Post by Oh My Aching Ackbar-Raddus! on Jan 16, 2018 23:42:48 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.
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.
That's not a fair comparison. Finn had just met Rey and that horrid line asking if Rey had a boyfriend came out of nowhere.
Luke had already seen a hologram of Leia and his response was "She's beautiful." Han was being his usual womanizer self when he made that comment, prompting Luke to rebuff him.
The line from Anakin came after already spending days (perhaps weeks) with Padmé in personal settings. On top of that at the opening of the movie Anakin tells the audience he has spent every day dreaming about Padmé since the events of the Phantom Menace. So it's not an awkward premise as is Finn's, who blurted out that line in the middle of rushed ship repairs. And after just meeting her minutes ago and being wacked in the leg and across the face by her.