I love how Phasma has always seemed neutral at best when interacting with Hux whereas Hux always looks extremely pleased to see her and acts like he gains badass and coolness points just by interacting with her. I’m sure neither would hesitate to have the other eliminated if they got in their way, but I feel like Hux almost wishes Phasma was genuinely his best friend and Phasma is just like “I tolerate you Orange Man” @ Hux always. I’m a big fan of their butch/twink solidarity.
i know that Careful,Ren is the kylux scene but the scene where Kylo is throwing a tantrum to Snoke about Rey and Hux walks in
the way Kylo’s whole body language changes is very telling it shows that between these two characters there is some sort of history and that Kylo wants to prove something to Hux
looking back on old Kylux art, it’s amazing how the fandom’s perception of Hux has shifted from him being a hyper-competent, calculated, domineering asshole to this manipulative, vain, messy little…well, squig? and I take no issues with that, but whenever I see this encouraged by canon I think: man, some ppl must HATE this development
Disney can pry competent Hux from my cold, dead hands…
Honestly, same.
I mean, he can still be vain and manipulative, but don’t tell me my boy doesn’t know how military maneuvers work.
Tbh considering Kylo knows Hux tried to kill him and he has to bring him along everywhere despite not wanting to just so Hux can’t betray him, yet Kylo STILL keeps him alive despite already hating him for personal reasons, I feel like there’s more evidence for competent Hux than ever. Because he has to be absolutely pivotal for the functioning of the Order to be worth keeping alive at this point
Same, I hate it, well just the part about being incompetent because I don’t mind him being vain and manipulative. Still we mostly have the perspective of old imperial relicts like Canady or Peavey or people loyal to Brendol who must be biased. And well Kylo’s but he hates him (still he must value him because he wouln’t want to impress him otherwise). Hux lacks experience and is too hotheaded because of his age, but effective despite that. He had some slips here and there, but Snoke wouldn’t make him basically grand marshal without a title if he was completely useless. We need young officers’ and Phasma’s opinions on him.
there is no reason for Hux to not have actually shot Kylo when he was unconscious on the floor and no explanation for why Kylo didn’t actually kill Hux when he was force choking him
not to sound like a damn hux stan again but the range of his eye colour is so cool it’s terrifying? one moment they’re like this sharp, icy blue that cuts your throat and freezes you until you’re in a captain america like coma and the next they’re this deep, void-like black that makes him look like a goddamn demonic overlord? i mean all nice, all neat, just surprised the FO officers under his command can withstand that look without freaking the fuck out
The idea that The Last Jedi has prominent phallic/yonic symbolism and that the sexual implications of these are essential for the identity formation and ‘inevitable union’ of Kylo Ren and Rey comes up time and time again, with a healthy dose of discussion of the incest taboo, castration, the symbolic act of killing the father and the son’s repentance. The following meta is a polite cough to draw attention to the fact that while referring to the ideas of Freud, Lacan (and the post-Lacanians), Riviere and Lévi-Strauss to support these arguments might seem to be a well-informed approach, it has toxic implications that must be kept in mind.
First of all: these theories are all theoretically flawed and self-contradictory, because they stem from the same misinformed idea:
Any psychoanalytic theory that prescibes a developemental process that presupposes the accomplishement of a given father-son or mother-daughter identification mistakenly conflates the Symbolic with the real and misses the critical point of incommensurability that exposes “identification” and the drama of “being” and “having” the Phallus as invariably phantasmatic.
Jacqueline Rose in Feminine Sexuality
The fact that these theories are largely bullshit had been debunked by several contemporary academics and philosophers other than Rose (Foucault’s Law and Order comes to mind) merely by pointing out their initial flaws doesn’t mean that they’re dangerous, however. The way they inherently deny female agency and any hope of a healthy relationship is much more problematic, and explicitely anti-feminist.
The Symbolic order creates cultural intelligibility through the mutually exclusive positions of “having” the Phallus (the position of men) and “being” the Phallus (the paradoxical position of women). The interdependancy of these positions recall the Hegelian structure…the unexpected dependency of the master on the slave in order to establish his own identity through reflection.
Judith Butler in Gender Trouble (pp60)
So if we understand Rey’s character through the phallogocentric framework, her only role is to allow Kylo to establish his identity through reflection; and Kylo has no hope of redeeming himself, only through ‘enslaving’ Rey. If there’s a fix-it, it’s outside of the framework. Sounds bad? There’s more.
The naturalization of both heterosexuality and masculine sexual agency are discursive constructions nowhere accounted for but everywhere assumed within this* founding structuralist frame
Ibid (pp58) * referring to the phallogocentic framework (used in the aforementioned analyses of TLJ)
Any form of homosexuality or female/male equality is impossible within this analytcal framework. The yoni (the vagina; arguably, the cave Rey falls into and the cave on Crait hiding the mother) will always be a lack, a mere vessel for the phallus. Kylo’s inavibility to penetrate the cave or Rey grabbing the phallic lightsaber is not a girlpower moment, because girlpower simply doesn’t exist, isn’t allowed to exist within the phallogocentric framework – and neither does homosexuality. Which might be very well if you headcanon both of them to be 100% straight, but if you apply psychoanalysis to the movie it means that no one else can be gay/bi/pan/ace/anything else either, because the only sexuality allowed within this framework is a compulsory heterosexuality. Please don’t support homophobic theories. Just don’t. Prior to the incest taboo there is a taboo of homosexuality; the primacy of the maternal attraction is arbitrary (Butler again, pp81).
I love in FO the situation is considered beyond fuck when even Hux is gone. On normal days he’s totally the workaholic, who’s always the last to leave.
I love how the morale is high even when under attack because it’s like, “Hux has got this. He’s the Youngest General Ever. I’m sure he has a plan even when the fuel cells get hit!”
Where nobody acknowledges they might die until Hux is gone and then they’re like, “SHIT WE MUST BE ABOUT TO DIE. OUR SLYTHERIN LEADER IS GONE.”
Also the fact that some people apparently haven’t noticed Hux is gone which suggests he didn’t so much Leave as Go To Inform Supreme Leader Of The Situation and then not come back.
Brains over Brawn. He is certainly not the physically strongest officer in the First Order, yet he has managed to work his way up to one of the highest ranks through cunning planning and probably a healthy dose of calculated backstabbing. Domhnall Gleeson says, regarding Hux’s rise in the First Order, “You don’t get that high up in your life that quickly unless you’re pretty ruthless. You have to put a few people down on the way to get there.” Hux is a tactician through and through, and this translates in the way he leads the First Order.
People always say that Hux must be an evil, heartless monster because he murdered his father and felt no remorse, and compare that to Kylo’s reaction to killing his father.
But can I just remind everyone that Brendol Hux was mentally and physically abusive for all of Armitage Hux’s life, and so they had a completely different relationship to that of Han and Ben.
I’m not trying to make excuses for Hux or say that he was right to kill his father. I’m just saying that it’s a little unfair to compare the two situations.
I’m always amazed by people who sympathize with Ben but not Hux. No, Hux doesn’t show conflict anymore. Can you really expect him to?
At the end of the day, Ben’s parents did love him. Ben was misunderstood and all that, and I’m not going to try to downplay the struggles he went through.
But, Hux was actively abused by his father. He didn’t know his mother, which means he was either forced away from her by his father… Or, his mother didn’t want to keep him.
He didn’t meet anyone who stood up for him until he was eight years old. And, instead of loving him, they gifted him power. Power over other people. He was taught to use power and violence to protect himself. Rae Sloane validated that by offering to protect him from his father if Hux protected her from his child warriors. Then Sloane tells Brendol to teach Armitage everything he knows.
Brendol, probably the worst human being to exist in Star Wars. Brendol, the man who ran an Empire Academy for children, where he encouraged them to murder each other for favor. Brendol, the man who promised Phasma a better life for herself and her people, then instructed her to leave behind her one surviving friend. Then bombed her planet.
Armitage Hux is messed up. I don’t see him being redeemed. That’s why I sympathize so much. That’s why I feel so strongly about him. He was born in the wrong place at the wrong time to the wrong people, and it makes me so sad. He’s too far gone, and it’s too tragic for me to deal with.
TechieHux 