or Hux was just always an overly hateful whiny bitch whose bark was bigger than his bite from the very start and the intent was for the audience to feel a bit of catharsis watching him get his come uppance and be exposed for the punk he really is
Thus leaving only the very emo Kylo Ren as the face of evil, making the FO seem far less capable and threatening than ever before. That doesn’t seem like a smart move for setting up the final installment of the saga, although it does explain the very postive attitude of those aboard the Millenium Falcon. With the opposition only relying on superior numbers, led by an emotionally instable Supreme Leader, who Rey’s already beaten once, the good guys can’t lose.
I will just leave this here …http://colleenhenry.blogspot.com/2007/05/awesome-kevin-smith-comment-about-star.html
Well, even if mostly “weird emo” kids turn evil, something I don’t necessarily agree with, since greed and lust for power are pretty generic vices in the human experience, it takes many years for a disturbed kid like Anakin, or Ben to develop into a methodical, and cunning villain like Darth Vader, or a demonic puppet master like Palpatine, and Snoke. So, I maintain that while Kylo Ren works as the conflicted villain at the side of a powerful evil entity, he’s far less effective as the main villain, mostly because of the way his character developed over the course of the ST:
In TFA Kylo Ren was deliberately set up as a seemingly methodical super bad, a Darth Vader subsitute, but was ultimately revealed to be something of a poser, an emotionally volatile, and conflicted wannabe, in serious need of more training, and who was ultimately fairly easily bested by the newbie Rey, even if he was wounded at the time. However, that training never happened, and through circumstances, and Snoke’s stupidity, he was able to dispatch his far more powerful and imposing master. The only other villain of the ST was Hux (since Phasma was never a serious threat to begin with), an extremist, who at his young age, served as a Tarkin surrogate, but sadly TLJ turned him into a complete joke, who despite having achieved much on paper, in TLJ comes across as a caricature of an imperial officer, mostly played for laughs. So, the only serious villain left is Kylo Ren, who by the end of TLJ is as petty, and unstable as ever, almost foaming at the mouth when he tells Luke he will kill everyone, like some petulant child in need of a good spanking. So, while TLJ had several interesting plot developments, the FO presents only a fraction of the threat the Empire respresented imo, since the only competent, and imposing face of evil was cut in half by his far less accomplished apprentice. Thus, in my view the FO needs a more grounded and methodical villain to balance Kylo Ren’s volatile nature. Let’s hope Abrams can provide one, and add some much needed menace to the FO, since RJ has disqualified Hux, as far as I’m concerned.