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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Let's not beat around the bush, we all know why Finn never became the main character.

Came in to say this. China doesn't like black people.

Completely removed from that issue, I was fine with Rey as main character - I just think she needed a better overarching plot (but that's true for pretty much every character in the sequels). But the best case scenario probably would have been turning Rey and Finn into co-leads.

Do intertwined storylines where Rey is training to be a Jedi while Finn and Poe go off and do buddy cop stuff together, and you've got a strong dynamic. I pointed this out in a different topic recently, but Rey is basically Princess Leia if she was raised on Tatooine instead of Luke. Poe is Han Solo without Han's dark side and with more of Luke's earnestness and morality. Finn could have easily been sort of a fusion of Han and Leia (Han's darker origins and slowly becoming a more noble, heroic figure, combined with Leia being a latent Force sensitive and not knowing it). Then you've satisfied this obsession everyone seems to have with things "rhyming".

Or you could go the KotOR2 route - have the group find Luke at the end of TFA, and then he trains all three of them. Have him basically be like "Oh, you're all Force Sensitive, all of you showing up at the same time must be the will of the Force". Then you can get training scenes where each of them learn in different ways (Poe has a hard time mastering stuff because he's too skeptical and materialistic, Finn has more of the comic relief screwing up scenes because he lacks self-confidence, and Rey can be the star pupil who learns everything a bit too quickly, which is worrisome in itself because it implies she's at risk of falling to the Dark Side, and explains why Kylo is interested in her). Give each one a different lightsaber color, different styles of fighting, each masters slightly different Force tricks, and so on. Then they all fit into different protagonist slots, and you can basically use all three as a team that needs to work together because none of them are strong enough to beat Kylo and Snoke alone, but together they can.

There are so many better ways to work with what they had after TFA. TLJ just picked the worst possible scenario and then ruined everything for anyone who followed afterward.