diversehighfantasy:stitchmediamix:This is someone I’ve ALREADY reblogged, giving them evidence from
diversehighfantasy:stitchmediamix:This is someone I’ve ALREADY reblogged, giving them evidence from the books about why it does make sense for Finn to turn away from the First Order. This refusal to actually engage with the “text” of The Force Awakens on my post about how fandom refuses to watch Finn in the film but then says his actions make no sense is absolutely on purpose. This is someone absolutely unwilling to like actually think critically about why Finn turns against the First Order and keeps saying that it doesn’t make sense, that Finn should do x instead, that killing should come natural to him. That it’s “bad writing” to have Finn “decide to be good for no reason”.The very fact that this person CONTINUOUSLY insists that it doesn’t make sense for Finn to be good/decide to be good is like… beyond infuriating to me. I want to be all nice and help nudge people in the direction of good analysis and whatnot, but this purposeful crap is a hard limit for me. Like this person isn’t even actually seeing Finn as Finn. Never have, never will. They’re not interested in like… trying to approach the character differently. They keep trying to talk about such an important character that they have no interest in actually analyzing responsibly and man… I’m uninterested in that kind of hardheaded nonsense.Anyone who believes that the village on Jakku was “harboring a terrorist” is beyond reason. The argument that the villagers were threatening the FO because they tried to defend themselves is pure fascist apologia. To think that JJ Abrams wrote that scene, where a Nazi parallel invades a village of people who belonged to a religion they wanted to eradicate, disarmed the ones who fought back, and slaughtered them, including the children, with any intention of making the FO look like the victims, is absolutely stomach-churning. As is the notion that Finn should have stayed loyal to the FO and not fought back himself.And we’re supposed to completely divorce attitudes like this from reality? George Lucas wrote allegories – Nixon, Vietnam, Bush. Abrams wrote allegories that were clearly more directly about the Nazis, down to a nearly shot-for-shot reference to Triumph of the Will that was supposed to be horrifying. And yet here we are, fans are more horrified by Finn not following the FO. -- source link