How I Met Your Mother - Part 2

[TheAQU4M4N]

Is season 7 on Netflix yet?

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

So I'm not the only one unable to focus on this episode but rather am just staring shamelessly at Hannigan?

It's not like the episode was worth paying attention to, sadly.

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

Yeah, what a horrible episode. Some of the bits with Barney/Ted/Robin raising Marvin were funny but I realized last night a lot of my enjoyment for an episode is dependent on whether or not it adds to the great narrative of "Ted meeting the mother" or "Barney and Robin getting married". Everything else not dealing with it has been subpar so far this season, just not invested in Marshall/Lily/Marvin for some reason.

 

[O'Haire]

I rarely laughed or enjoyed the show last season. This seasons looking to be no different.

Lilly's boobs helped last night though. Need to bust them out more often if this is the best they have to offer story wise.

 

[SpideyVille]

I've seen some really bad reviews for this episode, but I think the saddest part of it all was that I probably laughed more this week than I did the previous episodes combined. But I really hope these few episodes aren't a sign of things to come, because this hasn't really been the show that I was calling my favorite show a month ago.

 

[Darkness Falls]

anyone know the name of Barney's booty call phone ringtone from last nights ep ?

Edit: nevermind, found it

 

[Dark Raven]

I found Barney's sexed-up versions of children's nursery rhymes quite funny.

 

[SpideyVille]

I found Barney's sexed-up versions of children's nursery rhymes quite funny.

Haha, yeah it reminded me of his holiday songs from a few seasons back.

[YT]Cz3ZksmCetA[/YT]

 

[COMPO]

I really didn't get why Robin wanted to be Marvin's Gaurdian, she's never really been a kid lover. But I suppose her infertility last year might have changed her mind, just wish there had been something about that in her motives rather than just petty competition.

 

[Dark Raven]

Yeah, what a horrible episode. Some of the bits with Barney/Ted/Robin raising Marvin were funny but I realized last night a lot of my enjoyment for an episode is dependent on whether or not it adds to the great narrative of "Ted meeting the mother" or "Barney and Robin getting married". Everything else not dealing with it has been subpar so far this season, just not invested in Marshall/Lily/Marvin for some reason.

I think the problem is that the writers may be trying to make Ted meeting the mother the final episode, so it means stretching everything out unnecessarily, and that makes things tedious. It's like the sagging middle in a story, where they've already got the beginning and the end sorted out.

The thing to do is put Ted meeting the mother in the middle of the season, and that will speed things up. Then for the rest of the season it can show why she is the one. There would be more character development and more highlights. Having the meeting right at the end just means mostly a season of triviality in between the things we already know will happen (eg the breakups, Barney and Robin getting together).

 

[SpideyVille]

I really didn't get why Robin wanted to be Marvin's Gaurdian, she's never really been a kid lover. But I suppose her infertility last year might have changed her mind, just wish there had been something about that in her motives rather than just petty competition.

The way I saw it was that she was just being competitive. I mean it did shed some light on her father issues, but it tried to be more funny than serious with it, which just didn't come off as strong as it has in the past.

I think the problem is that the writers may be trying to make Ted meeting the mother the final episode, so it means stretching everything out unnecessarily, and that makes things tedious. It's like the sagging middle in a story, where they've already got the beginning and the end sorted out.

The thing to do is put Ted meeting the mother in the middle of the season, and that will speed things up. Then for the rest of the season it can show why she is the one. There would be more character development and more highlights. Having the meeting right at the end just means mostly a season of triviality in between the things we already know will happen (eg the breakups, Barney and Robin getting together).

That's exactly the problem. They don't want to show the mother until the end, so until then they just need to keep Ted busy. Showing her in the premiere and where they'll meet is tricky because you've now showed your ending, so we know if Ted meets some girl in the supermarket after he breaks up with Victoria, that chances are she's not the mother.

I hate to do this again because I feel like I say it every so often, but it reminds me of how Smallville showed the Superman suit in the final premiere and then took it away and said it's not time for this yet. It worked as a tease, but at that point, the season became a countdown to the end and most of the episodes leading into the finale were flat so it got to the point where you just wanted to see it end already. I fear that that's what's happening now with HIMYM. It's almost like most people are just waiting for the end, which is hopefully in this season, because the episodes haven't served their purpose in getting there effectively.

 

[Dark Raven]

The writers need to give HIMYM a good ending, otherwise it does become like Smallville where a crappy ending sours the whole series and you feel like you've wasted your time, and don't even want to watch any reruns. It's not like the story will end if Ted does meet the mother even by midseason. Lots of people meet but it doesn't go anywhere. It's really just the beginning, not the end.

Having Ted meet the mother soon would open the show up to a lot more possibilities and will free it from the constraints of having the end already decided.

 

[SpideyVille]

I kinda feel like they showed too much regarding the mother with the premiere. I mean, the way I always saw them doing it was showing Ted at the wedding running into a lot of different women and having the viewer think that each one was the mother. But now, I feel like I'm going to be watching whatever episode they reveal her and thinking to myself "Ted, just go to the train station already!"

 

[Scarecrow_King]

Lily's boobs looked awesome in that dress.

 

[Pepsiguy2]

lily's boobs looked awesome in that dress.

oh hell yea

 

[dynamic]

Lily's boobs looked awesome in that dress.

They sure did.

Robin also looked really hot on the bike.

 

[Sawyer]

The writers need to give HIMYM a good ending, otherwise it does become like Smallville where a crappy ending sours the whole series and you feel like you've wasted your time, and don't even want to watch any reruns. It's not like the story will end if Ted does meet the mother even by midseason. Lots of people meet but it doesn't go anywhere. It's really just the beginning, not the end.

Having Ted meet the mother soon would open the show up to a lot more possibilities and will free it from the constraints of having the end already decided.

lol wut?

If anything, SV had a pretty good ending after years of the writers sitting around, twiddling their thumbs and wondering what complications they can throw in Clark's way instead of realizing that it shouldn't take as long as it took to put that ****ing suit on and be the man he was supposed to be.

 

[SpideyVille]

I would say the biggest disappointment that I had with Smallville, which left such a bad taste in my mouth that its still hard to watch reruns and enjoy them as much, is that we never saw Welling in the suit. I mean after so many years of waiting, the payoff was not there. In terms of HIMYM, that would be like Ted meeting the mother, but they never show her face or something.

 

[Dark Raven]

I would say the biggest disappointment that I had with Smallville, which left such a bad taste in my mouth that its still hard to watch reruns and enjoy them as much, is that we never saw Welling in the suit. I mean after so many years of waiting, the payoff was not there. In terms of HIMYM, that would be like Ted meeting the mother, but they never show her face or something.

Same here.

I'm pretty sure Ted will only meet the mother in the last scene of the final episode as they've already filmed the kids' reaction shot to that years ago around the beginning of season 2 so they'd still look the right age. I don't see them sticking that in before the end scene. So Ted probably will say 'and kids, that's how i met your mother' and they'll react, maybe by saying 'is that it? you took us this long to tell us something that simple?'

If they go beyond the meeting and have further episodes, it will require them to film further scenes with the kids but they won't look the right age. Also i bet they want to end with that HIMYM line as the last scene.

 

[LostSon88]

I don't want to just meet the mother...I want to get to know her.

That way we, the fans can go, "Okay, yeah...I get why she's 'The One'."

It's like she's been built up for the entire series, it'd just be disappointing if we never got to see what kind of person she is and what makes her so special.

Because frankly...still bums me out he never had another go with Zoey. I thought she was cool. Haha.

Victoria's cool too. Stella however can go ***k herself.

 

[Dark Raven]

I don't want to just meet the mother...I want to get to know her.

That way we, the fans can go, "Okay, yeah...I get why she's 'The One'."

It's like she's been built up for the entire series, it'd just be disappointing if we never got to see what kind of person she is and what makes her so special.

Because frankly...still bums me out he never had another go with Zoey. I thought she was cool. Haha.

Victoria's cool too. Stella however can go ***k herself.

Well same here, but I feel that the ending has already been decided because of that scene they filmed with the kids a few years back. I think they filmed that with the intention of using it right at the end and not just sticking it somewhere in the middle of the season. They're just unable to film anything else with them at that age, because they're no longer like that and it won't match up. Either they ditch that scene or they flash forward to a few years later and show the kids grown up (using the actors as they are presently).

Incidentally, I'm guessing the scene in the last episode where Ted was showing his hand puppet to the kids even in the future was somehow spliced together with footage of the kids in the background and the hand puppet superimposed over it? Because they certainly couldn't have filmed that scene for that episode and the kids had the exact same reactions they do week after week.

 

[dark_b]

it was greenscreen puppet .

 

[Pepsiguy2]

Well same here, but I feel that the ending has already been decided because of that scene they filmed with the kids a few years back. I think they filmed that with the intention of using it right at the end and not just sticking it somewhere in the middle of the season. They're just unable to film anything else with them at that age, because they're no longer like that and it won't match up. Either they ditch that scene or they flash forward to a few years later and show the kids grown up (using the actors as they are presently).

Incidentally, I'm guessing the scene in the last episode where Ted was showing his hand puppet to the kids even in the future was somehow spliced together with footage of the kids in the background and the hand puppet superimposed over it? Because they certainly couldn't have filmed that scene for that episode and the kids had the exact same reactions they do week after week.

The puppet was pasted over a stock video of the kids. My theory is that they filmed tons of reactions and stuff for the kids incase they ever needed them.

 

[Dark Raven]

The puppet was pasted over a stock video of the kids. My theory is that they filmed tons of reactions and stuff for the kids incase they ever needed them.

You would think, but they really haven't shown a range of emotions from the kids for years. They just sit there passively not saying or doing anything. In the early seasons they did (because they were the right age then) and so they could film whatever they needed to match with the story in the episode. If they've filmed all these reaction shots, where have they been all these years?

 

[Sawyer]

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