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I'd say that Johnson knew what he wanted to do with them. Honestly for me it feels like he had to put a lot into the new characters to give them much to meaningfully do beyond reflect the glories of the old ones. Rey, Rose and Finn's arcs are all in service of the message that a total nobody, in the right place and at the right time, can change the Galaxy. Even Johnson's treatment of the Resistance pilots reinforces this - an initially nameless pilot becomes the main character for a few minutes and saves the Resistance. Luke's arc ultimately ends up at the same place - legends won't save us but good, flawed people will.See, my problem here is that this presumes that there was any explicit intent in the purpose or the role of the new characters. A ST that knew what it was trying to do (make a story about the old trio's legacy more than anything else) would have likely dispensed with the likes of Poe/Finn/Rose as anything more than tertiary characters cause they don't actually factor into the main plot in the slightest. They don't actually enhance the nostalgia pandering or relate to the Kylo Ren redemption plot in any meaningful way. The problem with the new characters is not what they intended to do with them. It's the absolute lack of any meaningful intent for their place in the trilogy. They're vague half baked concepts that were shoved in without an idea of what they were supposed to do.
But none of that matters in the long run because the final film refused to do anything with the roles and arcs that were developed for them in that film.
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