The idea of arms dealers selling to
both sides was actually a very good idea.
It's a statement of the real world without being too direct, and it
builds out the Star Wars universe in a dynamic way. What's more, this could have led us to the
explanation of how the First Order formed.
We could have followed the money to find out that the First Order is
really just made up of investors wanting to build up a conflict to make money.
To be fair, the movie might be
implying that. But I say might because
there's no firm evidence that this is what they're saying. We see that they sell weapons to the First
Order and the Resistance, (apparently not to the Republic, adding to the
confusion of that whole situation,) but this implies that there's already a
conflict that the arms dealers are exploiting, not creating. So it's yet another missed opportunity for
the filmmakers to explain to us what the whole conflict is about.
But on to the dreadnaught, and the
return of Phasma.
I think everyone was excited by the
prospect of a special stormtrooper who stands out from the rest. Phasma had the potential of giving us an
insight into the common soldiers of the Empire... I mean First Order, while
also standing out in a unique way. It
looked like she might be the Boba Fett of this season.
Then she turned out to be too much
of the Boba Fett of this season. See,
while Boba Fett looked awesome and started off with outthinking the heroes, he
was killed off unceremoniously in his second film. Now we have a character who appears once,
says some threatening things, then turns out to be useless. She then returns, says some threatening
things, and turns out to be useless.
First, after capturing Fin and
Rose... well, not capturing, but coming in and ordering everyone around once
they've captured them, she then decides to have them executed in the slowest
way possible. She claims that it will be
slower and more painful, but when you look at the way they're going to do it,
beheading, it will be much faster than a blaster to the chest. If they were going to slowly slice their
heads off, okay, that's painful. But the
stormtroopers lift the axes over their heads, and...
And why is Phasma even here,
anyway! She lowered the shields of the
Star Killer Base! If she somehow got out
of the member berries trash compactor, and somehow got off the planet, she's
not going to retain her rank!
Sorry, I had to get that out of my
system. So anyway, the fleet gets sliced
up by the Resistance ship going to light speed...
Quick note about that. I actually don't have a problem with a ship
going to light speed destroying another ship.
It's well established that ships in hyperspace can be affected by things
in our universe, ("fly to close to a star, or bounce off of a
supernova...") and there's no arguing the shots look amazing. But it was one ship. When you look at the Imperial fleet, all of
the ships are destroyed by this. Unless
they're lined up one in front of the other, I don't see how that's possible.
Anyway, back to Phasma. Wait, she's already been killed again? Damn, she was hardly there. But not before the heroes try to shoot her,
but their shots bounce off her armor...
Wait! If the shots bounce off her armor, why was
she concerned about Han shooting her during Force Awakens. She literally lets in the Resistance to
destroy her planet because he had a pistol to her head which was apparently
useless. Man, she must feel awful about
that.
So
that's all I'm going to say about Phasma.
If they don't care enough about her to give her an actual story, then
why should I?
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