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⌈ Secret Post #4022 ⌋

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[fscom]

08. https://i.imgur.com/5lbMKeS.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

I really wanted to see more of a pissing match between him and Kylo over who would be the Supreme Leader. I kinda have a thing for Hux too thanks to Reylux fanfic haha

[(Anonymous)]

rec my your faves, please anon!

A fellow Reylux fan

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't been reading much lately but these are the 2 that turned me on to it:

"A Dance of Titans" by Lucidlucy (http://archiveofourown.org/works/6771919/chapters/15477367)

"Breaking Point" by Alania (http://archiveofourown.org/works/6350893/chapters/14549041)

Hope the linkage works...

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks!

Dance of Titans was one of the first Reylux five I read, but it's probably been updated since June, so thanks for the reminder! and making me feel like I just be on the good shit, lol.

Will certainly check out the other link!

If you're looking for some good Rey/Hux smut, then Manners by LucidLucy on AO3 may be your jam. I feel like some people may consider some of the events to be slightly dubcon, sort of, maybe not even really...but it's not tagged, so I guess it depends on what you consider dubcon/your threshold)...it's really good though.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, anon! I'll check that out -- dubcon is right up my alley lol

[(Anonymous)]

No problem! me too lol

Please feel free to share any of those too! lol

[(Anonymous)]

There's one I found when I was looking for the OTHER Breaking Point story that someone recced to me:

"Breaking Point" by davechicken (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7239058)

Lotsa warnings on this one, it's dark & delish

[(Anonymous)]

MMMM! <3 Thank you!!!

Also, you're fucking great for checking back on this post. When I find anons like this, I wish we weren't anon, so we could continue swapping finds lol

[(Anonymous)]

Haha! I know what you mean! I would de-anon myself (I gots nothin' to hide!) but I don't have a dreamwidth account :) and last time I tried to do the openID thing I messed it up somehow or it just didn't work.

[(Anonymous)]

I was so disappointed in Hux in TLJ. In TFA, I was really intrigued by him and the First Order in general. I wanted to know more about the logistics and society, and Hux's relationship to everyone else. There was so much that I thought was really interesting.

For TLJ, the butt-monkey thing soured me. Hux lost all credibility as a villain. I had a sense in the first movie that he was competent. I think the guy who got killed at the beginning of TLJ was the only competent First Order officer in TLJ. And that really stripped a lot of tension out of the Poe/Finn/Rose storyline because I didn't feel how threatened they were. Snoke and Kylo didn't seem to care about that really.

I do really like Hux. I like background characters that have a lot of potential to explore. But I now feel that Star Wars doesn't really care. Rian threw away whatever setup didn't work for him, and JJ will throw away whatever doesn't work for him. Rinse and repeat. There isn't going to be any consistency or overall worldbuilding - it's all about the needs of the particular movie, which has really dampened my interest in the sequel trilogy as a whole.

[(Anonymous)]

I keep hearing this but IDGI. He procured a tracking system that nearly wipes out all the major players of the resistance. He's momentarily humiliated as often as we'd expect a second tier villain to be, but he's not incompetent.

[ninety6tears]

+1 Like, what am I missing here?

[(Anonymous)]

+1000
Hux still proved himself to be a competent General. I really don't understand people who called him the 'buttmonkey' of the movie. He was able to wipe out most of the Resistance!

Sure, he was owned by Poe in the beginning but I see it as IC that he would be arrogant enough to buy into it. Snoke used his powers on him, sure, but he got back into his good books with the tracing system.

He has no Force powers so had no choice to go with Kylo after he Force choked him. Even then, Hux still refused to be subservient to him, forcing Kylo to use his powers on him again. Hux clearly has no leverage when it comes to Kylo's abilities. To me, that doesn't make him a buttmonkey but does make him interesting. His look at Kylo, on Crait at the end told me that, going into ep 9, he is not going to accept being under Kylo's command and control and will turn against him, at some point.

In fact, in this film, Hux went from a character I wasn't too bothered about, to one I'm most interested in seeing what happens to, in the next film.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't get it either. He's a way more interesting as a character in TLJ, even with the comedy being at Hux's expense.

[(Anonymous)]

Read less kylux.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read kylux. I've stayed away from the sequel trilogy stuff and gone back to the prequels.

[(Anonymous)]

First of all, it seems like what you liked about TFA was less anything that it presented, and more the fact that because it didn't present anything, you were able to imagine interesting things. Which is fine, but it's not really a strength of TFA as a film, any more than it's a weakness of TLJ.

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I now feel that Star Wars doesn't really care.

Since when has Star Wars cared about stuff like that, in main-line movies? The deal with Star Wars has always kind of been that they present all this unspecified, throwaway stuff in the movies, and then every single bit and morsel of it gets elaborated on in the Expanded Universe continuity.

The original series, for instance, was certainly never interested in explaining what was going on with Boba Fett. He was just this guy. And the fact that the prequels were really invested in that stuff was one of the problems wit the prequels.

Hux was never what you wanted him to be. And Star Wars was always a series of space adventure films, not an exercise in logically consistent worldbuilding.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, you're misreading me. I don't expect all that stuff to be in the movies but I did expect some thought to be put into it. And I expected it because Star Wars promised it. What I mean by that is that Rogue One included Saw from Clone Wars and also mentions Hera from Rebels and has cameos from the OT. Saw was then put into Rebels. There was a concerted effort to tie in things together. Who Saw was wasn't in the movie because that's not the place for it. But I felt that there was care being put into the backstories of people. The actors could use this backstory to inform their performances and the set/costumes would reflect this, etc. It wasn't expressly in the script but it was still there in the background and could be expanded on in the EU.

For the sequel trilogy, I expected about the same but without Filoni or someone like that, I just don't think they care. Rian said he had no constraints when it came to writing; there was nothing about the characters or the arcs that was defined. The Phasma book and comic built her up so that it looked like the EU was trying to salvage her character but TLJ just threw her away again. The new Crait comic and the Leia novel contradict each other in a major way. I'm seeing a lot less care when it comes to the sequel trilogy. JJ just handed over his script idea for episode 9 and had it approved. It wasn't set out when the trilogy began. There's nowhere this trilogy was always heading, which wasn't the impression I got right after TFA. And that really deflates me.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not surprised that JJ didn't plan ahead for the next two movies. When has he ever?

[fishnchips]

Agreed so much!
I want villains to be threatening. In addition to the (very good) reasons you brought up, villains being incompetent and pathetic only makes heroes seem even more incompetent and pathetic if they fail.

[(Anonymous)]

haha you’re not alone, this also happened to me recently and i have no idea why

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to the club, OP. :) I've also become oddly obsessed by Hux, of late (and Domhnall, in general. Not usually my type at all. But there is no doubt he is a fantastic actor. I think that's a major part of the appeal, for me.)

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I must admit, Kylo's upgrade in TLJ has made Mr. Jr. Scene-Chewing Cliche become more attractive, if only by association. He still seems like a young turk playacting at being Tarkin though. I more expect him to have a business plan for raw water in his back pocket.