#ted lasso final season

[sprqpointintern]

i need them to kiss!

#ted lasso #roykeeleyjamie #roy x keeley x jamie #roy kent x keeley jones x jamie tarrt #p #ot3 #roy kent #keeley jones #jamie tartt #ted lasso memes #ted lasso fandom #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso final season #ted lasso apple tv #ted lasso series #ted lasso finale #Matthew.chat

[coppermate]

I can’t tell you how badly I need to know if trent crimm becomes apart of the diamond dogs

#ted lasso #trent crimm #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso final season #ted lasso 3x02

[itgetsbetterproject]

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Not gonna lie - with more than 150 bills introduced in 35 states in 2023 that aimed to restrict student access to inclusive and diverse books and other library materials, the theme felt pretty radical.

And you DELIVERED. With the help of our Youth Voices (amazing queer youth activists from across the country), we compiled your amazing submissions of poetry, short essays and letters, visual art, photography, and more into Queerbook 2024. Like a yearbook, it captures what queer youth are feeling, going through, and hoping for - right here, right now across the U.S.

It's also no accident that it's the perfect small-ish size to stash in your locker or backpack so you can crack it open any time you're looking for some queer connection. :3

Read some more about the book and grab your own limited-run copy of Queerbook 2024 now here.

#itgetsbetter #queerbook #lgbtq youth #queer youth #trans youth #queer lit #lgbtq books #studyblr #lgbtqia

[richmondtillidie]

Ted Lasso Season 3 out of context

#ted lasso #tedlassoedit #tedlassosource #tedlassogif #ted lasso spoilers #i made half of these while watching the FA cup final #because that is what this show has done to me #my gifs #season 3

[gnnosis]

anyone else feeling real split on how the finale’s gonna go

#ted lasso fam how we doin #personally: bad #this came to me in a vision #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso #ted lasso meta #tedlassoedit #tedbecca #tedtrent #tedependent #trent crimm #ted lasso finale #ted lasso 3x12 #ted lasso season three spoilers #theodore lasso #richmond til we die #afc richmond #richmond fc

[k-chips]

Diamond Dogs video chat because not even the Ted Lasso finale can separate these dorks.

No I won’t finish the backgrounds

#I have absolutely 0 ideas on how you draw Roy #or Leslie… #help #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso finale #diamond dogs #coach beard #roy kent #trent crimm #leslie higgins #nate shelley #nathan shelley #my art

[richmondsafc]

So a footballer can have two beautiful women but a beautiful woman can’t have two footballers?? Cowards.

#I mean it’s still canon to me #but explicitly onscreen I mean #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso finale #ted lasso 3x12 #roy kent #jamie tartt #keeley jones #roy x jamie x keeley #keeley x jamie x roy #jamie x roy x keeley #jamie x keeley x roy #roy x keeley x jamie #keeley x roy x jamie #dani rojas

[soup-or-who-lock]

something something "Why on earth would you believe that [I hated your violin playing]?" "Because you said literally said that to me once, dad!" something something children remember the fucked up things their parents do or say like major historic events, while parents forget them like average tuesdays...or something

#ted lasso wednesdays #could actually say People (not just kids) remember the fucked up things said/done to them but the doers forget like it was no biggie #anyway i'm being totally normal about it all. totally normal about ted lasso and totally normal about everything #(i am not being normal about one single thing) #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso 3x10 #nate shelley #nathan shelley #beloved wonder kid #sweet little grey haired man. so happy to watch our beloved wonder kid finally say so many things he has needed to say for so long

[a-reader-and-a-writer]

Love the finale or hate it, you cannot tell you weren't moved when everyone began to pull out their piece of the sign that they kept with them this whole time.

#i was in tears! #and for the record i loved the finale #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers

[vrag-veshtica]

emotionally spiritually physically mentally supernaturally I'm still here

#ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso spoilers #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #ted lasso speculation #rebecca welton #ted lasso finale

[thisismysecondrodeo]

My current favorite genre of television: "Letting actors I know from their previous comedy roles ruin me emotionally"

#the Barry season 3 finale and the severance season 1 finale are some of the most intense episodes of television I've ever seen #jason sudeikis #snl #ted lasso #adam scott #parks and rec #parks and recreation #severance #bill hader #barry #barry hbo #my shit

[rovermcfly]

gay people are so fucking useless, they will literally quit their well-paid, secure job for some guy, go to that guy's boss and offer to write a book about their football club, pretend to be "observing" the guy's coaching methods or some shit for MONTHS and actually write a whole ass book about it, all just to have an excuse to spend every single day with him instead of simply saying something like "hey I'm really into you, would you like to go out sometime"

#ted lasso #trent crimm #he was so real for this #but also so goddamn stupid #like dude get it TOGETHER #anyway I still firmly believe trent confessing his feelings would've DRASTICALLY altered the season finale's outcome #which is of course why he never could... fucking.. the narrative and all

[sprqpointintern]

this episode was just an hour of me crying 😭

#ted lasso #ted lasso 3x11 #mom city #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso final season #ted lasso series #ted lasso apple tv #jamie tartt #dottie lasso #nathan shelley #coach beard #ted lasso memes #Matthew.chat

[ivystitches]

i think that the roy x jamie fight wouldn’t be so hated and would’ve made more sense if it hadn’t happened in the series finale

#ted lasso #no one wants that to be the last major interaction those two have together #no one wants the last roy x jamie plot to be them fighting over keeley #i wouldn’t have hated it if it had happened earlier in the season #i very much did hate it as their plot for the series finale #like be serious please #ted lasso spoilers #roy kent #jamie tartt

[here-for-a-good-time-hopefully]

Mcgonagall: Okay Mr Lupin, you won’t like this but at the moment Mr Black is actually being the more mature one

Remus: (scowls angrily)

Sirius: Yeah I’m being super mature you big, dumb, hairy, baby twat

#wolfstar after an argument #in honour of me finally processing the season finale of Ted lasso #marauders as ted lasso characters #source: ted lasso #marauders #harry potter #marauders era #hp marauders #moony wormtail padfoot and prongs #jegulus #sirius black #remus lupin #minerva mcgonagall #marauders headcanon #wolfstar #remus and sirius #ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt

[k-chips]

Chaotic anxious husband and chaotic dorky husband

Dunno what they did but I guess it was pretty fun

(ITS THE FIRST TIME I DRAW THEM. HELP)

#this is my way to NOT THINK ABOUT THE FINALE #the finale isn’t happening #fake #I don’t believe in the Ted lasso finale #sobbing #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #tedtrent #tedependent #trent crimm #barbie meme #barbie and ken #my art

[ceruleanwhore]

In my soul, I feel disgusted and betrayed by this finale and I am shocked that the same writers who were able to give us such a truly wonderful show somehow came up with such a terrible ending for it. This episode directly opposes the very nature of the show more than any other episode in such a way that then calls into question the rest of the series. This episode feels every bit as hollow and sad as Ted himself seems to be throughout the finale and makes me wonder if we ever were actually supposed to believe and to hope at all in the first place, even though I thought that was the point of the series. 

The first of many issues I have with the episode is how they handled Rupert. The whole show is about belief, but specifically believing in others’ capacity for good and ability to change for the better. It’s about believing in redemption and reconciliation, which they actually could have done for Rupert even this late in the show. The scene in episode 10 where we get a glimpse of the inner child that’s still tucked away somewhere inside him showed us that even he still had this potential, up until they did what they did for the finale. While I, personally, tend to be more like Sassy was in that scene — gleefully cheering for the downfall of an odious scoundrel — it felt completely wrong for this show in particular to include that kind of public humiliation, which we the audience are all supposed to be cheering for, and in the middle of Ted’s last game ever with Richmond.

Where we actually could have used a side bit about a scoundrel getting his comeuppance is with Ted’s ex wife and their ex therapist. I think it’s absolutely terrible that they went and set up Rupert’s downfall the way they did while Jake apparently gets off scot free and never gets his license revoked or anything. There also is never really any acknowledgement of just how wrong what he did was, how he should have his license revoked, and how his actions call into question every bit of therapy Ted and Michelle got from him. No one ever questions ‘Oklahoma,’ never mind the entire divorce, relative to this man’s breach of ethics and it bothers me to no end that the most we get is his absence at the end from scenes with Ted, Michelle, and their son. We didn’t need Rupert dressing up like Darth Vader and physically assaulting someone, we needed Michelle realizing how completely wrong her whole relationship with Jake is, dumping him, and reporting him.

The next issue is Ted himself. Obviously, he was in a gloomy sort of mood throughout the whole episode, but I think it’s really important to point out how that didn’t actually clear up once he got home. I do believe he was happy to see his son but, from the plane ride onward, it’s like he’s just hollow. We see him coaching little league soccer for his kid and yet there isn’t any of the heart and soul in it that we’ve seen him put into his other coaching. It’s like he’s depressed, which is understandable because he just left a whole incredible, supportive community to come to Kansas where, like Odysseus at the end of the Oddyssey, he’s a stranger in his own home. He goes from having a whole city around him to support him to seemingly having nothing and not even being a welcome member of his own family since he’s still divorced. Also, as others have pointed out, that montage that seems to be a dream sequence when he’s on the plane ride home is all about him writing himself out of the lives of everyone he just left behind. He’s decided that it’s better for everyone there to just forget about him and move on with their lives as though he was never there and he’s literally dreaming about how happy they’ll be to do that. 

This is a major thematic issue for this series because one of the main points of the series is the idea that everyone can change for the better and, more importantly, just about every character does. Ted spends all that time in England working on his own shit like everyone else, and even gets over his aversion to therapy in order to seek help for the first time ever, just to throw all of that away at the very end because apparently he’s just back on his bs and that’s it. This is where it would maybe be alright if there were another season after this one to address and fix this, but there isn’t. In the very last episode of the whole thing he’s throwing away his entire community, dreaming about how happy they’ll be without him, and there’s nothing and no one there correcting that. To me, this is like if right at the end of the last episode with no room left to fix it, they just had Beard go steal another car and then act like the audience is supposed to be okay with it.

The other thing, going off of that, is how they handled some of the relationships, and I specifically want to start off by talking about Ted and Rebecca. They have the distinction of being the only ship to truly be baited, more than once, and very unnecessarily so. The bait scene at the start of the final episode contributes nothing to the plot, the characters, or their relationship with each other — all it does is mock the members of the audience who were foolish enough to believe they ever could have been together. This, to me, also goes against the core values and themes of the show, because ship baiting like that is inherently mean-spirited and Ted Lasso at its core is meant to be kind. There is nothing kind about essentially dangling something over someone’s head, playing keep away with it, until you finally just chuck it in the river and laugh at the person for being so foolish as to think they were ever going to get it. It’s mean for the sake of being mean and again, for the umpteenth time, it contributes nothing.

So then let’s get to Roy, Jamie, and Keeley. Jamie and Roy are another example of a strong relationship that’s developed beautifully over the course of three seasons regressing at the very end because oh no, people ship it and we can’t have that. I do think that Keeley turning both of them down was necessary but Roy and Jamie literally getting into a fistfight over her was completely unnecessary and detrimental to their individual characters. By this point, they both are mature enough and respect Keeley enough that it’s genuinely ooc for them to be fighting each other about who gets to date her while she’s not even there. Season 3 Jamie and Roy would’ve been leaving the decision to her without reverting back to macho Neanderthal crap. 

To me, this is also about the creators recognizing that people in the fandom have ships and, for whatever reason, feeling the need to try and shut that down rather than just leaving well alone. If, instead of getting in a fight like they did, Roy and Jamie had a conversation about their shared experiences of wanting to be with Keeley but not knowing where they stand with her and recognizing how hard it is for each other, then it could end up contributing to the further growth of their relationship and, along with it, shipping and oh no, we can’t have that. Just like with Avatar: the Last Airbender, the presence or lack of romantic relationships is not the issue here, the problem is with writers accidentally setting up an incredibly compelling ship and then being like “oops, we didn’t mean to do that,” and trying to ctrl z it in the finale, at the detriment of the whole story. Why oh why do writers keep feeling the need to sacrifice the quality of their whole story for the sake of trying to get people to stop having opinions?

So then last up is Ted and Trent. As many others have pointed out, that bit where Ted’s reading the book and makes that comment about the ‘laugh police’ in response to Trent’s excitement and anxiety is extremely out of character. Ted “but he’s our dork” Lasso would never say that and I was horrified to hear those words come out of his mouth. However, this goes in with the destruction of his entire character arc and every bit of growth he’s done throughout the past three seasons all in this one episode, because that was him actively pushing Trent away because, as previously acknowledged, he’s back on his bs.

One issue with this is that Ted then never has a proper goodbye with Trent and the closest thing to that is the note he left asking Trent to change the title of the book. It’s not that I necessarily think he needed individual goodbyes on screen with every other character but Trent in particular was hugely important for Ted, like how Rebecca was. Do you really mean to tell me that Ted wouldn’t actually say goodbye to the journalist who wrote what, coming from him at the time, was essentially a glowing review when he was actually hired with the intention of destroying Ted’s career? Do you mean to say he wouldn’t get a proper goodbye with the man who threw away his whole career over him? The man who then decided the first thing he wanted to do after leaving said career was to write a book about him and his team? Seriously?

The other thing with Trent is that, where Ted’s ex wife and even Rebecca have felt the need to use ‘Oklahoma’ with him to get him to tell the truth, Trent has a talent for discerning the exact truth from Ted regardless of what he does or does not say. It would have been perfectly in character for him to go talk to Ted like Rebecca tried to but then actually succeed where she failed because he would be able to clearly read Ted’s signals and throw that all back at him. Unlike Rebecca, he could directly call out how much Ted didn’t actually want to leave.

That is actually the biggest issue this episode had — cowardice. The only reason I can think of why they wouldn’t even consider doing something like what I just described is because, like with Roy and Jamie, they are perfectly aware of the chemistry between those characters and how they have set them up so it reads like they’re in love with each other, and a scene like this would be just about impossible to do without coming across as romantic. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Ted and Trent would’ve already been snogging by the start of the season if one of them were a woman. This show did the thing where they’ve decided that they can have a couple gay characters, but those characters can only get with specifically devised side characters because God forbid you just have your two existing characters of the same gender kiss a bit. Between the pairings of Ted and Trent, and Roy and Jamie, there is enough textual evidence of mutual attraction and the potential for real, romantic relationships that one could write over a hundred pages about it, and that is not an exaggeration. When I look at this finale, one of the things I see is the titular character being destroyed because they decided that was better than letting people think that he could maybe not be straight.

The last issue I have here is that there really were no goodbyes. Rebecca showed up at the airport and that’s it and I thought that was very weird and, again, very much not in accordance with the entire rest of the show. Even if they didn’t have the entire team show up at the airport to say goodbye, it didn’t make sense to not even have just the Diamond Dogs show up for that. Where tf was everyone? Because just from watching the whole rest of the show, I think it would be impossible not to expect the team, the dogs, the folks from the pub and maybe also Shannon from town. It was a cold, empty departure far from fitting for the show at all and it left me coming out of that finale feeling cold and empty from the crippling disappointment. They had a whole show centered around interpersonal relationships and support and then had the coldest, loneliest ending anyone there could have devised.

My final thought here is that this is not an ending and the only way to salvage this wreckage is with another season. This feels like something they’re doing to drum up attention and interaction so that it’ll be successful when they do come in and announce that they’ve changed their minds and there will be another season, like an encore at a concert. However, if this really is the end, then I am absolutely disgusted and feel very betrayed right now because this show told me to believe and taught me that maybe hope isn’t actually a bad thing that’s out to get me, just to turn around and crap all over that. This show didn’t just apparently waste hours of my time, it was actually helping to get me to move on from past pain and start to accept hope as a good thing, until it shattered mine. They desecrated the very art they created and then expected the audience to applaud such disrespectful destruction, and I am disgusted by it.

#ted lasso #ted lasso finale #ted lasso meta #ted lasso review #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso season three #ted lasso spoilers #tedbecca #royjamie #tedtrent #tedependent #ted lasso critical #ted lasso criticism #anti ted lasso