Aug 7
we are going to see this. on our tv screens. holy fuck.
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we are going to see this. on our tv screens. holy fuck.
OH MY GOD THE SEVEN YEAR BREAK IS OVER. ACE ATTORNEY STARTS UP AGAIN TODAY.
i hope the national anthem from the inaugural WPBL game goes viral and gets the league some traction
i am the world’s #1 stormbringer fan but by god if they don’t do 55 minutes for season 5….. THEY NEED TO DO 55 MINUTES!!!
LMFAOOOO BEST SIGN AT THIS GAME. hope this made onto ESPN
in season 2 i do feel like ilya’s signature move does need to be hung on the wall like chekhov’s gun. like at the hockey camps the kids are begging and begging for a real life demonstration of The Rozanov and of course ilya obliges and does a perfect backhand fakeout to last-second forehand wrist shot. so later on when shane steals his move on national television and then winks at the camera, we as the audience are yelling “HEY, THAT’S ILYA’S MOVE!” along with ilya.
i said this in the body of a really long meta post a while back but I need the montreal and ottawa home openers in season 2 to hit us all in the feels. i need parallels of montreal’s fan base losing their goddamn minds worshipping the religion that is hockey in the cathedral that is the bell centre. versus absolute crickets in ottawa. and the crowd goes mild. an arena so empty that if david and yuna showed up to quietly support ilya they would stick out like sore thumbs.
With the recent Troy and Harris casting announcements, I have seen a lot of people casually (or sometimes even very confidently) talking about things that just don’t happen in the books as if they did. All of these stem from various speculations of “it would be intriguing/interesting/funny IF this thing happened” becoming “this thing DID actually happen,” which sometimes even goes further and gets warped in the world’s worst game of fandom telephone into “I am literally forming my perception and analysis of this character over this thing (that did not happen at all.)”
It is perfectly okay to not read the books, but I would really REALLY caution non-book readers to be careful with what they discuss unless it stems from an actual excerpt from the text.
This is not me gatekeeping. (Please! Go read the books! If you’re unsure of where to start, I would recommend reading Role Model first, which gives proper context for The Long Game) This is me attempting to counteract the misinformation that has only grown tenfold since Troy and Harris were cast.
With all that being said, a list of things that Did Not Happen In The Books:
Troy is not racist. This is a reasonable conclusion to draw, that a homophobic bully could also be racist, but there is no textual evidence of this.
On that note, Troy does not hatecrime Shane. Troy actually does not have any direct interactions with Shane at all. The closest they come to speaking with each other is when they’re on the ice at the same time during an Ottawa v. Montreal game. (*EDIT: they do have a conversation at the wedding)
Ilya does not hate Troy. Like all of the Centaurs, Ilya is wary and uncertain about Troy at first. He’s annoyed with the situation surrounding the trade, and he definitely hates Dallas. But he does not hate Troy.
I hate to break everyone’s hearts, but... Troy does not ask Ilya for Shane’s number. Troy thinks about doing this, but doesn’t actually follow through. This concept is so funny that I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually does this in the show. This is the actual excerpt from the book: