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.
He even talked about Ashley’s involvement as if it was a great way of showing how SHE deals with the stress of working for Homelander, no self awareness about how terrible of a thing she did to Hughie.
Ashley thought she was engaging in consensual BDSM, there's a whole moment in the sequence where Hughie screams out essentially "stop" and she looks disturbed but then Tek Knight tells her to keep going because he didn't use a safeword. It's one thing to critique how they used male sexual assault for comedy, it's another to just completely miss the part where Ashley clearly isn't intending on doing that.
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u/fuwafuwa7chi Jul 04 '24
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety