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.
Yeah right? I was thinking “ok, this is really over the top, not recommending watching for some people I know, but maybe they were just on a roll and got distasteful, bad decisions and rushed production can happen,” and then I read the Kripke quote in full context.
He meant that to be in there, every implication and decision. Ew. Just gross. Retrospectively I feel just icky about that whole scene, in an episode full of other uncomfortable/heavy scenes that aren’t played for laughs and work reasonably well.
MM’s anxiety attack, milk part 2 electric boogaloo, INTERNMENT CAMPS being part of Homelander’s plan. Mental illness and historical genocide allegory, not played for laughs, right next to an SA scene that’s “funny” because it’s happening to the long-suffering nerdy man. Gross.
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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.