So, after being exposed as an ass who made one racist assumption after another, you double down with more BS that illustrates just how ignorant you are about this entire matter. Few have buried themselves so deeply by doubling down on racist attacks.
Yes, because defending a sequel to the point of attempting to minimize or dismiss valid issues and/or demeaning others (this thread is overflowing with pro-TROS members doing jus that) is what matters. Yeah. Sure.
Thank you for your reality-based insight on the Finn matter. So many had the same reaction, with some becoming visibly angry that in a film establishing a set of new heroes, the one black male was a shame-inducing throwback to Old Hollywood's enforced, racist portrayal of black males.
Agreed about Rose's influence; from the start of TLJ, Finn was a bumbling fool who "needed" to be pulled by the nose; for a so-called "hero" from the events of the previous film, he exhibited no traits of one who had come into his own. There was no developmental evidence of his acknowledge any growth / attempt to reclaim a lost identity. It was in truth:
"well, we have this black fool character, and we have to do something with him, so concoct this pointless side story where he's wrapped up in a shallow, in-name-only commentary animal rights, yet Finn never, ever has scenes where his life and the effects of being kidnapped as a child are ever explored in his struggle against the antagonists. Yeah..that'll work, or whatever."
Indeed.Like Mantan Moreland or "Rochester", he was a Black Buffoon spending most of his time being subservient to everyone else (when he wasn't stumbling, running away and knocked around), with a stereotypical subservient job in sanitation, because ...of course that had to be his job. He never had anything coming close to a sense of discovered pride in who he was (never referencing his original life, or even suspecting what it could have been the way ROTJ-Leia had memories of her mother) or unique voice of his own. Despite Boyega's billing among the new cast, he was a treated like a throwaway supporting character never created to be treated like anything close to a strong character who had a real purpose in that series.
...and coming from the entertainment business which is very liberal at a near 100% level, it says much that black characters--especially males are cast in prominent properties end up marginalized/tokenized (James Olsen/Supergirl), or deliberately placed in a racially demeaning role (Finn/Star Wars sequels).
Its clear that he did. After seeing what Disney/LFL did with a new black "lead" character in TFA, there were feelings of outrage, while others--who had been Star Wars fans since the OT years--were now completely turned off to the series. I've had conversations with friends who feel they were disrespected by Disney/newLFL in the creation/use of Finn, and they were.
This is something that led to heated reactions from many black audience members--the runaway slave knows nothing, allows someone else to name him, direct his actions, and Finn did not have as much a single emotion of protest to someone else giving him whatever they deemed appropriate.
Beyond offensive.
Yes, as I've said time after time about what he should have been, beingThe punchline of making him a janitor (as opposed to say an engineer working on Starkiller Base) was too good for Disney not to use.
