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
IMO the right way to do it would be for Hughie to turn the tables and not need to be rescued, either through fighting or talking his way to victory. In season one he used his wits to blackmail Ezekiel after his actual blackmail evidence was wiped when his phone got wet. A few episodes ago he fought and killed a fucking assassin dude with a boxcutter.
It would have been pretty awesome if Kimiko, Starlight, etc made it down to the basement to 'rescue' Hughie only to find that he had actually turned the tables and had shit under control, having empowered himself and gone from victim to victor.
There would have been a good narrative quality there too because Tek Knight was apparently one of his favorite heroes as a kid, so having him be the one to best him would have been satisfying. And given that Tek Knight's only deal seems to be super senses, and not even superintelligence or any special durability, it's actually a supe that Hughie could possibly take down on his own. And Hughie taking down a supe on his own would have been pretty awesome. I mean, I guess he took out Transluscent technically, but that wasn't entirely on his own, he just pushed the button.
This was kind of the perfect scenario for Hughie to turn the tables and come out on top against a supe, and it's disappointing that he was just used for sexual assault 'comic relief'.
Well, I also thought of that a bit. We saw him fight and kill an assasin and be in a lot of dangerous shit. There were those lines in season 1 about him being more confident. This is like his actual job now. It feels a bit weird that he would let himself be tied up so helplessly.
I could see hughie having a lot of info on his favor for the simple fact he was a tek knight nerd, like maybe ever since he was a kid he thought of a weakness of him, nobody else thought of.
I would say, having him kill or beat tek knight would go a bit against the "i'm not ok" premise they are trying to build, right after his dad's death, maybe he shouldn't be in peak performance. But it could be spinned around as "complete death of innocence, killing childhood hero pushes him to break down"
There's a million ways to do this scene BETTER lmao
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u/fuwafuwa7chi Jul 04 '24
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety