#no bc finn was such a compelling lead in tfa

[artistactorathens]

Something I say all the time about the sequel trilogy is that I absolutely love the characters and absolutely hate the story they were unlucky enough to end up in (especially Finn)

man. the star wars sequel trilogy could have been so good if they hadn't fucked it up

[t7-01]

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1. There's no way, canonically, that Maul could've been save. There's also very few times in FF that he can be saved. He is who he is, and he can be nothing more.

2. Jester Mereel would've smacked Jango into the stratosphere for participating in the creation of the clones - and I stand by this.

3. Finn should've been a Jedi, and found Luke with Rey. His entire canon storyline should've belonged to Rose.

you come into my home and insult the milk of the bovine-

i’ll be honest - i’m not a huge maul fan, so i don’t feel like the expert. but i tend to agree with you. i don’t read much basically any maul fanfic, but i imagine the best of it would involve tragedy and a lot of “if only” (excluding aus where he isn’t raised as a sith, but then he’s basically a whole different guy). but as he is in canon? he literally survives bc of his rage, and i imagine by the time we meet him in tcw (and even tpm), he would probably die without it. so yes, firm agree.

ahhhh i go back and forth! it depends on your jaster interpretation i think (and mine changes often, to be fair). bc at his core jaster is a man who sees abandoned children and takes them in, and doesn’t believe in forcibly spreading mandalorian culture - so i do tend to lean towards agree on this. i think he’d be very sad to see that jango lost his way, and was willing to force these people to follow in his footsteps without so much as an attempt at kinship or community. yet another reason i leaned toward an au where jango did care about the clones haha.

agree. agree agree agree. god they fucked finn over SO. BAD. finn was the most compelling character in tfa and they just. they threw him away. and i’ve never thought about rose having finn’s canon role but i think with a few tweaks it could be so fucking sick! i feel like they would be cool parallel revolutionaries - rose finding people similar to her and her sister, whose families have been hurt by the first order, and finn leading a stormtrooper uprising (like in that one deleted scene).

[fiovske]

The thing about Finn, to me though, is that they barely explored his connection to the Force!!! I always adopted the "Finn is the Force's Awakening" stance, and like, I didn't need him to be the Jedi, I love Rey as a Jedi, especially her ending with the new lightsaber, but I would've loved if they had explored what it means to be Force Sensitive and NOT be a Jedi/Sith. I think it's also a way they could've used Maz Kanata, since she has some line in TFA about knowing the Force despite not being a Jedi.

I also would've appreciated if the Stormtroopers defecting plot from the TROS had happened in TLJ, giving more time to explore that with Finn

Anyways, I love your art so much, both this Finnpoe piece, as well as your several Beaujester ones :))))

oh that is a pretty cool take on Finn being Force Sensitive I digg it! like digress from the dichotomy of Jedi/Sith and explore what it means to be force sensitive YEAH. YEAH.. and like... I'd have loved the arc of Stormtroopers deflecting too!! and Finn leading the charge! like... I'm a fan of how Finn was not a "chosen one" or someone special but literally just someone who made the right choice when it came down to it. That that is all it takes. Making the right choice. Defying years of indoctrination is not easy but I would've loved it if Finn led that charge of deflecting Stormtroopers! and we got to see more Stormtroopers join this cause, willingly. realizing they HAVE a choice to make in this, that what they'd been taught all along wasn't true by virtue of the brainwashing. I also would've loved it if they'd delved deeper into Finn finding his roots, an attempt at reconnecting his old Identity with the new one in making. I am personally a fan of Jedi!Finn bc hnnnnnn cool blue lightsaber go brrrrrrr and that moment from TFA where Finn makes his stand w the lightsaber against Kyle lives in my head rent free. I just think it was v sexie of him lol

but yeah, I would've loved to explore Finn's story bc THERE'S SO MUCH LORE THERE THAT COULD BE UTILIZED!! instead of whatever the fuck the sequels decided to focus and therefore flop on, lol. it Finn's story could've been SO COMPELLING esp as a Black man who deflects to the Rebel side bc he feels the conflict and still realizes that the troopers are nothing but fodder for The First Order. He deflects bc it's the Right Thing To Do from the first movie itself... how Poe is the first person he saves. The person he deflects FOR. OOF. that's some storytelling, that's a love story right there BABEYYY!!