I donāt care for the framing of Ilya being the āfavorite sonā bc itās uninteresting to me. It removes all complexity from the dynamic of this is your sonās career long rival that you have a lot of internalized feelings towards and expectations and notions of who he is and always has been. And actually! heās been having sex with your son since they were Rookies. They only recently became exclusive and only during This first meal with you have they seemingly labeled it. Okay. Now go. Be normal about this. Be immediately loving and perfect without misstep. And you fail. Because nobody can do that pivot that fast and it be anything but a farce.
And thatās much more fleshed out and reasonable to me than David & Yuna being the perfect mother/father-in-law to Ilya without an intense learning curve.
