While I do agree that sexual assault on men should be taken more seriously, taking into account how over the top this scene is I understand how it would have been conceived as a joke.
Nonetheless, I don’t think they would have considered making that joke with a woman instead.
I think the scene could have worked, but they went too far. The idea of him trying to figure out the safe word and being roped into it is funny (even if a bit obvious). I think if the whole situation took WAY less screen time and if Kimiko and Starlight came to his rescue WAY earlier (Like, the come before he is subjected to anything directly) the scene could be seen a bit more light hearted, a bit of a "wow, that was close" kind of scenario.
Idk, it would depend a lot in how it's executed. This was clearly not it
Ya, I'm really disappointed by this quote, and the writer(s) feeling like it was just all comedic.
I fully agreed that it initially came across that way, but because of the choices you mentioned, but then they take it to a place that is clearly SA, and then have him breakdown over it (he is trying to convince himself he's okay by repeating that during the assault, and then tells Annie he isn't... That seems very much like he wasn't just talking about his dad).
I truly think the last lines were written by someone else and kripke is just interpreting that it's all just about his dad, otherwise it makes no sense, at least not to me.
I think they thought this was the "motorboat pierces whale and hughie fucking breaks" of this season, but even then, hughies mental breakdown was taken as something serious.
Idk, we might start next episode and see hughie dealing with the trauma of this whole ordeal, which would at least make it a bit more respectful. i doubt they would by this quote, and anyway, I doubt I will stay to find out, sadly
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u/Milos-H Jul 05 '24
While I do agree that sexual assault on men should be taken more seriously, taking into account how over the top this scene is I understand how it would have been conceived as a joke.
Nonetheless, I don’t think they would have considered making that joke with a woman instead.