There are a lot of little details in the Heartstopper show that are amazing, but one thing that really got me was Alice's cameo. Because I've watched Heartstopper grow a lot over the past few years. I remember regretting that I didn't back her Kickstarter campaign to publish volume one. I became a Patreon. Then Alice announced an actual book deal for Heartstopper. And later the idea of a TV got slowly announced, because hey, it wasn't certain, let's not get our hopes up. But then it was certain and it was on Netflix even. Alice got to work on her own show and the casting brought the characters to life and then they filmed it and now it's out in the world.
And it has been said many times that this TV show is an amazing adaption, that it's basically the pages coming to life on screen, as it should be. This isn't a loose adaption or 'based on' the original, no, it's Heartstopper on screen. Even in the stuff like the set and props, Alice's art is incorporated.
Then she's there. It's only a small moment, but she's there and she's sitting next to Nick and Charlie, two characters that have been with her since her teens, probably, since that's when she came up with Solitaire. They've been in her head for so long and now they're actually there in the flesh, and she's next to them. Her characters are there with Alice.
Long story short, I've never felt this emotional about a cameo.
