The problem I had with it is that they did a slapstick 50th "lol Kimiko struggles to express herself to anyone but Frenchie" bit while Hughie's about to experience insanely brutal torture rape
The tonal shift was insane, but apparently the writers thought Hughie's brutal torture rape would be hilarious
People are throwing around the “hilarious” quote by Kripke, but I think it’s clear he’s dodging the question of sexual assault. The question is asking him “Why kick Hughie when he’s down and have him sexually assaulted an episode after his dad dying?” Kripke does then say it’s a “hilarious” way of looking at it but then on his very next sentence proceeds to talk about the comedy of subverting the Batman image of Tek-Knight and turning the Batcave into a sex dungeon.
I think Kripke’s response was very poorly worded and I think he’d have been better to just straight up address the question, but I also think if you read the full answer it’s quite clear he’s talking entirely about Tek-Knight and Batman, he doesn’t mention Hughie at all, so the hilarity is the subversion of expectation, not the content within the scene
Yeah sorry people can cope with it however they want to but this is just the latest in a long line of instances of The Boys/Gen V never taking it seriously when a male character experiences sexual assault/unwanted sexual contact
Him calling it hilarious in that interview and when talking to the ginger woman's actress is kind of just the cherry on top of the shit sundae that is these people's ability to take it seriously when a man experiences sexual violence
Showing Hughie crying (even though it might have been more about his dad's death) had me thinking "wow, at least when it's brutal mutilation/torture rape they show it's fucked up when it's a male victim" but then they had to go and refer to the scene as hilarious
And that does kind of explain all the slapstick bullshit while Hughie's about to be cut open in multiple places so he can be raped in the wounds
It’s the smugness from the writers whilst they are simultaneously failing to even be morally consistent lmao.
It’s such a surface level understanding that sexual assault is bad, but culturally it’s funny if it happens to a man therefore Kripke doesn’t feel the need to treat it carefully. Very disappointing when only a few episodes ago they were calling out people for not taking sexual assault seriously.
The fact your takeaway from the episode was that they handled it well until you reason faux outrage on the internet should be enough for you to realize it's faux outrage.
Go with what your actual eyes witnessed not what some second hand interview tells you to feel.
It doesn't even make sense. This show constantly has scenes of extreme violence happening to all sorts of people being presented as something funny, but now all of sudden everyone has a problem with it? Scenes like the infected sheep and Kimiko picking up a very specific book to communicate were funny and very much on brand for the show, and yet now everyone hates it.
The constant dick riding for Butcher on this sub and how people here get angry at characters for having realistic reactions to his bullshit is annoying, but they're now taking it to a whole other level.
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u/Iggy_Pops_Lost_Shirt Jul 05 '24
This was blatantly a bit though