ATMachine said:
Does anyone else suspect that the villain General Hux (Domnhall Gleeson's character) is named for the Huxtable family from The Cosby Show -- ie, that the name might be a swipe of sorts at Bill Cosby, given what's come to light about him in the past year?
Abrams claims to be unable to remember where the name came from. Maybe that's true. Or maybe it's plausible deniability.
The final nails in Cosby's career coffin didn't come to light until well after the movie wrapped. And the script would have been written before the scandal broke.