SPECULATION What weapon will Finn wield?

I was watching TCW Death Watch/Maul Episodes earlier yesterday and the Negative Blades were super triply which could potentially make cool weapons Sven though I was against them
In the past ...

 

This please

 

A huge blaster.

 

a blaster or a melee weapon. Perhaps even a different lightsabre. He has already shown that he does not need the force to use one. If he finds one he can keep it.

 

Him using a lightsabre and doing awesome stuff with it without him using the force is pretty epic.

 

A VibroBlade!!!!!!!

 

Lightsaber. The precedent has already been set.

Can't say what color

 

He was a cleaner/sanitation man in the first order.
Then his weapon could look like this:

 

I was talking to one of my friends the other day, and he sold me on the idea of Finn becoming skilled with a lightsaber despite not being FS. That could be really cool, and a nice surprise for both the character in-universe and the audience.

 

I'd like that too, so it would be kind of like showing that you don't have to be special to do something extraordinary .

 

So basically you're entire argument is that it "doesn't count" because he didn't save her in rally cliché/stereotypical/flashy ways that made him look like a "macho action her." Nope, that's not how that works.

-He saves Rey because they'd have been blown in that tent if he didn't get her out of there.

-He was fine after waking up, she DIDN'T save him there. He could have just gotten up on his own. The "hand thing" was more symbolic than anything.

-Her first instinct was to fly high, which would have gotten them shot down. He tells her to go low to confuse their tracking (which saves the day).

-His gunning skills are critical to escaping Jakku. She ain't getting off the planet without him.

-She managed to get out of her restraints and cell, impressive. She still hadn't gotten off SKB, nor would she have known where she was going because she was unconscious when she got taken there) and Kylo had anticipated her move and locked down the hangers.

-He DID save her. Without him, Kylo pick her up and carries her off to Snoke as a prisoner, simple as that.

-And no, she DIDN'T save him there because he was in no danger. Kylo didn't care about him by that point, he was focused on the lightsaber, and then her. So no, doesn't count. And Rey directly saves him ONCE (during the Rather sequence, which was her cleaning up her own mess since it was her screwup that got him into that mess to begin with). So even that is an exaggeration.

And no, the fact that they didn't make their main her a complete cliche damsel in distress (yeah that'd make her look good in her debut film, especially since it never happened to Luke or Anakin. Luke got to help save the damsel l in ANH, not become one himself) doesn't change the fact that, without him, she'd be dead or captured multiple times over.

 

I like the idea.
I'am curious what Mark Hamill thinks about it, let's ask him.

I guess he likes it.

 

Don't throw that macho stuff at me. It's no accident that TFA went out of its way to have Rey look good saving Finn several times while denying Finn those same opportunities. Why is it only okay now for the character to look heroic and competent when it's a woman saving a man? What's wrong with equality and a fair balance between the genders here? Why can't these two lead characters take turns saving each other, similar to what we saw with the OT cast? Obi-Wan saved Luke from the sand people, Han saved Luke from Vader during the Death Star trench run, Luke freed Leia from her cell, Leia saved Luke from Bespin's antenna, etc.

- I acknowledged that Finn saved Rey, but I also pointed out how this film refuses to show him looking good doing it. What's wrong with having a man sometimes look good saving a woman when it's okay to show the opposite? Why can't we have both?

- It appears that Rey did need to wake Finn up because he hadn't woken up on his own, and they were short on time.
Ask yourself: Why would TFA knock out Finn during this time? Why couldn't he have gotten up himself like Rey did?

The hand thing was done, at least in part, to show how independent Rey was as a female character. This film was going against tropes. Part of the problem, however, was that it caused Finn to be thrown under the bus by going too far in demonstrating how powerful Rey was.

- Finn's instructions mean nothing if Rey isn't flying the Falcon. She's not helpless in this situation because she's contributing to her survival. Thus, Finn helped her as her teammate. He didn't save her.

- Again, Finn's gunning skills didn't save Rey because the two of them are working together as teammates. An example of saving someone is when Obi-Wan saved Luke from the sand people. The reason why this is a save is because Luke was completely helpless on his own as he was knocked out. If Rey, or anyone else, is contributing to their survival in a situation, then they are not being saved.

- Rey had already freed herself from the interrogation device, grabbed a gun and was freely roaming around. This is not the state of someone who needs saving. Compare her to Leia who was stuck in her cell until Luke freed her. Plus, we know Rey already has the piloting skills to leave in a ship. Knowing where she is in the galaxy is irrelevant. The point is she had already begun making her escape and has the means to get off the planet.

You really think it's a coincidence that Rey freed herself before Finn got to her? Come on...

- Finn kept Kylo Ren busy until Rey woke up. I give him credit for that, but he didn't save her because he didn't stop the threat. Imagine if Rey hadn't woken up until hours later. Where would she be then?

- How was Finn not in any danger? He was critically slashed across the back. It was so bad, he didn't even wake up by the end of the film. Finn was unconscious and completely unable to help himself. He needed Rey to stop Kylo Ren so that she could get Chewie to take them back to the Resistance. Had she failed to defeat Ren, Finn would be dead.

- Yes, Rey fixed her own mess. I never said otherwise. But it was used as an opportunity for her to save Finn. Without her actions, he would be dead.

- No. Instead, we got a character who's overpowered, never gets to make a mistake she can't fix herself, never needs saving in a traditional manner that, god forbid, makes anyone else look good and gets to defeat the main villain on her first try. Contrary to what you said, Luke was sometimes a damsel in distress. Like I said earlier, Obi-Wan needed to save him from the sand people. He also needed to save Luke from the aliens in the Cantina.

In addition to this, Luke freed Leia from her cell, but he had no proper exit plan, so Leia needed to get them out of the corridor. Luke and company then needed the droids to get them out of the trash compactor and Obi-Wan to get them off the Death Star. Luke later needed Han and Wedge to save him during the attack on the Death Star. Luke regularly needed saving, whether by himself by along with others.

All of this happened to Luke in his first film, btw. He also continued to fail, make mistakes, show character flaws, etc. in V and VI, alongside his emerging list of accomplishments. Luke was properly balanced. TFA was too afraid to let Rey fail. Even when Kylo Ren captured her, it led to her awakening and so forth.

The denial on this board regarding how Rey and Finn were treated in this film is breathtaking. Fans just don't want to admit how unbalanced these two were.

 

Finn was a sanitation trooper, remember?!

 

Changing my vote to lightsaber whether they make him FS or not (I think they will) or a Jedi (think they may not) I think they like him with a lightsaber and we will definitely see it again. Early rumors seem to be pointing towards that. The bigger question will be whose lightsaber is he gonna have?