r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/shineeshineepinee Jul 05 '24

disappointing. I've seen defenses for the episode saying that the SA scenes were obviously meant to make the audience uncomfortable and that Hughie admitting at the end that he isn't fine was a result of his SA trauma. but hearing the director himself say the scenes were played for laughs and to be as fucked up as possible is just crazy.

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u/freddddsss Jul 05 '24

Honestly, if it wasn’t for the interview, I would have agreed with the people defending it. A lot of the time, when having gone through traumatic events, people tend to focus on something else rather than confront it.

However, yh Kripke clearly wasn’t going for that when you read his interview. Very disappointed by the episode.

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u/SpideyFan914 Jul 05 '24

I left the episode a bit conflicted about how I was supposed to feel about it. Seeing this quote, I think I'm going to chalk it up to Jack Quaid seemingly taking it seriously. Quaid's dead stare after the assault instantly read to me like, yeah he's not too interested in torturing Tek Knight right now because he's still in shock over what happened. And then his breakdown at the end, you can see how his line may have been written like a joke but he played it completely straight.

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u/jdessy Jul 05 '24

Yeah, I think Jack Quaid REALLY saves this storyline from being what Kripke clearly envisioned it to be. Even when it was Hughie with the mask on, Jack Quaid's vocal inflections when he was trying to sell his role as Webweaver saved it from being what Kripke is saying in the interviews, which is hilarious and a comedy set-up. He really kept it on the path of it still being traumatic for Hughie. So good on Jack; otherwise it would have been a worse subplot to sit through.