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[meemalee]

It’s giving:

#ted lasso #afc richmond #dead ted #mufasa ted #big enough #yelling cowboy meme

[meemalee]

All I do know is, thankfully, Jason and I have had so much chemistry that it’s made everyone question it from the get-go. -Hannah

#the chemistry was insane #tedbecca #ted lasso #ted x rebecca #rebecca x ted #rebecca welton

[meemalee]

Ted + Rebecca Finale Fix It AU: Ted Stays (and they fell in love)

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #rebecca welton #ted x rebecca #tedbecca #I would like to live here

[meemalee]

#tedlassoedit #rebecca welton #ted lasso #ted x rebecca #tedbecca #hannah waddingham #jason sudeikis

[meemalee]

Believing in rom-communism is all about believing that everything is going to work out in the end… Now, it may not work out how you think it will, or how you hope it does, but, believe me, it will all work out.

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #her face at the end #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #rebecca welton #sleepless in seattle

[meemalee]

I love you, Higgins.

#leslie higgins #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #the best

[meemalee]

I love him so much.

#it me #trent crimm #the lasso way #Ted lasso

[meemalee]

“In my personal opinion, in the airport scene they are both struggling with whether or not to say [I love you]. But they both know, instinctively, that if they do, it could open a floodgate they’d rather not open.” - Brendan Hunt

#ted lasso #rebecca welton #ted x rebecca #tedbecca

[meemalee]

I will curate my own experience THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

[meemalee]

In case anyone here would like to join me — there is nothing in canon that prevents me from believing that Ted and Rebecca did in fact fully realize their romantic love by having a beautiful, intense, soul-connecting, single perfect night together before that opening.

I fully believe that the look he gets on his face when she tells him she doesn’t care about beating Rupert anymore at the end of 3x10 is him realizing his feelings for her, and that the truth bomb has her realizing her feelings for him.

So just imagine Ted in his apartment getting that text from Beard saying we gotta evacuate to Rebecca’s, and the drop of delicious nervous anticipation he’d feel, and the look on her face when he arrives, and the way they’d try to fight it because they both know it will hurt, and the way they’d fall together anyway, just this once.

We don’t have to imagine the morning after. (And — per the canon acting of that scene — it can most definitely be a morning after. Per Hannah herself, Ted and Rebecca have “chemistry beyond friendship,” and I fully believe both she and Jason played this scene so that it would be read as a morning after. I’ve simply moved passed how cruel it feels since it allows me to reframe the story in this way 😌)

Rebecca has grown so much through the years that for the rest of the episode, she lets herself feel it, all of it, all that love that’s been building slow and steady for years and was realized that one night. And she’s grown so much that she lets Ted see it, can even tell Ted that she wants it — she wants him, she wants him to stay. And she’s grown so much that she can see past her emotion, her love, and understand that it’s an impossible ask.

And Ted — Ted has grown, too, into the person who can realize that where he needs to be is present, for his son. And he’s been realizing it all year, pulling away, stepping back, extracting himself little by little. And then, of course, all at once. Hannah says that Ted’s made an absolutely definitive decision, one that she believes (and I believe) is not fully joyful. But one that is crucial to who he is, who he needs to be. For his son, yes. But also for himself.

And he knows himself better, now, so he knows that the only way he’ll be able to follow through on that decision, to get on that plane, is by cutting himself off. By leaving behind the pieces of his heart that belong to Rebecca and belong to the team and belong to Richmond, by exchanging them for a stoicism that will allow him to do the most important thing for himself, which is to get home to his son.

And so in his final days, after he’s given her everything, he doesn’t have anything left to give to Richmond. He needs to save the rest of himself so he’ll have something left for Henry. His mask is up, and it’s glued in through sheer requirement. He can’t give the team any kind of heartfelt response to their dance. He can’t give Nate anything other than half a hug. He can’t give Rebecca the daydream of a future together. He can’t hold her hand in the stands and can’t open up to the pain of acknowledging that part of him wants her future, too. He can’t give her emotional speeches about love and trust and the way she changed his life. He can’t open floodgates that he’ll never be able to close. He can’t let himself get swept up in it, because there’s a little boy waiting for him, who doesn’t just want him, but needs him. He can’t give her - or anyone - anything but his presence. Until he can’t give that anymore, either.

And Rebecca loves him with everything that she has, so she gives him the gift of letting him go. And once she does, possibilities open up. Hannah reads Rebecca’s future (and so do I, now) as ambiguous, and open ended. A suggestion of possibilities that might be fast or not, long-lasting or not. The possibilities hopefully bring her comfort. They are a chance for her to fill part of the void that Ted leaves behind.

And hey, as we know — kids grow up, spread their wings, fly away from their parents. Henry won’t need Ted in this specific way forever.

The future is open.

#is it a delusion? i honestly don’t care 😌 #ted lasso

[meemalee]

“Social conditioning”, huh?

I feel that a soulmate connection on any level is romantic. It may not be physically romantic but it is still inherently romantic. I think Ted and Rebecca by design have always been cosmically soulfully connected in ways that the universe was just not going to allow this time around uh life for them not to interact with each other. -Jason

#tedbecca #ted x rebecca #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #soulmates #f*ck you brendan

[meemalee]

divorce is hard

ted lasso 1.09 | 3.12

#ted lasso s3 #ted lasso #rebecca welton

[meemalee]

#ted lasso #tedbecca #rebecca welton #ted x rebecca #no chemistry my arse

[meemalee]

#tedlassoedit #ted lasso #rebecca welton #ted x rebecca #tedbecca #jason sudeikis #hannah waddingham #what the actual fuck #coach beard

[meemalee]

judgy solidarity

#ted lasso #rebecca welton #ted x rebecca #tedbecca #weird how the episode ended here

[meemalee]

So BoatBecca - featuring a boyfriend ex machina whose name we only know from the end credits

Whose name is Matthijs which means “gift of god” just like Theodore

Who we know nothing about apart from all the creepy and manipulative stuff we saw in Amsterdam (even him saying “gezellig” repeatedly seemed like a weird attempt to make Rebecca believe that was so) -

That was Rebecca’s endgame?

I’m sorry - I call bullshit.

But given that the writers seem to think the abusive BeardJane relationship was an epic romance worthy of a wedding - actually, it tracks.

Fuck this for a game of soldiers.

Spoilers for Ted Lasso 3x6: Sunflowers

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So I seem to be one of very few people who got bad vibes from gezellig man.

From the “beautiful woman” line at the start, to chucking his phone in the canal, to the ‘accidental’ boo-boo kiss (there’s no way you’d mistake a grown woman’s ankle for your kid’s), to the ‘joke’ about drugging her tea, to the massive Tupperware of women’s clothes, to him failing to introduce himself, to him repeatedly coaxing her to drink alcohol (she said no to the brandy more than once, she said water instead of wine), to the “oh yes” at the end.

And everything else he said to her on the boat seemed a bit ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ - even down to the passive-aggressive “It doesn’t affect me if you stay or go” which has an unspoken “but if you were cool, you would stay”. And so she did.

None of this behaviour is charming, imho, even if the (male) creators of this episode want us to think it is - it feels manipulative.

Honestly, the only use I have for him is that Rebecca got her groove back a little - but she’s still letting the persistence of a man change her mind (cf Rupert turning up to the bar and Sam waiting behind her front door).

Combined with his dad jokes, his Kenny Rogers, his broken-hearted divorce, and the “fuck me” tea, gezellig man just felt like a parody of Ted to me.

In the same way that the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn was a parody of America.

Or Piggy Stardust was a parody of David Bowie (sorry Beardo - you know what I mean).

SHOOT, even Roy was saying Amsterdam was like a Disney version of an old city! (With apologies to Amsterdam)

Maybe ‘Sunflowers’ was all about parodies/bad tribute acts/pale reflections of the real thing!

PS I loved the episode otherwise, for SO many reasons (Colin and Trent! Roy and Jamie! Ted’s epiphany!) and the use of Brian Eno’s ‘Emerald and Stone’ for the Van Gogh scene was a genuinely beautiful moment that made me cry and made my husband very happy.

#amsterdam #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #rebecca x ted #theodore lasso #coach beard

[meemalee]

Thinking many thoughts about Ted Lasso right now, but I just wanted to reassure those of you that need it that lightning is real and so is falling in love with your best friend.

It’s not unrealistic, pedestrian or social conditioning to think that, romcommunism notwithstanding.

#ted lasso #rebecca welton #struck by lightning