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what do you mean tedtrent got married on a cool monday night in january

#EXCUSE ME WHAT

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Ripped From The Headlines His Co-stars' Lives

*Okay, that one may be a wee stretch, but I contend that hairties work your way down your ponytail, dangles at the end of said ponytail and then falls. Maybe that's why Trent did away with putting his hair up.

So we know THE FAMOUS FIVE will air soon, but James Lance has another gig for the Beeb. A radio performance.

Look at Nick's smart dressed little guys!

Nick is telling the truth. WONKA is an absolute delight. I hate to admit it, but t'is true.

#lovely lil updates

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maybe i need it?

#?????

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A totally random collection of screenshots.

#babe #honey #sir?

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James Lance on the relationship between Trent Crimm and Ted Lasso Source: From this lovely interview by Lauren Coates - Article & Video

#the mannifesto of all of this #maybe i should retire this side on this for now

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trent crimm + the crinkly smile

#my baby my baby my baby

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DO YOU GUYS SEE THE VISION? THE POTENTIAL?

Ted still hasn't learned to let people take care of him, and Trent blew up his entire career because HE WANTS TO LOOK AFTER TED.

#exactly

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Inside me there are two wolves.

One who thinks that the writers are either stupid or cruel, and that the finale was so incomprehensibly bad that I shouldn't try to make sense of it. And that I should move on.

The other one is a subtext-and-metaphor-hungry beast that is manically obsessed with finding a reason, at least subtextually, for the incomprehensible mess they made out of these characters, especially Ted, in the finale.

Everyone is so right to point out that Ted in previous episodes would not have acted like this. I think the reason for the sudden regression in his character is Dottie.

That morning, full of smiles, in a good mood, Ted starts his walk to work.

He cheerfully strolls through the streets, saying hello to his neighbors, making chit-chat with them. He is (as Trent said it in 1x03) out there in the community. He is, more importantly, part of a community. Until suddenly-

"Mom?"

Dottie's arrival changes everything. Ted gets worse and worse throughout the episode. In the hotel room in Manchester, the football anthem "Blue Moon", with the haunting lyric "You saw me standing alone" plays over Ted's lonesome figure, in the shadows, depressed.

Juxtapose that with his first scene: the lively neighborhood and daylight.

At the end of the episode, his conversation with his (manipulative) mom hits him deep. He feels immense guilt over not being there for Henry. And he's been torn over this for the entire season.

His mom, and the way she acts, and the way she manipulates him, push him in the wrong direction: Kansas.

I think Ted has disassociated for most of the finale. But I also think that he is intentionally pushing people away. Maybe he thinks that this will make it easier for him to leave, maybe he thinks that this will make it easier for them to let him go. Maybe he just hates himself so much that he cannot accept their help. Maybe he feels guilty that they're showing him so much love, when he knows he will abandon them.

Either way, he quits. Something that he would not have done, even in season 1. So his regression goes farther than the first episode, deeper into his past. He goes from:

to having doubts on the plane about leaving without winning the whole fucking thing

but leaving anyway.

And this is one of the most curious things to me. Rebecca offers to bring Henry to him in England by helping relocate Michelle:

And yet, he refuses. So, sure, this is about being there for his son. But given the choice between his son with his beloved community, and his son without his beloved community, he chooses the latter.

I've heard the argument that we don't know for sure that Ted doesn't have a support system in Kansas. But from a narrative perspective, it's important that we haven't been shown that hypothetical support system at all. And given that he actually returns to Kansas without the one person who we know supported him before coming to England, it comes across as a terribly isolating situation.

So why would Ted choose to part from his found family, even though bringing his son into that family would be an option? My theory is that he just really fucking hates himself. I think he wants to punish himself, maybe for being away from Henry for so long, maybe for something else. I don't think he believes that he deserves love or even credit for how he helped the club.

I mean, Rebecca and Trent offer him exactly that this episode: credit for what the did for the club.

And he rejects them both, choosing instead to remove himself from their lives, to erase himself from the narrative.

I think he's lower mentally than we've seen him for a while.

I think he's in his dark forest.

So the plane departs and then lands. And Ted is back in Kansas, driven through the prosaic, picket-fenced, isolating, depressing American suburbs to the house where Henry and the ex-wife who doesn't love him are waiting for him.

And the light might be golden, and he might be reunited with his son. But as we close in on the last shot of the show, you can see his smile try to fight the sadness in his eyes and you know.

He's not happy.

#god so i struggle to see it as a happy ending #i know they meant it to be ?? somehow??? #but really how #at most its a bittersweet like aww parents sacrafice everything for their kids hey pro marriage reunion nuclear family nonsense

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absolutely losing my mind over this

#babe... no

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Happy Pride to Trent Crimm and his gay little t-shirts

still images of each shirt below the cut

#yes! #what could have been #still holding out for the inevitable spin off in a few years when they realise what a queer icon trent is

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James Lance on the relationship between Trent Crimm and Ted Lasso Source: From this lovely interview by Lauren Coates - Article & Video

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james lance and your crimmlet headcanons you will always be famous

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i’m being so normal about the fact that james lance asked his son to make him a bracelet as if it were trent’s daughter who made it

#he really is just writing all the interesting bits himself huh

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Is it true that you got onstage and danced with Bruce Springsteen?

JAMES LANCE as TRENT CRIMM Ted Lasso 3.11 | Mom City

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we all knew that restaurant scene meant something

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since this wasn't in the article, some ppl might have missed this little tidbit

#ty Lauren for trying

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You shouldn’t compare Hannah Waddingham’s cruelty towards tedbeccas to James Lance’s statement in that interview. Hannah was unfairly cruel and that’s not something to celebrate

in all seriousness please miss me with this bullshit. i’m not trying to start ship wars in the year of our lord 2023, i’m just celebrating a very rare W for the tedtrent shippers.

#perfect!!!