Just a quick disclaimer: The point of this blog is not really to ship Finn/Poe, although that's naturally going to come up if we're discussing the possibility of the first gay hero in the Star Wars cinematic universe. It's cool if Finn is not straight too, I just didn't get it from Finn's character in the movie the same way you see it in Poe. Finn is so desperate and panicked throughout TFA, romance does not really seem like it's on his radar at all.
A full-on LGBT relationship would be amazing, but I would be happy if Poe were gay, with or without a romance. Okay, that said:
I found faerielion's tumblr, and there's a post from January 4 that does a side-by-side comparison of how the Han and Leia theme plays over the Finn/Poe reunion scene. And since Han and Leia are the central romantic pair from the OT, their theme is basically the Star Wars love theme.
Here's how it works:
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| *heart eyes* fan art by rngrn |
Step 2: Now watch the scene where Finn and Poe are reunited. That same woodwind theme from the Han and Leia orchestration starts at about 0:24 seconds when Poe is greeting BB-8, and (OMG) the horn theme swells just as Poe and Finn are jumping into each other's arms.
Step 3: Feel all the feels.
Now, by TFA, Han and Leia are no longer romantically in love, and I imagine that when Williams was composing this piece for the TFA soundtrack, he was thinking of a very mature relationship--powerful feelings, for sure, but not sexy-fun-times. So I'm not sure that using that melody from the Han and Leia theme was necessarily meant to suggest romance, as much as just a very warm and emotional moment for the characters of Poe and Finn.
At the same time, wow. Those are some very intense emotions for two guys to have for each other after probably no more than an hour together during their escape. And it all goes downhill moments later with the lip bite...
