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starlight-starwrite: listen. LISTEN hux had such potential as a character, but he was only used for.
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listen. LISTEN
hux had such potential as a character, but he was only used for basically comic relief in tlj and a surprise moment in tros. they didn’t even set up rebel spy!hux at all, just randomly revealed him as a spy and then had him immediately die. hux would’ve made a Way better big bad than pryde - he’s an established character, and it would make a lot more sense for his storyline than being a rebel spy, since he’s been part of the FO literally all his life and has shown ZERO tendency towards helping the resistance, he has an incredibly low view of them and while he does hate kylo, hux has his priorities straight. he’s KNOWN for his strategy skills. he wouldn’t create a risk of the ENTIRE FO losing just because he hates kylo. hux would’ve made a great villain if they’d just put a little effort into establishing him as such - not even that much, he’d be a pretty static character, but his storyline would make sense for him as a character and in the trilogy plot as a whole. they could’ve had him harboring resentment towards snoke for all the rabid dog comments, so when snoke dies he rises into a leadership position and becomes the sequel trilogy’s big bad. i literally thought that up in like, 2 minutes of thinking how to fix hux’s arc. or even if you were to keep rebel spy hux, it would make sense to explore his reasons for that, or have him defect to the resistance, or something that shows how he evolved from brainwashed and completely loyal to FO in tfa into a rebel spy. but disney only cares about 2 character arcs - the main hero, and the main villain. nothing against rey and kylo, but that makes for a pretty boring movie. and i get they were trying to imitate the forms that made the originals so popular - hero’s journey/monomyth, dualism, and making the protagonist easy to empathize with - but you can have that as a baseline and still develop your side characters. and im not mad about just hux, although his arc was particularly maddening because of how stupid it was, but poe and rose also got barely any development in tros (heck, rose barely got any SCREENTIME). people love to hate on rose because she doesn’t do anything in tros, but that’s because disney isn’t in the business of good side characters. they just threw her in as a love interest for finn and when they didn’t have any more use for her, shunted her to the sidelines. poe got a half-explained backstory which is never discussed again, even though the others are shocked he was a spice miner. his relationship to zori is also never explained (and i honestly think it was just to give him a female love interest because disney wont let their named characters be even ambiguously lgbt), and then he spends the rest of the movie with little to no development or role beyond being a good pilot.
tldr; the star wars side characters have REALLY poorly planned out arcs and deserve better
Hux absolutely was built up to be the big bad in TFA. That’s the whole point of the Starkiller speech. I blame TLJ for making him laughable to the point that the writers thought he wouldn’t be taken seriously as a main villain any more - and therefore had to bring Pryde in to do Hux’s job.
starlight-starwrite:
listen. LISTEN
hux had such potential as a character, but he was only used for basically comic relief in tlj and a surprise moment in tros. they didn’t even set up rebel spy!hux at all, just randomly revealed him as a spy and then had him immediately die. hux would’ve made a Way better big bad than pryde - he’s an established character, and it would make a lot more sense for his storyline than being a rebel spy, since he’s been part of the FO literally all his life and has shown ZERO tendency towards helping the resistance, he has an incredibly low view of them and while he does hate kylo, hux has his priorities straight. he’s KNOWN for his strategy skills. he wouldn’t create a risk of the ENTIRE FO losing just because he hates kylo. hux would’ve made a great villain if they’d just put a little effort into establishing him as such - not even that much, he’d be a pretty static character, but his storyline would make sense for him as a character and in the trilogy plot as a whole. they could’ve had him harboring resentment towards snoke for all the rabid dog comments, so when snoke dies he rises into a leadership position and becomes the sequel trilogy’s big bad. i literally thought that up in like, 2 minutes of thinking how to fix hux’s arc. or even if you were to keep rebel spy hux, it would make sense to explore his reasons for that, or have him defect to the resistance, or something that shows how he evolved from brainwashed and completely loyal to FO in tfa into a rebel spy. but disney only cares about 2 character arcs - the main hero, and the main villain. nothing against rey and kylo, but that makes for a pretty boring movie. and i get they were trying to imitate the forms that made the originals so popular - hero’s journey/monomyth, dualism, and making the protagonist easy to empathize with - but you can have that as a baseline and still develop your side characters. and im not mad about just hux, although his arc was particularly maddening because of how stupid it was, but poe and rose also got barely any development in tros (heck, rose barely got any SCREENTIME). people love to hate on rose because she doesn’t do anything in tros, but that’s because disney isn’t in the business of good side characters. they just threw her in as a love interest for finn and when they didn’t have any more use for her, shunted her to the sidelines. poe got a half-explained backstory which is never discussed again, even though the others are shocked he was a spice miner. his relationship to zori is also never explained (and i honestly think it was just to give him a female love interest because disney wont let their named characters be even ambiguously lgbt), and then he spends the rest of the movie with little to no development or role beyond being a good pilot.
tldr; the star wars side characters have REALLY poorly planned out arcs and deserve better
Hux absolutely was built up to be the big bad in TFA. That’s the whole point of the Starkiller speech. I blame TLJ for making him laughable to the point that the writers thought he wouldn’t be taken seriously as a main villain any more - and therefore had to bring Pryde in to do Hux’s job.