You know, when Hux popped up in TLJ, I didn't even know that he was a character from TFA, cause he was such a lame and boring buffoon that I didn't even know he was supposed to be the dude that gave the speech in TFA.
A shame, I get the feeling the actor would be more than capable of delivering a really good performance if the script wasn't shit.
This can be said about everything the new loresets up, though. They establish something, it contradicts something in a major way, so they try to come up with a work-around to fix this issue and create half a dozen more issues by doing so.
If this turns out to be true, then this is the first indication that this whole thing has turned into a giant, autistic tug-of-war between Jar Jar Abrams and Ruin Johnson, where Abrams sets something up, Johnson shits on it and then Abrams shits on whatever Johnson did.
Guess "Your parents were nobody" and the mirror scene in TLJ meant "Your parents were
sooper speshul".
Crazy-Cat-Lady representation matters.
Seriously, I can't get over how shitty that costume looks. jfc.
I always thought Darth Maul looked silly and I could not take him seriously as the villain, but killing him off made him even more of a joke.
The ST suffers from the same issue, amusingly, only to a much larger extend. The OT suffered from villains being replaced by some other dude that the viewer didn't care about. The ST now pretty much the same, only applied to pretty much every aspect of the movie.
I sort of imagine a scene where Kylo gives good old Sheev a call, asks him if he has some awesome plans for a giant, spherical doomsday weapon that, can blow up whole planets. Sheev goes "Leave me alone, kid", hangs up on Kylo (who then proceeds to mope and play with his teddy bears) while Sheev goes "giant spherical doomsday weapon, that can blow up whole planets, huh?" and it is revealed that this was just a few hours after he took over the Senate on Coruscant.
If WokeWars has given us one thing, then it's nonsensical explanations for things we never asked for, that is just an attempt of the new lore to elbow its way into the old lore. So how about an explanation on how Sheev got his idea for a giant, spherical doomsday weapon?