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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7530830" data-attributes="member: 40176">Poe didn't make much of an impact because they basically killed him off in the first act and then brought him back in the third with only the most minor of handwaves. The character is solid, he was just poorly handled.And you didn't mention Finn. He's my favourite character in TFA - brought up as a stormtrooper in an evil army, conditioned for obedience from an early age, yet he still has the conscience to refuse to kill innocents, and after he's marooned on Jakku, parched and exhausted, still his first instinct when he sees someone in trouble is to run in unarmed to help them. For me, his story of overcoming his fears and finally facing up to the First Order surpasses Rey's character arc.Frankly, I prefer that they (provisionally, pending Episode IX) made Rey's parents nobodies. Why shouldn't the next great Force user be just an otherwise-ordinary person rather than the child of a queen and space-Jesus? Isn't that a far better message to send?</blockquote>