Ka is a wheel.

I dunno, I think it seems pretty clear that the author is asking the question to herself and not asking us for our opinion about it. But you put up a headline that’s a question, you’re gonna get people who’re gonna answer it. This was a great piece.

He was but your rationale is all fucked up. He was affected by not just the death (and they hadn’t killed anyone “innocent” yet) but by battle in general. Yes, he refused to kill defenseless people, but (after a lifetime of training to be a soldier) I doubt he’d feel the same about killing people who are actively…

Also, you know this is straight-up nitpicky as shit. Rebooting Star Wars (which is what this was) is an impossible task and they pulled it off as perfectly as an fallible creative humans could have. But I get it, we need “hot takes” that are counter to the norm, so whatever.

W/r/t Leia and Chewie, gee why wouldn’t Chewie want to hug the woman who stole his best friend and then gave birth to the little shit who killed him? I thought that was a key story detail and one they fucking nailed.

Except, he doesn’t?

I gotta admit, I clicked on this headline expecting to be annoyed, but I was pleasantly surprised at the message here.

Then pay closer attention? I’m not being glib, but Kasdan himself said in a talk I watched that they “trusted the audience” to pick up the subtext. I mean, they guy who killed this Trooper was the very same dude who he broke out and escaped with. This is all explained in “Finn’s Confession” to Rey in Maz’s castle. He…

Uh, pretty sure that at least the first one was not “universally considered horrible” and they continue to make money hand-over-fist so, someone likes them? But please, keep being cooler than the room.

I swear to Christ, I don’t even know why I keep reading fucking Gawker media sites.

Nope. In fact, The Clone Wars (the cartoon series) dealt pretty heavily with the Mandalorian “race” (as in, the people from the planet Mandalore) and even established them in the PT era as pacifists.

Seriously. That’s like one of the most obvious things, and leads me to believe that Star Wars fans are just looking for shit to complain about. Because as much-maligned (and, if you’re honest, not as bad as you remember) as the prequels are, people had almost more fun hating on them and talking about why it was way…

I mean, this is silly because — first and foremost — they are trying to kill him and, if he surrendered, he’d be killed for being a traitor. But at no point in the film is Finn a pacifist. When talking to Rey in Maz’s Castle he said that he’d decided he wouldn’t “kill for them” meaning the First Order. Yet, he shows…

Yeah, I’m a war vet and that was one of the most realistic war-fighting moments in any Star Wars film for me. You can think you’re ready, but that first realization about how awful combat is can be devastating.

He’s talking about “race” like we use the term human race.

All new media in the EU from Disney is canon.

Or, you’re just not “close-reading” enough to understand the film as it’s presented. For all the fast-paced action and new characters, the story itself is surprisingly dense, but there’s a lot left to subtext.

Honestly, that may be, but I think the moment just serves to remind us that despite their robot-like appearance and ultra-devotion to following orders, there are people in that armor. It’s also a thing that anyone who has been in combat will tell you happens: you think you’re ready for it, but as soon as people start…

I think it’s why he so emphasizes the line saying that he’s not going to kill for them. Finn is more like Han Solo than perhaps even Poe, because he doesn’t seem to mind soldiering and killing, if it’s in self-defense. He wasn’t going to kill innocents because Kylo pitched a fit and told him to, but in order to save…

Because it’s funny to imagine the villain as a spoiled, emo kid. It’s like how people joke about 3PO and R2 being in love or how Obi-Wan describes Anakin in ANH vs. how the prequels showed how that ended. They are powerful cinematic moments, that can also be lovingly mocked to make us laugh.

Maybe he’ll feel better when he finds out that Adam Driver was also a Marine? Or perhaps that’ll make the feelings of inadequacy worse. Hard to tell.