income transmission, negative rebellion. Hi everyone and welcome to Radio Rebellion and our third and final special episode where we review our favorite characters during its rutal trilogy. Today we look at Finn and Poe, the Stormtrooper and the Spice Runner. So let's go ahead and start with Finn.
FN2187, the first order top recruit, if you call kidnapping and conscripting unwilling children into a lifelong servitude of a tyrannical regime recruiting, then yes, top recruit. When a sense of what he was being asked to do clash with a growing feeling inside during his first mission, he decided to not pull the trigger and be part of a massive genocide. He follows that drawing feeling and ends up running into a seemingly helpless cabin during Jakku. After getting smacked in the face by a quarterstaff, he realized that they have a bond.
Finn's instant connection with Ray comes from both having experienced similar backgrounds. Both didn't know their parents, had to answer to demanding boss figures in Uncork plot and Captain Fazma, and didn't have real friends until they met each other. But something else drew them together, although they didn't know what. His journey the first way consists of pretty straightforward one.
He's just running away to survive another day. He wants to run from the first order and just spoke to escape the story destroyer. He joins up with Ray and Jakku to escape the first order. Just to mask another scout in Takodana and join the extreme circle's core stair to escape as far as possible from the first order.
It is only when he sees that the destruction caused by Starkiller Base and Cis Ray being taken that he decides to stop running and do something about it, which is to find Ray and keep running away from the first order. All joking aside, Finn could have easily boarded the ship and left Takodana but his connection to Ray made him change his mind. I don't think that he felt sorry for her, but that there was a sort of kinship between them that made him chase after her and then risk everything by sneaking into Starkiller Base. Oh, and he can also rock a mean leather jacket.
It holds hand that he was there to get his friend and that was it. This continues into the last July. Although clearly sized by some as not having an arc on what to do in the last July, here is where he grows as a character and that is done thanks to the main theme of the movie, which is failure. Finn failed at everything he sets his mind to in the last July.
His first act after waiting up is trying to escape, find Ray and take it as far away as possible. He fails at this when he's discovered by Rose. Still at this point, he doesn't care about the cause, he's just focused on himself and his friend Ray, keeping her safe. Later on, he and Rose fail in securing the assistance of the Master Cult Breaker, fail in the mission on Kanto Bay and fail to disable the first order hyperspace tracking capabilities.
But something in him changed during all these failures. He figures out, thanks to Rose, that running from the first order isn't an option. You may run and maybe survive, but the rest of the galaxy may not have that option. If he kept running, it would be one less person able to stand up and do something against the first order.
The rich and powerful, maybe immune to some of it, but not the working people, the underappreciated, the less fortunate would be crushed. It is this that makes him realize what the resistance is fighting for. He takes this new sense of purpose a little too far when he decides to sacrifice himself in order to stop the mini-destoy cannon on trade. He's hatred of the first order, making believe that if he blows up that cannon, that the war would be won.
When in fact, he might have spared the struggling resistance a few extra minutes, but the reality is that they would still be crushed and would have lost more than what they would have won. That's why Rose's message is so important for him and really for everyone. It's not hatred for our enemies, but love for those ones we are fighting for that would guide us forward. In the last July, he goes from selfish to selfless.
Finn starts taking charge during the novel resistance he borns and being and feeling part of the resistance. He starts leading missions, and is not just swallowing orders. This of course continues in the rise of Skywalker when at the end Paul names in general, since he knows he can't lead the resistance alone. Before then, Finn starts feeling or sensing things happening around him, although he can express it, and the only person he can talk to about it is a bit busy with their own feelings and visions.
Finn has to swallow it until he meets Janna, a fellow ex-strung trooper that also felt a feeling during her first assignment and had the same reaction as he did. During the first awaken, Finn is able to wield a lightsaber, and although not the first non-J. Light to wield a saber, he was able to put a semi-decent performance against Kylo Ren. Is this enough to call Finn for sensitive?
He senses that Kylo Ren was in passana, he says he was a presence, a danger, and that Rey is waiting for him. He senses that Chewy is in danger, tells Janna that it was a feeling that sent him on his path to leave the first order and run into Rey. He knows that the command ship was the one guiding the destroyer's out of hexagon, and then when they had to destroy the whole ship so they didn't redirect the signal and find a desensing when Rey died. So yes, Finn was force sensitive, and maybe eventually will be trained by Rey in the ways of the force.
FN-227, former storm trooper that might end up being a Jedi power the one. Alright, so let's go to Poe. Poe D'Amouron, the best pilot from the resistance, Arrogant and Koki has no other, quickly labeled as the next Han Solo, when in fact he will turn out to be the next general Leia. During the Force Awakens and most of the last Jedi, he just wants to jump in and blow things up.
Being a pilot is the only thing he's ever known, and leadership doesn't come easy to him. He's a man of action, not a man of planning. This is evident during the last Jedi, as bringing down one dreadnought was more important than the life lost bringing it down. This way of thinking follows him throughout the movie, and he's only preoccupied with how to inflict damage to the first order, and not how can they stay alive.
The sense of running away is not in his nature. It is not until Leia tells him the plan that he starts to understand that saving the resistance, their people, and what they stand for is more important than destroying the first order. You can argue that if Vice Admiral Haldor told him that plan early on, there are things that would have been different, but that's a topic for another episode. He leads, them away from the deadstar gun, another great cavern, but that didn't make him a leader.
He is still figuring out how to be an actual resistance leader and not just a pilot. He is still missing the confidence to put others' life at risk. During resistance reborn by Rebecca Runhoist, he still feels remorse and deals with a failed bombing run over the car, and how his actions against Haldor put others at risk, feeling responsible for all those life-lots. Oh yes, and he can also rock a mint jin jacket.
This continues during the rise of Skywalker. Just because you are put in a leadership position doesn't mean that you instinctively will know how to lead. You will fail and will need to learn from those failures. Unfortunately, for Poe, time to learn from failures is not on his side.
When he knows that Leia's body and ass how she was able to do it, he takes Lando telling him that they did it together, counting on each other, that he then asked Finn for help leading the resistance. Poe Dumberon, Spice Runner, Resistance Pilot, Resistance General. Leaders aren't born, they are made through hardship, failure, and perseverance. So that ends our analysis of the main sequel trilogy characters.
Make sure to check out our in-depth look at Rey and Ben Solo's last Kylo Ren. See you next time, stay safe and may de-force me with you.