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1 minute ago, reallyjustjen said:
There is some speculation that it has to do with some “official” watch parties in LA, but that hasn’t been confirmed in any official capacity.
Makes sense. And great for them.
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I'm not saying there is some grand conspiracy or anything, but why would you air the entire season 3 hours earlier than 'should have', but delay the series finale for the time it 'should' start?
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The posted episode thread is "So Long".
In the last week, I saw the episode was listed as "So Long, Farewell" before tonight.
Did AppleTV officially remove the ", Farewell"? If so, that seems to potentially indicate tonight's episode is more a season finale instead of series.-
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35 minutes ago, scenicbyway said:
Not going to lie, releasing this 3 hours later than every other episode this season is annoying. I’m sure there are watch parties getting cancelled tonight because of the change. It not a good look.
Especially for the series finale.
You'd think they would want to go out on a high note, especially if its still up in the air on if a fourth season will happen or not.
Then again, maybe their pushing it back to midnight EST is AppleTV's way of saying - without actually saying it - that this is officially the end of Ted Lasso. (any potential news of spinoffs notwithstanding)-
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I have to get up real early tomorrow or I would stay up and watch tonight - even if it does air at usual time. Will watch it tomorrow evening since I have Thursday off. Don't want to have to try to sleep while dealing with all of whatever happens on my mind and feels.
"At the 74 minute mark ..."Dang. Sounds like the winding down point, where the hugest emotional moment(s) are saved up for.
Here I was hoping for at least 90 minutes, but preferably 100+ for the series finale!-
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Watching an older (s5) episode [Hill View Manor] of GA, and I don't remember that original 3 being so 'everything is a joke to us'.
Compared to these later seasons, where humor is about as scarce as any truly verifiable proof they gather.
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37 minutes ago, angora said:
Maybe they, like Jamie, assumed that his dad would be there? They might have worried that he'd cause a scene in the stands if he saw them (or an even worse scene than he would've anyway), and figured Jamie didn't need that added stress.
Not only this, but they would have been the only ones in the stands - and I assume among the 'general population' of the Man City faithful - that would have been cheering specifically for Jamie. Would have been harangued and harassed incessantly all match long.
But I'm sure that if really wanted to, Jamie could have gotten them a couple seats up in the box with Rebecca & Higgins.-
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51 minutes ago, sjankis630 said:
Even though I still think I know how this will end it would be kind of cool for them to throw a complete crazy plot at the end.
I would love to find out that Beard does not exist and is actually an alter ego of Ted who everyone has been putting up with this whole time.....
Would definitely be a twist.
Multiple personalities, bay-beh!
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22 minutes ago, DEL901 said:
To be honest, I never saw him as a strong potential candidate of an endgame for Rebecca. Always felt like he, and that night, were just a means to an end. A way to help her realize things and how she could achieve them.
I know others saw/hoped for that, but I just never got that vibe myself.-
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1 hour ago, AD55 said:
I don't believe Nate is unredeemable, and I have been persuaded by folks on this forum that what he did was not worse than what Rebecca and Jamie did. But the writers set themselves a difficult task by making us first like and then loath Nate, and then attempting to redeem him out of context. Perhaps they will pull it off, now that Nate has rejected Rupert and is returning to Richmond, but I think it would have been easier had they not waited until the last two episodes.
1 billion times this.
So. much. this.
The redemption arc isn't the problem. Not even close. But how it was handled is the biggest gripe that most of us have, that don't like the whole story line. It feels like it came out of nowhere.-
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I'm wondering if the title of the series finale isn't mostly just one big misdirect. I am very iffy (at best) on most of this, but its not totally out of the realm of possibility.
We're all assuming that the truth bomb Ted is laying on Rebecca - as 3.11 ends - is that he's resigning and leaving after the season. But what if its a bunch of other people instead leaving?
And Ted's 'bomb' ends up being either about trying to bring Nate back or he's about to give Rebecca another version of a "thank you, but fuck you" speech OR after the final scenes with his mom, decides to share with Rebecca about his dad's suicide & being there when he did it; and how that's made him into the man he is now.
- Nate. He tells Ted and Richmond, thanks for the forgiveness and wanting to welcome me back, but I'm going with Jade back to her home country.- Michelle. Tells Ted she wants a clean break from him, and in that vein awards full custody of Henry to him. (meaning Ted can stay in England, if wants)
- Keeley. Tells Roy (& Jamie and Rebecca) that on her path to being an "independent woman" means she has to leave the country to establish a PR firm - or something like it - elsewhere.
- Rupert. Is either dying or realizes he's hurt way too many people to stick around that area of the country.
There could be more leaving than I listed, but the main point is that maybe the Ted Lasso finale pulls a big "gotcha!" next week.-
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10 minutes ago, lgprimes said:
Sorry but do you watch actual soccer often? I watch the premier league weekly (Up the Villa!!) and the soccer game shown in this episode was FARCICAL. First off a small team winning 15 games in a row is a ridiculous claim. The acrobatics by the Richmond plates were obviously exaggerated. But most importantly the thought that a team would encourage an important team member to play injured (and even play a man down while waiting for him) is horrifying! These players are worth millions and supposedly Richmond has to play for the championship next week. They were already up 1-0 and they are going to potentially lose Jamie for next week or maybe ruin his career by continuing to play? NO WAY.
Nothing about that “game” was realistic.
I understand it’s just a TV show but this episode was just one unrealistic scene followed by another. The best I can do is try to accept the whole thing as a fairy tale as described by another poster.
i truly miss season one when this show was more witty than sappy.
I hear ya.
I just mostly meant it was nice to see actual gameplay instead of just constant mentions of x-amount of games won in a row or how the season is going instead of seeing anything at all on the actual pitch - aside from bits of practices/training.
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1 hour ago, lgprimes said:
i have an FU:
FU to this episode and it’s stupid shiny wrapped up in a bow platitudinous happy endings.
I will now scroll up and see if anybody else hated this episode as much as I did.
I'm waiting to see how the series ends next week before I officially say I didn't like - or even hated - this episode or not.
No matter what happens next week, there's still parts of this episode that rang true with a couple of the characters. Roy being mostly Roy, Jamie still being one of the best S3 characters, Will missing out on a good Roy/Jamie boot room powwow and even some actual SOCCER.-
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23 minutes ago, scenicbyway said:
I wonder how Nate will react to Trent in the next episode? Nate would presumably know that Trent is no longer a reporter. I wonder if he knows he’s writing a book about the whole season?
As far as I'm concerned, Nate can keep any and all reactions to Trent & the book to himself.
He forfeited any right to have a say about any of it - at least the 'bad' parts about him - through his actions late last season.
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On 5/24/2023 at 8:47 PM, Grumpbump said:
Here's the thing about Nate. He's the type that has punished himself so much more than any of "us" ever could. I truly believe that although the writers aren't hitting us over the head with that....Nate has suffered internally so much more than any outward punishment could be portrayed.
Even though this is fiction, I am surprised there are a large number of us who can't find any good in Nate. I feel like you might be missing a really big part of the message of this show.....
It has never really been about this, for me.
I absolutely think Nate is redeemable and do not believe that he isn't deep down, or lacks the capacity to be, a good person.
Its the total unearned complete forgiveness that everyone - aside from Beard originally (& maybe Rebecca, as I think she might be totally unaware of the whole 'let's bring Nate back!' plan going into the end credits in this episode) - is willing to award Nate with. When the only thing he's done to atone with anybody is doing part of Will's job for him one time.
EVERY time Ted reached out to mend fences or let him know there was no hard feelings, Nate either ignored the gesture or shut him down. I know Ted loves and forgives everyone, but that isn't something that is just brushed under the rug and forgotten; even by the most saintly.
The unearned total and complete forgiveness is my problem with the whole story line. Not that I believe that Nate is evil incarnate and is irredeemable.-
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Do I think a Tedbecca endgame would have worked, just based on the perceived hints? Yes.
But they screwed the pooch and never addressed it at any time in-show. Unless the series finale is close to 2 hours long, or more - and they spend a good deal of that time on setting it up - there's no way a Tedbecca endgame won't feel totally shoe-horned in IF they go that route.
Hell, as mentioned above, a 'normal-ish' 75 to 80-minute episode won't even be enough time to put a bow on all the storylines that are already known to be needing wrapped up as the series ends.-
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^ @Jeddah ....
I hope that's all it is, a "hey, what a coinky-dink that we both like the movie and used references from it to 'connect'!" look between them.
I don't care one bit about the age difference between Sam and Rebecca. But the owner/player vibe is kinda too weird a vibe to ignore.
And in that vein, I'm glad they seem to be very likely not going with a Tedbecca endgame as well because the owner/gaffer vibe isn't all that much better.-
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You can tell Ted Lasso is purely fictional, because the entire club practically begging Nate to come back would never happen in real life. Ever.
Even being fiction, I don't care how strongly Ted's presence and morality has effected them, its just utterly unrealistic to expect everyone welcoming someone like Nate back with open arms. That's a hard ask for an audience to accept and not have reservations over.
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Speaking of hints or potential hints of Tedbecca, have we ever gotten anything about the "thunder and lightning (or lightening)" 'prediction' from the psychic? Even if it doesn't pertain to Tedbecca or not.
We've gotten clear mentions or visual cues to the other things the psychic said - Tedbecca 'hints' or otherwise - but I can't remember an instance of the "T & L" (yet).
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I would say there is a slight possibility that Ted is getting ready to tell Rebecca its an either/or situation.
Ted will tell her he plans on staying if can have Henry move to England with him - and if Henry wants to do that - but if not, he's resigning (after the season) and going home to Kansas. That being Henry's dad is his biggest life focus right now and where Henry is is where he wants to be.
And then we spend some time of the non-soccer parts of the series' final episode with him working on & finding out the final solution and situation of the whole staying/going ordeal.But gauging things just based on the episode's title, I truly & honestly think its as simply plain as him resigning and going home to
KansasHenry .... after Richmond wins the EPL.-
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8 minutes ago, Armchair Critic said:
Jamie's mom seemed a bit like Keely?
I did love Roy's open-armed walk back to Jamie's mom as they were leaving. "One for the road?" and then Keeley grabbing him & pulling him along.
lol
I also like Roy's constant staring at Jamie's mom before the 'grand tour'. Imagined reading his thoughts. "Tartt's mum is a total fucking MILF! After meeting that douchebag that was his dad, how is this fit woman his mum?!".-
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With Ted going back to Kansas at series end, I am pretty much officially ruling out Tedbecca as an endgame possibility.
Not gonna lie, I thought Rebecca was gonna 'truth bomb' him with a "love - or at least a like you a lot - confession", but that didn't happen, so there's no screen time left to make them ending up together any way even sorta believable.That's not to say it will not happen, just that if it does, it won't feel very believable.
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The look between Sam and Rebecca during the 'team watching the movie' scene .... was there a message from the movie I was supposed to read into that or are they still lightly teasing a possible Rebecca/Sam endgame?
Somebody mentioned it above, but whoever thought that S1 twat would turn into one of the most liked characters in S3?? "Jamie Tartt doo-doo-doootadoo!"
I'm not gonna talk about Nate's redemption and AFC Richmond going full "Ted" and inviting him back with open arms because I don't feel like he really deserves all that. But it doesn't change the fact that its happening and now I have to pretend like he didn't pull the ultimate betrayal but now gets welcomed back like nothing happened. *siiiiiiigh*
Ted truth-bombed the hell out of his mom. And I guess she got in one or two herself.
Looks like Rupert's losing yet another FC to an ex-wife.
Speaking of truth-bombs, if you've seen the title for the last episode of the series then its mondo-obvious what Ted's in the process of telling Rebecca as the end credits rolled.
Ending this by quoting our favorite Roy Kent, as did most of everyone else in this episode .... Fffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
(or 'Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuudge!' in Ted's case)-
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9 hours ago, Uncle JUICE said:
Super league...the whole plot done in one episode?? Again Lasso, if you're not going to be a sports show, you're better off staying AWAY from sport stuff entirely. Because this was nonsense, from the moment AFC RIchmond is invited in. They haven't even been in the premier league for TWO SEASONS, and they're a 'super club? Zero chance Rebecca's credible in that room and not because she's a woman, or because she's Rupert's ex, but because HER TEAM DOESN'T BELONG THERE.
Not gonna lie, even though I think Rebecca crushed that whole speech scene - which was the only real reason she was invited, and went, to begin with - I just could not begin to fathom why she even had a spot at the table in the first place.
I mean, to think that Akufu would tolerate a club like AFC Richmond being invited to, and involved in, his 'Super League' of the "highest quality clubs that people will have to pay premium prices to watch" just made no sense at all.
And this isn't even bringing up the fact that said team has a player on it that he just spent multi-millions to a nation's government to prevent his inclusion on player's national soccer squad because he dislikes him so much!
I like Ted Lasso, but sometimes the logic leaps are just nonsensical.-
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S03.E12: So Long, Farewell
in Ted Lasso
· Edited by iRarelyWatchTV36
That sucks.
I live in the Midwest and while I do work with people who also watch the show - and other shows, as well - we are all usually very good about not spoiling if told someone hasn't watched the newest episode yet. I pretty much avoid all non-sports only news feeds the very best I can until I watch. Which in this case, will be tomorrow evening.
The person I work directly with - who LOVES the show - won't likely have watched the episode tonight yet either, so I should be good ........ aside from probably constantly thinking about what will be waiting to be seen when I watch it tomorrow evening.