ST John Boyega (Finn) in Episode VII

One of the things I'm looking forward to about Finn is that he's a new character with an interesting background. If it turned out that he had skywalker blood then that would be really lame

 

Ethnically, I mean.

 

I must've missed this, but has Finn's character been linked to the Skywalker lineage? Really?? And just how would that be pulled off? Lol.

 

he is not, he is just Han and Sana's kid, so a Solo.

 

He doesn't look half black though

 

Oh right. lol

 

It can't but people will keep bringing it up on occasion and add their two cents. Discussions follow until we move on to something else. Someone mentioned something about SW being all fantasy-science fiction so realism doesn't matter all that much but in this case I disagree.

 

I've known several bi-racial people (black and white) that look completely black, to the point where I though their mother was actually a stepmom. Just because somebody doesn't "look" biracial, doesn't mean they aren't.

 

I'm with you there. In actual fact I can't take it serious enough to form an opinion on it. Total rubbish

 

As a black person myself who has known and grown up with a countless number of black folks from various backgrounds, I have to say this scenario is extremely rare.

 

Your point is correct. But this is SW. It isn't a serious drama with a pertinent point to make on genetics and ethnicity. Just saying

 

I think I remember reading that each subsequent child born to black parents, in some rare cases, will progressively have lighter skin than the last. Though I could have that wrong? As for a child born of a black parent coupled with a white one? That child will invariably be mixed race and have a light skin colour. John Boyega's parents are both Nigerian and are both black. Hence John is black. Expecting an audience to believe he is mixed race is quite frankly disrespectful to him, and also in a way saying you think your audience is stupid and will swallow anything

 

Ive already shared my opinion on this previously , so I wont do it again as it's personal to me in nature. But this guy knows what he's talking about.

That said I don't think Finn is a Skywalker, I think he's just an Orphan who was coerced into joining The First Order at a very young and impressionable age. Give a starving kid food , comfort and a purpose and you can make them do anything. Child Soldiers in Africa come to mind.

 

Good analogy. Indoctrination and brainwashing are a recipe best served on the young mind.

 

I think it would be cooler if he wasn't coerced but rather joined willingly with high hopes of helping those that need it before he sees what really lies at the heart of The First Order.

 

who's to say Luke did not adopt Finn or that Finn is part black??

 

Didn't Nasa, with the New Horizons spacecraft, discover Finn's species on Pluto and Charon last month?

So that would make him either Plutonian or Charonian correct?

 

Have people given up on trying to link Finn to this guy's family?:



His lineage could have run parallel to Hux's.

 

Potato , Potato I say

Whether he was coerced into it or not is just my out of universe understanding that The First Order is not a particularly good bunch, maybe at the time to Finn they were seen as these heroic figures and he couldn't wait to join up with them, either way I doubt he just has a change of heart out of the blue and decides he can't go on any longer killing on command, then again maybe that is what happens I'm not trying to say it is or isn't definitively either way , but from my .point of view , whatever happens in the village changes his perspective about them as an Organization.

I don't buy that it's just because of his fallen Trooper brother either , because what kind of sense would that make if the death of his comrade is what shakes him to the core, only to spend the next 48 hours or so shooting and chopping down the rest with a Lightsaber?

 

Thank you. This bothers me too. It's why I believe they established Zare Loenis's character: to show that not every member of the storm trooper academy is enthusiastically loyal.

 

BTW - I was just trying to break the tension with some outlandishness.

 

*Cringes*

 

This is a very good point. The only way I could see it working is if they establish he and his comrade have been talking about abandoning the First Order because they just don't belong and his friend's death pushes him over the edge.

 

Nope. It is kind of the only answer at this point in my opinion. Especially with Hux's ancestor appearing in a Rebels novel along with Zare. I am 99.9% positive