Finn is my favorite character in the entire Star Wars universe.
Finn lived through a lifetime of indoctrination, he’d been stripped of all identity to the point where he was literally nothing more than a number. Its amazing that he was able to break free of all of the conformity and indoctrination, to actually think for himself and realize what was happening was wrong.
But he did more than that. How many soldiers throughout history had moral doubts about what they were ordered to do, but followed orders out of fear, because the alternative was too enormous to contemplate? How many ordinary people, when faced with the choice of speaking up about something wrong that was happening and staying silent, choose the latter for exactly the same reasons?
So not only did Finn have the compassion, but also the courage to do the right thing. Even though it would mean abandoning everything he’d ever known. Even though it might very well have meant certain death.
But there’s more than that.
Finn is terrified of the First Order. There are some who see this as a weakness, but not me. Because the minute Rey was captured, Finn was ready to charge right into the heart of the thing he’d been running from the entire movie.
Think about that. Think about how much courage it takes to face the thing you fear most without any hesitation or even a plan. Think about why he’s doing it. He’s doing it to save Rey, someone he couldn’t have known for more than a few days.
Finn, who grew up without any compassion or love, has such an enormous capacity for both that he would face the thing he fears most for someone he just met.
So lets be clear: Finn is not a token character, he isn’t a bumbling idiot and he certainly isn’t comic relief. While Finn has ordinary powers and abilities, he has such a stunning capacity for courage and compassion that he is in fact truly extraordinary.
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