I noticed, and im sure many others did too, that the end of season 3, ted comes home, henry comes out of the house, greets him, and michelle is at the door. Henry ushers ted in, and shortly after they are at a soccer game with henry, where michelle says " come on boys", cheering both on? Are they back together?
Brendan Hunt in the AMA said something along the lines of Ted and Michelle being in a “good place” as co parents at the end of the series. But I don’t think there’s any doubt that the writers have left the door open to the possibility of Ted and Michelle reuniting.
The series starts with Ted moving to a different country in order to save his marriage. I liked the idea that Ted’s journey was him coming to terms with the end of that relationship and finding happiness anyway. But the writers hint at a full circle - that maybe Ted gets what he wanted in episode one.
By the end of S3, Michelle seems to have tired of Jacob and kicked him to the curb. There were a few times when the direction and script wanted us to notice Michelle “softening” towards Ted: her smile after the Facetime call, their banter at the pub, her lingering look outside the taxi. Mae tells Ted “nothing is impossible”.
Ted never wavered in his love for Michelle, and he was super upset at the idea of Michelle marrying someone else. It seems that he’ll be staying in the house he used to share with Michelle and Henry. I suspect the writers knew that a lot of viewers wouldn’t like the idea of Ted and Michelle reuniting. But it seemed like it was what Ted wanted, and Jason Sudeikis. I wonder if a less ambiguous ending, where they clearly get back together, was pitched but rejected.
i mean… he was super upset at the idea of Michelle marrying someone else?
i thought he mostly got over he by the end of season 1
and when he found out from Henry that’s she’s dating someone, in ep1,season 3, he was still
doing fine in episode 2.
what bothered him was finding out it’s drJake the snake.
I dont see him
being bothered if she married some rando.
I kinda wish we got a bit more insight into their marriage. They’ve been together since they were about 20ish and if we take Andrea Anders and Jason Sudeikis’s ages as their characters ages, they’re about 45 when they split, and Henry’s about 10 at most, so they were mid-30s when he was born.
It could be that they waited for a while before having kids, and got lucky first shot at it, but I do wonder if they struggled to get pregnant for a long time, or if Michelle had one or more miscarriages, and the stress of that faced with Ted’s unrelenting positivity and can do attitude contributed to the break down. It also adds to the parent-child theme of the show- that it was a struggle for them to become parents.
Yes, I’ve wondered about that too. It is a bit of a mystery, why it took so long into their marriage for them to have Henry. I saw a copy of the pilot script online, and in it Ted is described as 40 years old, and Henry as 10. So that would mean he and Michelle had Henry aged about 30, which would be more understandable - they got together in college, established careers, bought a house, then had a child (then we might wonder why they had only one, but still).
My guess is that the character ages were largely because of practical/production reasons - I think the Ted Lasso script was probably written when Jason Sudeikis was 40 or close to, but not shot until he was 45. I’m not sure why Henry got aged down except that younger kids are kind of cuter.
In-universe, I think your theory about fertility issues is a good one. My other head-cannon was that maybe Ted was a bit fearful of parenthood and kept putting it off, because of what happened to his dad.