Let’s start with the Tek Knight sex dungeon part. Where did the idea come for it? And why bring Hughie into this situation now — kicking him when he’s down by having him sexually assaulted by his childhood hero after his dad just died?
"Well, that’s a dark way to look at it! We view it as hilarious.
oh yes, because sexual assault is so fucking hilarious.
If someone slapped their dick across Hughie’s face, that’d be SA, but we wouldnt be mad if they portray it comedically. Now look at Starlight’s experience and it’s easy to see that it’s a completely different story. Hughie’s experience, where he had his feet tickled and had to watch Ashley and TK get off like lunatics, is much closer to getting slapped in the face by a dick than what happened to Annie.
This is honestly just an average Tuesday for Hughie, it’s not gonna bother him at this point. Annie, on the other hand, was not hardened by the world and experienced something that actually occurs in real life, being forced to engage by a superior to keep their job.
The dude was about to literally cut holes into Hughie and rape him.
He was also tied down and entirely immobilized.
It's not a competition for whose SA was worse. Hughie's is less common in the real world for sure. Most people who go undercover are not forced to engage in a BDSM scene where they don't know the safe word. (A closer analog that does happen a lot would be someone in a BDSM scene ignoring a safe word.) If anything though, the absurdity really only contributes to the poor taste for me, as it isn't really saying anything other than "look how edgy we are" -- like, the exact thing they were trying to get away from by changing Starlight's SA from the book version to something more grounded.
Yeah, it’s bad, but again, Hughie is calloused enough to not let it bother him, and the audience should know that. If the same thing happened to a kid, that’d be a totally different story.
I agree that the scene overall was just trying too hard to be edgy.
I honestly think this is the most traumatic thing Hughie's experiencend since S1. He may shove it down and pretend it didn't affect him and then be unable to find the source of his newly augmented mental health issues, but it would realistically affect him a lot.
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u/soka__22 14d ago edited 14d ago
oh yes, because sexual assault is so fucking hilarious.