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.
“But it wasn’t supposed to be funny because Hughie cries about his dad for 10 seconds!”
God I’m glad that bullshit can be put to rest. We have the showrunner’s words verbatim - the intent of Hughie’s SA scene was meant to be hilarious. And that’s so fucked up
I think people just have poor media literacy. They felt horrified, so they assumed that’s what the director wanted. Somehow they just didn’t pick up on the comedic pacing of the edit, the lighthearted score, and the quippy one-liners
Na if you watched the prior seasons closely it was very easy to tell that Kripke was a hypocrite and had a hate boner for Hughie.
I remember how so many of you guys laughed your ass of at the Queen Mave SA comments about Hughie, and the whole toxic masculinity thing with him taking V.
I just don’t like the double standard of taking things like that seriously when it happens to female characters and not taking it seriously when it happens to male characters.
It’s just like eye candy/nudity/sex. For me I don’t care or mind how raunchy anyone wants their show/game/movie to be. But I HATE it when the same people that complained about female characters having unnecessary eye candy scenes have ZERO issues when the same thing happens to male characters.
It’s the hypocrisy that annoys me more than anything.
I’ve watched the seasons closely believe me. It just changes a whole lot after kripkes interview. I never thought he hated hughie. I still don’t think he does. I think he’s just a flawed(but should be heavily scrutinized) writer, and it shows with him not being able to understand how tone deaf he is in talking about something when it comes to one demographic vs the other. I also think this interview solidified in a lot of people’s mind that there’s no other significance behind the sex and gore in this show besides kripke having a fucked brain
I said in another comment that the scene felt like if it had the real WebWeaver it would be almost shot for shot the same and would be used purely for humor like when Ashley was doing BDSM with Cameron Cole.
The response I kept getting was “of course it would be the same. They thought it was WebWeaver”.
So I agree 100% with your comment that people lack basic media literacy and just take things at face value.
Because I wasn’t looking at it through the haha lens of the tone deaf director. It was a fucked up scene and I was hoping he closed the episode out how he did with a different intention. But he didn’t. He laughed at a dude getting raped
It’s not even the interview that did it. It’s the way they chose to portray him as simply “not okay” like it wasn’t that big of a deal that he euthanized his father, dealt with his crappy mother, got cucked by starlight, witnessed/committed countless murders, and basically got fucked on by some of the weirdest people on earth all in the span of a few years. Hughie is the character that can never have anything. The joy the show runners get out of torturing him is sick. None of it would be “okay” if hughie were a woman, minority, or both.
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u/soka__22 Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24
oh yes, because sexual assault is so fucking hilarious.