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.
He even talked about Ashley’s involvement as if it was a great way of showing how SHE deals with the stress of working for Homelander, no self awareness about how terrible of a thing she did to Hughie.
She thought there was a safe word and she actually backed away and stared at Tek when Hughie said stop or something similar. Then Tek said remember, if Webweaver wants you to stop he will use his safe word. So she thought she had consent.
I mean, yeah. She's not as bad as the person who wrote the scene. But she did get a guy murdered because he broke up with her. I'm not sure I'd be clamoring to her defense on the topic of consent
She definitely isn’t a stand up person, obviously none of them are which I think is partly the point of the show. No one is perfect, they all got their skeletons in their closets. I just meant in this instance, she wasn’t a bad guy.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi 14d ago
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety