Star Wars Sequel Trilogy: 12 Missed Opportunities We'll NEVER Get Over

10. Everything About Captain Phasma

I say "everything", because not a lick of Captain Phasma's placement in the trilogy makes any sense.

First up there's casting Gwendoline Christie, a shoe-in for one of the brightest stars working in Hollywood, and an Oscar-winner in waiting, if ever there was one.

Christie's role as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones helped define the earlier seasons of that show as exemplary, and her turn as a chrome-plated stormtrooper should've been easy to execute on.

Once again though, a complete lack of planning ruined everything.

Twice in a row Phasma is unceremoniously cut out her films.

In Force Awakens she's the butt of a "trash compactor" callback gag from A New Hope (to which we never see her again), then it's revealed a more memorable close to her character was filmed and edited for Last Jedi, but it was replaced with a quicker death instead.

Why? Honestly who knows. This scene is MUCH better than what we got:

Maybe JJ and Johnson were going for a Boba Fett-style "They'll be cool once the toys come around!" approach, but the result is a character you likely forgot even happened.