Okay so letâs talk about dramatic irony.
Colinâs big Flaw right now is his inability to be himself. This impacts his relationships with team members and also his football playing.
Tedâs speech from a few eps ago where he says âwithout shameâ and the camera focuses on colin? that is where this flaw ties in with his growth as a football player.
We have seen colin make mildly homophobic remarks in the locker room âokay iâll fuck zavaâ.
We have seen moments like this increasingly this season as the audience becomes aware of his sexual orientation.
This provides the audience with dramatic irony. The irony is that we know he is saying this to hide as a gay man but the characters in the scene do not.
We also know that what colin is doing is harmful to him. but he is unable to see that. all he is able to do is protect himself.
This episode is the first time (iirc) that we see him say something misogynistic instead of homophobic.
âi know what iâm doing this weekendâ
to colin, this is not different. To most of the other players, this is not different.
To us, the audience, this is worse than what he was doing before. He is no longer weaponising homophobia (something he is a victim of) but misogyny (which he is not). you might argue that isnt worse but personally it rubbed me the wrong way and i think a lot of people would agree.
Importantly, some of the players on the team are also opposed to this misogyny.
At this point colin stops joking, and starts defending his real opinion (he shouldnât have to delete his personal files just because they might be leaked).
This is an issue that some members of the team have beliefs about.
Jamie, Sam, and Issac, stand up for women by making it clear that keeping nudes when there is a high risk of leaking is not okay.
But colin has skin in this game. Usually, he is never ârealâ in conversations like this. But this time things are different. He wants to keep the photos.
we see him defend this position by mentioning âmemories.â this shows us that his desire is not lustful but sentimental in nature. iâve seen others point out that this is a facet of his identity (that he is unable to outwardly express!). The photos mean something to him and he is angry at the idea that he is doing something wrong by keeping them.
I donât think we have ever seen him defend an opinion genuinely before as the audience? In s1 he was pretty much trying to impress jamie. there was one comment about welsh pride but that came across as a joke. (Ted lasso writers make colin more welsh challenge)
And the first time he breaks his facade, the first time he shows his real face, he gets outed.
If he hadnât cared about the photos he would have stopped arguing, stayed quiet and nodded along. made a joke maybe. something weâve seen him do many times before. but he was honest about his opinions, so issac was able to tell he hadnât deleted anything when everyone else was.
The audience knows that he wasnât being serious with his first comment. âI know what Iâm doing this weekendâ
We know that that was a joke meant to act as a hyper-masc, homophobic, misogynistic shield in order to disguise his true self.
But the rest of the team do not know that. Issac does not know that. He has probably been making âjokesâ like this, off camera, for years.
He leaps straight from a joke about masturbating to leaked nudes, to defending keeping photos that he knows there is a risk of leaking.
We, as the audience, know that he only wants to keep photos.
But Issac thinks he might as well be defending the leak.
When Colin says âfuck offâ to Issac, he prompts him to take his phone. Issac is acting the responsible team captain, here.
From what information he has, it just seems like colin is completely out of line. Heâs defending misigyny, probably risking the safety and privacy of multiple women, being uncharacteristically rude and angry about it.
He probably has to deal with toxic behaviour from team members all the time. His own captaincy has been a source of growth for him, from the bully he used to be, to someone who tries to make sure everyone is behaving respectfully and as a team.
In any other situation I would want him to take the phone and delete the photos.
But he didnât know that Colin also needed privacy. And colin was unable to express that to him as someone who is desperately hiding parts of himself.
So Issac takes the phone.Â
I think this all explains Issacâs reaction. Confusion, nods, leaves.
He is confused because he is learning that this interaction is absolutely not what he thought it was. He nods because he accepts that, bc itâs a totally different situation than he thought, he doesnât need to delete the photos. then he leaves, because what else is he supposed to do.
And colin is left knowing that his slip-up (the first time we see him express a sincere and deeply held emotion in front of the team) caused the very thing he was so afraid of happening.
EDIT: oh also the irony of how issac invades colins privacy while trying to protect other peopleâs because he doesnât think of colin as someone who needs privacy from him. I allude to that but i meant to make is clearer.
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