ST Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma) in the ST

No courage? not that we saw, she's also a villain, so I don't think it matter if she was courageous? ALSO, what was she supposed to do, her life is on the line and I don't think the FO is this great cohesive unit that everyone makes them out to be. Why should she care for anyone else, I doubt they would return the favor?

 

With the reveal of Kylo Ren's name in TFA, and now Hux's first name, I demand to know Phasma's name.

Hopefully it's Penelope.

Captain Penelope Phasma.

 

This. It continues to baffle me that some fans require all their villains to have courage. That's part of the deal with team evil. Lots of its members are cowards.

 

I was thinking - will Phasma even be part of the First Order in VIII? Thinking about it, I would expect her to be on the run from the FO just as much as Finn is. She is directly responsible for Starkiller Base's destruction, and caused immeasurable damage to the First Order's military resources, apparently for no reason beyond her own cowardice. If she went back to the FO, I see no reason why she wouldn't be tried and executed for treason. I would actually really like to see her as a renegade, her honour and pride lost. She would be hellbent on getting her revenge on Finn, the stormtrooper who orchestrated her fall. It would certainly be far more interesting than what we got from her in VII.

 

Yeah but who knows this?. The audience knows but Hux, Kylo and Co. don't know this.

What I think JJ and team tried to do was to emulate the character of Bobba Fett. He's a very minor character in ESB was not originally in ANH and died as a punk in the first chapter of ROTJ yet has a huge fanbase. So much so that GL decided to use him (or rather the original as Bobba turned out to be a clone), as the template for the Clones. And he was added to ANH.

 

I wish we had more backstory info on Phasma other than she's a hardened high-ranking shiny stormtrooper, I doubt she'll get much focus in Episode VIII since there are a multitude of more important characters to focus on.

 

We don't know what they know about Phasma. There was a good period of time between the shields coming down and the actual destruction of the Base. Unless the First Order IT systems were incompetently designed (which is certainly possible, since we're talking movie logic), they should be able to identify Phasma as the person who brought the shields down.

 

Does anyone know how long Gwendoline filmed scenes in Pinewood?

 

Well we've never seen a system being able to detect being "hacked" or "used illegally" by an astromech unit.

But ok it is possible they learned of it somehow. Yet, the movie didn't do some set-up to then get the payoff when Phasma is revealed again in later movies.

Then you will need some exposition to remind the movie goer that she actually was the one that brought the shields down. If they thought she was dead, then there was no tension. She would be easy to hide. Just take off the armor. As the FO already think she died in the SKB explosion/implosion.

 

I don't think we've seen anything related to Phasma over the course of filming Episode VIII but I could be wrong.

No cryptic behind-the-scenes blurry pics
No social media related tweets/posts
No real concrete rumors

???????

 

Yeah I know. But the only thing we've heard about Gleeson/Hux was when Mark Hamill tweeted that Domnhall had to wear heavy black robes to conceal his Hux outfit too. That is literally the only thing we've heard about Hux being in Epsiode VIII. (Not counting casting announcements)

 

But the system wasn't hacked. Phasma had the legitimate access to the security system needed to bring the shields down, so you'd think that access would also entail some kind of history of actions undertaken by the user on the system.

Phasma would still be isolated and unable to return to the First Order if she survived, living in fear of being found out and executed as a traitor. I can see her arc (such as it is) being that she is intent on capturing Finn and taking him to the FO, in the hope that her betrayal will be forgiven and she will be restored to her former position. Something like that. I don't expect elaborate character development or substantial screentime, but I have a feeling she is going to be one of Finn's main adversaries, and that plot thread would have more weight if we were clued into Phasma's character more than TFA allowed for.

 

As nice as that concept is, it's accounting for logical writing. There's literally no reason the shield controls would be in a different sector from Hux and his bridge crew. The fact that it was, and there's no indication that the bridge crew even tried to turn the shields back on can be seen as 1 of 2 ways.

1. Lazy writing.
2. The crew of SKB was so arrogant they thought they'd win even WITH the shields down, and didn't even bother to try and turn them on, this taking the blame off Phasma again anyways.

 

You'd imagine there'd be a significant inquest into what happened though. And one of the people mentioned above is, after all, a mind reader. Difficult to keep her role in SKB's fall from him...

 

There was a rumor that although Finn slices her arm off, she's later executed by someone else. Maybe Kylo kills her.

 

no one's going to care. if your a member of the fo lucky enough to survive they need you.

 

There was no inquiry after the small rebel alliance blowed up DS1 at Yavin. Nor was Vader in an inquiry or even chastised that we know by the Emperor for his failure.

 

The best and most badass way to go with Phasma would be to have her disgraced from the FO and have her go rogue trying to earn her way back in by capturing/killing Finn and Poe and she would essentially be a wild card for the rest of the movies. That would be so badass

 

Does anyone know how long Gwendoline taped or which month she taped her scenes in?

 

Wow, blast from the past there. I haven't heard someone use the verb "tape" rather than "film" since 1987.

 

I agree with Steve. She'd be everything Boba was supposed to be.

Knowing Rian Johnson, she'll have a great story arc. Hell, BB-8 will probably even have a great story arc.

 

he was, as shown in the comics.

 

I meant within the films. For the average movie-goer.

 

Plus, it's pretty obvious that Finn is the one being blamed. As seen by the numerous times people call him traitor. All the blame will probably be on him.

 

I guess Captain Phasma will just try and stay out of the same room as Kylo Ren.