Originally Posted by
Volband
It wouldn't have bothered me if they revealed that about Finn. I defended Finn's lightsaber "duel" in TFA back then, and while it would have been weird after TLJ not hinting at this at all, basically everything had to be weird anyway. So sure, go for it!
Instead, we got him randomly guessing and knowing things. Oooh, so exciting, I wonder if it will be revealed in the next movie that... oh wait, there is no next movie. So why are you writing a script which sets one up??? You are not afraid to resurrect Palpatine in the opening crawl, like yeah, everyone knows he is back, get over it, but revealing Finn as force-sensitive is just too much?
At this point, the JJ-Rian bickering by obviously pissing on eachother's ideas is hilarious, because at the end of the day, both of them are mediocre writers who can't together a fucking story without putting some "I need to tell you something, which I could tell you right now, and it would make everyone's life easier, and would actually make sense, in fact, holding this information back is what doesn't make any sense, and actually make me a terrible character, a bad friend and an incapable military leader, but I need to create tension somehow, so I am not going to tell you yet, but trust me, when I will, it's going to be too late anyway" shtick.
Another cringe moment was when Palpatine was doing his persuasion. In ROTJ he was pretty tame with look compared to this, and just tried to provoke him. This one was like a Benny Hill sketch about that scene. Overly done and repeated, like Spoiler: Rey was a speciel ed. kid, who has a slow understanding of things, so it needs to be said over and over again what she has to do. Then he explains her that he will take over her body if she does so. ???????????????????????????????????? Why would you tell her that?? Why would she give in to her anger, when you literally tell her that it will be her undoing??? 2 minutes could have been cut out of that scene, and it only would've made the movie better.