The Fans Have Spoken, Last Jedi Drops A Massive 68%

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Azuren said:

mZuzek said:

The problem is, he doesn't overcome them, and he's been sidelined. His flaws aren't used as a means of showing improvement and development, they're just used for cheap laughs. He can't have a real character arc because now he's just a side character who doesn't have any influence on the main story.

I fully agree, and that's my biggest beef with TLJ. They had a character who was ripe for a character arc, and they instead chose to focus on Mary Sue. You had someone recovering from a server injury with a lot of cowardice, but the will to overcome it when the chips are down... And they chose to follow someone who is apparently even more chosen than Anakin.

By definition Rey isn’t a Mary Sue.  Seriously, she wanted to abandon her friends to wait at Jakku in case her parents decide to come back.  But I think you missed Finns story.  His was about all about trying to leave the conflict, and throughout the entire movie he had rose trying to convince him to stay with the resistance and the code breaker trying to convince him to leave.  And at the end he ultimately decided that he was done, and wanted to end it all before rose saved his life.  Now was this story executed well, maybe not, but he absolutely did have a real character arc, one that I personally enjoyed a lot.