So is his family still out there somewhere? Is he interested in finding them? Does this mean the bulk of the First Order’s stormtroopers are also brainwashed kids? Given Star Wars’ law of conservation of character, is it creepy to wonder whether Finn is the son or grandson of the franchise's only other prominent black characters, Lando Calrissian and Mace Windu? All the new leads have hazy backgrounds, but none more so than ex-stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), who gets approximately one sentence in about how the First Order stole him from his family in childhood and raised him as a soldier.
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Like General Grievous’ asthmatic wheezing in Revenge Of The Sith-explained in the Clone Wars TV series, but never in the film, where it was apparently just intended as a basic character trait, the red arm is probably just a bit of side business that’s only important to completists, as fan candy.įinn is apparently a kidnapped child soldierįamily connections and especially parentage are a big deal in the Star Wars movies, and they’re at the heart of a lot of Force Awakens’ biggest unresolved issues. It was due out in December 2015, but has been delayed to February 2016. The red arm was supposed to be addressed in a tie-in comic, Marvel’s Star Wars Special: C-3P0 #1, by the team behind Starman, writer James Robinson and artist Tony Harris. Will a later film address it? Probably not. Maybe it’s a gag to help longtime fans contend with the fact that unlike in most Star Wars films, no one actually gets a hand or arm cut off in The Force Awakens. C-3PO is a known quantity at this point, and the color change doesn’t appear to have changed his personality or his functions, either as a protocol droid or a comic-relief character. No explanation for the change is given - or requested, since everyone else has bigger things on their minds at that point, and within the Star Wars universe, no one’s ever really cared that much about C-3PO. When he turns up late in the film, he looks like a junker car with a mismatched side panel, and with his usual blind sense of self-regard, he suggests Han Solo might not recognize him now that part of his body is a different color. The Force Awakens doesn’t make a big deal out of C-3PO’s new look, but doesn’t let it pass without comment, either. Here are some of the most mysterious elements of The Force Awakens, and our over/under on whether they're worth wondering about." It's likely most of these questions will eventually be answered in sequels, if not standalone films and spin-off series. (The Alan Dean Foster novel Splinter Of The Mind’s Eye was written as a treatment for a very different, much cheaper, planetbound sequel, on the off chance that Star Wars made some money at the box office.) The Force Awakens is a different animal: Here, the mysteries are deliberate fan teases for an expanded universe into which Disney has already invested billions of dollars. But George Lucas originally didn’t think he’d get to make a sequel and answer those questions. The original Star Wars similarly suggested a large, narratively unexplored universe, with a lot of gaps to fill in about the Clone Wars, Darth Vader, and what "made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs" could possibly mean.
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