Azariah said:
t - cam said:
Azariah said:
htxag09 said:
I just want to know how Nate finds out where Ted keeps his picture and in turn is made to feel like complete dog *****
I don't think he would feel like dog **** at all. He feels like all of his anger is justified and he's not self aware enough to think about what it means for the rest of his indignation when one of his examples turns out to be wrong.
I think that will be when he realizes that people actually care about him. He won't stay villain.
I actually want him to stay a villain. Not because I feel betrayed by him and want some sort of vengeance, but because of Ted Lasso's commentary on real life. Ted Lasso gives the viewer a sense that something can be better in the world. That being like Ted is a realistic thing that we can aspire to, and it will make the world a better place. One of the things about the real world is that not everyone is redeemed. There are plenty of people who go down Nate's bitter path who never come back. Those people exist, and I think the show needs to acknowledge that in order to have the moral standing to say that the world would be a better place if we were like Ted.
If every villain in the show gets redeemed, then Ted Lasso stops being a realistic commentary on existence and instead becomes a fairy tale where everything always works out. That would cheapen the whole show and everything it has to say about our real world.
I also think the show really hammers home that childhood trauma is a different and inescapable/insurmountable battle. It weighs heavily on Ted, Rebecca, Jamie, and Nate. My relationship with my dad is complicated as well and it's something that won't ever be resolved. I think it's something Nate has only started to try and reckon with but ultimately won't get to where he needs it to go. It's also why I don't find him to be a real villain. Rupert is a villain, Nate is misguided. All the characters with that trauma have behaviors on the show directly attributed to them trying to overcome or mask it, I think the show is genius in that regard, it doesn't have to be this smart if it's just trying to be positive.
I do think because of what I've listed above that at some point it either causes the show to end with Ted going home or he and his wife working together to help him and his son have a better relationship. Ted's dad committed suicide to escape, he took a job he knew nothing about in a foreign country to escape, subconsciously or completely on purpose.
I love this show. Watching it has been therapeutic for me. Given that it's from Bill Lawrence it's not shocking that it has strong Scrubs energy. Lots of humor and heart, while also illustrating how hard it is for a lot of people to make it through every day regardless of what they present to the world. That we never really know what's happened to people in their past, what they struggle with daily. We're all just trying to get through the day.
This show personifies the saying "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."
