Yeah I can’t blame him. His character started out really interesting but it feels like they didn’t know what to do with him.

I don’t blame him Finn had the most interesting story arch and they blew it. People are getting annoyed at him for shunning Disney I don’t blame him it’s what Disney deserves.

John Boyega deserves so much better. And I’m beyond livid he’s basically been blacklisted by Hollywood for speaking out, for protesting for black lives matter, & overall for being a good honorable person.

With the prequel actors, despite the hate they got, they actually liked the production they were part of and thought their characters were well written. When a cast member for the sequel trilogy can't even say that he thinks there was much of a character arc for his role, that's quite a low bar set by Disney :/

Ian Malcolm said it best : “Yeah, yeah, but your executives were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” This is the truth with Disney and lucasfilm

I'm not angry or shocked he and possibly others won't be returning to the franchise, but it does hurt a lot. I absolutely loved Finn after the tfa and even after the last two movies, I believe he had a lot of potential. Rey was someone else I was rooting for despite the writing of her character. I think given new writers and their own show, it would've made for a great comeback but all good things must come to an end. John is looking out for himself, and I admire that. Low pay compared to his other white costars and poor treatment of his character, yeah it would be hard for me to return either. Best wishes to him and his career for the future. I hope it's all well and smooth

I never thought about but yeah, it all feels redundant. We are stuck in this era with the same conflict repeating itself over and over again.

It’s sad, but I can’t blame him at all. I respect his decision.

Finn was my favorite character from the sequel trilogy. He deserved so much more and it's a damn shame what they did to his character. A storm trooper becoming a jedi is the coolest thing to me. He saw the horrors of the empire and wanted to leave. But instead of going on an awesome journey, he's some side character who doesn't do much.

I’m always going to love Star Wars, but if I’m being honest, my love for it is mostly what it was, the potential it doesn’t feel like it’s ever going to reach under the Disney corporate mind set, and good moments in isolation. It’s been fun, Star Wars raised me, but feels like the ride isn’t enjoyable anymore. Maybe it’ll get better, maybe it won’t, but l think it’s time to move on. Last thing I want to do is spend time consuming something I don’t enjoy

Great video, thanks for posting and keeping it real 🙏🏽

It doesn't surprise me that star wars is failing now because of their refusal to tell a good story and instead just try to make money, it was a good run, but failed in it's end

It took me a while to realize that while Star Wars was where I learned to love science fiction, I don’t actively care about it much anymore. While it always has that place in my heart I find so much more to love from other stories.

In tfa he was the co-lead. But after that he felt unwelcomed. In tlj and tros he was the fifth wheel on a car. I would not be suprised if the work conditions behind the scenes were toxic. If I were boyega, i also wouldnt work for lucas film.

That's how you know the actors know that the sequel trilogy movies are trash. If these movies were so great as everyone claims they are, these actors would be jumping at any chance to reprise the roles. Nope. Why return to meaningless characters that have no sense of direction and no character arcs? Hopefully next time Lucasfilm/Disney actually take the time to plot out the story and characters.

He's a King. He was the brightspot of the Sequels.

I really dislike movies of nowdays being so politicised and corporate. That being said, I really would like a good (GOOD) Star Wars movie or a trilogy lead by Boyega. He'd probably make a great lead actor

can't wait for more videos and stories about other media that you experience

I can't blame him after how he was treated, but it is unfortunate. Finn is probably the best/most interesting thing that came out of the Star Wars IP after Disney bought it, and they foolishly wasted all potential there

I don't blame John Boyega for being done with Star Wars. It clearly does not show the same love for him as he has for it. It's a crying shame. Between Disney mishandling their characters and online fans who cry "woke" every time they're onscreen, this era of Star Wars is toxic for POC actors.

I think the best thing that can happen is for those inspired by Star Wars and have creative talents and skills to go and start the new Indie franchises that will rise to fill the void where Disney is failing

I’m going to watch future Star Wars Projects if they seem interesting to me but beyond a bit of entertainment for a few hours I’m not expecting anything anymore. It’s sad it has come this far but it has. I am glad John has made the decision that is best for him and I don’t see Disney LucasFilm producing anything right now that is worthy of him anyways.

It'd be nice to see Finn in a new animated series or video game. Maybe something about the Grysk that Zahn are working on. So far all we've had of post-sequel content is the Lego specials and they're not really that interesting, though they still treats Finn better than the Last Jedi. I'm personally relived that we won't get Rian Johnson's trilogy, but at the same time I'm tired of all the nonsense that gets announced only to be canceled. The fact that so many directors treat Star Wars like a second degree issue, that they'll do only if and when they have the time for it, should really tell you something. In the future I'm most looking forward to Mando and Vision 2, because at least they have passion behind them, something Lucasfilm has really been missing for a long time

I hope eventually he does, Boyega is so dam talented and I wish we could see him finally be a Jedi, but yeah he was treated badly, so I hope he does other amazing projects where he can show his range.

Dang really shows how much they messed up that John is saying all of this.

ur videos inspire me to make my own video essays reviewing media. how do u avoid copyright strikes whilst still using engaging and relevant video of whatever ur talking about?

Good video Truth

John deserve so much better than whatever Disney gave him.

He deserved so much better. Shame we won’t see him again, at least in the foreseeable future. But I completely understand why

Great video!

I totally get it, but this still makes me sad. Random side question: are you still doing your Sequel Trilogy Rewrite?

It's honestly impressive how hard Disney dropped the ball with the Sequel trilogy characters. Finn,Phasma,Poe, Rey, every new character who popped up in Rise of Skywalker. It essentially killed any inspiration for stories pass Empire/ Pre-Empire era. At this point while it might not be popular, They should just move pass it and try to start fresh imo

It's still crazy to me that Finn was given almost equal spotlight with Rey in the first movie. You wouldn't know it after seeing where he ended up in the next two films.

Sequel era is over! I hoped so much that you were right and they’d make some new stuff and eventually make the era great like how they did with the prequels. Nope. Disappointing. At least Andor looks good

I don't blame him and people may disagree with me when I say I don't blame JJ either. I blame Rian Johnson. He had full control the middle of Finn's arc and he pushed him aside. JJ tried to fix it in Episode 9 but it was too late. At 2:13 he does say, he won't portray Finn "for now", this might change but as of right now I back his decision to leave the role to the side at this current moment. It's sad but it's understandable.

If anyone wants to explore a universe that's fleshed out with fantastic characters, I recommend Mass Effect. One of the best Sci-Fi franchises out there. All characters are fantastically written, the story is awesome and the choices you make actually matter. If you prefer something more fantasy I'd say The Elder Scrolls. Most people already played Skyrim to death but there's a lot more to explore. Morrowind is my all-time favourite and if there's one tip I must give a new player that want to play it, it would be to select your race and skills depending on what you want to play. Say, if you want a mage go for a High Elf and select Destruction, Alteration and some other skills depending on what you want as your major skills, stock up on restore magica potions and cast spells harder than Gandalf. Or if you want to go with longswords and actually hit something: Nord with Heavy Armour and Longsword as your major, keep your fatigue(stamina) above 75% and you're all good 😎 So yeah, go out there and explore these worlds. They have a lot to offer and Disney isn't involved which is always good.

Well, I’m tired out already. Good for him.

just remember my friend.. everything comes full circle. :)

John Boyega is a smart man.

Always thought a big benifit of Disney owning Star Wars was to exlpore different eras more then george did clone wars etc. It really does feel like their stuck in the empire vs rebels era. I Also feel like disney at times come across as too kid friendly for Star Wars(even though they are kids movies)

Understandable

Finn had the potential for such an interesting story arc, as a stormtrooper that turns away from the empire and becomes a Jedi... but then Disney just ended up making him the (white) protagonist's #1 fan. And I honestly can't blame John Boyega if he doesn't want to return after that. As they say: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

This is a very well made video and raises GREAT points! I highly share your point point of views and Im deeply sadden to see Boyega leave Star Wars for good, even though I totally understand it... Great video!! "However just ONE problem about that.... I am dead inside." :)

Skeleton Crew may be the substitute for Rangers of the New Republic.

9:34 shots fired! Be careful that the Ahsoka stans don't have you drawn and quartered. Imagine if we'd gotten an actual Tales Of The Jedi adaptation? Like, 2D-animate the comics and maybe change the cringe 90s dialogue a tad, imagine how cool that would have been. But no…

My God yes I'm so irritated with going back to the "OT era"

hey man you seem to be really positive, so could I talk to you about something even if its not related to the video, since I'm just curious

The dream is dead, Okiro. Let's just hope he's doing an Andrew Garfield.

Well, as you once said, the cheeks were clapped.

I hope they turn fin to a jedi on Disney plus

thanks, okiro. i loved star wars growing up, and i still do. my interest fell off after the last jedi, but... i've still been hanging around, i guess, paying attention and frustrated. the same with marvel, after endgame, it felt good but done, and then there were all these frustrating projects and... i guess i've been struggling to let go. bc even if i don't like what they're making, even if i don't give them money or praise, they're still taking my attention if it bothers me. maybe you and john boyega can help me let go. i can go enjoy stories i actually like. watching corporations fail is fun on occasion, but i think they do have more power when they can make us talk about them, whatever our opinion. so, i think i'll try that, starting with "rings of power", i don't need to learn anything more about it. fine if i hear about it, but i don't need to look for stuff, i've got more interesting things to think about :)

That's main problem of disney star wars, just products nothing less and more That's why i enjoyed prequel trilogy and love ot and clone wars. George Luca can write good story, yeah you can make fun the prequel trilogy but there's one thing that disney star wars is heavily lacking is passion. Just mostly disney star wars (imo) just never hits because the story and characters is hollow, poor written & directed and retcons everything that star wars build over the years, the world build is lacking and just nothing and aimless. I'm so sick of between prequel and ot, we know everything about it, just do something new or explore something that we haven't explored, I would love to see aftermath of Rotj and between of sequel trilogy and aftermath of rots. I know we've never gone getting for very long time because disney/Lucasfilm really want to keep kicking dead horse, overusing prequel & ot characters to get more money and not making no new and interesting characters if we do we just gonna underused them and do nothing about it. More tv shows just feels rush and need more time in the oven, I just don't understand why they pulling mcu schedule, it really doesn't need it, just let them take their time and effort so it can good, it's hurting yourself and fans. Speaking of fans, Oh boyyyy, all I have to say is this, ppl, we gonna chill out, ppl who likes/being very bias every disney star wars star wars, please be honest yourself, it's ok to be critical a show/movie/game and comics/books, just sucking up disney just telling them, just keep putting out every mid/bland show or etc and it hurts star wars really bad and to overheated star wars fans, please stop abusing directors and actors especially the sweating rascal fans seriously chill out and fuck off. To the valid and well made criticism star wars fans, those i completely agree because they're right and it just been meh and/or really really bad With lackster story and characters Heavy and not earned fan service Just no substitute at all just hollow action back to back. Now this just pretty much make me want to stop watch any star wars content until something actually good show/movie comes out

Very fair and balanced take on all the problems with Star Wars today. Disney essentially removed the heart from Star Wars when they cut Lucas loose and, aside from possibly The Mandalorian, it's just been a shambling corpse twitching with the final impulses of George's creativity and work ever since.

I disagree with your take on the continuation of rogue one the andor series this gonna be fire and it’s a fire time period

As always, I fully agree with you. Unfortunately, Disney are going to keep going back to the well with the Rebellion era stories simply because, as you said, they make money, but also because the rebellion happened in so many little pockets, there is almost limitless chances to make something from it. It does need a George Lucas to be the idea person for it. Maybe that's Feloni if he can come up with stories that don't include Mandalore and/or Asoka. But it needs someone to be that voice at the top

I hate seeing Solar Conflicts in this state. I’d love to see the Sequel cast come back but the damage is done and the wounds have never sealed. No blame on Boyega. Rian did him dirty despite him being the co star. Things coulda been so much better. Kenobi feels like the last good piece of content we’ll get. My favorite Disney era projects: TFA, R1, Battlefront 2015-17, Squadrons, and Kenobi. Now it just feels like superhero stuff. Again. If this is it then it’s been an honor Mr. Okiro.

Star Wars was doomed the moment they decided to do Empire vs Rebels 2.0. Now that they are stuck in the Rise of the Empire era. And it just proves to me that Star Wars is dead. So long A Disney keeps beating the dead horse that is the Original Trilogy era, Star Wars is dead. It refuses to grow or change. All we get now is memberberries and nostalgia porn. Disney is looking in the past instead of looking toward the future and that is a problem.

FINN WAS WASTED IT I HATE THAT 😢

They got cold feet with Finn because of China.

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I feel like we all need a break from Star Wars for a while.

The irony of this Finn/Boyega tragedy is this is THE WORST time for him to leave cause Lucasfilm now has more freedom than they ever had under Iger.. &it's not just because that meddling bastad is gone but because the new guy Bob chapel put in charge of handling all the divisions (Kareem) seems to have a quality >>> quantity &anti fandom menace/in el appeasement ethos that's trickled down into almost everything dsneys got coming out recently Under Bob Iger we'd NEVER have got a superhero teen show that gives us history dumps on how british colonialism destroyed India &displaced millions NEVER.. he'd be too busy ordering reshoots to suck up to anti-sjws or whatever those racist bigots call themselves these days also it's pretty ironic that you think Obiwan &andor etc are "milking" star wars but you're a huge fan of clone wars & rebels which are some of the most tenuous drawn out ridiculously pointless shows in existence But something like andor which draws on similar era but from a more serious perspective is what u choose to ignore or talk down on.. something u need to remember that alot of these fandom menacers &whine merchants always forget.. this is a GALAXY far far away.. there can NEVER be too many stories or POVs.. there are TRILLIONS of different possible stories & characters THATS what makes star wars special.. the possibilities &the imagination that comes with that.

Star wars loves doing actors wrong. At least the so called fans

Wow. In other news, water is wet!