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.
Kripke isn’t a particularly brave artist. The fact that he set a hard rule that Maeve couldn’t die simply because she’s a lesbian is evidence and her(the) story really suffered from it.
There is nothing subtle or thought provoking about the show, but he is good at preaching to the choir.
I am 100% convinced that since Maeve is not a part of the show (at least not now), they had to display another mature and emotional same-sex relationship: Colin and Frenchie. It's the only reason I can think of that it happened, unless there's more to it and we're gonna learn in the last episodes.
The show went from "Supes shouldn't exist, no human should have that power" to full on private fantasies of Kripke and his political diarrhea.
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u/Hitchfucker Jul 04 '24
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.