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Lauren. 33. Writer, disability rights advocate, your friendly neighborhood wine aunt. MAY A SMILE BE YOUR UMBRELLA. WE'VE ALL HAD OUR SOCKS TOSSED AROUND. I'm dead and Kyle MacLachlan killed me (02/12/2015) Brett Goldstein resurrected and then murdered me (23/03/2023 & 14/04/2023) (occasional 18+/NSFW content)

[roamwithahungryheart]

Think the homage to Williamson is pure down to her being an advisor for the show rather than her being celebrated as a player. The ones mentioned as character inspo have been Chloe Kelly and Mary Earps from what I've seen 🙃

Yeah, that makes sense!

We've got a whole new three season arc to play around with, so maybe a new Lioness homage will come in a later season. I'd love it if Shannon becomes the Michelle Agyemang of the Lady Grehounds. She's obviously going to have a huge impact on the team (as she should) and I can't wait to see how her story unfolds alongside the other women!

[roamwithahungryheart]

There's already been an homage to Leah Williamson, I hope there will also be an homage to Lucy Bronze, because she does so much for neurodivergent women and young girls and it's important to see those stories on screen too.

[roamwithahungryheart]

I actually think it would be really funny if in season 4 they do a reverse coming out scene based on something that happened to me back in college; one of the players, a dedicated friend and ally, tells the team that they're actually straight and someone (probably Boots, let's be honest) says 'Shame. You'd make a great lesbian'.

[roamwithahungryheart]

Rebecca wearing the lasso ring when Ted returns to Richmond??? Alright. Sure.

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[suckmyarschkarte]

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[live-laugh-loverpool]

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[roamwithahungryheart]

Pro tip: if you don't like a show, just don't watch it! Don't post rants about how much you hate it! Move on! Groundbreaking, I know.

[roamwithahungryheart]

OH. WAIT.

The song that opens 4.02 is 'Honky Cat' by Elton John...which was featured on the soundtrack to Sliding Doors...oh.

Ted and Rebecca are in their own Sliding Doors narrative, the course of their intertwined lives depending on whether or not Ted chooses to stay or go. Last season he chose to leave. He cut off contact. He's returned to Richmond and now they're back in the Sliding Doors elevator stepping into their fresh start.

[roamwithahungryheart]

Ted starting the episode waking up in Richmond wearing a Kansas graphic tee, it's shot in a slightly disorienting way, he muses to himself on his morning walk to Nelson Road that "I guess nothin' stays the same" only to be confronted with Wanker Man and then "I guess some things do stay the same", and towards the end of the episode whe he's settled back in with the Lady Greyhounds, we hear the song 'Clean Heart' by Perfume Genius:

But the curtain's drawn

It's only dust

Kicked up and lost

Finding an end in itself

Pulled downstream

Made to believe

Until you're somebody else

Time, it makes a clean heart

When you're miles away from it all

He's merging his Kansas past with his present in Richmond, and he's moving forward with a clean heart. But it's not an easy transition in spite of the fact that he's done it before. After all that time spent in Kansas, isolating himself from the people he knew and cared about, it's a little jarring for him. And for the Richmond gang too.

The question is, if Dr. Sharon is coming back as rumors suggest, is she coming back for Ted?

[roamwithahungryheart]

I just think it would be really funny if there's a callback to 'Rainbow' and Rebecca breaks up with The Flying Dutchman, has a little too much wine and goes back on dating apps where, after Keeley helped him set up a profile, she finds Ted...and debates whether to swipe left or right before throwing her phone onto the couch. Bonus points if one of them makes a joke about finding the other on the app the next day.

[tedllasso]

Ted Lasso - 4.02 'Curiouser and Curiouser'

[roamwithahungryheart]

It took Harry and Sally 12 years and 3 months to fall in love. They were friends for a long time, then they weren't, then they fell in love. We're in year 6 of Ted and Rebecca's friendship. They were friends for a long time, then they weren't. There's an entirely new three season arc. If something romantic is going to happen, it's going to be a slow burn, and that's much better than instant gratification, especially when the two people involved are middle-aged divorcees who are healing from trauma.

[roamwithahungryheart]

If Ted and Rebecca are truly platonic soulmates, then they're the kind that can only be described as so devoted the lines blur.

[roamwithahungryheart]

His wet pathetic abandoned puppy in a cardboard box demeanor has bewitched me body and soul

[roamwithahungryheart]

When (because it will be when, not if) Ted cracks Alice's outer shell and gets her to finally warm up to him, it's going to be glorious

[roamwithahungryheart]

Rebecca saying she recently changed her favorite color to green...Ted sleeping in a bed with green bedding and using a green mug for his morning coffee...which could mean nothing

[tedllasso]

She's a hoot.