I'm happy Fin didn't turn out to be the super hero of ep7, i was mad looking at the posters and thought it would be corny for a character with no relations to skywalkers / a former stormtrooper to kill the bad guy. That wouldve been affirmative action to the max. Instead of that, we got a character who's completely green and its refreshingly good. He's doing what a lot of what the audience would have done. You have the baddest fukk head in the galaxy chasing after you with a fleet of hundred of thousand and a planet destroyer... im out that bytch too. That not cowardice, thats intelligence. He didn't even know about the rebel group or what they did, why would he fight Kylo one on one?
Then people saying that Rey shouldnt have been able to fight and beat kylo. Let's think about her story first, just like jedi, she's spending her life in isolation, possibly training without knowing it. Then the sequence after touching the saber which basically said she's bloodline of god body anakin aka the chosen one... she's made for this. When kylo used force to take her on the first meet, that was the first time she probably ever interacted with the force. I don't think she just magically got better, but she was exposed to something she's naturally good at. Then during the interrogation, she read his fear and thats all you really need to beat somebody in a fight... not that that excuses him from taking that L...
So about Kylo... love the character, loved the acting, def force proficient, but nothing in this movie made me think he had them hands. He's a force reliant fighter. He swung the saber like a heavy blade, predictable and slow. Fin, with all his novice, was able to give him some work. People will say thats cause he got hit with that beam earlier, not me, Fin would've been murked if it was any other sith, injury or not. Now put Rey in the same position, where force is basically no advantage and she can actively read the fear in his motion, he got that work handed to him. By the time he fights these characters, they aren't afraid of him. Intimidation factor loss, force even, he loses.
Overall, we're gonna see Fin develop into a character who will more than a sidekick. He's an initiative taker. I don't think he's a coward at all, he's doing whats needed to survive against an unstoppable movement, and if he aligns with the rebels he's one of their best assets. Rey will definitely come back in ep8 hard body, don't need to say more about that... kylo the same, but im interested in what completely his training means, and who else got that training. I imagine an akatsuki thing going on, bunch of straight up sith demons, then kylo for vice president, then snoke coming up thanos style to end the trilogy.
Maybe she is that badass and is even more focused and powerful than Anakin but it was a little hard to swallow after 6 movies telling us that training and discipline is crucial to wielding that kind of symbiotic show of the force.
