Roy Kent and Trent Crimm, Independent, making peace.
Season 3, episode 2.
“I was 17. This wrecked me.”
I love how reaction channels have people going all “awwww” in empathy for Roy.
Roy letting the guard down and simply openly admitting what hurt him,
Trent responding with being equally vulnerable and admitting what motiviation he had to write the way he did about underage people back then,
they both meet each other halfway but revealing truth and vulnerability.
I think 10 or 20 years ago, a scene like this would be played for laughs, but I see nothing funny about the way it’s written and acted, it’s just beautiful.
Dealing with press and tabloids while underage, when all you want is to be good at playing sports,
is so messed up, but any story like this makes me think of Sarah Lynn and her real life equivalents.
It must be seriously destructive
for child actors to read about themselves how bad their performances were.
Sadly,
i’ve seen one dude on a reaction channel just laughing through it and saying “Roy,get over it.”
I don’t know, I personally never want to get over how underage people are mistreated by media.
The slapstick was more to show the disconnect between them. Jaime had come a long way with Roy, but Roy still had a ways to go. Jaime had opened up and learned to trust Roy, but Roy still hadn’t shifted how he saw Jaime; he saw a player needing a coach, not a boy needing a father. Jaime needs a hug, and Roy was just standing there not knowing what to do, so the hands went uncomfortably on Roy’s face with nowhere else to go. The laughter is caused by how out of place it felt.
That’s why the scene of Roy and Keeley following Jaime through Manchester is mostly shown from Roy’s perspective, because he’s the one who needs to understand.