By now, if you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, then you either don’t like Star Wars, or somehow didn’t know that the first live-action Star Wars film in 10 years had finally come to theaters. Many actors from Game of Thrones landed roles both large and small in the film. Foremost among these is Gwendoline Christie (Brienne) portraying the blinged-out First Order Stormtrooper leader, Captain Phasma.
With Christie taking on the role of another strong female, it was a only matter of time before some enterprising fan made a video mashup of her Game of Thrones and Star Wars characters. Enter YouTuber levellord, who did just that with The Birth of Captain Phasma. Check it out:
I mean…how well done is this video? That suit of Phasma armor looks like it was there in the original Game of Thrones episode from Season 4, “Oathkeeper.” Also, I’m just now seeing that Nikolaj Coster-Waldau would make the perfect young Han Solo—in Han’s very own standalone Star Wars story—as long as he could master that gritty North American accent.
WARNING: THE FORCE AWAKENS SPOILERS AHEAD!
Gwendoline Christie called Captain Phasma a “Boba Fett-style character”…and for the most part, she was right. She was barely on screen, had maybe five or six lines, and she suffered a stupid end that may or may not mean she’s dead. In my mind, Captain Phasma was the biggest failing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a film that didn’t have many failings.
For all the hype and hoopla surrounding Phasma, she took a punch from Chewbacca, and was immediately intimidated into dropping Starkiller planet’s shields after a few clumsy threats from Finn. Can you see the correlation between Phasma and Fett now? For all the love Boba Fett receives from Star Wars fans, he was knocked into the Sarlacc pit by accident, and didn’t even try to use the myriad of tools at his disposal to climb out…onscreen, anyway.
Hopefully, Phasma climbed out of the garbage chute she was thrown down (off-screen) and escaped Starkiller planet before it exploded. I would love nothing more than to see Phasma in Episode VIII, chasing down Finn and the Resistance, in order to get revenge and redeem herself in the eyes of Supreme Leader Snoke.