Have I seen Picard? No. Do I know that Hugh deserved better? Yes.

TAYLOR DEARDEN as MEL KING

and shane says, "who is it?"

"lily!"

"oh." shane immediately sets aside what he's doing and walks over, saying to his mom, "that's ilya."

yuna looks at him in confusion as he picks up his phone. "why is ilya saved as 'lily' in your phone?"

and shane looks at her, away, shrugs as if it's obvious and simply says, "I can't have ilya rozanov saved on my phone, mom" before answering the call with a, "hey, baby" and walking away.

hide under the pool table when things get Loud

refuse to eat anything but buttered noodles and chocolate milk at kindergarten

ominously answer the question "Where's your teacher?" with "Why don't you go look in there... you might find her..." and pointing to the classroom

ask every single adult in the building what their favorite dinosaur (hockey player) is and then rattle off every single dinosaur (hockey player) they know

pitifully slink up to his teacher and go "I think I need a time-out :("

say he thought about it, and hitting his friend was the best option to resolve their fight

lock himself in the bathroom stall and require a teacher to use a laddder to climb into the stall and free him

run full-speed into a wall, smile hugely when asked if he's okay, do it again

try to alert a teacher to other children fighting by saying "Miss, shit's going down"

because I think it would just bring him back to the humiliation and vulnerability he associates with those times in his life.

yes, it’s on that kids skating rink that he earned his first trophy when he was four, but it’s also the place where other kids used to relentlessly stretch their eyes with their fingers at him, and make fun of his obsession with hockey instead of math.

yes, that classroom is where he held David’s hand and very seriously toured him around the various finger-paintings of himself in skates on the walls, but it’s also where his teachers requested a private meeting with his parents, and that night he heard them arguing about him not having any friends or interests outside of hockey.

All the photos they have of him with different family members picture him frowning with a little pout. He only ever smiled when he was in David or Yuna’s arms despite other people trying to make him laugh.

Yuna and David constantly had to correct people, but they thought it was hilarious.

“Oh no, he’s only 6 months. He’s just a big boy.”

“He’s exclusively breastfed. No, we don’t overfeed him.”

“His pediatrician says he’s perfectly healthy.”

“Yes, our backs hurt from carrying him around, but he’s perfect.”

Ilya sees baby pictures of Shane and wonders how a spoonful of marshmallow fluff became sentient.