Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-25869525-20150416024049

Skyzy wrote:You had to make me look it up. ;) In Earth Skills, the original vote was to cull 209 people to give everyone an extra 6 months.

OK. You thought it was 100 originally, and I thought it was 300. Aparently the actual figure is almost right in the middle.

As for Finn doing his little float around the dropship, yeah, that was dumb of him. If he had gotten himself killed because of that, it would have been his own fault. Same for the two who chose to imitate him. To quote Kenobi" Who's more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him? Not helping to bury them does no more than maybe make him a selfish jerk.

I think Omega is right, that Finn was not all that popular by fandom in Season One, (I wouldn't know, since I didn't know the show existed until it was already into Season Two), so the writers decided to make him throughly unlikable so the ones who did like him would change their opinion. Then, with Finn being so hated, it would look like they were giving the viewers what they want, by executing him. It's pandering for sure, but they sure went about it in a screwy way.