Tek-Knight is based on Batman. In the comics, Bruce Wayne's ancestors Solomon and Joshua Wayne were abolitionists. They ran part of the Underground Railroad through the caves under Wayne Manor. That's why Tek-Knight's ancestors were slave catchers.
@@Cody92HAHAHAHA you’re so fucking funny man honestly I almost had a cardiac arrest when I read your comment, please let us all hear another comedic and hilarious comment from you
It actually reminded me of a Family Guy episode, the one spoofing Star Wars: the Return of the Jedi. Everybody’s in the desert above the Sarlach pit, and there’s just this endless chain of them nodding.
By now many people have already guessed that Kessler was in Butcher’s head but the way they revealed it was better than I imagined by having him yell at Becca.
Yeah the idea of the reveal is good but the actor overacted a bit too much. When Becca and Kessler were talking, Kessler talked way too different and overexcited compared to how he normally talks. It seemed so off that the reveal twist came too early before he attacked becca.
People keep acting like what happen to Huey isn’t that bad due to it being tickling when tickle torture is a thing and considered psychologically damaging. Ever got tickled and the person wouldn’t stop it starts to feel bad as the body reacts. I feel like the easiest way people feel more remorse is put someone you would feel bad about in the situation and see if it’s okay “assuming you think it’s okay or can’t empathize with Huey and think it was played for a joke.”
@@LuisGarcia-bw2kpoh yeah it's disgusting the way Hughie's sexual assault/rape is represented in the show compared to when it happened to Annie or Becca as well the way people react to it
@@DrHannibal1105as messed up as that was (and it was) it’s not even equal. Starlight believed she was being blackmailed from a position of power, she still had the option to say no and walk away.
Imagine that scene again, but with Hughie being a woman. None of you would've laughed but rather have all disgusted faces instead. 23:37 While not just a quote from Butcher, it also feels like a reference to his fucked up dad who beat the shit out of him & Lenny.
@@mantasa0000the comics have their own X-Men called the g-men but their professor x is a pedophile. If they ever do then I got a feeling they may appear on Gen V
@@mantasa0000 Professor X is Cindy in this universe. We haven't seen her since she's been released from prison. It would be hilarious and terrifying if in the final scene of this show she popped Homelander and completed his plan.
You're the first reactors to catch the Bill O'Reilly reference lol. As expected. Also, "Zendaya" was the safe word because well... Webweaver is obviously Spider-Man. Also, the gimp was Laddio, Tek-Knight's original sidekick.
I really hope Hughie gets the help he deserves after his father’s death and the fact that he was sexually assaulted. We really need the return of the father son relationship he has with Butcher, i really feel for him
Hilariously, my mother asked me *how's The Boys,* and I said *"It's good, and also graphic, very graphic."* After this episode, that's an understatement, lol.
@@moe5020WOAH this season has been shaky for sure only episode 4 has had me locked in. If the next two don’t pick up the pace I’ll have to consider it a bust. It does seem through like this season is more of a buildup.
It’s so goofy firecracker needs to let it go aren’t they in their 30s now. It should’ve been something bigger like idk Annie blinded her /beat her up before a comp and ruined her chances of a record deal, honey boo type reality tv show or a scholarship
@@marwayoongi1294 I imagine it doesn’t help that she hadn’t gotten to that level of success in life she imagined she’d have reached by now. Also factor in that Starlight more or less knew immediately what she was talking about. That highly suggests it was a big deal for both of them: enough to make Starlight feel extra guilty and ashamed, and for Firecracker to have been understandably traumatized. PTSD for children from bullying is a real thing and it is very hard to just “move past that.”
21:27 I'm pretty sure the medication that we saw in Firecracker's *gun purse* in episode 4 that made her produce milk 💀 is probably why her power is *"lackluster"* as Sage said in episode 2
She had no reason to believe she would ever meet Homelander, let alone be in the seven. Her powers were lame when Sage was recruiting her. There would be no reason to take those pills until she knew she could get close to him.
@@MichaelaEvans we never see her taking them, but when Frenchie is going through her stuff, he find boxes of pills and the name is visible, so, just like the lobotomy tool, some people knew what it was about before the actual reveal
I’m not a super religious person but if the afterlife is real that means just after Hughie’s dad passed away one of the very first things he was watching over was his son getting sexually assaulted.
by his childhood hero, last episode they were telling the story of Hughie being super excited for his Tek Knight action figure, over his father's deathbed
this episode and kripke's response to it are an embarrassment. really bad taste. no idea why y'all seemingly found hughie's breakdown post SA hilarious either
Lmao Tek Knight's Alfred was so funny to me for some reason. I loved this episode. They did a good job of making it uncomfortable without nudity and it sticks to the source material. It's much worse in the comic.
@@carwynwilliams7398 I just didn't like how he was proud of his slave catcher ancestors. Plus his weird sexual deviancies. Made me glad when he was gone.
We were meant to laugh at his reaction to farting on the cake, p'd on and the other nasty stuff. It was great writing to transition the comedy of it all with the tragedy of having to put down his dad.
@@azrael_morningstar because as friends you should be there for each other in their time of need....you are essentially saying soldiers should receive 0 empathy or compassion because they "entered the rabbit hole" themselves. get some empathy you psycho
@@gravy2895 he literally pretended to be someone else who consented to do this. It wasn't until Ashley left was he actually assaulted considering before that he was literally playing along.
There is a huge contrast between those two scenes. What happened to Annie could happen in any real word boss/employee dynamic. What happened to Hughie is so badshit insane it would never happen in the real world. I mean seriously, no SA victim has ever been forced to fart on a cake while the abuser hangs himself, and a gimp suit sex slave watches,. Like, c'mon. I thought this episode was hilarious.
It was NOT sexual assault. Hughie disguised himself as someone Tek Knight already had sexual relations with and lied about it. Ashley even immediately backs away when he says to stop. They were not there to assault Webweaver, who they thought Hughie was, and Hughie kept up the act. That is MUCH different than someone exploiting a power dynamic for a sexual act like Deep did to Starlight.
@@edwardmiller4562 "You don't understand; these are two completely different circumstances. In one, a person trying to be good and do the right thing is cornered by their childhood idol (who is in a position of power over them) and threatened with losing all of the progress they've worked years for unless they perform sexual favours for said childhood idol. And the other is... its different you guys just don't get the joke." only difference is in Hughie's situation his life was at stake, with Starlight it was her hopes, dreams, everything she'd worked for her entire life, but not her life.
The Boys proved another point about society. Every reaction video has people cringing, but also laughing, at Hughie being assaulted. Just like "prison rape" has been used as a joke for years. Society, as a whole, treats males being sexually assaulted as a joke. An insult to the victim.
@@MrkDorker That's even worse and proves the point further. I doubt those scenes would even exist if they wrote Annie or Kiriko to be in Hughie's position, and if they did exist, the situation would be taken seriously 100%. He was sexually assaulted, tortured and nearly mutilated to be raped. What makes that funny and would it still be funny if it was a female character?
@@MrkDorkerYou literally just proved his point, lol... How society makes light or jokes about male S.A. Just bc the writer intended it to be funny doesn't mean it is. This literally goes back to what he said. How society views male SA. Eric is a part of this society. I ask. If that were Starlight or Kimiko, would it have been funny? I already know the answer. No. No it would not. If it is S.A for a woman it is S.A for a man.
Well, seeing male-on-female SA in fiction on a tv show might not make the average viewer laugh, but at the same time the average person still doesn’t believe female victims irl, so it's hardly going any better there.
POV: One of the female cast, like Annie, is SA'd and tortured, potentially causing lifelong trauma. Reactor's *FIRST* reaction: Omg, that's so f'd up! Poor Annie! 😤😥 Hughie is SA'd and tortured, potentially causing lifelong trauma. Reactor's *FIRST* Reaction: 22:05 & 22:14
gotta be honest, yall are the forth channel I've seen react to this and, not surprisingly, yall are the first I've seen who cracked up laughing when our main character started crying about being sexually assaulted and mercy killing his dad
He literally said "Ashley rubbed one out while tickling my feet" when they started laughing, and the entire sexual assault scene was played as funny by the tv writers, not the reactors. Are you telling me you were sat, intensely serious, as you watched Hughie sit and fart on a cake? It wasn't a case of rape, he was willingly going along with everything to maintain cover, I don't understand why you're taking it so seriously when literally no one needs you to
@@demi8890 yeah he was willingly going along with the depraved sex shit while a screaming slave was chained to the wall 5 meters away from him, and if he blew his cover they would have killed him he definitely wasn't desperately trying to guess the safeword because of how uncomfortable he felt while still trying to stay alive Did starlight willingly go along with The Deep? He didn't hold her down he said "if you don't do this I'll make sure you get blacklisted" by your logic that's not serious. By my logic they're both serious.
@@demi8890 bro invented a new level of strawmanning never before seen by the human race. Actually crazy homie please take your schizo meds and take a nap then come back.
@@Brandonweifu Tf are you talking about? The show portrays what happened to Annie as a bad thing. There was no slapstick comedy, Eric Kripke said it was important to get that right for real victims of SA. And then he makes a mockery of it in this episode and calls Hughie not knowing the safe word as he's assaulted a "perfect comedy set up"
@@knightmare5097do they? When he cries at the end he talks only about missing his dad. Happy to give the show the benefit of the doubt that they will address it more seriously in later episodes, but they definitely don’t address the trauma from his assault here. And, based on the interview with the show runner, it doesn’t sound particularly likely.
I feel like Dennis from Always sunny directed this episode with the pitch he had: "Here is the twist, we show it, all of it" if you remember that episode
The fact that they didn’t protest the statement made by Victoria that “people are too dumb to be entrusted with elections” (paraphrasing) was quite interesting since they protested the idea of a electoral college in the Succession election episode. The electoral college is what was created to prevent the former from happening.
When Kimiko dropped her phone, she could have gotten it in less than 10 seconds. She scaled that wall super easy barely an inconvenience. I see that they did that for the "drama" of the books scene, but I swear if that phone comes back and bites them in the ass.
@@xandermarcus it's a dropped phone. Not flattened by an asphalt roller. You can get data from a dropped phone, even more so the biggest company in the world, with ultra scifi tech, Vought can. I'm not saying it will come back as a plot point, but it definitely can if they wanted to.
10:44 Rana starts slapping Chris's leg when they start talking about the cakes feel against the bare cheeks. Rana knows something about Chris apparently lol😂
I thought the 'Daddy's home' was a reference to season 2 when he rejoins the boys after trying to kill Stillwell but if it's a well-known Supernatural reference too that's awesome
8:56 “homelander is in there!” Exactly why you don’t go in there 🤷🏼♂️ It worked out because it’s a show but the character motivations sometimes are based on them somehow knowing they have plot armor
27:17 that’s what you took from Sage’s monologue to Neuman? I took it as she doesn’t give a crap about humanity or supes. She just wants to play games with the world and if the world burns the world burns
Homelander is absolutely racist and not just him using racism for his goals, in the previous season when Starlight nominated a Muslim supe, Homelander lost it and said "I'm not gonna let a terr0rist be on the seven", it's just his classic racism is overshadowed by his supes vs humans racism
To quote M*M for this episode THERE AINT ENOUGH PURELL IN THE WORLD like im not even kidding if the actors actually did this like the actor for tekk knight got into that sex trap harness thing like oh my god
Yall shouldn't gloss over the other side to the Sister Sage backstory. She literally said she doesn't *want* to solve all of these problems that humanity has. It's not that scientists and physicians dont ask her for advice on how to solve all of these world wide problems, she isn't popular to begin with so nobody actually knows about her (even the Boys who's job is to research and kill Supes had no clue who she was) and she herself doesn't care about humans enough to actually do anything for them because she got ridiculed one time as a child. She's just as bad as everyone else is. She hates humans (white people especially) and is the lead designer to this plan to round up anybody who does not bow down to the Seven as the "Wrathful Gods" Homelander wants them to now be. She might end up becoming the worst one of the Seven by the time this season ends but im just hoping this all leads into next season for the big finale like some Supernatural Lucifer rising type shit
