I was gonna watch it for my TV bf Connor but then I remembered how unfunny SNL is most of the time and figured I'll get all the Connor sketches on my fyp anyway. I saw the promo with the accent battle and man. All his accents were charming but when he drops the rozanov accent we need a warning beforehand cause it truly is lethal
Finally watched the show…it was ok, def can tell this was written from a female perspective. Makes more sense that the fans skew heavily hetero women and not gay men. Big fujoshi vibes from this.
Well... the simple answer is women generally like romance more than men. I don't know what another perspective of this story would look like. It's just a good happily ever after story.
I work at a bookstore and it's a running joke there that lgbtq identifying women love the books/show. Like lesbian women being like "omg why am I in love with watching these two men so much???" So maybe it is a woman romance thing. I think ultimately Jacob Tierney also really understood how to adapt the book and pull out the subtle pieces that often appeal to women in romance. The yearning, small gestures, the looks, etc Tierney has talked about the unrealistic criticisms or written by a woman thing in interviews and such as well
I'm sure it's only a matter of time but I hate how fans inability to be normal about them will probably make it so they will become a little more guarded or jaded. I feel like part of what makes season 1 feel like lightning in a bottle is that it was the little show that could. And I have no doubts that season 2 will be just as great but I just feel like people are going to do the most but I'm glad that Hudson and Connor are getting all the opportunities
the hetero female fans reallyyyyyyyy gotta bring it down about 200 notches. it’s gross the way they fetishize them.
Pretty good show but Scott/Kip were way more endearing to me than Shane/Ilya and I know the sport isn’t the real focus but the “rivalry” part felt lacking lol
I wish I liked Scott and kip more. This is purely based off of the show version of them not the book version. And I get they only have one episode so it's not really fair but I guess I don't even know why Scott falls for kip? They go out once and he's like plz never leave luv u and ur watery ass smoothies and I'm just like ??? I like them both as characters but I wouldn't mind a Rachel Reid universe of shows where they get a more thorough exploration because it was just so sudden I don't think Shane and Ilya ever really viewed one another as rivals so much as their fans and teammates do. They're competitive people including towards each other but all in good fun/respect for the others talent I think over a legit rivalry. But I'm also a Shane and Ilya girly through and through and could probably write a masters thesis on them at this point. For a while I was on like black girl academic/psychology heated rivalry tiktok and it was super interesting. Before everyone picked apart literally every single detail the show could possibly have and I had to start scrolling past lol. Fans have truly ran out of show things to dissect. I had the reddit thread recommended to me and someone was like "how did I not notice this super faint random scratch on Connor Storrie's arm in this one specific scene?!" We've truly lost the plot
Honestly the show kinda does a disservice to kip and Scott with the timeline. I know I just complained they fell super fast for no reason in the show lol, but at least the book kinda committed to that and their romance takes place over a few months so it doubles down on the fast and passionate aspect. The show screws up the timeline. I guess as a viewer I just inferred a lot happened with Scott and kip over years, but it was a weird change from the book And tbh I'm a dumbass who can't do math and I can't do time jumps with dates. I need 3 months later, 6 months later, etc because I genuinely had to sit and think each time how much time had actually passed. But that's more of a me problem cause this girlie still counts basic math on her fingers.
As for the rivalry, the book and show focuses on Shane and Ilya's POV, and they are more angsty about their romance than the league's rivalry for them. The rivalry you get built up from the commentary of people around them, or the news clips or sports commentators. It's sprinkled in there but not the focus of the show. I like that the show doesn't have any plot besides the romance.
They just yearn. So much yearning while the rivalry the media, fans, and team built will continue to intensify I mean the fans burn effigies of the player on the rival team. Sports ppl be weird