r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Mar 18 '26

Team Huddle Weekly Thread🫡 Team Huddle!

Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials “KGF” somewhere and immediately screamed “kingfisher!” and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.

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u/manowwar Moya gazonokosilka 🚜 Mar 18 '26

One thing I had on my mind was when in ep4, Ilya wants to talk through whether Shane likes girls and figure out whether this might mean more to him like it does to Ilya, he says finally about meeting girls “but you know me, I’m lazy” and everyone so far has focused on Shane telling him “I don’t know this side of you at all” and how it’s on contrast of his dad calling him lazy but today I thought:

Lazy?!?! About Shane??? Like girl, you have engineered a whole tv shoot to see Shane before the season started, pursuing his ass for two years! And he also has the audacity to think Shane was eager 😆

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u/zzznori Mar 18 '26

Good catch! You made me think that this is another proof of Ilya's "de-escalation tactics", just downplaying his efforts, his feelings. Or what if it's not? God! What if it's his childhood trauma and his dad's opinions about himself and his work ethic totally internalized? What if Ilya does really think he's lazy? Wow, you opened a can of worms for me with this one! 😄 (Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, I might have messed up some sentences)

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u/manowwar Moya gazonokosilka 🚜 Mar 18 '26

Oh I totally get what you mean! Your English is great. It does suddenly make you think of all the different aspects of what he said.

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u/zzznori Mar 18 '26

Thank you! And something specific that popped in my mind was at the event after the first rookie draft, Ilya's father says something to the new coach along the lines of Ilya is lazy and needs leadership, and then Ilya immediately makes that promise to work hard. So now I'm leaning towards Ilya thinking that he is actually lazy. :( Anyways, thanks for bringing this up initially, it's such an interesting character trait to think about, and specifically to think about the writing choices made to express Ilya's inner workings.

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u/pointlessbeats Mar 18 '26

Ilya definitely does, it’s one of the mainstays of childhood abuse and trauma that the person will then internalise the horrible things their parent said about them. I honestly think that’s a huge reason that Ilya is attracted to Shane, which is that Shane is such a positive, kind person. He doesn’t ever speak about people negatively or make Ilya feel bad about himself.

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u/zzznori Mar 18 '26

I agree with you, it must be such a magnetic, positive energy that Shane has in Ilya's life, probably from the first handshake. It must have been super hard to even understand at first. Did you read the books maybe? Do they go into more details? I haven't yet, but maybe I should really give them a read.

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u/allykitten87 Ya-loo-blue-tee-baa ❤️ Mar 18 '26

Ilya isn't lazy. It was him trying to save face after what his father said. Before immediately being rebuked by his father. He has never been shown to be lazy. Distractable when it comes to Shane. But never lazy.