#im too aromantic for this lmao my poor romance repulsed ass is not having a great week

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here’s another thought i have on the finale which isn’t very high stakes but has been driving me Fucking Nuts:

re: the fight between jamie and roy about keeley. i thought it was stupid and lazy writing that did a disservice to everything else that dynamic was and encompassed. there was so much more there and THAT was how we closed it out eh? like kudos to her for going ‘uh, no’ and kicking them out, that was a good call, but the whole thing sucked so bad generally and wasted time we could’ve spent doing literally anything other than the most cliche, juvenile, classic ‘women are a prize for men to fight over’ thing. however what’s annoying me even more is the way people who DID like it are responding to people who didn’t.

i keep seeing people be like “ACTUALLY them fighting over her was fine and normal youre all just babies who can’t handle that sometimes people REGRESS and sometimes people are MEAN and UNFAIR and UNKIND” and it’s like nah man it’s because they avoided doing this shit entirely for three fucking years and then were like do you want the cliche love triangle bullshit you dodged the whole time heaped on you at the last second when it makes the least sense? sure, here you go!

is it regression if it’s something they never did in the first place? i think not! and characters can be mean and unfair and cruel and whatever and it’s not the end of the world, i actually think it’s very interesting, and THAT’S not the part i find out of character, it’s that they literally never did this before and now after EVERYTHING else, after how clear it was how gravely fucking serious jamie was about the video leak, this is the kind of shit they’re throwing at each other about this? after repeatedly subverting expectations of classic love triangle nonsense? it’s tired and it’s lazy and it’s the cheapest option and nobody is gonna be able to change my mind by telling me i just don’t understand that People Can Be Unfair Sometimes.

#gav gab #this isn’t even getting into some of the other stuff that’s driving me nuts but like #maybe this is just me #maybe everybody else is having the exact problems these posts are describing #but PERSONALLY it’s not that. it’s that this was unnecessary and out of nowhere and a cheap shot #after they did some very good work the rest of the show im NOT doing the same tired old shit #they managed to have tension and whatever around that history without it becoming cliche love triangle macho dude bullshit #and HERE WE ARE #why stick the landing when we could undo all of that at the last second? #ted lasso spoilers #i am going to become the joker #im too aromantic for this lmao my poor romance repulsed ass is not having a great week #‘it wasn’t even a REAL SERIOUS FIGHT’ i understand this is a dramedy and operates on comedy universe laws #and sometimes things are scaled appropriately but there was ripped clothing and blood lmfao #and they told her to Decide Who Gets Her #in no universe is any of that gonna fly with me no matter how it was resolved #after we managed to go 33 previous episodes WITHOUT DOING THIS SHIT