It’s a stupid naming convention, but that’s not a good reason not to buy a system. Your comment sounds like petty system wars bullshit. Dr. Pepper could change their name to Shit Soda and I’d still drink it because it’s delicious.

Race-reversal you say? Sounds like my favorite Star Trek episode.

So there’s no difference between people laughing at you and laughing with you? I beg to differ.

Yeah. They’re perfectly entitled to their opinions on the story and how their character was treated just like anyone else, but we’re also entitled to challenge those opinions like anyone else’s.

It seems that Boyega was unhappy with his role in the film, but I haven’t seen any quotes that would lead me to believe that Tran felt that way about her role or the film in general. Her character was specifically created for the film and wouldn’t exist otherwise, so that would be a bit weird.

Great point.

First of all, that’s bullshit. They clearly bond through that plot. Secondly, they’re on screen more than enough for the audience to understand that if they’re not intent on hating the film. Third, she never “confessed her love.” She says they’re saving what they love, meaning all of the people that make up the…

The point is to give him something to do that’s interesting to the plot and grow his character by giving him tough moral decisions and new bonds.

You’ve clearly never seen an action movie before.

I don’t disagree with anything you said. But I’ll say that if you’re upset that Rey and Finn were separated, isn’t that on Abrams and not Johnson? Johnson gets so much crap for simply responding logically to the things Abrams set up.

Right. And there were good Nazis too, right? If you actively choose to be a part of a corrupt, racist group that oppresses others, people have every right to apply those same characteristics to you.

Right. Because who’s arrested and who’s convicted couldn’t possibly have anything to do with systemic racism.

That’s such a great point. It would be totally salient and impossible to refute if people were born police officers and had no choice but to continue in that profession for the rest of their lives and those police officers all came from generations of police officers who had been taken from their homes and sold into…

I mean the whole loyalty thing kind of came out of nowhere, though? Like it wasn’t really a big issue in TFA.

I’m not really sure how to answer that. It was a key part of one of the two main narrative threads in the movie. There was Rey’s thread with Luke and Kylo and the rest of the Resistance trying to escape the First Order. If it had worked, they would have defeated the first order and escaped. Since it didn’t, Holdo had…

I guess that’s a reasonable point. But I think it’s completely understandable for people to respond that way when it goes directly counter to their understanding of the films. If Al Pacino said he thought The Godfather 2 failed his character while Godfather 3 got a pass because it came so many years later, people…

It was a B-plot for sure, but it definitely tied into the main story. It was Finn and Poe’s plan to save the day. It just wasn’t successful. Are characters not allowed to fail?

Like, I don’t think you’d see a lot of other situations in which an overwhelmingly progressive group of movie critics would insist an actor of color should silence his issues with a white writer-director’s choices for the actor’s character.

pretty bad to see those starred comments above telling Boyega why he’s just wrong about TLJ not being a good Finn movie. Yikes.

But he did make it. And it sucked.