Exactly. I probably wouldn’t, but I think it’s because nobody shoots anybody. Would you put Highlander in science fiction? Maybe not, but it’s a bunch closer.
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I’d put Highlander in “the Greatest Movie Ever”.
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This is why the overlap in the Venn for science fiction and fantasy is extensive.
Like most people, I’ll use “science fiction” as a catch-all for things like “Highlander”, but would not use if for “Groundhog Day”, even though it’s about a man being stuck in an infinite time loop. The context drives the categorization. But a lot of what gets called sci-fi should be in the fantasy category.
It’s similarly complicated when it comes to super heroes. Nolan’s Batman trilogy is more “Action” than anything else, because it’s grounded in reality despite his extensive use of advanced technology. But when it comes to the DC ensemble movies, and it’s really getting into fantasy territory, with a whiff of sci-fi.
The only reason this means anything to me is that Apple only lets you apply 1 genre to movies in your library. You can use multiple terms, “Sci-Fi Action”, for example, but it will make a new genre called “Sci-Fi Action” and only group it with other movies with the exact same designation. I would like for the genres to be like tags, but Apple doesn’t care about those of us who have our own libraries from our own media.
And there can be only one.
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I’d just say Brigadoon is a weirdly specific musical to parody
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Ted Lasso S2E2:
I’d say Limey’s prediction that we’d get more on Ted’s dad was spot on.
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Wild-Ass Plot Speculation
The fact that Ted said his dad was “harder on himself than others” leads me to think that he may have killed himself. It’s pretty clear that the loss of his father at age 16 is the biggest driver of Lasso’s desire to mentor these young athletes.
It’s entirely the reason he brought back Jamie. He weighed the impact on Sam of bringing Jamie back against the cost to Jamie of leaving him to struggle on his own, and it was Sam explaining how his own dad is supportive and engaged that tipped the scales.
Having watched Season 1 more times than is probably healthy, you really notice all the micro-foreshadowings of pretty much everything that happens later. It’s incredibly smart/disciplined writing to plan the arcs and tease them all to the audience in plain sight, but in ways that they are so deep in the natural flow that it takes multiple viewings to catch them (and I have no doubt I’ve missed a bunch).
So now I’m on to them, and looking for hidden meaning in every throw away gag, sideways look or chance meeting. For example, the busker who rocked the charity event was always there and, in Ep 1, Ted tossed some coins (£1 is a coin) into his cup, with a comment about how he likes to support young talent.
That is one of the more obvious ones. Then there’s the long games, like Ted not knowing about ties in Ep 1, yet needing one in Ep 10, and then getting nothing but ties in Season 2. Or the bookend jokes, like Ted spitting up fizzy water.
Like the blond kid taking “ussies” who helps introduce Ted at the beginning but, in the end, accidentally helping Jamie find the situational awareness to make the extra pass that sinks Richmond‘s season.
How long before the young girl soccer player comes back around? Or the grumpy old man who routinely accosts Ted while walking by the pub? Or any of the other speaking extras who turn out to be more important than that. We’ve now met Roy’s previously unseen yoga ladies; so what about Mrs Shipling upstairs?
The white board in the writers room must look like Charlie Day’s conspiracy map.
Sorry Pete.
The mom from Roy’s U9 team is absolutely coming back
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Clearly, she like Roy…
Chekhov said if you introduce a soccer mom in the first act, she must go off by the third act.
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I thought she was a teacher?
I always thought he said that if you load photon torpedoes in the cold open, you have to fire them by the third commercial.
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Only from nuclear wessels
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The cold open for Ted Lasso S2 Ep3 is pure magic.
And I think I know what “the look” was about at the end of Ep2.
I’m ready for Christmas now.
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They nailed that one for sure. And it’s pretty much standalone, so you can break it out at Christmas without needing the surrounding context.
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One nit:
Don’t they say “Happy Christmas” in England?
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No.
Are you sure? What are your credentials?
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I love tea.
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