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TED LASSO (2020 - )
He’s the one, Coach. If we’re gonna make an impact here, the first domino that needs to fall is right inside that man’s heart.
The only thing I was sad about in the 'Ted Lasso' final is that Beard and Barbara didn't meet and immediately fall in love with their serious yet wacky personalities
I wonder how many pairs of shoes Ted took with him to London
Ted lasso was a sports anime
#coach beard speaking for the entire fandom #he’s had enough of nate’s shit
TED LASSO; 2.12 - “Inverting the Pyramid of Success”
me watching and researching Ted Lasso knowing every detail of the show is thought out and meaningful
wake up babe new coach beard just dropped
The problem with Ted Lasso S3
It doesn’t feel like the last season.
Let’s imagine Ted Lasso was like any other show, slated to keep running until it eventually concluded after 5 or even 10 seasons. If we as viewers knew this, would these episodes feel so lopsided? Would the missing thematic tie-ins feel so odd? Would new characters and plot points feel like frustrating distractions?
Even with the entire season written and filmed, Apple is still not letting anyone doing press for the show say outright this is the last season. Why? To make space for a spin off? Or....maybe this isn’t the last season after all?
Either way, it definitely seems like the writers room were given the directive to not make these episodes feel like they’re leading to an end. And they certainly do not. However the strength of Ted Lasso has always been the foresight of the writers. Every character, line, and scene felt meaningful because they were - everything lead to an inevitable end. Without that, we’re left with a show that doesn’t feel bad per se. But definitely off.
For folks frustrated by Ted going back to Kansas, it might be helpful to think about this story within the framework of the hero’s journey
There always has to be the return, to go back to the start BUT go back completely changed. Why is it the hero must always return? Why has this story structure existed across cultures and the world for thousands of years? Many answers but...I think in life we can transform and grow meet new people and lovers and the most beautiful thing is we can never lose those things. Ever. Even when we go back to the beginning. It will never be a reset. It will always be a new beginning.
Ted Lasso Polycule Explained
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annotations being a love language for beard means so much to me, he’s the type of person to gift an annotated book to a friend
It's a nice touch that Ted's main feedback was a (thematically necessary, imo) title change, but I love what is implied by Beard's heavily annotated copy more. He really put in the work. Heavy annotations don't imply a lot of criticism even if that's what we were led to believe, they're a conversation between the reader and the writer.
Beard is a serious reader, but the show has shown us that, in some ways, he's a very shy man who struggles with vulnerability, hence being able to reveal so many niche interests and details about his sex life while being oddly defensive when someone asks for a seemingly innocuous detail like where are you from originally? Which might lead to other questions like, how did you and Ted start working together? And we know that this particular story is still a source of shame for Beard. That's why the annotations are great: they're not personal, but they're still a precious means of communication for Beard, and they're a safe way for him to keep a conversation going with Trent, which might be especially important for Beard with Ted in another country and Beard trying to navigate that shift and a new marriage to Jane jesuschrist.
Tdlr: Beard's heavy annotations in Trent's manuscript are his way of saying he wants to be better friends.
I have never done a Ted lasso post despite the fact that when I first made my tumblr this was like, the first fandom I was apart of lol. But! I’m so fucking pumped for season 4, I really feel like the finale just didn’t do it justice fully for the show. Some thoughts I have so far:
I would love to see keeley, Jamie, and Roy be a thing but realistically probably not. Especially if it’s stays true that Phil Dunster will be too busy. But I hope they’ll repair Roy and keeley and Jamie and keeley relationship after the weird and awkward fight they threw in. I personally always thought that was a hamfisted ending for them, not to say people can’t relapse into old toxic behaviors but I just felt it was a lazy and overdone trope to end or have a conclusion to a love triangle
Speaking of, it’s still possible Phil dunster could reprise his role, everything is still be worked out and nothing is too set in stone. Hell, an actual season is not set in stone. I would be greatly disappointed if he couldn’t be in it, it wouldn’t feel the same. But if he can’t, at the very least I want a good reason and some cameos, over FaceTime if they have to.
Which brings me to Ted, idk if he’s actually going to be fully in it or just over zoom or something? Is he fully coming back? It would be interesting if they do something similar to the plethora of fanfics of Ted getting hit with mental health issues because “home” doesn’t feel like home anymore and causing conflict in his life and moving back with Henry. Adding to that, I want the ex wife (can’t remember her name rn and I have too much energy to look it up) to break up with the fucking therapist. Dump! That! Man! I don’t want them to get back together, I just want her away from that fucking unethical creep and move to England for her son. But maybe that’s wishful thinking.
Speaking of break ups, break up Beard and Jane. Point blank. One of the worst relationships in the show, toxic as fuck, and Beard deserves better. And get that man some therapy too
I also would like to see Roy’s progress with therapy on top of that. And more keeley with the crew again, I always wished she was included more in the show and not on a side quest. Bring her more in the fold again
We better see Trent Crimm, you can pry that man from my cold dead hands
Seeing Ted get in a new relationship could be fun since I think it’s been long enough distance and he’s grown enough for that. But tbh, I don’t care if Rebecca and Ted get together, I like seeing a platonic hetero friendship that doesn’t need to automatically be romantic. Sometimes people can vibe and just be friends and I always liked that about Ted and Rebecca. But I’m not opposed either if they write it well. Though I highly doubt they’d go down that route since they built up to the Dutch guy and with Rebecca possibly developing a relationship with his daughter, it’d be kind of heartbreaking if they breakup just to put her with Ted. So, if they don’t go the Ted and Rebecca route, I hope we see her relationship more and the daughter
More of Roy’s sister please, I love her. Also more Phoebe
Would love some of the other footballers get to shine. Want to see the women’s league. Love to see Roy struggling with being a new coach
Would like to learn Roy’s family situation since I feel like that’s an untapped well for trauma and issues that probably created and contributed to his anger issues
And I think as a final thing to this long ass post, I’d like to see the after affects of Collin essentially coming out and being the first openly gay player while playing in the league. People had to have seen him kiss his partner and while it was happy, it’s also going to open a floodgate so I hope we get to see that properly addressed and well written
I’ve decided to allocate each character of ted lasso a pet , I’m starting with the main team players but I plan to do all characters, including Higgins, Rebecca, Keeley etc, and I don’t want to go with the generic combinations, so if anyone has any thoughts of who should have what pet, the inspo would be appreciated.
Ted Lasso, season 2, episode 9: “Beard After Hours”
i'm a big fan of tv shows where they do an episode from the POV of a side character and they're living in a completely different genre than the main character
this may be too niche but
we need a roy & jamie spin-off series cause I KNOW jamie didn’t get all that bi-coding for nothing
Seems like the first thing we need to do is define the issue, yeah?