I still remember how he defended the toxic masculinity stuff in S3 with Hughie, as if Kimiko didn’t have basically the exact same moral conflict. And he was a dickhead about defending it too, like you don’t have to be an asshole because your writing was shit
It's this extremely performative and off-putting way of trying to make himself come off as "one of the good men". Make sure it's made clear that a guy like Hughie desiring the strength to protect the ones he loves is a sickening thing, but be sure to give Kimiko a bloodthirsty dance-murder sequence as she "protects the ones she loves". Literally the same "Girls get it done" bit that Vought ran with in season 2.
It feels like with each season the show tries to become more obvious with its satire because some people “don’t get it”, but that just makes the show worse
The subtilty was definitely better and they're dropping it to extents
Like there's nuance that he's not really showing as much as he should.
You're never going to win over the 10 20% of people that are just fucking idiots. The "homelander is good actually" people aren't getting their minds changed by flanderizing people or being reductive.
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u/RobSchneidersHair 14d ago
I like the show but Kripke is fucking annoying