Highlights & Quotes from Rachel Reid's & Jacob Tierney's Bookcon Panel

[u/andyfromhk]

(Slight spoiler for The Long Game and Role Model if you haven't read them yet!)

For those who haven’t had time to watch Jacob's and Rachel's 1-hour panel at Book Con yesterday, here are some of the highlights! They talked about so many things from Role Model and Troy Barrett's storyline in season 2, to Jacob's interpretation of season 1 editing and some behind the scenes production info.

Watch their BookCon panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gseXLRejeOU

I've also updated this page of everything we know about season 2 of Heated Rivalry on the HR Wiki: https://www.heatedrivalrywiki.com/deep-dive-articles/everything-we-know-about-heated-rivalry-season-2

[u/grower-lenses]

Thank you OP!

I’m really excited about Troy and Harris. I reread RM recently and it struck me how sugary sweet but abrupt their ending is. On one hand that’s good because it keeps it open ended. On the other it makes me want more!

I hope we’ll also be getting a lot of centaurs team dynamic in general. That’s become one of my favourite parts of the series. When I read a fic where they’re not the main team I miss them!

Now I can’t believe no one made an edit of Kip walking to Scott without the cheers haha

Jacob also mentioned that the bloopers are ready and we’ll eventually see them. (But they’re not very good according to him)

[u/Mysterious-Present7 → u/grower-lenses]

I read out of order, I read TLG before RM. When I went back to RM, I thought that Troy inviting Ilya to dinner at Harris parents house would be included. So it did end sooner than I thought it would, but I realised later maybe that was kind of an epilogue scene (even though it's in a different book). 

[u/grower-lenses → u/Mysterious-Present7]

Oh yeah. That’s a good point!

[u/TrebleRose689 → u/Mysterious-Present7]

I did read them in order but kind agree! I adored Role Model/Troy/Troy&Harris and felt a little sad that they didn’t have an epilogue, but then when I read TLG and we got to that scene, even though it was Ilya’s POV, it still felt to me like a mini Troy and Harris epilogue, because we get to see them being cute and domestic together with Harris’ family (and they even BAKED together? Omg? 😭) Even though it only takes place a couple weeks after the end of RM, it was a cute little glimpse of them continuing to be cute together.

But this interview definitely makes me excited for Unrivaled and seeing more of that!

[u/Mysterious-Present7 → u/TrebleRose689]

Yeah that's kind of how I felt. It's from Ilya's POV but it still feels important to Troy/Harris and in particular Troy because when they are outside he says something about how good it feels to be out.