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cilantrospirit · 1 year ago

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[ID: Four gifs of Jamie from Ted Lasso in black and white with text over them. The first two are Jamie having his cheek pinched by his mom, and him grabbing Roy's face, with the text "How much of my mother has my mother left in me? / How much of my love will be insane to some degree?" The second two are of his dad shadowboxing up to him before punching him, and Jamie shadowboxing Roy in Amsterdam, with the text "How much of my father am I destined to become? / Will it wash out in the water or is it always in the blood?" End ID.]

“could I change it if i wanted? can i rise above the flood?”

#oh wow okay #I remember when his mom grabbed his face at first and I thought. oh that's why he's the way he is #I'm used to characters with trauma from one parent having a neutral or fine connection with the other parent in tv #but the sort of childlike dependency jamie has on his mother and anyone else he can get to fill that role is clinging and clinging aaaaaaaa #it keeps him from having normal friendships and relationships because he's always trying to earn his way to being mothered #he just really really wants to be a top priority for someone unconditionally and his dad will never give him that and ted is his boss #and roy makes him jump through hoops and keeley is on a different plane of life and he wants to be cool around the team #so he doesn't get that Special Boy status away from home and he's mocked for wanting it... it's a running gag even from ted which is fair #but it's very real that his abandonment issues make him think he has to be perfect to be enough and any acknowledgement that he isn't #infallible will feel like rejection to him #do I... relate to jamie? kms #okay and the other two scenes being compared...#when jamie's dad is winding up on him so to speak he smiles but when he gets close he looks down and the smile breaks. he means the hit #when jamie shadowboxes roy first of all he obviously doesn't hit him #but also he's looking at his hands self consciously so he doesn't come too close and when he throws the fake punch he looks roy in the eye #he smiles because it's a joke and you can see him check in the moment between looking up and swinging #that he's sure roy isn't moving away and knows it's a joke #because jamie could hit him lightly it wouldn't be a big deal and the whole team roughhouse #but jamie (who has been hit) is more serious with how he interacts physically #honestly all the characters' relationship to touch and how they communicate with it is really highlighted by the show #it's been fascinating. I think you could analyze every character arc just by looking at how people touch and react to touch in this show #don't even get me started on rebecca and keeley in that regard or I'll have to make a separate post (read: I might anyway but I'd need gifs #ted lasso

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