WTF?? Who finds Bodhi’s death satisfying? I loved that guy! I loved the entire Rogue One crew, but he was an especially interesting character because he figured out that what he had been doing was wrong. It takes much more strength to change your mind about something, to admit that you were wrong, than to keep going in a path you were always on. That doesn’t mean that previous wrongdoing should be forgotten, of course, but it has to be viewed in the context of the arc as a whole. And penance through death is a lot less valuable than penance through difficult right action, through saving lives and undermining evil. That’s what atones; that’s what tips the balance. Death does jack shit.
People who want Finn to die have just got to be stupid. He was pretty clearly brainwashed from an early age; we see his first deployment in Episode VII, right? When would he even have had a chance to defect before? Do people think he enlisted? He didn’t even have a name, FFS. He was bred to be a soldier.
Pietro Maximoff did die; isn’t that penance enough? Anyway, their story is presented as complicated and morally gray; we’re not supposed to completely blame them even while they’re still allied with Ultron. Of course, I get that a lot of people don’t see moral gray. I’m really not sure what to say to them; it’s useless describing colors to the colorblind.
I’m loving all these Space Moses Finn motifs, Lucasfilm, keep it up
YEEES!!!! omg i’m so glad someone noticed this too!
it’s extra good when you consider that the role Boyega played in another movie (Attack the Block), that got him the attention to be cast, was called “Moses”