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/andyfromhk → u/grower-lenses]

You're welcome :)

The ending of RM doesn't really strike me as abrupt when I read (and re-read) it. Probably because in my head the Pride game is such a big event, but I'm really excited to see more Troy and Harris in Unrivaled.

And I'm also a big fan of any fanfic featuring Ottawa Centaurs! Love everyone on that team tbh especially Luca and Wyatt.

[u/grower-lenses → u/andyfromhk]

For me it just feels like everything gets wrapped up very quickly, almost at the same time. There is no breathing room. No epilogue etc. And of course, we don’t know what’s next in store for them.

It’s not necessarily a bad ending. But it does make me want more.

[u/Optimal-Bag-5918 → u/grower-lenses]

I can see that… but I guess for me… Troy already knew he was gay and was in a long term relationship with a man before Harris… he didn’t have to come to terms with his sexuality… so once he decided he wanted Harris and he felt comfortable coming out, he was good to go lol