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Reviewing Taylor Swift Songs - in the Countdown to 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Part One: Taylor's Versions
I don’t know about you, but I’m extremely excited to hear 1989 (Taylor’s Version) when it is released at the end of next month. It was first released in 2014, so we’re getting a new version nine years later. But excitedly waiting got me thinking… what is my all time favourite Taylor Swift album? Failing that, which song on which album is my favourite?
SO we’re only using the Taylor’s Versions of…
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Who is my favourite Doctor? (So Far).
This is a very silly post, possibly even sillier than the previous… several weeks, shall we say, of Doctor Who content? But this a question that I would like answered. It’s almost time for the 2023 specials to air, which means my favourite doctor might be changed forever in a matter of days (do I count Tennant’s return as a new Doctor or as the Tenth Doctor? I don’t know yet, we’ll have to wait…
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“I would die for you” that’s cool but I would live for you let’s hang out later
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I felt like ep 9 edged Rupert a bit closer to front and center as the icky villain again, and have a feeling that he'll rise up one more time, Kraken-like, and do or say something truly awful before the end of the season.
He's just SO awful. The minute Nate is looking a little less terrified and angry, the second Rupert finds out he has a new source of joy in his life (Jade), Rupert's first instinct is to smash and kill that joy in any way he can. What a broken human. And kudos to Tony Head for playing him so well.
Someone posted that every one of the billionaires/ultra-rich we've seen on the show is all sweetness and light and over-the-top gifts and flattery until the person they're fixated on deviates from what they want them to do or say, and then they FLIP. Say awful shit, try to destroy that person's self-worth, and become mentally abusive. It's almost as if having too much money turns off parts of their humanity and they begin to see other people just as sources of pleasure or commodities and they just fail at making real, lasting connections.
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It's Hannah Waddingham's world and we're just living in it
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Beard: “So there are probably more people in this room who are gay”
Trent fucking fabulous Crimm sat in the corner in his Dolly t-shirt:
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Rebecca coming into work after Colin comes out publicly:
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ted lasso is brave enough to say what no one else dares— being gay makes you better at sports.
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trent crimm sitting in that locker room with cheetah print shoes on and a dolly parton shirt and not one person clocked him as gay and looked at jamie instead i am beyond fascinated
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More Ted Lasso thoughts after trawling the tag:
From the very start, this show has been about the private lives of public figures and what's going on behind the image everyone gets to see. We're introduced to Ted first as a story on ESPN and as a silly meme, and only then cut to him coming out of an airplane bathroom, a human who has to travel and piss and shit.
I could list a bunch of other examples, but the point is: What Roy said in the press conference, about not knowing what's going on in other people's lives? That has been absolutely central to Ted Lasso from the beginning.
We the audience see the Ted no one else sees - for example, only we know he yelled at Nate in "Make Rebecca Great Again" because he'd spent the night getting drunk over his divorce papers. And we see the Richmond that the in-show fans don't see, in the locker room and training facilities. The crowd at Mae's reacts to what they see on TV, while we know the reasons behind it.
Ted started shifting those lines when he invited the fans to watch the team training, but there is still that sacrosanct core: the locker room is inviolate, the place where Colin's secret can stay that way. We've seen Colin talk about being gay with Trent, but when he comes out to the team, the camera isn't looking. That moment was so private it was even obscured from us.
But there's a tension there, yeah? If privacy was the only consideration, then it would be fine for everyone to just say they don't care about Colin being gay. As misguided as Ted's anecdote was, the sentiment was right: they do care! They're his teammates and friends!
That push-pull between caring and respecting privacy has also been baked into the show for ages; season 2 grappled with it constantly. "The Signal" had the whole staff try to hash it out when it came to Beard's relationship with Jane, and ended with Higgins reaching out but not prying, finding that delicate balance with the most private character in the cast.
That's the balance Roy hit with Isaac - reaching out but not prying. He could understand the shape of the problem without understanding the specifics, and respect Isaac's privacy while addressing the issue of his behavior on the pitch.
And that's the balance Colin found this week. He doesn't need to be out to the whole world - the fact that the team knows is enough to knit his two lives together. There are ways to be authentic and honest with yourself and others without blaring everything to everyone all the time. What you need is a safe space.
(Of course it would be better if he lived in a world where his gayness was boring and unremarkable. But even this show isn't that optimistic.)
Roy walked a tightrope in the press conference, using a story to shield Isaac's privacy, and Colin's by proxy. Isaac's behavior on the pitch is a press concern. His reasons aren't. And part of a manager's job is to act as that shield for his players.
Roy has been a protector from the beginning, and when we saw him get violent on the pitch it was to defend Sam from Jamie. He passed his armband to Isaac and told him to never stop breaking televisions, and Isaac has been the team's on-pitch protector ever since.
And that's why Isaac was furious - not with Colin, but with himself for his failure at this fundamental part of his job. His teammate was being attacked over and over and Isaac not only didn't protect him; he unknowingly participated.
Worse yet, the problem was too big for Isaac to handle - he can put the fear of God into an opposing player, but how can you beat the shit out of something as pervasive as homophobia?
Well, you can't. But you can protect with a shield, not just a sword, and Isaac promises to ensure no one in the locker room tells Colin's secret.
Of course, Colin isn't just Isaac's teammate; he's his best friend, his soulmate in a show that reveres that relationship. Colin didn't want privacy from him, not about this. And now they can be horny guys in their 20s on honest terms and admit that Bumbercatch is the hottest Greyhound of them all.
You can look right into Colin's glass-walled house, but until this week almost no one saw him. And if that's not a Ted Lasso image, I don't know what is.
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colin: i’m gay
ted, radiating youth pastor energy: you know who else played for the other team?
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definitely a ‘queer isn’t a monolith’ moment: I found it odd seeing some comments saying Isaac was being borderline insensitive or offensive by asking Colin questions about being gay and Colin would never ask things like that about straight relationships. because my core friendship group consists of one bi woman, one lesbian, and two straight girls, and literally every question has been asked by everyone: what’s it like to eat out a vagina. what’s it like to suck a cock. what’s it like to be penetrated by a dick; oh, that’s different to how I’ve experienced it with fingers, interesting. how do sexual acts differ when it’s with a man compared to when it’s with a woman. have you found this is more fun with a man. have you found that better with a woman. how do those tastes differ. how do you experience attraction. what does this term mean. how about this. what about that.
which obviously you probably wouldn’t do with randomers, but part of a good friendship is knowing what you can talk about and sharing these intimate moments. it’s also clear that Colin’s not offended by any of these questions. and I’ve never liked the idea that ‘don’t make us do the work’ has translated into ‘never ask any questions, ever’: Colin and Isaac are besties and clearly have a lot of catching up to do, and I love that we were shown that healthy, but ultimately still bloke-y, communication between them.
essentially we were given ‘girl talk’ with two men putting their own spin on it, albeit with a lot less tears and a lot more FIFA. nothing needs to be solved; they’re just two best friends shooting the shit and finding out more about each other.
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