#tlasso

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Toheeb Jimoh as Sam Obisanya in the Ted Lasso - Season 3 Official Teaser

[mwagneto]

i'm never watching the witcher but congrats on the win and sorry he looked like that when it happened

[crushsung]

actually. do you guys think she's on bantr

do you guys think alice is on raya

[vhagarswattle]

ted lasso is aweseome because it's pretty anodyne show that makes people froth at the mouth about how niceness is evil. or the tlasso defenders who think that every show be cancelled except ted lasso.and at the end of the day. it's pretty pleasant and watchable show

[thecindercrow]

TLasso finale… Much to be disappointed about

[swallowtailed]

wip ask game! tagged by @laiqualaurelote, ty!!!

rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

so, i don't have terribly much going at the moment, but i do have some working titles....

unsteady (fatt:pal)

the cryptorheist (fatt:tm)

questions like directions (fatt:sf)

careful the wish you make (tlasso)

drop me an ask here!

and i'll pass on this tag to anyone who wants to do this--esp if you have an fatt:pal fic in the works!! i would like to hear about it

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And to add onto this - the actual physical setting helped so much to show this as well. 

When we look at their home locker room: 

vs the Man City one: 

Their home locker room is comfortable, the team is shoulder to shoulder and in shots it’s hard to pinpoint a main focus - they’re usually all huddled close together and if there’s a big scene that needs to focus on someone the camera cuts between them and everyone else. And we see how homely it is - the team is always touching and close (we can see it well enough in the most recent two episodes), and there’s color all around the room. 

But here - everything about Man City is just uncomfortable. There isn’t that color that their room has, they just came from a big loss,  and even though clearly they’re all able to be around each other and have that contact with each other - like in the screencap, where some are clearly holding others back - the entire scene with Jamie’s dad it doesn’t look like that. It looks like everyone is in their own confinded little cubby space, not touching anybody else. And this -- 

Jamie isn’t even that much away from the team, he’s just a few steps away from them, but this circle forces everyone to look at what Jamie’s dad is saying. It puts Jamie and his dad right in the center of everyone as if they’re actors on a stage and the rest of the team is the audience.

It makes people who cross into that stage all the more poignant. Beard takes Jamie’s dad and drags him out the door, Roy crosses into the setting to hug him. And it turns the scene from demeaning Jamie to protecting him to comforting him (and if we want to include Ted, though he never specifically crosses that “stage”, leaving him). It’s just such an....incredibly cool thing to do with the set, because I think this scene has such an impact no matter what the setting was but putting it in a place where we already know our characters are uncomfortable and forcing everyone to look at what’s happening is such a nifty thing. 

i was thinking and the fact that what happened with jamie and his dad happened at man city wasn't a coincidence.

man city represents the absolute worst of jamie's life: he thought he had found something in richmond, he thought people were finally caring for him, accepting him, loving him. and then he thought ted got rid of him. his time at man city was the loneliest and the saddest he had ever been. he was completely and utterly alone and he had just been rejected after finally opening up to someone. there’s a reason jamie yelled “richmond” while on that field. he was re affirming he belongs now. re affirming he has a family, and he isn’t as alone as he was the last time he was here. those lockers? those lockers aren't good memories to him. this isn't foreign territory to jamie like it is to the others. to him, this is loneliness, discomfort, despair.

the fact that the writers had his lowest point happened in those lockers was completely and totally intentional.

[alwaysbeyondhope]

do u know where you can find the new tlasso spoilers?? id like to see them!

I follow @burritoprophet on Twitter and saw they posted something relating to the new episode but I didn’t read it closely to see what it was. I would look there. I think there may also have been a summary of the episode, which included spoilers. I could be wrong though

[cynassa]

For a show about football, TLasso cares very little about the reality of the football world, and while we let things be in the name of "in this universe it works this way" in real word, there is one coach, and all the glory or dishonor falls in one person, he has a staff, assistants, they sit there on the bench, 1 fills in if the coach can't be in the game, but never is like the show portrays is hilarious watching the 4 of the there in the side lines, this Nate SL is hardy for football's fans

I know how football works, I promise. I'd probably lose be thrown out of my state if I didn't! I don't think it's as clear cut as you say, because while yes, during a match you don't have five people running around, you do typically know what each of the assistants specialise in and more or less who came up with a truly spectacular play.

I don't think Ted Lasso is a show about football. I think it's a show about people, their damage, their journey and lives, with loving gestures (like the chants) towards those who love football.

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Ted Lasso - Season 3 Official Trailer

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Nate is really one of the most interesting characters to me, because his character begs the question: what happens when your life gets better but you’re still not happy? 

Because we see how Nate is in the beginning. We root for him and we love the attention that he gets and how he gets his time to shine. Ted’s methods clearly work for a lot of the characters, it has its merit, and Nate (at first) is no exception. He’s promoted to being a coach, he’s getting attention, the team is also improving so they’re being kinder and everything is better now, right? 

Except in season 2 (and 3!) we see the cracks - in Nate, but for all the coaches, really, because ironically the coaches who are mentoring the players and telling them to believe are also the ones we see struggling with that mentality the most. Beard’s one of Ted’s strongest supporters, his right-hand man, but we see in Beard’s episode how deep his depression and self-hatred run. Roy isn’t exactly screaming Ted’s methods from the rooftops, but we see how he slowly accepts it and appreciates it, and how it does help him - but he struggles with finding his purpose and feeling wanted and needed, and it shines in quitting things early and never getting proper closure in things he really loved, with him constantly wondering if he ever really made the best choice (his team, his job, his relationship with Keeley). Ted struggles to express these negative emotions and it spirals quickly, especially in season 2. 

And Nate? Nate watches as his life objectively gets better, but struggles because his anger and resentment don’t go away. He gets the attention from Ted but (even though it’s not the intention!) feels as if Ted drops him the second things improve. He gets a better job but his father will never say he’s proud. He tries to exude confidence but Jade (who’s most likely seen him for a while since it’s his favorite restaurant) immediately sees through through his persona and Doesn’t Care and Nate is so thrown off by it. He keeps looking for that validation through other people and we see that clear frustration because everything is better on paper so then why are the bad feelings still there? With every win, with every improvement, he gets angrier and more frustrated and then it spirals into him leaving for West Ham and Rupert. With Rupert, Nate leans in on hey, nobody loved me at my lowest and nobody loved me at my best, so maybe I’ll try being my worst. 

And god, I LOVE that even though fans thought he’d fail and that this would humble him into a redemption, he hasn’t. He tries to go with Rupert and get that validation from him and we see how much he struggles with that, because now he’s leaning in at what Rupert wants and we see how much he hates that, but Nate’s also at a point where Rupert’s attention is clearly conditional, he’s still not getting that fatherly validation, and he knows that and that’s where we see him finally start to come into his true self. Jade finally softens because she sees Nate holding strong to his opinion on Taste of Athens and admitting he’s putting on an act, he’s being honest and himself for the first time in those scenes. He tries to cultivate a relationship with the other employees and even if the Diamond Dogs ripoff didn’t work? They still invited him to drinks this episode! He sees Rupert for who he is and he goes back to Jade, and he wants so, so much to apologize to Ted for everything. 

Nate’s moved from a positive environment to this conditional one and the narrative could have easily went “Nate has crashed and burned and now realizes what he messed up” but instead it allowed Nate to figure out who he is and who he wants to be, by himself. He’s still growing and learning, of course, but he’s well on his way, and I think it’s just such a cool way to show that what’s helpful for some people can be incredibly detrimental for others if it doesn’t target what they need and that there’s so many avenues for a person to grow and improve themselves. 

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So interesting to me how Zava just blatantly avoids the team’s touch during these goals. We see the team constantly hugging and being physically affectionate on the field but Zava actively disregards all that. He tried to shake Dani off. He moves up so Sam can’t hug him. He places himself away from the team so that he can stand out to the audience like a god. Like it’s very obvious that he sets himself aside from the team in the rest of his interactions but this is so clear even in these small moments

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For the five sentence ask:

"Am I growing on you yet?" With some Roy/Jamie friendship vibes? 👀 (If it sparks joy) thank you ❤❤

"Are you fucking what?" Roy asked incredulously.

"Growing on yeh," Jamie said, and he smirked at Roy, a gleam in his eye that Roy didn't like one fucking bit. Roy glared, and Jamie continued, the gleam becoming a fucking twinkle in his eye.

"I mean, I am your best friend, after all - and don't say I'm not," Jamie quickly added when he saw Roy open his mouth to protest. "Not just anyone gets invited to Uncle's Day, yeah? So I guess I'm growing on you." The last sentence trailed from smug confidence into a questioning tilt, and Roy's head whipped up to see Jamie's grin falter just for a moment. Oh fuck him. Fuck him.

"You're not growing on me," Roy growled. "We're way past that now. You've already grown on me, dipshit."

"You old people are so easy," Jamie joked, though Roy could see the relief clear on his face. "And I'm your best friend and you've never mentored someone b-"

"Don't fucking push it," Roy said, pushing past Jamie.

Jamie grinned at Roy's receding figure. "Bye, Uncle Roy," he yelled. "And hey! You've grown on me too!"

"Prick," Roy grumbled, shooting up a middle finger at Jamie, but he smiled as he walked away all the same.

Send me a ship/dynamic/character + a sentence and I’ll write the next 5 [or more] Sentences.

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Not meant to demean people because I fully get that people view these interactions differently and we as POC are not a monolith and my experiences are not other people’s etcetera etcetera etcetera but GOD I find it so funny that on here there’s a subset of fans who say white fans have rallied to ignore racism in Jade (and Nate/Jade) and that when I have this convo in real life the response from other POC has been “her WHAT? Are these overeager white allies saying this?” LMAOOOO

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I usually OT3 everything except for Roy/Jamie/Keeley and for that reason alone I think it would be really funny if the show made them canon

[thecindercrow]

So on this week’s TLasso a character recites the poem “This Be The Verse” (excellent poem, btw) and I keep seeing people talk about the meaningful moment in their life when they first heard or memorized the poem, or glad that the show introduced them to it, and I’m over here like “Yeah, I know that one. Beth May recited it on a commentary episode of her “not a bdsm” dnd podcast.”