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saw someone say it was a stupid decision to name the “lost lenore-type character” lenore… As if that isn’t the whole point of the covey naming traditions. THEY ARE NAMED AFTER BALLADS!!! POEMS!!!! THEIR BALLADS REFLECT THEIR FATE!!! KNOCK KNOCK ON UR EMPTY HEAD DO U READ ?!
YES, if Unrivaled is good to Shane and to Ilya, I am fully willing to treat TLG like it's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
If Unrivaled treats Shane’s character well enough in willing to treat TLG as The Empire Stikes Back from the trilogy where like the good guys survive and sort of wins but evil also sort of wins and leaves them in a shit place before they come back for the big final Definitive Win
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If Unrivaled treats Shane’s character well enough in willing to treat TLG as The Empire Stikes Back from the trilogy where like the good guys survive and sort of wins but evil also sort of wins and leaves them in a shit place before they come back for the big final Definitive Win
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So yeah. I'm not optimistic about Unrivaled. Not because I doubt Shane and Ilya will get another HEA, but because RR has shown she can give Shane a happy ending while treating his fears, feelings, and sacrifices as less important than Ilya's. Why expect that to change?
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Ottawa IS the HEA. I want Shane and Ilya married, happy, and playing together. But why the fuck does Shane have to go through the meat grinder to get there? Why is acknowledging his cost so controversial, but not Ilya's? A happy ending doesn't erase the suffering along the way
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Maybe Shane getting an A is a subplot in Unrivaled. We DON'T know. What we DO know is TLG ends with him having neither C nor A and Ilya and Bood teasing him for it.
Why is another loss of status a punchline?
We can critique the ending we got, not an imagined future fix.
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Each loss might be defensible in isolation. Together, they're a pattern: the only POC among those LGBTQ players is also who keeps getting professionally diminished. Ottawa can be Shane's HEA AND the narrative can repeatedly shaft him on the way there. Both things can be true.
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So YES Shane not getting an A IS that deep. It's not about needing a letter to be happy. He's a 3x Cup champion, former captain, and the only POC among openly queer MHL players. He loses his team, C, reputation, takes a pay cut *and* doesn't get an A.
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Shane leaving Montreal could've been empowering after how they treated him. But the book barely reckons with the fact that he was RIGHT to fear losing it, or lets him grieve. Instead, it rushes toward acceptance. Why is acknowledging that so controversial?
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I'm tired of “but Reid loves Shane!” as a rebuttal. She can SAY he's the hero, but on the page Ilya's suffering receives compassion while Shane's is often framed as selfishness or an inconvenience. Authorial intention isn't the same as execution.
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And it's uncomfortable that a gay Asian superstar is portrayed as naive about hockey's cruelty in a series that explored that cruelty through white protagonists.
Shane's success doesn't mean hockey hasn't hurt him. His composure doesn't mean he isn't suffering.
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Reid says Shane has the “hero arc.” What is the lesson? His main focus should be Ilya at all costs? His fears weren't irrational obstacles to intimacy. The book goes out of its way to prove they were justified.
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Ilya's coach & team offer him sympathy and support. Shane's coach yells at him; his teammates turn on him. Then the book gives Shane so little room to grieve that before moving him toward Ottawa.
Playing with Ilya is wonderful!
Why must that happiness erase what Shane lost?
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Then Shane's worst fears come true. He's outed without consent, accused of throwing games, rejected by longtime teammates, and humiliated by his coach. He loses the room, his standing there, and his professional reputation is damaged. He was RIGHT to be afraid.
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Ilya's depression, loneliness, and insecurity get compassion, as they should. Shane's anxiety, perfectionism, and need for control are treated as flaws to fix. Reid herself said his restrictive diet is something silly he focuses on instead of his very sad boyfriend.
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Shane starts TLG having just won his 3rd cup, C of Montreal, at the peak of his career. He's terrified and sad that coming out will cost him everything he's built.
The book repeatedly frames that fear as selfishness, as though caring about hockey means loving Ilya less.
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I keep seeing "well how ELSE did you want it to end?"
Like, I agree that Ottawa IS the happy ending. Shane and Ilya playing together is the dream. The problem isn't the destination. It's what the narrative puts Shane through to get there.
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RR realized shane is autistic bc of fan interpretations, yet ppl deny it, dismiss his ed or say he’s an emotionless jock as if he’s not suppressing his feelings 24/7. they’re so afraid of feminizing him that they reduce him to the most superficial reading of his character
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it’s ironic how ppl overcompensate for the idea that shane shouldn’t be treated like a woman by flattening his character the same way female characters often are
like underwritten men r blank canvases for fans to flesh out, but giving women any depth is reaching. (1/2)