#a jamie and sam friendship wouldve strengthened sam's individual arc as well i just focused on jamie here because that's Blorbo

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obviously Jamie’s one of my fav characters so I’m biased, but I fully agree about his screentime in season 2. It’s jarring because SO much happens to him but they don’t flesh it out at all. he disappears into the shadows for episodes after he has a main character moment. This happens w his return to Richmond w Sam, the locker room breakdown with his dad, and his love confession to Keeley.. those are major life events! why was his only scene in 2.11 the dance scene??

yeah!! obviously i'm biased as well what with being a Jamie fangirl but I think they very much did his arc a disservice in s2. they don't give him enough screentime to flesh out ANY aspect of his arc, and the zero follow-up on Man City is still (imo) this show's Ultimate Biggest Sin.

To be quite honest the pacing in s2 is nearly as bad as it is in s3 to me, and I think its a combination of 1) giving the various s1 "main" cast drastically disproportionate amounts of screen time (the amount of screen time Roy for instance has in s2 in comparison to other characters is CRAZY and i say that as someone who very much loves Roy. think of what we could have had if the writers understood BALANCE) and 2) adding MORE characters to the main billing...Which I love in theory, but I think they could have done better.

Like, they sort of decided Sam was going to be the central player of focus for the season, which COULD have been amazing, I love Sam and I was thrilled he got more screentime!! But what we got was the Dubai Air plot (which similarly to Man City was something that should have made WAVES. There should have been residual damage from losing the team's main sponsor spanning several episodes, and instead it was a one and done) and...Sambecca? (which was like. Fine? I didn't hate them, I just thought it was a bit of a boring plot compared to well...everything else the season had going on. IMO this was nowhere near the most exciting place they could have taken either Sam or Rebecca's storylines). And all the other players were sidelined.

I think the perfect solution would have been to have spent time developing in s2 the close-knit Sam & Jamie friendship that we see having fully evolved by s3. give them screentime TOGETHER. I think Jamie's storyline suffers because they don't let him have any friends. He's just sort of one with the lads by the end, but we barely even get to see him struggle to form those connections. it's just one minute everyone hates him and the next everyone's buds! They should've developed Sam and Jamie by showing them learning to like one another. they should have given Jamie someone to TALK to, because that was what was sorely needed to flesh out and unpack some of the other stuff going on in his life. let him talk to Sam about being nervous about playing City! let him talk to Roy and Keeley after That Dad Scene!! Let them Connect!!!

Which leads into that I also think they should have started reconciling Roy & Jamie after Man City. Like, after that huge breakthrough moment i think it's crazy they go back to basically ignoring each other's existence the rest of the season apart from simmering Keeley jealousy and a (bad imo) headbutt. They should have more thoroughly planted the seeds in s2 for what they were going to continue in s3. they could also have let jamie and keeley actually talk and be friends. (this would have strengthened all three characters' s3 plots imo. the roykeeley issues were fun at first but became sort of...oh no not this again. more of the same! by the end).

#jamie tartt #asks #ted lasso #a jamie and sam friendship wouldve strengthened sam's individual arc as well i just focused on jamie here because that's Blorbo #but like i do have thoughts about the Sam end of it as well. (and again i think they should have done way more with the dubai air plot)