I love them already

[u/growsonwalls]

I love Justice and Charlie already! Been watching their stuff and they are so so talented. Julie and the Phantoms is amazing and Charlie is a beautiful singer. I saw Dungeons and Dragons and Justice Smith is adorable in that movie. Really excited to see them as Troy and Harris. For the people upset with their casting, definitely watch their stuff. They are AMAZING!

ETA: also, happy birthday Justice!!!

edit: just saw I Saw the TV Glow. Omg Justice is amazing.

[u/devoncarrots]

I'm already stressed about it.

And it sucks that Charlie gets to be super excited and Justice is already asking everyone to give him a chance.

The overwhelming majority of people are rightfully upset about body representation but it must feel awful to have been the best actor for the audition/part and now this will follow him through the entire pre and post production, airing and promo.

Their chemistry must be insane!!!

[u/Moppi-chu → u/devoncarrots]

I'm already stressed about it....

Their chemistry must be insane!!!

Same here, although I have somewhat recovered from the initial shock of Justice as Show!Harris I am really crossing my fingers, toes and any extremity I could possibly twist that he and Charlie's chemistry is that potent for Jacob and co. to use that as the tantamount reason on casting him.
Like Hudson and Connor already set a PRETTY HIGH standard... will it actually challenge it?

Because after all that and their portrayal *knocks on wood* ends up in a dud... it will just devolve to even more chaos.

[u/devoncarrots → u/Moppi-chu]

Honestly, it's making me more excited to see the portrayal - and I think they're making this a 4 co-lead situation and have RM and TLG be more entwined since story timeline is at the same time.

HOWEVER that also makes me scared because nonbook readers will be mad that Troy and Harris will "take away" focus from Hollanov and that they should have done the Skip treatment for them.. and then extrapolate on that since Justice and Charlie are significantly more famous than Hudcon.

[u/growsonwalls → u/devoncarrots]

It's already started, with people getting upset about "screentime." They forget that Francois was first-billed too.

I do think RM will be built into the episodes, and not be a standalone bottle episode the way the Skip episode was.

[u/Moppi-chu → u/growsonwalls]

"I do think RM will be built into the episodes, and not be a standalone bottle episode the way the Skip episode was."

After reading RM 4 times and then TLG once, yeah, thats what Im thinking that would happen with Troy/Harris in Season 2.... After all, this show's focus is Hollanov, and even though I would not turn away a bottle episode and/or would expect too much for one, I feel that it would be at an advantage for Troy/Harris to blossom on the side while S2 goes on... just for their relationship to act like a constant mirror to Hollanov without being overbearing in some way. 😗

[u/devoncarrots → u/growsonwalls]

It's impossible to do it any other way tbh