#michelle welton

[mrgaretcarter]

Someone who asked Ted to go and someone who asked him to stay (inspired by this post via @dollsome-does-tumblr)

[elloras]

[tomlinfonda]

Not a day goes by without me thinking about this.

[scratchybeardsweetmouth]

“Am I a mess?” | Ted Lasso 3x04

[cherish--these--times]

Theodore I use humour to deflect when I don't want to hear it Lasso

Shoutout to @evendumbo for pointing out the first one. Added it in.

[kcsplace]

Ted Lasso + Text Posts (4/????)

[rihansu00]

There should be a Ted Lasso spinoff. It should be Rebecca in her Michelle Kang era throwing money at women's sports.

[ughhhdavid]

When you're trying to be so subversive that instead of pairing your main male character with either a strong, rich, tall, self-sufficient, divorced, middle aged girlboss who would make a wonderful step-mother to his child, or a divorced gay man who came out in his 40s, with a daughter, with whom he could have created an amazing blended family, and would have made the main character bisexual, which would have been ground breaking, you made him go back to his suburban nuclear family home, ambiguously get back together with a woman that didn't truly love him for who he was and giving up his entire life outside of them, and ended up upholding traditional American values about what a family should look like.

Oh, and the woman also ends up with a nuclear family while the gay man ends up alone, shown to have nothing in his life other than his work.

But sure, pat yourselves on the back for not making the 2 leads get together!!! Or not making a rom-com ending because this "ain't that type of show"!!! It was so amazing and revolutionary!!!!!!

[instantcaramel]

So I have my Roy/Jamie clown make up on today. we know since „Tan Lines“ that Roy/Keeley parallel Ted/Michelle.

So they always had to break up. But now it seems the verdict is suddenly out on whether or not Michelle and Ted will reconcile, something I didn‘t expect before S3; I also didn‘t expect to ever question Roy/Keeley endgame, but here we are.

So, bear with me. What if Ted/Rebecca parallel Roy/Jamie?

They both start out as enemies (even if unbeknownst to Ted).

They first bond in „For the Children“.

It doesn‘t happen a the same time obviously, but they both have a very very crucial hug that leads to forgiveness.

I guess what I‘m saying is that whether either(!) of these pairings is romantic or not, the verdict is out canonically. We know about the shippers on either side.

My hot take just is: maybe if Michelle and Ted reconcile so will Roy and Keeley, if the endgame is TedBecca as so many assume, what if that also means Roy/Jamie? Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I will take my tinfoil hat off now.

[coachbeards]

i really still am never over the missed opportunity of bringing september 13th back up in s3. given the timeline…the start of the season WOULDVE been around August of 2021. so…around the thirtieth anniversary of ted’s dad’s death and rebecca catching her father cheating. they could’ve addressed it, and honestly i would’ve preferred Ted’s mental decline being from the 30th anniversary rather than michelle dating their therapist.

[dadstielkline]

[mrgaretcarter]

Ted and Rebecca echoing each other's canon love interests

[mexicangela]

if ted goes back to kansas then what was it all for, really? not even from a tedbecca standpoint (although there’s plenty of “what was it all for???” regarding that too).

i mean, what’s ted even got in kansas anymore?

not a wife. she’s got their couples therapist. 🙄

not a best friend bc let’s face it, beard ain’t going back it just wouldn’t make sense for him to. i think he belongs in london and i (unfortunately 😭) don’t see him leaving jane.

not a healthy relationship with dottie, that’s for sure. they had a breakthrough, sure, but a breakthrough does not a positive parent-child relationship make. there’s work that mama lasso has to do before she and ted can truly reconcile and i don’t believe she’d do it tbh.

all he has is henry. a child. his child, yes, but still just a child. not a support system. a child is not a support system and a child should never be made to be a support system. it’s not fair and i don’t think ted would do that to henry.

but in richmond?? ted’s got the whole fucking world in richmond, let’s be honest. he’s got a second family and he’s got a job he loves even if he doesn’t understand every little thing about it. he’s got beard and roy and trent and literally the entire community adores him now. we saw it at the beginning of mom city. and for fuck’s sake he’s got rebecca welton. even if it doesn’t end up being romantic, we’ve actually witnessed the actors saying some version of “there is no ted/rebecca without the other” like come on.

i dunno man i just don’t see how ted can go back to kansas at this point. he’s done so much growing and i feel like his going back to the place where he lost so many things would be a step backwards. who’s gonna hold his hands and breathe with him when he’s having a panic attack? who’s gonna laugh or smile affectionately at all his puns and weird sayings? who’s gonna believe in him the way the boys and rebecca do?

anyway i will show up at jason sudeikis’ house with a baseball bat i swear to god (for legal purposes, this is a joke).

[notagoldfish]

Thinking again about the objectification (not sexual, but objectification nonetheless) of Michelle Lasso.

In season 1, she's "granted" the divorce by Ted.

In season 3, we see her in a relationship of dubious consent that is never explored. Was she being manipulated by her therapist the entire time? Was Ted? Did she even want a divorce in the first place or did someone in a position of power over her guide her to that decision? The one desire she's expressed the whole show is now called into question.

We have a scene where Rebecca lays out all of the benefits of Ted's family relocating (a pretty normal thing, btw, it's weird people are treating moving like it's child abuse), and we never even know if she was presented with that option? Did Ted talk her? She becomes an obstacle without ever having a voice. We know she's keeping Ted from this place he loves and that supports him. But she's not allowed a reason for blocking him from those things.

And finally, we're presented with the "possibility" that Ted and Michelle might reconcile. Ted supposedly has grown and changed (despite the fact that one of his biggest issues is bottling up negative emotions, and that's literally all he does throughout the entire finale), but he wasn't the one who wanted the marriage to end in the first place. Like does she even know he was losing it so bad, he was trying to stalk her earlier that year?

I think Michelle reflects a larger problem in season 3 of things happening TO Ted Lasso's female characters, instead of them driving their own plots forward. KJPR was taken from Keeley but KBPR was given to her by Rebecca. Keeley chooses herself, but only after being put into a situation where she has to choose anything by Jamie and Roy.

Rebecca's whole thing with the boat guy. Oh haha! Look it's fate happening to her! It's...ugh...romcommunism HAPPENING TO HER! Even Rupert's downfall kinda falls into her lap. We never see her participation in it, just the half-assed implication that she was involved. It just felt like the women of Ted Lasso who were once vibrant characters with their own wants, needs, motivations, and ACTIONS were written with the barest minimum (if any) agency.

[scratchybeardsweetmouth]

O.K. | 1.05 1.07 2.04 2.06 2.10

[laiqualaurelote]

Chapter 3: I would still be on my feet

“Have you considered that Ted might be bisexual?” says Sachiko.

“Are we really having this conversation here?” hisses Trent.

“We’re two incredibly busy professionals,” says Sachiko. “We’re not exactly awash in opportunities for conversation.”

“Yes,” says Trent, “but maybe we could not discuss this outside our daughter’s classroom.”

or, the continued saga of Trent Crimm and his independent ex-wife