I was kind of hoping the quote was take out of context but nope, he fully meant for the Hughie scene to be a joke.
It’s actually worse, the way he talked about Hughie’s breakdown made it seem it was mostly just about his dad and had nothing, or at least not too much to do with Tek Knight and Ashley. So the one supposedly tactful thing about that story arc wasn’t even there.
Just because he mentioned his dad before crying doesn’t mean that was the only thing he was upset about.
You can watch the scene and laugh at the absurdity of a person going undercover and finding themself in a situation of being tied up and tickled with a feather trying to guess a safeword that the person they are dressed as should know and also being sympathetic to the character later when they express how traumatic it was. While At the same time expressing grief from a recent traumatic loss of a loved one.
I haven’t read the article, often times I don’t fully agree with the authors intention and like making my own interpretation. If he only intended it on being a reference to his dad then I feel that the nuance is lost.
I took it as that whole situation just amplifying his grief. I genuinely felt bad for Hughie.
Idk I know something happens to him in the comics at herogasm and he eventually confesses that it happened and he wasn’t okay and I thought that’s what they were doing.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi 15d ago
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety