[ SECRET POST #6966 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6966 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

(nayrt)

I have mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I agree with anon above: it's a romance, not a hockey show. The hockey, much like the sex scenes, are in service of it. And hockey is an essential factor in this romance!

the show's literally called "Heated Rivalry", there should absolutely be tension between their franchises.
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like a romantic medical drama to only sometimes mention the hospital they work at!

To quote Shane, "Being gay is one Thing, but fucking your arch rival is another Thing". Shane and Hayden go to an aquarium together; Shane and Ilya could never because being seen together in any nonprofessional setting is unthinkable. Shane doesn't come out to his parents not so much because he's scared they might have a problem with him being gay, but because they might have a problem with him dating Ilya Rozanov – a fear that is 100 % validated. The rivalry is a whole new layer of complexity and pressure to their relationship in addition to general homophobia.

Buuuut I also kinda get why viewers expected there to be more actual hockey in the show. (Personally I don't care; I'm here for the love story and couldn't care less about their day jobs.) I think it is about genre literacy? Like, I've never been into a sports fandom, let alone hockey RPF, so I had no expectations of much sport should be in a sports romance. But I've been thinking about this genre thing for while now (as you can maybe tell =__=) and have been drawing parallels between Heated Rivalry and Pirates of the Caribbean, and where the adventure movie with gimmick "pirates" had a lot of pirates and ships and ship battles, the romance show with gimmick "hockey" really did have very little hockey in it. So yeah, I get you.

I think the reason there isn't more hockey is that the first season wasn't very long and clearly had to prioritize things. (Not an excuse, just an explanation.) For example, we pretty much know Shane's exact thought process through everything, but there are a lot of "missing scenes" around Ilya. I think hockey was another thing that they just didn't have time for. (Also, it probably didn't help that by all accounts, the lead actors are bad skaters.) But, while I haven't read the books, I couldn't help but be spoiled about some plot points in the second book, and I think hockey might become more important in the second season, so maybe it'll get better? Especially with, presumably, a bigger budget.