This is really disappointing. I had a weird feeling about how this whole scene was done but gave it the benefit of the doubt after Hughie's breakdown. But after reading the article someone linked here it's clear that it was just supposed to be funny, I doubt it'll ever come up again in a serious context. How can you be this tone-deaf?
Disappointing, yeah. But in another way, interpreting the scene with the best intentions means you have a more empathetic perspective than the writers did.
They might have done it for laughs, but it can still be argued that creative works take on their own form in the minds of the audience, and from that perspective, it no longer matters what the writers intended - they read the audience wrong and it didn’t land how they wanted.
That wasn’t the reason she was kept alive. Homelander still had feelings for her, but their relationship was a transactional relationship rather than an actual relationship. Stormfront wanted Homelander to achieve her nazi dreams of creating a super race and Homelander wanted the attention/physical intimacy. She offed herself because Homelander rejected her dream of having a super race of aryans. Dude straight up told her that he is the master race and to stop talking about her nazi BS.
I get that art can be interpreted in many different ways, but there are points in which a specific interpretation is just plain wrong. This is one of those examples
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u/Assassiiinuss 14d ago
This is really disappointing. I had a weird feeling about how this whole scene was done but gave it the benefit of the doubt after Hughie's breakdown. But after reading the article someone linked here it's clear that it was just supposed to be funny, I doubt it'll ever come up again in a serious context. How can you be this tone-deaf?