#rebecca liveblog

[likealifelessthing]

I'm not sure what 'rhododendrons' is in German, but I can understand why they'd change it to 'orchids' in the musical lol

[sylvies-chen]

my mother said something really interesting about this episode (yes, she also watches the show and is a huge fan of dani rojas just like me) and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. she said: “it seems to me like this whole episode was about intimacy”

and like… yeah! that’s exactly it! the amsterdam trip set the perfect scene for it too, because people are normally a little more lax on vacation, a little more adventurous, a little more lenient and able to put themselves out there.

you have the pretty obvious contenders for this point: rebecca having her little fling with that nameless bald man and learning to open herself up to real connection and intimacy again, to be able to envision for herself a life and a love that is unmoored to her past with rupert and is able to exist in its own little intimate pocket. you’ve got jamie and roy learning to trust in each other, to be intimate and vulnerable about their pasts and about their present situations too (especially for roy, who is still right now a man who would rather break up with the woman he loves that admit, that he doesn’t think he’s good enough for her). and you also have, of course, the true soul of the episode, which was colin and trent’s discussion, and how colin feels that ache to be able to show the more intimate parts of him to the world the way heterosexual couples do, to be able to merge his intimate personal life with his fun if not a little reserved professional life. how to achieve a balance between intimacy and privacy.

and then you have the less obvious ones maybe, like higgins and will going to the jazz club— which isn’t really that hard to decipher when you think about it. it is, after all, where higgins opens up about an intimate detail of his love for jazz, and then gets to share his previously very intimate and private activity of playing the bass with the crowd. he even starts the night complaining of how exposed their seats feel, and ends up standing on the stage by the end of it. and, of course, will potentially had a threesome. so there’s a kind of intimacy for you. the one that truly isn’t obvious is the team pillow fight which honestly, I think is just a way of showing that sometimes a more intimate, fun yet indoor activity makes for better memories than something like a sex show or a club, which are both very grand and exciting yet impersonal and detached kinds of activities.

then of course you have ted, who is sort of lacking what my mother called an intimacy with himself. he’s been feeling a little lost, a little “stuck” as he put it. and I don’t think he understood why until this episode, until this adventure he went on with the museum and the american themed restaurant. it was a way for him to spend quality time with himself, to be alone with his thoughts while still not totally unable to absorb his surroundings and learn something. and in exploring his more intimate thoughts he was able to think of something really good! something that will make him a better coach!

and yeah, when it’s framed in this way I think this episode was sooooo killer. I love seeing people open up a little bit, to show these deep and intimate parts of their being. it’s so so so good.

[widowshill]

HARD SAME LIZ.

[jacnaylor]

i'm sort of obsessed with the idea that the only thing zava knows about rebecca is that she was married to the antichrist, she sour yells at men in bathrooms and apparently all her surfaces are covered in crumbs

[falenminds-blog]

hUGE shout-out to Natalie Day's voice acting in this new Red Valley ep!!!!!! everything was so on point!! she totally sold the pure chaos and panic their world is in 2043!!!!

and hOLy shit that scream of anger and despair at the end?!??!?!??! FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I FELT THAT ECO IN MY BONES BRO-

[all-thestories-aretrue]

Honestly neil failing every courage roll in the zantosa house is so relatable

[altschmerzes]

🌹🌹🌹 This is super super random, but I'm rereading wriggle up and theres a few references to Jamie being kinda small for his age, is this something thats going come up again? Like you've got me wondering if this is just a comment on his genetics or if it'll be brought up later re neglect etc I may be over thinking it lol I am just so obsessed that I'm over analysing every detail

he's just a little on the small side for his age at this point!! it's probably a combination of 'it just be like that sometimes' and neglect, he'll just wind up hitting a growth spurt later than most of his peers. there's definitely gonna be a point where ted and roy look at him and are like what HAPPENED you were not that tall two minutes ago. i go to my little cousin's soccer games whenever he's in town and his age bracket is where jamie would be at this point and it's wild to look at the range of those kids. some of them are over six feet tall and some of them look about twelve, it's fascinating.

this is from far faaaar down the road, after this fic's version of the jamie trying to hug roy and getting pushed away and 'forgot how skittish elderly people can be' comment in early season 3. roy swatted jamie's arm away when jamie took him by surprise trying to hug him, and it was a nothingburger of an event that jamie - now seventeen - completely shrugged off, but roy is uh. not having a good one about it.

Roy has to talk to someone about it because if he just keeps it all to himself he’s going to lose it, and so here he is. He’s in Rebecca’s office because he doesn’t want to talk to anyone else. Keeley obviously just isn’t an option, and he selfishly doesn’t want to tell Ted what he’s done, so there’s them right out. Beard would just tell Ted. And then there’s Higgins, who is such a good fucking parent that the sheer force of his good parenting would probably set Roy on fire as soon as he entered the room. Not even Dr. Sharon is around anymore, and so Rebecca it is.

[yourlocalcreativeproblem]

Me: What should I get for my second tattoo?

Rebecca Welton, living rent free in my head: The answer is lion

[doctorbeverlycrusher]

Help I can’t stop comparing Tony and Angela to Ted and Rebecca.

Tony just called a guy being slimy to Angela a turkey and I immediately thought about Ted saying Rebecca had already won by getting “that turkey�� (Rupert) out of her life.

[midnightellis]

“Fanny pack over suit.”

“That’s what you get for having a Malkavian friend, Toreador.”

I need the fan art of this exchange between Neil and Britta. It’s too perfect!

[likealifelessthing]

the food descriptions.......

[sylvies-chen]

TED LASSO 3.09 THOUGHTS

saw someone who got a screener say it was the best episode of the season and perhaps the best episode of the series and like… I AGREE VEHEMENTLY. THAT WAS AMAZINGGGGGGG

funniest line of the whole episode hands down was roy saying “all of you know my ass is not hairy but not one of you spoke up. and I will never forgive you.” like TELL ME WHY THEY TOOK IT SO SERIOUS LMFAOOOOO

this whole episode made my little queer heart burst with joy for my best gay welsh boy colin hughes!!! and trent being the proud mentor watching the whole team embrace colin and watching ted have the most beautiful response of saying they DO care and to celebrate this part of colin’s identity AHH I LOVE THIS FOUND FAMILY MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF

call your friends and let them know: ROY. KENT. IS BACK. he is baaaaaack bitches! the roy we know and love is working his way back! his press monologue was so good and it shows the kind of integrity and kindness he can have

speaking of roy: rebecca’s harangue calling out roy? OUTSTANDING. it was so warranted but you can tell it came from a place of love by that very earnest look she gave him at the end (mostly love for keeley, but out of love and respect for roy too in my opinion)

she also wants roykeeley back like the rest of us y’all trust 🙏🏻

ok but BI JAMIE LOWKEY CONFIRMED???

and in the same episode where I… admittedly… loved the vibes between jamie and sam… like it gave enemies/rivals to lovers the way sam flipped him off when he wanted to be captain and jamie cut him off in his speech and they just laughed about it like ooh their friendship is so good we love the growth but also… that was flirting tell me I’m wrong

this episode felt like an ode to isaac and colin’s friendship. it felt like the journey isaac needed to decide that like “yes. okay. I’m your protector now. I’m sorry I didn’t see this before. I’m sorry you felt you had to keep this from me. but no more.” and sure he’s still very much A Straight Man™️ about it, but he’s willing to unravel and to deconstruct that in order to be the best friend his best friend deserves. my heart. 🥹

NATE MADE A GOOD DECISION AND DITCHED RUPERT YESSSS BABY STEPS. Rupert’s really going for the isolation manipulation tactic like he is truly scum of the earth I want to smash his face in. but JADE IS DOING NATE SOOO MUCH GOOD like he’s finally got a support system that he doesn’t feel codependent on and also doesn’t need to share with a whole team, so he can feel more secure in who he is now!!

FINAL SCORE IS 10/10 I LOVED IT AND IT WAS SO GOOD my only complaint is that there are only 3 episodes left and it doesn’t feel like it but eh wtvr

[widowshill]

show thesis... again!

[brilarsn]

rebecca really read roy for filth didn’t she

[goingmerryly]

I was so miffed about Rebecca’s Red Sonja cosplay that I made a redesign. Roman Gladiator armor was showy and didn’t cover a lot, but turning the swimsuit into a scale-mail bra, adding arm armor, and switching the loincloth fixes a lot imo. (I also drew this before I saw her dad’s gladiator design, or I would have given her matching pteruges/leather skirt!)

[all-thestories-aretrue]

NEIL NEIL NEIL NO. NOOOOO. NO. I FEAR. I FEEEEEAAAAARRRRR. UH OH UH OH.

Dif 11. Ten dice pool. No tens. No rerolls.

You cant go hold on wait after that -_- not cool man. Im already so stressed.