Ariel and Sasha Experience ... Ted Lasso!

Ariel: Okay, this one's going to be real short, I think.
Sasha: What?! But we both totally loved this show!
Ariel: Well ... sure, but they completely ruined one of the most fun things we like to do in this blog.
Sasha: What are you talking about?

Ariel: I mean coming up with funny names for all the characters. They already did it for us!
Sasha: You're going to have to explain, because I'm pretty sure everybody had an actual name.

Ariel: Are you? Then let me ask you, what would you call that one coach who had the beard?
Sasha: You mean Coach Beard?

Ariel: Right! What would our nickname for him be?
Sasha: Oh ... okay, I can sort of see what you mean in his case. But --

Ariel: And what would we call that reporter character?
Sasha: Um, I'm thinking ...

Ariel: No you're not! You already know.
Sasha: "The Independent."

Ariel: And what about that one soccer player who starts off being so full of himself but later on kind of gets better? (Oops, spoilers, sorry everybody!)
Sasha: Sigh. "Baby Shark."

Ariel: What about Nate?
Sasha: "Wonder Kid."

Ariel: See?
Sasha: Okay, okay, but it's not like they spoon-fed us nicknames for all the characters. We would have had to make up something for the girl who did all their public relations, Keely Jones.

Ariel: "KJPR."
Sasha: Well, what about the owner of the soccer club?

Ariel: She has two! "Boss" and "Stinky!"
Sasha: Okay, I know, the gruff grumbly player who's always cursing and has that cute little niece.

Ariel: "Uncle Roy."
Sasha: I ... guess you're kind of right.

Ariel: And we didn't even get to Higgins! Ted Lasso gives him a different nickname practically every time he sees him! "Higgy Pop" and "Higgs Boson" and --
Sasha: I'm going to stop you because we really never did tell people to put on their spoiler blankets and some of those nicknames for Higgins were pretty funny.

Ariel: Ooh, good point.
Sasha: And I guess for Ted Lasso himself we've got our pick between "Coach" and "Wanker." Wow. They really did do all our work for us.

Ariel: So, we ready to call this one done, then?
Sasha: Whistle!

Ariel: Haha!
Sasha and Ariel: Bye, everybody!

Sasha and Ariel Experience ... Ahsoka!

Sasha: Okay, uh, so ...
Ariel: ka!
Sasha: What?
Ariel: You said "Ahso" so I said "ka."
Sasha: No, I said "uh, so."
Ariel: ka!
Sasha: Oh, great, am I going to have to avoid saying the word "so" --
Ariel: ka!
Sasha: -- through this whole post?
Ariel: Do you want the answer to be yes or no?
Sasha: Um, no.
Ariel: ka!
Sasha: Please don't do this.
Ariel: Well, you just had this kind of grumpy look on your face and I didn't feel like that was a good way to start off talking about a cool Star Wars show.
Sasha: It's better for me to have this annoyed look on my face?
Ariel: I think it's more "exasperated." Pretty good word, right? I've been hanging around Hettie, because maybe if I do that enough it will improve my vocabulary, because she's so good at words and stuff.
Sasha: Just hanging around her? You're not even asking her to deliberately teach you? What, do you think because she's a walking dictionary, she'll just rub off on you?
Ariel: That's what she said!
Sasha: Oh god, I walked right into that. You deliberate planned it, didn't you?
Ariel: No, seriously, Hettie actually said, "A good vocabulary doesn't just rub off on you, Ariel." Really, she did.
Sasha: ...
Ariel: But WOW, that would have been a great plan, now that you mention it!
Sasha: How about if we just talk about the show?
Ariel: The show ... ka.
Sasha: I'm just going to go first instead of asking what you thought. Everybody get your spoiler blankets on because I'm jumping in with both feet.
Ariel: That's what --
Sasha: SO, my opinion is that this was kind of a weird show.
Ariel: Weird showka.
Sasha: I mean, let's start with the name.
Ariel: Great idea! What, why are you looking at me like that?
Sasha: I was waiting for you to say, "Ahsoka."
Ariel: Why?
Sasha: Because you've been making a giant gag out of it ever since we started!
Ariel: That's what she said!
Sasha: Uhhgh!
Ariel: Soka. But really, you shouldn't be calling it a gag.
Sasha: Why shouldn't I? That's exactly what you're doing! What else would I call it?
Ariel: A joke a!
Sasha: Right, then. I'm just straight-up going to ignore you when you do that from now on.
Ariel: Fine, I'll stop. What were you going to say about the name of the show?
Sasha: ...
Ariel: ...
Sasha: ...
Ariel: ... ka.
Sasha: Just that, well, it really really made me think this was going to be a show about Ahsoka.
Ariel: Wow. I totally thought that too.
Sasha: Of course you did! Why else would they name a show "Ahsoka" if it really wasn't especially going to be about Ahsoka?
Ariel: I have no idea.
Sasha: Me either. But it just totally wasn't an Ahsoka show.
Ariel: That's true. It's really not that bad a thing though, is it? Because we got to see all those other characters we like too.
Sasha: Sure, but ... weirdly.
Ariel: What do you mean?
Sasha: I mean, I was happy to see Sabine and Hera and Chopper and Ezra. But Sabine seemed kinda up-tight compared to how she was in Rebels. And Hera ... wow, she just didn't seem like Hera to me at all.
Ariel: I kinda get that, I guess.
Sasha: And what's even weirder is, I went and looked the actress up on Google ... and she looks more like Hera without the makeup and head-tail thingies than she does with them. Look, I asked our boyfriend to Photoshop them together.

Ariel: Wow, that's pretty freaky!
Sasha: I know, right? And she also didn't sound at all like Hera. Totally different oral delivery.
Ariel: Okay, you made that one too easy. I'm not falling for it.
Sasha: What? Oh.
Ariel: Soka.
Sasha: Grr!
Ariel: Ezra was really good though, didn't you think?
Sasha: Yeah, he was spot on. In fact, he was more like the Ezra from the cartoon than Ahsoka was like the Ahsoka from the cartoons.
Ariel: You really are a grump today! Now you're making it sound like him being such a good Ezra was a bad thing.
Sasha: I mean, it would be a great thing if the series had been called "Let's Get Ezra!" But when the show is called "Ahsoka," I kinda want Ahsoka to be the best thing in it.
Ariel: Okay, so, problem solved. We just need to watch the show again but imagine it's called, "Let's Get Ezra!"
Sasha: ...
Ariel: What are you thinking about now?
Sasha: Um ... honestly, the fact that maybe that would work.
Ariel: Sure. Like, it sounds like your problem with it was mostly that instead of "Ahsoka" it was more like "Nah-soka." So if you just think about it as a whole differently named show, it should be all good, right?
Sasha: Well, they were kind of "Nah" about the budget too. I'm betting the budget meetings were like, the creater of the show saying, "This needs a budget at least as big as And/Or." But the corporate guys were like, "Nah."
Ariel: It was definitely more Book of Boba Fett budgety than And/Or budgety.
Sasha: Or maybe they spent most of their budget making Teen Hotty look all young and hot again for those episodes where he showed up.
Ariel: He looked so good in those episodes!
Sasha: Right? And his acting was fantastic! Definitely a hundred percent the same character as from the first three Star Wars movies.
Ariel: "Anakin," not "Nah-nakin," for sure.
Sasha: So anyway, overall, it was just an okay show for me, when I really wanted it to be special. Because Ahsoka is a maxi special character to me. I really love her.
Ariel: Me too! But even if we didn't get a great show that was all about her, I'd rather have a just okay show with her and a bunch of other people in it than no show about her at all.
Sasha: That's a good way to look at it, I guess. You know, you always manage to find the best angles.
Ariel: nnnnn...
Sasha: I was softballing that one to you, obviously.
Ariel: Okay, whew! That was nice of you. Sorry I didn't just run with it.
Sasha: Ready to say bye to our readers then?
Ariel: Sure.
Sasha and Ariel: Thanks for reading, everybody! Time for us to go!
Ariel: (ka!)