Hey, that dude was my favourite character.
In pretty much all the other movies (as far as I can remember) any of the Empire's lackeys who didn't happen to be Sith (or whatever they're called now) were completely piss-scared of anyone with a lightsaber. This guy stood up and talked back to Kylo, which was a pretty cool moment.
Yeah, he's cool. While not as cool as Thrawn would be (even if my internal speciesism says that human is better), he still has time to be the most awesome badass normal of the new trilogy, except TR-8R of course. Also, I want his goddamn clothes.
Edit: Also, as much as that "TRAITOR" fellow had an awesome energy glaive (that's what I've decided to call it anyway), he still failed to kill the traitor.
Well, he
nearly managed to do it, which puts him just below Kylo Ren level. If other Stormtroopers did their job and killed Han Solo and that HUEG Wookie hiding behind some pillar (if I get my timeline right), he would bash Finns head in.
It's more of an energy tonfa
Even if TR-8R is dead, I wish to see more of those things later on. It seems that the movie tries to show us that lightsabers aren't magical superweapons on their own. I like that idea.
Why? It's like a force pike, just with a blunt end instead.
I'm reasonably sure force likes were used against lightsabers at the start of III on Dook's flagship thing. Man I've not seen those movies for years...
Electrostaffs. IIRC, they were mentioned to be carried by Empire Stormtroopers but never actually shown. I suppose that First Order decided to work on it and created... an electro-tonfa. Yeah, that is a tonfa all-right, except it has handle that rotates.
Apparently the prequel novel implies that he might be one of Finn's old squadmates from training who was nicknamed Zeroes.
Fan theory, but I like that theory.
Which would have been stupid and cliche. It's a fundamentally triumphant story. Killing Han off wouldn't have accomplished anything needed from a narrative arc. And it's ignoring that the Luke character arc is tied to the Vader character arc. Return of the Jedi would be a solid story arc if the ewoks didn't completely ruin the mood.
What, you don't like drop bears? Fluffy little murderous shits that ruin everyone's days and also should be wiped off the face of Endor after Death Star blew up and proably filled the atmosphere with tons of burning radioactive wreckage? Also, you totally need to see that horrible, horrible Ewok movie.