#and feels like a flanderization/lazy attempt to recreate the impeccable 'TAKE YOUR FUCKING TWINK' line

[imunbreakabledude]

yet another absurdly specific query on the character level, that comes from a bit in the boys s3 that is obviously expedient on the "this is a fast-paced ensemble TV show level":

s3 finale, after maeve escapes and annie asks her how she got out. maeve replies, "your #FreeMaeve shit got every LGBTeen in the world up Vought's ass... You got me my chance."

again, on the functional level, i get why this line is here. quick, expedient, answers the question for any viewers who didn't quite get that from the preceding context.

but like... how would Maeve... be explaining this to Annie? like, does she even KNOW that was a trending hashtag? she just broke out of prison some unknown but brief amount of time ago? has she had time to catch up on the news? it's not a "plot hole" per se. like. maeve obviously got a phone after breaking out of that truck because she calls annie. (which also is the source of of my favorite tiny-but-canon facts, that Maeve has Annie's cell phone number memorized???? incredible). so like. maybe she's on this stranger's phone that she swiped and browsing social media just to catch up, in the time between calling annie and seeing her face-to-face at M.M's apartment.

it still just feels so random though that Maeve is the one to "explain" that to Annie, like more organically it feels like it should be "idk, they decided to put me in a van and move me somewhere but it was easy to break out of there" and then annie going "omg the pressure worked!!" or something. this is a tiny thing. it is the kind of thing my brain latches onto, though.

it's also that i already lowkey hate this exchange because of the "yknow what would've been better? ACTUALLY busting me out." because that is true and because it just grates on me and makes me feel like at one point they intended for annie to actually go break maeve out which would've been much more fun to watch but then they couldn't make it work with the way eps 7-8 had to be paced and then just left in that line being like "haha yeah it woudl've been cool" and that makes me sad.