[tps_header][/tps_header]7. Rivalry between villains.
If you’ve seen the new film, you know that Kylo Ren is not alone in the villain department. There is the looming presence of Andy Serkis’ Supreme Leader Snoke, the tragically-underused Captain Phasma, played by Gwendoline Christie (deleted scenes please?), and of course, the First Order’s barking General Hux, played Domhnall Gleeson. Comparisons between Original Trilogy scenes with Vader hologram-chatting the Emperor vs. Ren doing the same with Snoke are just!
However, Force Awakens has another baddie in the room vying equally hard for Snoke’s attention. Ren and Hux are basically two brothers “trying to impress daddy” in a petty game of one-upmanship. Hux convinced Snoke to let him build an army of recruited Stormtroopers rather than clones. Ren, on the other hand, has that whole religious bond with dad – they basically go to church together to worship the evils of the Sith, and Ren kills his father for Snoke (we’ve all been there with our dads, right?) This rival-dynamic adds another dimension the First Order that A New Hope never had.
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