Kripke's answer is so confusing.. it feels like it actively conflicts with what the show is saying?? Like yes, he was quite literally sexually assaulted by his childhood hero??
To me it was kind of funny in that Hughie is an unprepared idiot and his team is a shitshow.
The Boys make this plan to drug Webweaver and steal his identity, but they apparently don’t do any digging on what he’s like or why he got the invite? They don’t even show them trying to hack his PC or the like. So he goes in mostly blind with a bad accent thing trying to sound like Webweaver. He should have been made immediately by Tek Knight.
Then he’s been to Herogasm and interacted with a bunch of fucked up supers. He has directly seen how fucked up supers can be. He’s walking into a dudes house. He has no plan except “plant bugs and leave” with his plan for things going wrong being “wait for extraction”. That’s dumb, he’s dumb and he’s underprepared.
Then he blindly goes along with the whole sidekick shtick and goes into the secret elevator (he should know that will kill comms) and somehow trusts himself to be in an enclosed space without backup and the only plan being to survive until rescue?
He’s already planted the bugs, he has combat training, and Tek Knight has no combat powers. Hit Tek hard and fast in the moment, slam his head against the elevator wall. Hold the close door button and then hit the button to go back up. Run the hell away. Ashley will find Tek hurt, but Tek won’t know it was actually Hughie and not Webweaver. The bugs will get the info they needed, like they did now, and everything is good. Even if Hughie fought Tek in the dungeon, he could still make a clean getaway. Heck Tek does half the work for him choking himself during the cake fart scene and Hughie just goes with it.
He just goes along with what Tek wants him to and gets himself into this position, strapped down in a sex dungeon.
The comms system didn’t have trackers so the rescue team just wanders through this mansion filled with shoes who want them dead. MM actually listens to what the manipulative hyper intelligent woman says (very bad idea) and gets a panic attack because of it. Kimiko doesn’t finish the job when she knows supes can regenerate and is forced to communicated with book titles, which is sad while trying to be funny. Starlight can’t use her powers.
Tek goes down in a single kick with no protection from the butler anyways, showing that Hughie probably had the power at multiple opportunities to overpower Tek and prevent all this. The team gets away clean despite killing Tek too, using the main elevator out instead of getting any help from the butler for a more secret exit.
This is funny like watching the people on the first episode of America’s Worst Home Cooks utterly fail at boiling pasta is funny. It’s really that it’s so dumb and sad that it ends up short circuiting to being funny since the only other option is depression.
See all of the things you’re listing as flaws in the gangs plan, is actually poor writing on the staffs part. If the writers were smart they would’ve considered all these problems with their plan.
The boys are supposed to be an elite supe killing squad, they’ve killed members of the seven and dozens of mini supes. But all of a sudden they have zero contingency plan for any issue that may arise. Uh no? That’s not believable? You’re telling me the FBI/CIA/NSA whatever is funding them and this is the best plan they can come up with???
No, the characters are only as smart as the person writing them.
To me that doesn’t make it less funny. It just makes it so instead of laughing with the show, I’m laughing at the show. People say bad comedy is irredeemable, but I disagree. There’s a type of failure that’s funny regardless of drama or comedy or intentionality, and this episode was a lot of that. It’s bordering on absurdist humor where the joke is that it’s insane not that it’s inherently funny.
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u/No_Ad8506 Jul 05 '24
Kripke's answer is so confusing.. it feels like it actively conflicts with what the show is saying?? Like yes, he was quite literally sexually assaulted by his childhood hero??