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LET'S TALK ABOUT ARMITAGE HUX and by talk, I mostly mean that I'm going to do a thread about him because I love that ginger with a stick up his rear but also GOOD LORD did he do some truly evil things.
I talked about this in a pre-TRoS column but Hux is a person who never really had a chance at being anything but what he was. The First Order was isolated with strong propaganda.
Still evil. You don't need a Jedi to tell you blowing up planets is wrong. http://toschestation.net/the-choice-is-yours-if-youre-willing-to-choose/
Still evil. You don't need a Jedi to tell you blowing up planets is wrong. http://toschestation.net/the-choice-is-yours-if-youre-willing-to-choose/
TRoS was so frustrating for me because while I don't completely buy Hux being the spy (that man believes in the FO), there is nothing more perfectly Hux than "I need Kylo Ren to lose." TFA that up with their rivalry and TLJ followed up with how he almost shot Kylo.
And there was so much Star Wars could have done with a General Hux who aided the Resistance purely because he's petty. And they..... didn't. He went out like a punk five minutes later. (Not that anyone cares but I worked out how he could still be alive if SW wanted...)
Let's be painfully clear: Do I think Hux deserved a happy ending? God, no. My boy did some next level evil and he deserves the consequences. The Hosnian system deserves justice.
And Pryde just shooting him? Meant he didn't really have to pay for his actions. Just his pettiness.
And Pryde just shooting him? Meant he didn't really have to pay for his actions. Just his pettiness.
I have no idea how Hux being dragged back to the Resistance would have worked but I think from a storytelling perspective, it would have been fascinating. How do you deal with an ally of convenience who is responsible for atrocities? What if they can help you win the war?
So let's assume Hux survives the war. What does justice look like? Hint: It's Hux's worst nightmare.
WAR CRIMES TRIAL WITH HIM AS THE STAR
(Why yes, a certain 1138 article *did* inspire me today.)
WAR CRIMES TRIAL WITH HIM AS THE STAR
(Why yes, a certain 1138 article *did* inspire me today.)
I've delved into this via other *cough* venues before but I genuinely think that Hux would prefer going down with his star destroyer or getting stabbed with a lightsaber to being humiliated (in his eyes) via a trial broadcast across the galaxy. The poster boy for failure.
Hux (and other First Order leaders) being tried for their crimes in a galactic court of law and then paying the price for the evil they enacted is, quite frankly, what the deserve. One "good" thing doesn't balance the scales nor should it. Atonement is a process.
My point is this: Hux dying like he did was disappointing because not only do I love the character but I think it was storytelling potential squandered. Or maybe I just really want to see evil people have to face the depth of their crimes and the subsequent consequences.
