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Heated Rivalry... Thoughts compared to yaoi/bl??
Does anyone feel like it wasnt that good? so my friends and everyone was SO recommending me to watch heated rivalry, and they were like girl you'll LOVE it. (mainly cuz they know ive been reading and loving yaoi/bl for 5 years now.) but after watching i was like... its ok? I think i had fun but i didnt think it was as life changing as everyones making it out to be. its pretty fun i would say but... i don't feel that strongly about it. i think i can compare it to how the first time i discovered bl i thought some of the trashiest stories were SO good because i was a baby bl enjoyer. like i thought "a guy like you' and 'love is an illusion' was so good and peak LMAOO but that was like in middle school. seeing everyone react to heated rivalry is like that imo. its good, but idk i need more YEARNING, and them just fucking every episode is chill but like you cant really capture a 9 year situationship in 6 episodes very well. i feel like its getting so much hype because these types of people have never consumed any gay media for the first time and theyre fangirling over it. but overall i think it was just alright. i really love hudson williams as a personality though, i love his interviews lol. for reference, some of my fav yaois are checkmate, payback, at the end of the road, under the green light, nerd project which i feel like capture yearning so well, so i didnt think heated rivalry really captured that. still solid watch maybe 6.5-7/10?? (⌒▽⌒)
I honestly really like heated rivalry!! I do have to disagree with you on the yearning part. I’m not sure if you paid attention, but Illya was in love with Shane from the very beginning, to the point that he would have panic attacks and get jealous of him. The book goes into more detail about Illya's thoughts than the show does. Despite that, the...... 2 reply
I low key understand when people say they dont really see the hype about it (especially if theyre a bl reader bc youre kind of used to it) but heated rivalry is still peak fiction in my eyes and its only thanks to the phenomenal actors ngl 2 reply
As someone that's been reading yaoi for 6-7 years, I absolutely loved it. And I'm saying this as someone who isn't too crazy about live action mlm stories. Keep in mind the production quality might seem a little low since it's a lower budget Canadian series. Anyways, I think what really did it for me was the acting and the actors' chemistry with ea...... 1 reply
It was lowkey mid first few episodes, but my favourite episode has got to be episode 5, that really bumped the rating to an 8/10 for me; I didn't really care for the sex scenes, but it was good. 1 reply
Lowkey I get what you mean. When the show came out I decided to read the book instead. I still haven’t watched the show, but, the book felt really anticlimactic. Ngl, I felt like it read like a slightly better Wattpad story. It wasn’t bad by no means! I think my favorite chapters would have to be Ilya calling Shane in Russian, the FaceTime call...... 3 reply
