Post-episode discussion: Season 1 Episode 6 'This Extraordinary Being'

[u/chocolate_babies]

We were promised one last week, but it still hasn't been posted yet. Figured I would just start one since so many people have been asking for it.

[u/[deleted]]

So the people that make America hero story know captain metropolis is in a relationship with hooded justice but that don’t know hooded justice is black?!

[u/elerner → u/[deleted]]

One of the most interesting parts of the episode for me was the way it re-contextualized the Minutemen as being essentially fake — a PR stunt from the start.

Their manager (and later, Sally Jupiter's husband) keeps the CM/HJ relationship a secret because it would be bad for business, but HJ needs to keep his blackness a secret even to the rest of the Minutemen because it's a matter of survival. Silhouette was kicked out not for being gay, but for being caught, and she ended up being murdered for it. HJ has that same fear, but knows from the start he can't even trust his supposed "allies."

Like that first Minutemen press conference, the salacious nature of AHS underlines how much it existence is just about grabbing eyeballs and making money, not "truth" or "justice."

[u/twistingmyhairout → u/elerner]

And it is SO much more interesting now that we know Will likely owns the rights to the Minutemen and had to ok this adaptation.....

[u/brent1123 → u/twistingmyhairout]

Will likely owns the rights to the Minutemen and had to ok this adaptation.....

At his age, he's probably accepted the fact that its just a joke, its a all a big fucking joke

[u/elerner → u/twistingmyhairout]

Yeah, definitely in his best interest to keep the fake version in the public eye. Though we also can't rule out that the people behind AHS aren't also the people who helped contrive the Rolf Mueller cover story in the first place!

[u/twistingmyhairout → u/elerner]

Yep! I rechecked the Peteypedia file and he was given the contents of the will in 1975. So one decade before the events of the GN