Tag: I feel like it’s probably 1 but I am hoping so hard for 2 that I’m setting myself up to be profoundly disappointed

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donnagers:

They literally had no idea how fandom would latch onto Hux. Like, no idea.

They don’t even mention him by name in the behind the scenes footage, let alone interview Domhnall about his character.

It’s hilarious.

I mean they talked to Andy Serkis about Snoke and like, who gives a fuck, dude is a fugly old hologram creep. 

They talked to Gwendoline Christie, bless her soul, about Phasma, who has less to do in the film and whose helmet never even comes off. (which is like, rude, please give her more to do in the next movie)

Like, seriously. Tell me about this angry ginger twink who talks like he’s always giving a fucking speech (and totally gets off to actually giving a speech). Apparently he hates Kylo Ren? Buddy, me too, please elaborate.

1. Maz-style “Where is my boyfriend?”
2. Where is the lie, though?

I haven’t gotten the behind the scenes footage yet, but i was actually looking forwards to it because i thought there would be hux – so i’m honestly really disappointed right now.

I also think it’s kind of rude to not even interview Gleeson about his character? I mean, he plays a big role, and it seems he’s generally ignored in interviews and Star Wars photoshoots? I genuinely hope that’s his own choice, and that he’s not just being completely ignored.

This also annoys me with the merchandise – I understand that they didn’t think he’d be as popular as he is, but he’s not on a single fucking poster i’ve seen. You’ve got Rey, Finn, Poe, Kylo, Phasma and a bunch of troopers. Never Hux.

Bleh- I was really looking forwards to knowing more about Hux

There are four possible reasons for this:

1. Hux isn’t an important character in the SW verse and won’t feature heavily in the future. Snoke and Phasma will be more important in future, and that’s why they’re getting the merch/focus now: to draw your attention to them early. I hate this and hope this is not the case, but it’s possible.

2. In an exact reversal of the above: Hux’s backstory is telling and he is an important character, but they want this to be a surprise, so they are diverting attention to others in the hopes that they
won’t anticipate his future importance.

3. Hux wasn’t important, but they have realised since that he has been
taken quite to heart by the fans and thus will have a larger (not large,
but larger) role in the future, BUT they can’t be bothered to spend time/money/effort on retconning him into the pre-planned promotional materials now when they can just include him in the Ep8 stuff instead.

4. The lack of Hux-related stuff is purely a combination of issues with logistics and marketing and infers nothing either way about Hux’s character: i.e., they simply want to put focus on their female and POC characters as a selling point, and Gleeson is/was an extremely busy man who wasn’t very available. Rather than trying to pin down one very busy person hopping between multiple projects and probably on-set for far less time than the others, they expended their efforts for the BTS stuff on the people most available to them– like Daisy, John, and Adam, who were around a lot because of their larger roles. Likewise, they put Phasma up front and center in their promo materials because they don’t want this to be seen as “another generic-white-male-dominated movie where the ladies are pushed out of the merch” as happened with the Avengers and other recent blockbusters, and which (justifiably) made people mad. In this case, we can infer very little about Hux’s importance, except to assume he’s less important than the main characters, which sadly, we could probably have assumed already.

I’m hoping for #2, but honestly, only time will tell. 😥

I’m gunning for #2.

I just can’t get past the fact that every.single.character in TFA has a full name – down the band members in Maz’s cantina – except Hux. That is really telling. I feel like they are holding some reveal back and trying to make him as unassuming as possible.

And that tweet– General Hux’s first name has not been decided?! Fuck off. As if! As you say, the tiniest bit players have backstories, and Hux could so easily have been killed off this movie. So easily. Like Tarkin, he could have gone down with his ship. He has zero merch, they could so easily have made him a throwaway character.

But they didn’t.

And they allowed a book to go to press featuring his damn father. Why bother if he has no real importance to the SW universe? Why bother making the First Order’s goals/ideals match up so much with what his dad was pushing in that book?

And finally: why bother hiring an actor like Gleeson– who is, let’s face it, fucking amazing, and so ridiculously in demand that I imagine getting him on-set is a bit of a challenge. They could so easily have cast somebody with no other commitments– and curiously, if you take a peep at his IMDB, apart from jokes about pineapples, you’ll see he has nothing else in the works right now apart from two movies in post. Coincidence? I’m hoping not.