Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 8, 2018 21:14:08 GMT
That makes it better for you? Really? That makes it worse!
The boyfriend line makes fun of the bumbling fool clumsily and awkwardly hitting on the white girl, and getting his due by her "none of your business" reply - we are supposed to laugh with her as much as we are supposed to laugh at him. Let's not forget shortly before he got beaten up and electricuted while being called a thief by her (I speak of Rey, Rose did it later again).
Also with his horrid "Droid, please". See: "They" speak like that even a long time ago far far away. Especially when unable to understand the droid, but asking to further mislead the girl into thinking he is somebody important though later revealed as the fleeing space janitor.
"Let's go Chrome Dome" was probably a heroic improvement compared to this.
Ultimately, I take some sandy dialogue over this anytime.
What in the actual hell does him being black and her being white have to do with the boyfriend line? And am I supposed to shudder in horror at the supposed racism of "Droid, please" after Jar Jar Binks, the Neimoidians, and Watto?
Like Little Ani, Finn has been raised in an environment without a lot of romantic opportunities. Such a situation creates awkwardness when interacting with a hot girl for the first time. Rather than play it dead-faced and, God help us, have her actually immediately start making out with him as per sand poetry, they made it funny to further endear us to him. Not so different from when Luke got instantly jealous and said "No!" when Han asked if Leia might like him. There was no "silly cracker redneck from a farm" conspiracy there, either. It's just giving the romances a little levity. Something AotC forgot to do with its faux Romeo and Juliet wishing of wishes.