Ive Been Thinking A Lot About The Lasso Way. Season 1 Episode 3 Was The Moment On My First Watch That

I’ve been thinking a lot about The Lasso Way. Season 1 Episode 3 was the moment on my first watch that I said “something about this is different.” I’ve spent literal weeks trying to put it into words. Here it is. Maybe.

The Lasso Way is bewildering kindness. It is inauspicious, un-self-conscious, and completely disarming. Often, the fear that comes with sincerity of this kind is that we will be taken advantage of. But his refusal to be suspicious of others is the very thing that makes Ted un-sabotage-able. He is trusting: he sees people for who they could be, and with that vote of confidence, they become that person.

The Lasso Way is acting out of security in who you are and what you believe. We see villainous action from these characters not when they become wicked, but when they are guided by their insecurities. That’s what motivated Rebecca at the start of season 1. She wanted to take back control of her identity. One of the few times Ted lashes out is the night he signs the divorce papers. In some way, the same thing is happening with Nate. Maybe that’s why Ted shows up to that game in the trailer: he wants to remind “Nate The Great” who he can be.

Finished this book about ten minutes ago, and it packs so many conversations into so few pages. It imagines such a bright future in such a specific way. Like much of Chambers’ other works, it employs characters who are kind and good to begin with, but who must make sense of their place in something bigger. This, Chambers seems to suggest, is the great work of our lives, even when we do not feel that we are “doing” anything.

- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers 

Ted Lasso S3 Prediction: from the moment I first heard the “be a goldfish” line, I have been waiting for Ted to realize that we have to remember the difficult moments in order to grow.

So I was one of those kids who got deep-fried tumblr text posts on Pinterest as my first real internet experience. How do I use this website? Unsettling catfish robots keep following me. Where are the memes?

I remember this being one of my biggest fears as a kid. I even thought I would have to change my name since I go by a nickname. If I think about it quite a lot, I’m still afraid of this.

I'm still pretty young (late 30s), so I'm not pretending to have any sort of comprehensive insight into aging, but so far the only thing that really makes me sad is that some of my friends seem to be getting linearly more serious, less silly, as we get older

It strikes me like a performance of adulthood and maybe that's just my bias—maybe it's not an act at all (and wouldn't that be even sadder?)—but I find myself wanting to shake them and be like, "BE IRREVERENT AGAIN! Where's my friend the clown who pissed on the confederate statue?!"

trying to counteract this by only getting more unapologetic about my silliness

Re: Muppet Pride & Prejudice: it just dawned on me that Brett Goldstein works on Shrinking. Who is in Shrinking? Jason Segel. Jason Segel, who is largely responsible for The Muppets (2011). All I’m saying is BRETT HAVE YOU AT LEAST ASKED HIM ABOUT IT???