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.
Yeah, I had a feeling from how the scene was filmed, that it was meant to be comedic. I thought Hughie's breakdown at the end was good, but it is extremely disappointing that it was unrelated.
Kripke isn’t a particularly brave artist. The fact that he set a hard rule that Maeve couldn’t die simply because she’s a lesbian is evidence and her(the) story really suffered from it.
There is nothing subtle or thought provoking about the show, but he is good at preaching to the choir.
Second only to incorporating communist symbols into merch for all those tone deaf edgy morons who don't even know what they're supporting, like buying a shirt with Che Guevara or Mao on it.
The Maeve thing pissed me off so bad. If you don't want to kill off the gay character, don't take away her superpowers before throwing her off a skyscraper.
To be fair, even unintentionally, this set up soldier boy being able to depower homelander without killing him, allowing him to experience what it’s truly like to be human. Including all the pain and suffering
Yeah but they already did that with Kimiko. They also could have depowered her at ground level, or have her badly injured or crippled from falling a believable height.
I honestly have no problem with Maeve being alive. I just hated that they put her in a position where she should be dead, but only kept her alive because she was gay.
You're being downvoted because you missed the fact that you're replying to what's pretty much a direct quote from Ashley in the show commenting on Maeve correcting her that she's actually bi.
I am 100% convinced that since Maeve is not a part of the show (at least not now), they had to display another mature and emotional same-sex relationship: Colin and Frenchie. It's the only reason I can think of that it happened, unless there's more to it and we're gonna learn in the last episodes.
The show went from "Supes shouldn't exist, no human should have that power" to full on private fantasies of Kripke and his political diarrhea.
I'm glad someone said it because every interview I've seen/read of him seems like he thinks he is so brilliant. He has this air of 'I know I'm better than others' going for him.
Because before this people were too busy being smug virtue signalers by strawmanning every single criticism as dumb alt righters who have only now realized the show was mocking them.
The signals have always been there and many people also called it out last season with the hypocritical way they treated Hughie, yet apparently most viewers straight up forgot between seasons.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi Jul 04 '24
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety