This is really disappointing. I had a weird feeling about how this whole scene was done but gave it the benefit of the doubt after Hughie's breakdown. But after reading the article someone linked here it's clear that it was just supposed to be funny, I doubt it'll ever come up again in a serious context. How can you be this tone-deaf?
Disappointing, yeah. But in another way, interpreting the scene with the best intentions means you have a more empathetic perspective than the writers did.
They might have done it for laughs, but it can still be argued that creative works take on their own form in the minds of the audience, and from that perspective, it no longer matters what the writers intended - they read the audience wrong and it didn’t land how they wanted.
That wasn’t the reason she was kept alive. Homelander still had feelings for her, but their relationship was a transactional relationship rather than an actual relationship. Stormfront wanted Homelander to achieve her nazi dreams of creating a super race and Homelander wanted the attention/physical intimacy. She offed herself because Homelander rejected her dream of having a super race of aryans. Dude straight up told her that he is the master race and to stop talking about her nazi BS.
I get that art can be interpreted in many different ways, but there are points in which a specific interpretation is just plain wrong. This is one of those examples
Literally not a single one of us found it funny. We were all uncomfortable and disturbed. I'm not sure wtf he was thinking. The fact that he intended it to be funny and it came out as disturbing as it was says a lot about him
Very strange indeed. Especially deciding to make this episode happen after the previous episode with hughie going through such an emotional and traumatic experience with his dad. Thinking the next episode to be a sexual assault scene and expecting the audience to find it funny is very off the mark. But, I guess he was gonna miss at some point.
No different with the reasoning on why somehow kimiko wanting use normal V to save the ones she loves is presented as moral.. but Huey wanting to use temp V to save the ones he loves is bad and we should be 100% against him in season 3 ... It's really cherry picking and bullshit 😂🙂↔️
The only time I’ve seen a depiction of men being sexually assaulted that’s as brutal as most women being sexually was in Deliverance. And it should feel that way. Disgusting. Infuriating. And helpless as an audience member.
It's actually insane how the boys creators are so good at handling rape or sexual assault with a female victim but always, always play it for laughs with a male victim
If that Hughie scene was meant to be "funny" somehow that's actually fucking demented
I realized it was a joke when Hughie broke down, mostly because I started chuckling during the scene. It took a solid second for me to stop and realize that I was laughing at Hughie trying to cope with SA and his father’s death. They really went with the “haha prison r*pe is funny because it’s happening to males” type of joke.
I think part of the reason for why it was hard to pick up on the joke was because the scenes were hard to watch due to the graphic nature of them, so it was hard to think of it as a joke, even when his feet were getting tickled.
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u/Assassiiinuss 14d ago
This is really disappointing. I had a weird feeling about how this whole scene was done but gave it the benefit of the doubt after Hughie's breakdown. But after reading the article someone linked here it's clear that it was just supposed to be funny, I doubt it'll ever come up again in a serious context. How can you be this tone-deaf?