frances 🏒
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time to shine stan account. bisexual yearner and relentless optimist. pre-show gcu fan🫠 (also known as that girl that likes to yap about camera angles)
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there is quite literally no words for how attractive this is i’ve watched it 5 times in a row
frances 🏒678,850 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
fuck it here’s the television moment of 2025 in it’s entirety in 1080p you’re welcome
frances 🏒2,708,908 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
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you do not understand what i would give to get to witness this scene for the first time again
frances 🏒482,849 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
for how long? whole game? i’m obsessed with this line delivery #heatedrivalry
frances 🏒333,732 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
the camera being in a tight close up on both ilya and shane for the entirety of this scene, except for the moment when ilya is working up the courage to say he’s in love. it’s like for the whole conversation it’s just the two of them, there’s nobody else who matters, and then for a brief moment the shot widens as ilya considers the implications of the fact he’s in love with shane. the fact that the rest of the world DOES matter and will always be a presence in their relationship. we’ve been held in this moment between the two of them and by widening the shot, that intimacy is broken just for a second as we’re reminded that there is a world beyond the two of them and ilya is still in russia. what he’s doing is incredibly dangerous. then the camera tightens back into a close up as he realises he needs to say it anyway because all that matters is that he’s on the phone with shane and he’s in love with him. it really is just the two of them in this moment and he doesn’t want to let anyone else in.
frances 🏒293,756 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten
i wanna talk about the scene immediately after tuna melts for a sec because there’s so much symbolism in this scene and it’s honestly really interesting to me because at first glance it could quite easily be one that’s overlooked. sure, it obviously shows shane is tightly wound after running away from ilya in tuna-melt-gate but there’s deeper layers to it as well. the most obvious (imo) is shane ordering a ginger ale and being unable to get one, when in the scene immediately prior we’ve just witnessed him be given one without even asking at ilya’s house. it really plays into the whole ginger ale as a metaphor for shane’s “true self” and that even when he tries to let parts of the real him slip through he meets obstacles to prevent that happening, whereas with ilya he’s allowed to be himself and totally at ease. there’s also the moment where the waiter asks if anyone will be joining them and removes the extra place setting. it highlights the space in shane’s life thats left empty because he isn’t able to publicly fill it. he can’t have anyone sat at that place setting because he can’t be seen in public with the person he loves, so it stays empty. its also a sort of parallel for the final episode, when that extra space at the hollander’s dining table is filled by ilya. this is just a tiny thing and probs me thinking too much into it but i love the choice to have shane studying the menu the whole time. he’s holding it in a way that it sort of shields him from his parents and puts a barrier between them, so it’s kind of like a physical “wall” that he has up to protect himself. then when his parents want to go to the tennis, shane’s immediate instinct is to lie so they can get in, which yuna (correctly) points out isn’t who he is. it really represents to me how comfortable shane’s become in living the “lie” of his life and hiding his true self - and yuna’s words are a harsh reminder to him that he’s really not as okay with that as he’s been telling himself he is. it sort of snaps him out of it for a moment and reminds him that there is a real discomfort for him in lying to the people he cares about. finally the little nod at the end to shane’s parents suspecting that maybe he might be gay - his dad says “swedish princess” really incredulously as though he knows that was never going to tempt shane. this was probably more meant to be referencing how fame and events that are all about appearances aren’t shane’s scene at all but it definitely could be read as them suspecting a little bit considering they say in episode 6 that they had done for a while.
frances 🏒189,368 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
ive talked about this before but this is one of my favourite scenes in the whole show and undoubtedly my favourite performance from hudson its such a shane way of reacting. everything with him is so internalised… until its not. when shane panics he *really* panics. and it’s also very true to the fact that shane is autistic because you can really see him trying to ground himself and cling onto something for support (he’s constantly grabbing either ilya or the window of the furniture throughout the whole scene) and that’s really indicative of sensory overload imo.
frances 🏒145,269 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
the way you literally *see* the anxiety seep into his features when he’s compared to tiger woods and serena williams. all shane ever wanted to do was play hockey, and the expectations on him as a POC to break barriers was huge. the concept of being outed and adding to those expectations of being a “trailblazer” must have been incomprehensible. as an asian player in a predominantly white sport, he always has to be a step above the rest just to be comfortable occupying the same space. adding queerness into the mix is another layer of “otherness” that is terrifying for someone like shane who’s only ever wanted to fit in and be recognised for his sport rather than as a public persona. he never wanted to be a role model and i just know that the pressure of that weighs on him. it’s something i definitely want to see explored from shane’s side in the show as well. of course we know ilya’s struggles and they’re explored in depth as they should be - but i’d love to see some exploration of the fact that as a white person ilya just gets to be good at hockey. for shane, being good at hockey will ALWAYS come with the extra weight/responsibility of knowing he’s a role model and he’s representing something bigger. it’s no wonder he’s desperate to find control in other areas of his life (his diet, his exercise routine etc).
frances 🏒107,452 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
okay so people seemed to like this when i’ve done it for other scenes so i wanna talk about the details i’ve noticed in the bar scene in tampa. starting off simple, there’s shane’s double entendre when he says “ive always wondered what it would be like to play on the same team.” i love this little moment because im sure shane means it genuinely but you can 100% see ilya fighting the urge to make a joke here. not really anything in particular to say about this, i just think it’s a really cute moment next there’s the camera work. if you pay attention to the start of shane and ilya’s conversation, the camera is constantly switching perspectives. we aren’t being presented this scene from either characters point of view, we’re being given it from both. i think this is quite crucial because both of them are really nervous and vulnerable in this moment. it’s the first time they’ve interacted since shane ran away in “tuna melts” and since shane dated rose. there’s a level of tentativeness from BOTH characters here and you can see that from both perspectives and in the way they approach the conversation. sticking with camera work, this scene does something that i’ve noticed is a theme across multiple scenes (i pointed it out particularly in ilya’s russian phone call). after the initial establishing shot of shane walking into the bar - the camera during their conversation is fairly tight on them both, switching between POV’s but never going wide enough to show much of the scenery. it’s only after carter jumps in and interrupts their moment that we fully zoom out to a wide shot which shows the bar and the room they’re in. i think this is really effective at showing visually how the world around them seems to “disappear” when they’re talking to each other. we physically can only see them in frame so it makes it much more jarring when carter appears and acts as a reminder that there is an outside world to witness them. after carter walks away, as ilya and shane talk and get more comfortable in each others company again (revealing that shane isn’t dating rose etc) the camera very slowly zooms back in to tight shots of the two of them. again, they’re soaking up each others presence and the word around them quite literally “disappears” from the frame. finally this is just a small thing i noticed, but in a way the scene is mirrored. both men are wearing outfits meant for “show”, with ilya wearing the flashy comedic hawaiian shirt and shane quite literally having been styled by someone else. also both are drinking the same drink and even the fruit bowls on each end of the bar are almost identical. i think visually that’s sort of indicative of them finally beginning to be on the same page. this scene is a turning point for their relationship and the start of them admitting that they do actually have more in common than just sexual chemistry. this “mirrored” effect sort of acts as a visual metaphor for that.
frances 🏒112,613 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
