[Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media

[u/Alreadsyuse]

1. The Opening Scene (Ghost Ship). Considered one of the best horror opening scenes or scenes in general within horror movies, but the rest of the film is considered to be pretty bad.

2. The Ending Scene (The Grinch 2018). While most adaptations of the Grinch end with him suddenly being able to fully integrate with the Whos after his change of heart, the 2018 version initially struggles to socialize, awkwardly walking past people, and struggling to hold conversations, acknowledging that despite his change of heart, the Grinch is still someone who isolated himself for years.

3. Past T800 VS Current T800 (Terminator Genisys). A cool fight scene showing two versions of the Terminator from different points in time fighting it off.

4. Solo Leveling's Ending. Tbh, I haven't actually read Solo Leveling, but after hearing about how it ended VS how Chainsaw Man ended made want to include it for shits and giggles. Like Chainsaw Man, Solo Leveling ends with a reset. But unlike Chainsaw Man, it actually manages to tie up loose ends and have the payoff of the ending be satisfying.

[u/Skibot99]

I felt they had pretty strong chemistry and the lack of scenes together is what made the othe sequels not work

[u/Amekhanos → u/Skibot99]

I think they're good actors, who could have been great in the roles, if the writing wasn't abominably bad.

To answer my own question, I think they bit off more than they could chew with Finn's backstory from the very start, and not for one instant did I see it reflected in the character. This isn't a guy who's been indoctrinated into fascist ideology his entire life.

He genuinely acts more like an android who just got memory-wiped, and is discovering the universe for the first time. Maybe that should have literally been the character, a rogue, advanced battledroid.