So obviously Captain Phasma knows Finn’s serial number, but according to the Visual Guide, she makes sure to memorize the serial numbers of ALL the stormtroopers under her command. Every other imperial soldier/officer just seems to say “you there” or barely acknowledge their presence, but here’s their BOSS referring to them by the closest thing they’ve got to a name. She GIVES them an identity, and refers to them as an individual.
Also, apparently the reason she doesn’t hang out in the control room with Hux and Ren is because she voluntarily takes patrols of the base. She doesn’t think she’s above normal duties – she feels what her men do is important and helps out, too.
And think back to when Solo and Finn have her captured. She shows utmost faith in her men – those same stormtroopers everybody laughs about how useless they are – she BELIEVES in them. “You can’t possibly be so stupid as to think this will be easy. My troops will storm this block and kill you all.” She’s pissed. But she has such faith in her men that she TURNS OFF the shield JUST so they’ll know where to come. She doesn’t hesitate! She KNOWS they can do this!
Listen I’m not saying she’s the kind of boss that has memorized every trooper’s birthday, but MAYBE cupcakes just MYSTERIOUSLY SHOW UP in the break room on those days.
@swagaliciousgoose, this explains a pretty good reason as to why Phasma turned off the shield so easily
Also, that’s why she relented so easily without a fight. In addition to calculating the risk to her own life, she was struck by the sheer betrayal of one of his own guys. Guys she CARED about, and even one of the MOST PROMISING young stormtrooper she had.
She’d had such hope for FN-2187. He had shown such remarkable promise. He had shown the capacity to be special.
(From “Before the Awakening”)
Put yourself in her shoes for awhile and consider: What would your reaction be?
Gwendoline Christie talks to Entertainment Weekly about Captain Phasma in The Force Awakens and why fans are drawn to the character:
“We see Captain Phasma, and we see the costume from head to toe, and we know that it is a woman. But we are used to, in our media, connecting to female characters via the way that they look, from the way they are made flesh.”
“We are actually connecting to a female character as a human being,” Christie continues. In another interview with the L.A. Times, she compares Phasma to Boba Fett – in terms of screentime, and getting the part:
“I really wanted to be in ‘Star Wars’ because it had a special meaning to me,” she said. “Being someone who never felt part of the mainstream, who always felt unusual, it felt like a world that I could inhabit in terms of my imagination and who I was. I became like a dog with a bone and was absolutely insistent: ‘Please, please, please try to have me seen.’ Eventually they were worn down by my incessant asking.”
She was also recently profiled by Harper’s Bazaar, where she enthuses a bit more about the costume.
