10 Simple Fixes That Would Have Made Star Wars: The Force Awakens Perfect

Captain Phasma was all over the marketing for The Force Awakens. Heck, she was in more toys than Rey (although that’s not saying as much as it perhaps should). Such an intriguing character, everyone was pretty amped to see her in action.

That she’s played by Gwendoline Christie, who has done precisely nothing in any of her non-Brienne roles should have been a real clue, but Phasma’s kinda useless. She kills the villagers on Kylo Ren’s command, chastises Finn, stands around as Hux commits mass genocide and then gives up the entire First Order with minimal pressure. Maybe it’s a meta joke. Boba Fett was another character who stood around looking awesome only to be offed in an equally humiliating way, but if so it failed completely.

She didn’t need to have a massive role, just a bit more substance. How to do that? Make her TR-8R - the actual break-out character from the film. He was super cool and having her fight Finn in the middle act would give her an actual arc that's paid of by her own later betrayal.