Official Captain Phasma TLJ Thread

My thoughts are that she has been turned into a joke and it will take a lot for her to be taken seriously as a threat again.
If you're gonna cast Gwendoline Christie then at the very least put her talents to good use. She should've fought Chewie or at some stage been seen to do something spectacular in battle. I think even *cough* Grievous has more credibility than her as a villain at this point. *cough*.

 

Indeed.
It was a strange one really - just felt like a shell of a character that they didn't really have a place for in the script. Clearly, they thought the name and suit was cool and wanted it in regardless of the role! What was jarring was how much publicity she was getting which resulted in a greater adverse reaction to her character in the film. When she literally did nothing other than getting rugby tackled by Chewie and then lamely giving in to Finn and Han, it was a real surprise. And not a good one.

It would've been easy to write in something better, such as having Finn etc getting some lower level officer to lower the shield but then Phasma interrupts them, takes down Han and Finn and goes one on one with Chewie. Then Chewie could overpower her and knocks her out. We'd then have seen what she was capable of and not made a mockery of her.

 

That explains it!

But at least Boba was a decent threat in TESB. People took to him for a reason. His death scene was a shame though.
As for Phasma, she's a big deal because she was built up to be an interesting character, played by an interesting actress and it came to nothing.
A missed opportunity.

 

But they turned her into a joke in TFA. That's the point.
Had Boba Fett been in (the original) ANH and suffered the same comic fate as Phasma then do you think his character would've been admired as much as it was in TESB?

They had the same issue with Poe imo. He wasn't a well written character but one that was shoe horned into the rest of the film because Oscar Isaac is a good actor. But really, from a story point of view, it would've been better for Finn to have absorbed Poe's role.

But back to Phasma, there were missed opportunities in TFA. If you have the time for her to strut about and get whacked by Chewie, then you have the time to create something more compelling for her to set her up for the next movie.

 

I agree 100%
I really thought she was going to be badass in TFA but it was a complete let down...

Two other characters I was looking forward too were Constable Zuvio (who was completely absent, hence the term "Zuvio-ed") and Sarco Plank (who got his 1 second of fame in TFA)....

 

while i can understand the disappointment, this is the perspective i take, 100%.
ironically my brother loved Boba Fett when we were kids and he loves Phasma just as much.

i ain't going to badmouth the character. she has lots of room to grow and i don't think they'll waste her ~ she just suffered shoehorning in the first movie because she really was never meant to be there. now she's an intentional character (and much loved by the fandom, even in its disappointment).

 

I think she will get her revenge. Finn, Han, and Chewie got the drop on her and she won't forget it. The story group is tuned in and aware how much of the fan base viewed her character as a missed opportunity and I think they will make up for it.

 

One thing that I want to see addressed following the aftermath of The Force Awakens is her decision to practically give in to the Resistance to lower to the shields. Captain Phasma is indirectly responsible for the destruction of Starkiller Base. To have that ignored and never brought up again in the form of character development, or hell even a single line of acknowledgement, would be a waste.

 

In the original script, Chewie crushes her head until she agrees.

 

General Hux and Supreme Leader Snote might not see it like that. Though Snoke probably might not care about it as much as Hux would. Unless no one knew it was Phasma who lowered the shields but Finn, Chewie and Han - in which case, you'd expect her to have some sort of guilt trip about keeping the truth to herself.