I just wanted to say I LIVE FOR YOUR AU🫶 + your like the nicest person ever:) and im happy you addresed RR white man with blonde hair and blue eyes problem😭 Now a real question.. how do you think season 2 of HR will be paced? Do you think its gonna be just TLG or are we getting parts of the other books? Also how many screentime do you think the Ottawa Centaurs are gonna get? I personaly hope they get alot cuz i adore them all but idk how realistic that is.
there's how I'd ideally want it to go, and how I think jacob will do it realistically so ill go into both because I love to yap
so first of all I am really hoping the bonus episode rumours are true and we get to see shane coming out to the team, ilya coming out to svetlana, and my dinner with hayden. I feel like it's so important to really show what hollanovs relationship looks like in those years. bonus if we can get the irina foundation press conference and some stuff from the camps in here too but im sure they'd wanna keep a limited cast and smaller sets for a one off episode
IDEALLY I'd love for the book to be split over 2 seasons, with role model running as a b plot throughout rather than giving them a single episode and tying it in later a la kip. they share so many events across the books and I think it really adds so much depth to everything as opposed to how skip was very insular until they came out so a standalone episode worked well for them, but role model is SUCH an ensemble book with so much ilya in it that it just wouldn't make sense to be one and done with it - which gives way more opportunity to give us some more cens time too
I think there's so much material across both books that it'd be VERY easy to fill out a season using half from both, and of course the split point would have to be the plane crash for me. BUT not having the crash be the last scene of the show - I want to see more of the aftermath, from shanes pov as he learns about it, then ilya and the cens directly after, then brover finally hooking up, and ending the scene with the hollanov proposal
season 3 would then pick up with the cens winning streak and hollanov living their engaged life and the rest of the brover plotline, most of which wraps before the big event of this half of the book which is ofc The Outing. but I want it to be even bigger than it was in the books! I want to see the fallout, the metros shunning shane and him given the space to react to it, the cens rallying behind ilya to show him that he's not alone
I want crowell to be built up as this huge imposing force through troy's storyline with being outspoken about SA so that when he calls hollanov in for the meeting the audience is terrified and has no idea what will happen. I want that tension and that fear to feel real especially for show only fans who dont know what will happen. and I want hudson williams to act his ASS off as shane standing up for the man he loves!
I think splitting it would give everything that happens the time it needs to really breathe and have an impact, and also giving some space to expand on stuff like ilya's depression and shane's anxiety and ed, but realistically I dont think jacob will do that. he's already talked about how he doesn't want more episodes because he finds it fun and challenging to fit as much as he can into short seasons like this, to tell the story as it needs to be told and stripping it down without leaving it bare. and he did that with season 1, so I fully trust him to do the same with tlg in s2, but if I was in that writer's room...
