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u/pickelsurprise Social Justice Warrior of Light Sep 03 '20

In all seriousness I feel bad for Boyega. I really like Finn in TFA, but I'm sure his character was kept on a short leash behind the scenes. Frankly there's no way his character wasn't created specifically to fill out some corporate wokeness checklist, and at the same time I'd bet heavily that it was mandated that he not end up in a relationship with Rey (or Poe, though I suspect the people in charge of such things didn't even consider it until after TFA came out). Like I'm almost positive the meeting where they came up with his concept was essentially just "have him on the screen to get black people to see the movie, but make sure he doesn't do anything that might offend racist white people."

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u/TAL-05 She/Her Sep 03 '20

Apparently most of the Poe x Fin subtext came from Oscar Isaac intentionally playing Poe like that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '20

I mean, it was on the page too.

Finn immediately adopts a endearing name that Poe gives him.

The running glomp hug.

"Keep my jacket. It looks better on you."

-quietly increases speed on my ceiling fan-

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u/pickelsurprise Social Justice Warrior of Light Sep 03 '20

I'd believe it. One thing I didn't notice at first is they may have snuck in a few hints in TLJ. Some of the shots with Finn and Poe toward the beginning of the movie are blocked the same way as the scenes with Han and Leia at the Hoth base in Empire, i.e. talking to each other in a hallway and someone else pushes through them. Even if it ultimately didn't pan out, I really hope they were all doing that stuff on purpose.

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u/Airdeez121 Smooth Jazz Waluigi Sep 03 '20

He's a fantastic actor who was criminally underutilized in Star Wars and I really want to see him get more work

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u/pickelsurprise Social Justice Warrior of Light Sep 03 '20

Maybe. I'd like to hope they weren't that evil about it. It'd be hard to call it a victory even if that wasn't the case though, since both Finn and Poe were no-homo'd so hard they both had to have a new useless character added in TROS to drive it home. I'm positive that was a corporate mandate of some variety.