Okay. So it's 1AM, the most important natural reserves of where I live are burning and the house of my forefathers may be on fire. So, yeah, I need to do something to scape.Let's talk about The Last Jedi.... Whait... Oh Force no...One of the several complaints about the Last Jedi that I've seen is Rose's sacrifice, and I'm going to argue that it's probably the best possible outcome. I do this because in any of the video essays on the matter, from both fans and haters, nobody addresses several quotes from Finn that I find relevant. And by relevant I mean it's his entire arc summarised. Like.... His entire arc.Let's first look at Poe. He does what he does not because he wanted to protect their fellow comrades, but because he wanted to blow a ship. His main concern was not "I'LL COVER YOU! RUN REB..sistance!" It was that he could blow a Dreadnaught because of his ego as an ace... And while he didn't fail... It was a massacre. A Phyrric Victory, like everything that happens in this movie.Let's look now at what Finn does right after he and Rose wreck Canto Bait: he's glad. Not because they liberate the horse alien puppy things, but because they hurt them. It's out of spite and general apprehension for Space Marbella. That same sentiment is what he shows when he charges against the canon. He doesn't want to retreat not because these guys he don't really care are going to die but because of the First Order. Because he hates them. He wants to snatch the victory away from them, he want to hurt them like he did on Canto Bait. He wants to destroy the canon like Poe the Dreadnaught, and like him he's not being selfless but selfish.The retreat order is given. He refuses. He doesn't want them to win. He doesn't want to safe the Rebe...sistance, but to hurt the First Order, those who took everything from him from his name to his family and life. He will take it from them, he will humiliate them and hurt them the same way they did to him. He turns off the communications. Light goes red. Hatred fills his expression as he prepares to die along with the canon.Like with Poe we know that it will make no difference in the long term. He will die before he reaches it, or not stop the blast, or just be a matter of time until they deploy another or just blast the door with the AT-AT thing the FO uses. But Rose, like her sister before her does the final sacrifice for the cause, saving what she loves, a hero of the Rebelli..stance.But until this point Finn does not care for the Rebellion and it's driven by resentment. Like when he tried to desert from the Rebellion, several times in both movies, and when he just starts to insult Phasma in TFA. He always remarks how much he hates, despises and/or wants to hurt those he find morally wrong. Look at what he does just after he's literally saved from burning out of resentment: he complains that he couldn't die only to spite the First Order. And... That's not what the Resistan..llion is about. It's about saving and protecting those we love. When Rose's sister dies she grabs her necklace, thinking about the sister she's saving. And when Rose charges towards Finn, when Poe make his friends retreat or he REBELs against authority, whenever Leia or Holdo do something is to save as much of those they care as possible from the evil that the First Order represents. They fail, they die, they sacrifice. But it's always selfless. That's not what Finn does, as he explicitly states he just doesn't want them to lose... And that's why he can't sacrifice now from a narrative point of view, because it's not untill his friend dies because of him, one of the few people he cares about, that his arc is complete.The Last Jedi is a long movie. And have a few editing and changes made to it that are for the worst. But Rose sacrificing herself to save Finn was pretty much a logical conclusion to their development. Maybe (my conspiracy theory) this dialog is not given the weight that it deserves to, or its overshadowed by the glorious Reylo arc... But this is not a new theme introduced at the end, nor it's about Rose stealing his selfless moment, but about him learning to care for the cause and loving himself and others, just like Luke.BUT it's maybe one of the more solid movies the series has given us. Cheesy as hell tho... But... Star Wars, it's pretty much its thing. Like, hate it, it's up to you, as always. But THIS plotline needs to be given more credit.TL;RD: Finn's arc in TLJ is Luke in the cave all over again but with SpaePuppyHorses and everything he does is out of spite. So don't go Kamikaze only to spite Phasma. via /r/StarWars https://ift.tt/30h1UAf
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