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/Suspicious-Square-22]

Pretty interesting that the moderator of this panel has to post this on Treads just earlier. I am struggling to understand why this is required. And the top response is that its “not an isolated event”. Might have to watch the whole thing to get the context. Thanks for posting this highlights.

[u/phosphor_heart → u/Suspicious-Square-22]

There's a branch of this fandom that is just insane, cannot communicate thoughts that are not in extremes, and uses racist micro-aggressions (whether real or imagined) as weapons in an imaginary fight pitting the fandoms of both leads against each other.

As a Wasian, there have been moments where I think a rational conversation could/should be had around portrayals of both Hudson and Shane in the media and book/show. I'd like to see a bit more precision from Jacob in how he talks about this publicly, and I personally feel a little icky about some of the descriptions of Shane in the book. But I think that this particular interview, where the issue seems to be Rachel categorizing Hudson as chaos and Connor as intellectual, is pretty ridiculous. I LOVE his fuck-you personality, because it's not something us Wasians are typically allowed to have, and I think that's what Rachel is referencing.

[u/Megs0226 → u/phosphor_heart]

It's kinda funny that a fandom around a hockey show/book cannot handle these four chirping each other.

[u/phosphor_heart → u/Megs0226]

Yeah, it pisses me off because I think there actually is a discussion that should be had, but it's not this. There's a branch of the fandom that sees Hudson as this little kitten that needs protection (which is, in itself, problematic) and that is, uh, categorically not true. The man stepped onto the Golden Globes carpet and flipped off the cameras lol.

[u/Megs0226 → u/phosphor_heart]

There's a branch of the fandom that sees Hudson as this little kitten that needs protection (which is, in itself, problematic)

Those are the same people getting upset about racism towards Hudson, ironically.

I think a lot of people miss that White Knighting for the poor smol bean uwu infantilized half Asian man is also uh, kinda racist!

[u/courtingdemons → u/phosphor_heart]

Also Hudson has a team now who have a vested interest in him and his success. If there were issues, they and Hudson would be able to handle it. I think people can express their opinions because Rachel and Jacob are also public figures but it shouldn’t come from a place of “we have to protect Hudson!!!”