We see the stages Kylo goes through to heal his, from freshly-bruised-up-&-bandaged to a team of droids meticulously stitching his cheek back together with synthetic skin. Rian Johnson himself even went out of his way to have Kylo Ren’s scar redesigned from the last movie, because, as he said, “it looked goofy.” With so much time and effort put into a single scratch on the face, that must mean Finn getting stabbed in the shoulder and nearly having his spine severed by Kylo Ren’s lightsaber will be talked about and dealt with in great detail!

Nope.

Neither of Finn’s wounds, which were so severe they put him into a *coma*, I’d like to remind you, are ever mentioned or seen. Meanwhile, we get about six scenes centered on Kylo’s lil boo-boo.

“But Pop, he was in that bacta suit thingy! Obviously the Resistance had better healing technology! Don’t be so nitpicky.”

Mhm. Yes. The struggling, underfunded, undermanned Resistance has better healthcare than the evil superpower run by all the richest people from the former evil superpower. OKAY! SURE!

They don’t mention Finn’s wounds once. Not once. Even if you think TLJ is the greatest Star Wars movie to date, think about that for a second. Think if they had just glossed over Luke having a metal hand, or skipped straight to Han being right as rain the moment he was pulled out of carbonite he’d been stuck in for years. How cheated would you have felt? How many great scenes would have been lost?

This is NOT how Star Wars treats its heroes.

You’ve already mentioned Luke’s hand and Han getting frozen in carbonite, but imo even more similar situation is when Luke gets attacked by a wampa at the beginning of ESB. Now, a wampa is no Kylo Ren. It looks like a weird cross between a goat and an orangutan and Luke doesn’t have to duel it to escape. But he does get hurt and then almost freezes to death and must spend a lot of time in bacta. What translates the severity of the in-universe situation to the audience is Han and Leia’s reaction. They are clearly worried, they are there when he wakes up and even though Han and Luke banter, the humour is heartfelt and no one makes jokes about how he looked in the bacta tank.

Now compare that to what happens to Finn. His injuries are so serious he requires some sort of special suit, yet no one (except Rey, who’s light years away) is all that worried. Sure Poe looks concerned when he sees him, but this is after Finn wakes up from a coma, alone, and the entire scene is played for laughs, complete with him banging his head and falling to the floor. Think about that - Finn is supposed to be our hero, yet the film tells us that all his experience at Starkiller amounts to is a bout of physical comedy. And before he gets to Poe, he’s apparently allowed to wander out of the infarmary, without anyone noticing? If he’s ‘the Finn’ to the Resistance members, why do they not care when he clearly needs help? Even Poe’s sympathy is undermined by BB-8′s ‘joke’. No, BB-8 doesn’t make a joke, he’s just trying to describe things, yet this is clearly supposed to make the audience laugh at Finn’s expense, once again undermining the severity of his inujuries and glossing over his experience at Starkiller.

then we also need to honestly promote this as well

“What do women want for the holidays this year? An apology from President Trump would be nice. But since he hasn’t done it, and probably never will, the team and I over at Divided States of Women decided to say it for him.”

And on the flip-side