I guess I heard that, but for some reason it did not register other than as a clunky fart joke.
Wow - NO recollection of that at all.
OK - not sure I remember that being a big thing. And at the end, I vaguely recalled him saying something aout 4 things, but only describing 3 of them.
So what was the point of Zava sending t-shirts - which they mentioned, pulled out of the box, and never showed/mentioned again? And was the large avocado supposed to mean something?
Yeah. So I’m supposed to think the Dutch pilot was only a figment of Ted’s imagination? I watch too much TV, but I certainly do not watch - and study - the TV I watch the way so many people seem to with streaming and the internet. I understand how including certain references appeal to the more dedicated viewers, but if done in a certain way, this casual viewer perceives them as a turnoff.
“Be a goldfish” was something Ted said from time to time, when someone was dwelling on a mistake. (Goldfish supposedly don’t remember more than a few seconds.)
Someday, I’d like to rewatch the show just for the commentator lines. I know I’ve missed a ton.
Also props to the throwaway line from Jamie:
“Somehow they figured out my password.”
“Was it ‘password’?”
“Yeah. But don’t worry, I changed it. It’s even better now because I used two Ss.”
100% agree. Why miss the opportunity for more in depth character development? They could even be against it until Ted gives his perspective.
Did anyone else get Darth Vader vibes from Rupert’s fluttering coat in the finale? Fits with the father theme…
Overall I really liked the final two episodes. I wish the season gave more screen time to Nate taking accountability to the people he’d hurt. The Keely at work stuff seemed the weakest since it didn’t advance her character much. I loved how they left things open with her, Roy and Jamie, and Roy is finally getting his shit together. It was the most uneven season of the three but IMO it stuck the landing.
The more I think about it, the more I think the ending montage was Ted’s dream. Like the big stack of stock certificates on Mae’s bar, because Ted’s knowledge of stock trading comes from old movies and cartoons.
My wife has a purse with “be a goldfish” on it - it was definitely a thing, and a thing that resonated with a certain group of the audience. Also, the whole “4 things” goes back to Ted’s revelation about Total Football. He couldn’t remember the 4th thing.
I don’t think so - I think everyone who thinks the ending was a dream are dreaming. There’s no way Ted had any idea who the Dutch pilot was, and a whole host of other things. Ted not being at Beard’s wedding isn’t an impossibility - Ted’s tired of being in England and away from his family. Seems a big massive leap with no contextual clues whatsoever. Beard runs off and does his own thing all the time.
If so, wasn’t it an odd choice to show the scene nonsequentially? It struck me as mildly odd that they showed all of the “future developments” - and after that, Ted was still on the plane. But I didn’t make the leap to “dream.”
If it was done sequentially, the final scene would probably be Beard’s wedding. THAT would have been an odd choice.
I don’t see why we would. We can certainly guess that they’re on their way to splitting up, but it was probably left unanswered to keep things open to interpretation (or, more likely, a potential Season 4).
I’m liking to think of the UK sequences as both a dream and not a dream. It occupies both spaces. It’s Ted’s dream on the plane, but it’s also what is going to happen over the next year or so.
I’m so pleased that Rebecca didn’t get on the plane with Ted. That would have been so easy, and they really did a setup for it, but I appreciate them letting the two characters go their own ways.
Maybe it means nothing, but this is listed as the “season finale”, not the “series finale”.
He represents everybody in the US audience who find soccer boring. I know the only soccer game I watched straight through was a 0-0 draw, but then went to penalty kicks because it was a world cup final…
It makes sense in terms of geography, not time. That is what happened in the UK to close these chapters on the characters. Now it is time to move to the US, which picks up when the plane lands, then skips ahead to youth soccer season.
I think the main importance of that guy to the story was that he was nice, stable, and boring. Rebecca had the option to settle for that, and she didn’t take it. Later she runs into him and he introduces his fiance/wife/something to give Rebecca the chance to regret her decision. She could have had boring stability, as that’s what this guy offered.
I don’t think there was any particular importance in having him show up for the game, with the same woman. The bloody face would have worked with any random fan, but may as well make it somebody we’ve met before. Also, the show doesn’t have to recast the part.
Well, Ted shows up at ex-wife’s house w/ luggage. What does that mean? Is he staying with her? Would that be awkward if BF was still in the picture/living w/ her?
Yeah, I get that. But in this show, he was portrayed as someone who couldn’t even feign interest in something that was extremely important to his GF and her son. IMO, that is a dick move.
In the first episode of Season 2, Ted and Beard are bantering and Ted says to him, “Whatchu talkin’ 'bout, Willis” which of course is assumed to just be a Different Strokes reference. And then we find out Beard’s first name at the end.
Very satisfying season/series finale, wrapped up many loose ends but left the door open for more stories to be told. A couple things I appreciated:
After redemptive character arcs for both Nate and Jamie due to the influence of their father figures within the club, seeing both of them re-establishing healthy relationships with their actual fathers. Of course this also causes Ted to go back to be a proper and present father to Henry.
As part of Ted’s growth, he finally understands the offsides rule.
It means his very first stop from the airport was to see his son that he missed so much he turned down one of the highest paying coaching jobs in the English Premier League so he could be near him. He also just half-waved to Michelle, instead of running up to her to give her a passionate kiss and embrace.
I don’t think seeing Nate breaking down to the players would be much character development, that would just be catharsis for the audience to actually see it happen. The character development was what happened before that, what got him to write the note to Will. But if we do need a cathartic breaking down moment, we got one in the scene where Nate and Ted stare at the empty space above of the door to the coach’s room and Nate hugs Ted.
I think it was purposefully him. They had set him up as the worst type of fair-weather fan who switches his allegiance to whichever team is winning, so he had to pay for that bad sports karma.
The idea that it was a dream sequence on the plane never even occurred to me. It seemed pretty straight-forward, Ted was leaving London for good and we see the plane take off. Any events in London from that point forward would not be a part of Ted’s story. Fortunately, the show gives us a view of what happens with the other characters; Rebecca sells 49%, Coach Beard gets married, etc. Then as viewers we are returned to the present and Ted on the plane, and we get to see how the rest of his story plays out.
For a brief moment after reading the idea it was a dream I thought it was possible but my explanation fits what was shown much better.
But why not wait for Ted to greet his son before following up in London, and then finish with the kid’s soccer game? I think the writers wanted it both ways.
Because the series is Ted Lasso. We end on Ted Lasso. Season four, retitled, …and Friends! can end on everyone else, but season three, the end of Ted Lasso, ends on him.
Anyway, I thought it was a fine finale and they don’t actually need a season four or some other kind of spin-off sequel series. Whether the suits at Apple TV+ will be so willing to let it go… :shrug: it might be all that you get.