Quote Originally Posted by Narkis View Post
It might help if I clarified I have no interest in the new EU and I'm going from the movies only, where Hux is not exactly portrayed as a level-headed man concerned with the exact accuracy of his propaganda statements.
Fair. In that case, the first lines of the opening crawl of The Last Jedi states that Hux was 100% correct, so I still find that comment more than a little confusing.