ST John Boyega (Finn) in Episode IX

The single and willing to mingle thing being confirmed may also open the door for FinnJannah becoming a possibility. No one seemed to consider that as a possibility despite a ton of time together near the end in large part because for a little while there people thought they could be siblings.

 

I don’t consider that a possibility because they most likely *are* siblings.

Funny how folk think that Finn spending time with Rose suggests romance, and spending time with Jannah suggests romance (despite John posing with Naomi on instagram asking “Do you think we look alike?”) but think Finn spending time with Rey suggests nothing.

 

I’m not ruling out anything. FinnRey odds just went way up with this news for sure.

 

Remember Poe has a thing for that boba fett character that i do not remember her name. So Poe and Finn will probably remain a bromance.

 

We have no idea who Poe does or doesn’t have feelings for going into or during RoS. And anyways, Zorri - if she is around the same age as Kerri - is much older than Poe.

And frankly, no way in hell would Disney depict a gay relationship between two main characters in a SW movie. They don’t want the movie banned in China, etc.

 

Well JP suggested Poe and Zorri will be hugely shipped after episode 9.

 

Firstly, I have zero reason to believe JP has seen the movie and knows its story.

Secondly, characters like Captain America and Bucky are hugely shipped. And never had a chance in hell of happening.

I don’t think the level of shipping of two characters has any bearing on how likely they are to actually become a couple.

 

Hmmm...
Keri Russell is 43
Oscar Isaac is 40

John Boyega is 27

 

Ah - I was thinking of the casting call for Zorri (40-50) and Poe’s (not Oscar’s) age - 32.

I appreciate the correction, though.

 

Ah, well I didn’t realize (despite my Poe avatar!) that Poe’s age had been established in canon & that he was that much younger than in real life. Wasn’t aware of the age range for Bliss either.

 

Poe's out here robbing cradles lol.

 

Well to be fair, Poe is much older than Finn and Kylo is much older than Rey too.
I'm mot against lgbtq representation but I really hope they don't go the Finn/Poe route. To me it just seems like a convenient way to pander to the Reylo crowd by removing Finn from the equation as a love interest for Rey, especially since he's shown no attraction to Poe. If it wasn't for those two things I wouldn't really have a problem with it.
Also Finn is 23 in TFA and Poe is 30-plus (don't know his exact age)

 

I don't really agree with this mostly because Finn met Poe first and there actually is an established friendship there. It doesn't feel like FinnRose, where Rose was specifically made to be Finn's love interest and draw him away from his feelings toward Rey. Finn and Rose felt like it was replacing Finn and Rey's dynamic. Finn and Poe actually have a unique dynamic that has nothing to do with Rey and there is pretty good chemistry.

Also, they could have FinnPoe become canon without Reylo becoming canon. Although, I do agree that Finn hasn't really shown too much attraction to Poe. But still this is a story about fictional people in space so who knows if sexual orientation is even a thing...

 

Well, we've seen Finn showing concern for Rey throughout the trailer, which is more than he's done for Rose or Poe. I know the line "No one knows me" from Rey has been used to suggest she feels nothing for Finn in a romantic sense...but it occurs to me that on some level she might be afraid that Finn will view her differently depending on what she learns about her parents. Discovering she's a Palpatine and thus related to a man whose empire stole Finn's life and family from him could cause her to try and avoid him for a portion of the film in fear that her worst nightmares could come true.

 

Finn can't escape Rose's scolding wrath!


(From the Resistance Reborn book)

 

Sure is some BS. Years of discipline and Finn has no table manners? Even if he didn't, Rose needs to mind her own business and let him eat. The man is hungry. Damn I can't stand her.

 

All the EU authors are writing Rose as badly as RJ. LF is hopeless.

 

Like RJ, they have NO idea how to grow the characters and are thus stuck retreading old ground...at least until the next film comes out. Any significant change to Finn and Rose will likely be reflected in subsequant works.

 

Good grief. Seriously?

I keep scrolling up to read the excerpt and scrolling down to respond, but I can't even find words for how I feel about that.

 

She seems very motherly to him, not romantic. Even packing his bag screams motherly.

 

They could try to present this as an unhealthy reaction to the death of her sister. Rose is mothering Finn because he's the first connection she made after that tragic expierence...and thus she's not seeing Finn the person...but Finn the dream. The payoff would be that shot on the Star Destroyers where she finally sees the person and not her 'vision' of who he is as he rides possibly to his death.

 

I just don't see those two as a romantic couple. I get the feeling that Rian Johnson had created Rose as a way to permanently dismiss the idea of a romantic relationship between Finn and Rey . . . at Kathleen Kennedy's bequest.

 

Actually, I haven't seen anything that, to me, suggests KK wanted RJ to torpedo Finn & Rey. I honestly just think she let him do as he wished and TLJ is the result.

 

If Kennedy had allowed Johnson to do as he wish, then chances are she wanted that relationship torpedoed. If she didn't wanted it torpedoed, she would have stop Johnson.

 

The sad thing is that that's the only real Rose/Finn interaction out of all of the post-TLJ pre-TROS reading material.