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Underleveled posted...

Hux being the mole took me by surprise and actually I don't really think it was ever explained why he "needed Kylo Ren to lose."

This is one thing that people have been bothered by that I wasn't

It makes complete sense to me that Hux is such a miserable, petty motherfucker that he would try to sabotage the whole operation just because he was being pissy at Kylo for taking over

I think they didn't do anything more than that brief betrayal with Hux because he's so thoroughly irredeemable - I think his being the spy was incapable of playing a larger role in the movie because he absolutely cannot and must not have a heroic moment because he's completely unforgivable. But as far as dumb plot conveniences go in this movie, and there were a lot of them, Hux betraying Kylo Ren in this one scene to let the heroes get by made perfect sense. It gave him something to do and there really wasn't anything more they could do.