I know people are talking about Ted going back to the U.S. at the end of the season, and while that’s entirely possible the people I want to SHAKE are the ones who are framing that as a GOOD thing.
Ted is NOT MARY POPPINS, people! He is a PROFOUNDLY lonely man who has struggled with issues of self-worth since the show first started. And yes, he has built a beautiful family with this team, but have you noticed how he always stands a little to the side? How it’s practically his job to make joy for people, but he never seems to take very much of it for himself? TEXTBOOK self-worth issues, people. TEXTBOOK.
And yes, the Amsterdam episode made some lovely inroads on the whole self-worth thing, but having Ted decide he can survive on his own spits directly in the face of the message of the entire show. He needs to let go of his marriage, yes (Trent saying his daughter was happier than ever, now that her parents had separated but were at peace with themselves), but this is a man who desperately needs COMMUNITY. A community he LITERALLY MADE.
If he does try to go home, he deserves to have someone make the desperate, romance-novel run through the airport. But I no longer want it to be ship-related. I want to see the vision of a Tumblr user much more clever than me and watch every single one of the Richmond himbos running through the airport to stop Ted. I want his FAMILY, all of whom love him SO MUCH, to chase him down and tell him he doesn’t need to go home because he’s already there.
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If I had a nickel for every time I began a show absolutely hating a bully named Jamie only to have him grow and develop so much he became my favorite character and then I chose to ignore the finale in order to go on believing my ship for him was the canon ending, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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the difference between ted's and jamie’s mums keeping track of their sons
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