After all the hype, how does ‘The Rise of Skywalker’ look?
storyline — or lack of one. “They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest,” Boyega said at the time.
Looking back at the movie, he was absolutely right. After being introduced as almost a co-lead to Rey in off on a side quest with Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose, a relationship that doesn’t even pay off in . Finn spends the final film mostly ignoring Rose while he frets about Rey while’s most notorious subplots sees Finn blurt out that he needs to tell Rey something during a particularly fraught moment. When they both survive, Finn clams up.
Up until that point, however, the characters seem to like each other only slightly more than they tolerate C-3PO. Rey is especially prone to wandering off, leaving her friends to fight and possibly die alone while she follows her Force instincts — perhaps because Abrams is only interested in the Rey character, her disputed parentage, and her frenemy relationship with Kylo Ren.