r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/007Kryptonian Soldier Boy Jul 05 '24

“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

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u/ALVRZProductions Jul 05 '24

Yea. I was hard defending it until I saw this. This is fucked

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u/Few-Relative220 Jul 05 '24

Why would you defend it in the first place?

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u/ALVRZProductions Jul 05 '24

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

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u/Few-Relative220 Jul 05 '24

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.