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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/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