II'm thinking a lot about that intense reserve. Trying to figure out if he's satisfied with it. He must need more interaction than he's getting or he wouldn't have reached out to Yurio. But probably he's okay with his own company a lot of the time. He was so straightforward with Yurio about wanting to be friends and I don't know if it was just his nature or if that was a huge moment for him.
It fits for me with the idea of him being very plain-speaking: when he doesn't want to have dinner with you, he says so, and when he wants to be your friend, he says so. He strikes me as an excellent foil for the massive drama queens of Team Russia. Whether he's lonely at home, or whether he just wants to have a friend in the sphere of international competition, who knows?
I thought it was interesting the show directly addressed that Xmas isn't a big deal in Russia but didn't touch on the religious calendar difference. Which would have been too much of an info dump, I suppose.
Yeah definitely. I was satisfied on the whole with Victor's response – I can see him glossing over the fine points because it wasn't really his focus at that moment – and at least they didn't do anything egregiously wrong.
In which case I think it's Halloween for Otabek.
I hadn't really thought about his ethnicity! I'd been assuming Kazakh unless we hear otherwise.
This definitely was my assumption originally. I only wondered because Denis Ten seems to have embraced Otabek as Definitely Representing Him, despite the obvious personality differences. But Kazakh seems both simpler and more likely.
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It fits for me with the idea of him being very plain-speaking: when he doesn't want to have dinner with you, he says so, and when he wants to be your friend, he says so. He strikes me as an excellent foil for the massive drama queens of Team Russia. Whether he's lonely at home, or whether he just wants to have a friend in the sphere of international competition, who knows?
I thought it was interesting the show directly addressed that Xmas isn't a big deal in Russia but didn't touch on the religious calendar difference. Which would have been too much of an info dump, I suppose.
Yeah definitely. I was satisfied on the whole with Victor's response – I can see him glossing over the fine points because it wasn't really his focus at that moment – and at least they didn't do anything egregiously wrong.
In which case I think it's Halloween for Otabek.
I hadn't really thought about his ethnicity! I'd been assuming Kazakh unless we hear otherwise.
This definitely was my assumption originally. I only wondered because Denis Ten seems to have embraced Otabek as Definitely Representing Him, despite the obvious personality differences. But Kazakh seems both simpler and more likely.