It was funny to me, because they were initially on the right road with Hux, he came across as a weasel in the first movie, but a semi competent one, who wasn't afraid to talk back to Ren, or even go around him.
He built the Star Killer base, made an impassioned leadership type of speech and blew away the Republic.
He basically tells Ren to get stuffed a couple of times during the chase for the map.
He sells the Supreme leader on using the Star Killer to wipe out the resistance and gives Ren a F U I'm the man here.
Maybe the destruction of Star Killer base gave him a stroke, because then he becomes a bumbling idiot minutes later at the start of the second movie and a punch line for a lot of the jokes.
Even in the novelization of the TLJ there was a swing in narrative as the internal dialogue of the officers around him were "Yeah, he's going to fall flat on his face and die and I'm going to take his place, because he is like the worst Don Knots type of idiot in the fleet". The only thing missing was him tripping over Snoke's body to Benny Hill movie in TLJ.
God that first battle scene was terrible, from the Hugs crap, to the logic of it, to the whole BB-8 trying to fix the ship because somehow electricity in a GFFA works like a leaking damn
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