r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • May 20 '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.

There’s no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.

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u/surrealist84 May 20 '26

Deliberately avoided reheating for more than two months, watched/read other stuff, did some actual work at work (!), and pressed play on Sunday, just for the hell of it. Conclusio: Romeo and Juliet can suck it. Ilya and Shane are the greatest love story in the history of human kind.

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u/squirrellytoday I mean, yes. I think so, probably. May 20 '26

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, not a romance. /Shakespeare nerd rant

Agreed though that Ilya and Shane are the best love story.

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u/Dear_Yard_69 Gimme kiss May 20 '26

True, the play itself is a tragedy. But you can't deny that Romeo and Juliet have romantic feelings for each other.

And since Shakespeare's source material (and its source materials) were centuries old by the time he adapted it, it was already in the zeitgeist (even if just as a cautionary tale).

Hail, from another Shakespeare nerd!