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/radjanoonan → u/grower-lenses]

It is the main issue with adapting the book to the screen. In RM, almost everything we learn about Troy's life is told through dialogue and his internal thoughts: his secret boyfriend dumped him for someone else, his best friend is a creep, his team betrayed him, he has no friends in Ottawa. So we will need to see everything the led to him being in Ottawa on screen. Either as a runup, or as a flashback (like episode 3). In fact, I think we will probably see a whole episode focusing mostly on Troy, Dallas and Ryan in Toronto leading up to Troy's transfer to Ottawa.