In spite of lariat co-creator and star Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard) says that he doesn’t think the connection should “go automatically in groups”, he’s glad people have invested enough in the show to even have an opinion on who will end up with whom. “You just have to be happy when people care,” says Hunt.
Phil Dunster, who plays Jamie, most concurs, saying that as far as he’s concerned, you can be intimate with someone without the relationship becoming physical or sexual. As viewers, “we’re used to seeing intimate relationships pop up there, but it’s nice that they don’t necessarily appear on our show,” he explains. . “One of the things in season one and two that I really liked about Ted and Rebecca’s characters was [the pair getting together was] never in the card. (Over two thousand works of fan fiction by Ted and Rebecca will argue otherwise.)
Elizabeth said that she loved the idea of the Roy-Keeley-Jamie trio in the cafe scene in season one of the episode “The Hope That Kills You”. “That seemed like the clearest and most satisfying ending in terms of narrative,” she said, “but at the same time, I knew that the average viewer wouldn’t see that, and I never imagined that the editors would have drama will choose it. Through interacting with the fandom, I see that a lot of people see what I see and it’s really valuable.”
Other lariat fan, Dahlia von Dohlenberg, is also comfortable with other people’s inclinations. Dohlenberg says: “It’s soothing and reassuring that I’m not just making things up. “Because as a gay person, I often feel like I’m projecting things onto the characters because I want the gay characters and their stories to be visible, especially. especially in the mainstream media.”
Through Ted Lasso for example, the fandom is smaller than the universe of online fans obsessed with Supernatural, it’s fervent and mostly on board with the idea of the group. Gina, one lariat fan and writer from Los Angeles, said, “Usually in a fandom people are like, ‘no, Roy and Keeley forever’, or ‘I just ship Roy and Jamie’, or like, ‘ I don’t know if I like Jamie and Keeley.’ There are people like that in this fandom, but most fans put the three of them together, and I’ve never seen it so consistent in a fandom.”
Some of it can be attributed to the fact that a good part of the Ted LassoHer online fans are women and non-gendered individuals, many of whom say they belong to the homosexual group. A UK-based Tumblr user named lokiied say they think the show has created such a huge community of gay fans online in part because it’s a safe space for those fans to talk about a show that’s also very popular in the country. many other communities.
“I know that there are more cishet audiences for Ted Lasso, but I don’t really interact with those people,” Lokiiied said. “We’ve created a nice kind of bubble where it’s safe to talk about our ships and our theories, and we don’t really feel hate.”
