Did we watch the same movie? (Off-Topic)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, April 07, 2016, 21:26 (3158 days ago) @ Durandal

How did he even get past stormtrooper quality control?
In 99% of the scenes he's in, he's there to make Rei look good. Would it kill the script writers to have him use any of his insider knowledge of the first order and stormtrooper protocol to help? Or to not be terrible at everything?

And in the official EU stuff leading up to The Force Awakens, Finn is actually an elite Stormtrooper--one of the best of the best. Which, barring his incompetence, doesn't make sense given how he reacts to apparently his first battle at the beginning of the movie. The film sets him up as a greenhorn, but the official canon tries to make him the exact opposite and it doesn't line up.