed him to be. (which was totally the point, but my point here is that it hurt the movie in the long run) Phasma didn’t get to fire a single shot, but at least they treated her with enough dignity to avoid, say, a quick cut to her in the trash compactor, which means she got more respect from the movie than Kylo. Hux was a non-entity who seemed to have walked right out of a bad WWII movie, a really bad one, and not even a fun bad. The Starkiller base was the worst kind of “It’s the same… BUT BIGGER!” shit I’ve seen outside of comic books and what precious little effect it may have had dissipated into nothing. And the day I feel a tangible sense of threat or menace from a guy called Supreme Leader Snoke (who by the way looks like a painfully generic alien baddie in a cheap Mass Effect clone) is the day I become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

Riot Control Stormtrooper though? Holy shit. Motherfucker saw Finn, shouted his line with more passion than anything Kylo ever said, then threw his gun and shield down and started doing sick spin shit because he wanted Finn so fucking badly, not even the sight of a goddamn lightsaber was gonna stop him. That dude wanted blood and he was going to fucking get it. Dude was a War Boy in trooper cosplay. Dude had no fear and all rage, and you could see Finn visibly struggling to even survive the fight, let alone win it. It had a sense of tension I got from literally no other bad guy throwdown in the movie, and it starred a random stormtrooper and the guy whose face is in all the posters.