Rose just reminds me of what an absolute waste Finn was as a character with that horrible side plot ex machina of no consequence.
Finn was an Empire/Stormtrooper deserter who got his back sliced with a lightsaber by the main villain (when confronting Finn/Rey at the end of TFA, Kylo yells "traitor!" at Finn as his first reaction).
There was so much potential there to take Finn in a really interesting direction. Instead he gets magically healed, doesn't even treat Kylo as an afterthought, pines for Rey, and then goes on the horrible side plot ex machina of no consequence.
Even if everything else had been perfect I would have still been annoyed at what a wasted opportunity that was.
Every main character is like that. There's so much potential in all of them, even Rey (who gets a lot of Mary Sue accusations thrown her way) as an "innocent" but incredibly talented and powerful force sensitive who has no real knowledge of or allegiance to the Jedi or the Sith. I feel like they've gone for an angle where the Jedi vs Sith dichotomy is dismantled and Rey is the tool to do it, but they've just f**ked it.
Poe is very much a Wedge Antilles/Han Solo combination to me and that could be really interesting; a guy with Wedge's skillset, his devotion and nobility and Han's recklessness, distaste for authority and impatience.
Finn could be such a kind of anti-hero character. Technically a good guy, but with a lifetime of Empire brainwashing driven by a need for vengeance against Ren and the reborn Empire. Instead he's basically a bit of a sook who seems to only be doing any of this because he wants to escape the friendzone....
They've f**ked every single main character to the point that none of them seem important to the story beyond the fact that they are the most familiar faces in the movies.
