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unspeakablehorrorI'm a huge fan of the Phasma novel, and I really enjoyed her portrayal there, but it's not how I envisioned her backstory and if I ever did sequels fanfiction (which would require overcoming several logistical hurdles regarding my...issues with the sequel), I'd probably rewrite her backstory to line up more with my conception of it. There's two big things I'd want to change:
1. More focus on what she was to Finn. I just remember that scene where Hux and Phasma are talking about Finn (who she refers to as 187) and they bring up his baby picture on the screen and I'm wondering how long Phasma has been training him. Because even though it looks from the positioning of the scene that Hux was the one who brought up the picture, she was the one that gave the report on him, and was the one who gave his orders in the previous scene. Hence why I think she's the one he's had the most direct contact with.
I'd want to rewatch them to get all the nuances, but even his scenes in The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker with Hux seem to validate this. Finn's rancor towards Hux seems impersonal, simply due to the threat Hux poses to the people he cares about, but his anger towards Phasma always seems very, very personal. I think it's utterly tragic that the extended scene with Finn and Phasma was cut in The Last Jedi. I also wish she had survived to the end of trilogy because I feel it would have been way more fitting for their final fight to happen in the last movie.
2. I've always had a headcanon that Phasma was an ardent devotee of Palpatine and was perhaps even the only one of the villains besides Snoke to have ever met him in person before he 'died'. It was that little bit of trivia about her armor being made from the exterior of a Naboo starship (specifically because Palpatine was from Naboo no less!) that put this thought in my mind. In the Rise of Skywalker rewrite I'm envisioning she's the devotee of Palpatine and not that new rando old guy.
I think probably the biggest problem with the sequels was a 'too many cooks spoil the broth' issue. Even though I have many, many issues with the prequels, I think the fact that they present one unified narrative goes a long way towards making them considerably stronger than the sequels.
1. More focus on what she was to Finn. I just remember that scene where Hux and Phasma are talking about Finn (who she refers to as 187) and they bring up his baby picture on the screen and I'm wondering how long Phasma has been training him. Because even though it looks from the positioning of the scene that Hux was the one who brought up the picture, she was the one that gave the report on him, and was the one who gave his orders in the previous scene. Hence why I think she's the one he's had the most direct contact with.
I'd want to rewatch them to get all the nuances, but even his scenes in The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker with Hux seem to validate this. Finn's rancor towards Hux seems impersonal, simply due to the threat Hux poses to the people he cares about, but his anger towards Phasma always seems very, very personal. I think it's utterly tragic that the extended scene with Finn and Phasma was cut in The Last Jedi. I also wish she had survived to the end of trilogy because I feel it would have been way more fitting for their final fight to happen in the last movie.
2. I've always had a headcanon that Phasma was an ardent devotee of Palpatine and was perhaps even the only one of the villains besides Snoke to have ever met him in person before he 'died'. It was that little bit of trivia about her armor being made from the exterior of a Naboo starship (specifically because Palpatine was from Naboo no less!) that put this thought in my mind. In the Rise of Skywalker rewrite I'm envisioning she's the devotee of Palpatine and not that new rando old guy.
I think probably the biggest problem with the sequels was a 'too many cooks spoil the broth' issue. Even though I have many, many issues with the prequels, I think the fact that they present one unified narrative goes a long way towards making them considerably stronger than the sequels.