The number one thing I take away from this article is that the most successful shows are those with showrunners who listen to audience feedback and write accordingly. The shows that fail, get canceled, and have the most epic of professional disasters have showrunners who refuse to listen to what their audience wants and in fact flies in the face of what their audience wants
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Yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yeeeeeeep. All of this. Brandng is important in this business of entertainment, same as in the food world. If the label on the jar says butterscotch pudding, I expect that jar to have butterscotch pudding inside it, not pureed kale. Oh, but kale is better for...no. If I wanted pureed kale, I would buy pureed kale. I bought butterscotch pudding, and that had better be what's inside the jar, or I am taking it back, talking to a manager and not buying from that brand ever again. This is a very basic concept. One that C/C don't seem to get, so good luck to them. Popular entertainment has the goal right there in the name - give the people what they want, and they'll come back. Flip them off and insult them and they will stampede in the other direction.
I'm not sure how many in this community would remember when Garth Brooks tried to launch his Chris Gaines alter ego, but that's pretty much the whole point. :crickets:
Oh yes. If you have a happy romantic show, and this is what your viewers are giving you their time for you better make sure to keep delivering a happy romantic show all the way up to the last credits
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The shipping is part of the issue, sure, but the bigger one is the misdirection of the audience, and the claiming that they had no idea the reaction would be like this, oh silly silly audience. Um, no. Come for the upbeat romance that tells us everybody has their perfect match out there somewhere, do not stay for the harsh lesson that the universe can rip that match away through divorce or death at any moment and even if the perfect one does stay, wave bye-bye to lifelong dreams. That's not what romantic comedy is for, and I would be very much surprised if this creative team got another shot at bat after this.
I remember watching Moonlighting and wanting Maddie and David to get together so bad... and once they did, the show wasn't quite the same. If HIMYM would have had B/R get together at the half way point of season 8 and made their wedding the last episode of season 8 (and the last show of the series) - things would have been perfect. Ted could have met the Mother, B/R would be married and M/L would have been planning their trip to Italy and that would have been the end of it. Perfect! Not only did they do a lame AUE, most of season 9 wasn't good (except the B/R wedding). Flipping the finger at the audience is exactly what CB/CT did.... Idiots!
I didn't want to make another post for this so I'll post it here.
Neil talks about the finale he says he likes it but to me it's just the same stuff he's said already and it sounds like something CB/CT would say. But, he then follows up with that he wished that B/R ended up together. To me this is more proof that he doesn't like it, he talks about B/R's relationship with a smile and playing that down by talking like Barney didn't love Robin enough to stay with her so he left her.
And, btw it doesn't change my mind and never will. It's clear he's lying to safe face cause that's not what happened in the failnale and C/N didn't act that way either so he's either lying to safe face or he's over it and moving on.
Tbh I just wish he'd shut the hell up. It's been nearly a year, I'm pretty much over it, I know he's probably lying to save face (especially given what he said in his autobiography) but even now him defending the failnale in any way just pisses me off. Especially as a bunch of casual fans (or at least the ones still prepared to talk about the show) are now springing out of the woodwork to go on about how genius and deep the failnale was.
It annoys me too. I mean, there's no way he actually believes that and actually feels that way. Those particularly comments fly in the face of everything he's said for pretty much the entire run of the show - and back then he had no reason to lie about it; now he has every reason. For crying out loud, he was the number one champion of Barney falling in love with Robin. He was the one wanting them to get together and has gone on and on about how thrilled he was to see Barney grow up, mature, and get to this place of spending his life with Robin and how exciting it was not to have Barney be a one-dimensional, one note womanizer. So for him to now say it was never in Barney's DNA to be anything but a one-dimensional, one note womanizer - the very thing he dreaded and derided - shows you right there he's being insincere.
But, in his defense, the thing is he usually does shut up about the AUE. I haven't heard him say anything about it at all in in a good half a year at least (save for his autobiography, which had nothing kind to
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Yeah, his book has a different take of this so I'll be believing that and nothing else. We don't know if he's trying to be professional and give a take on this to stir the audience into thinking it was a good ending or since he's said this before he's just refreshing and repeating what he said so that new people who watched the finale understand it
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I just saw someone reblog this Neil quote on Tumblr and it's funny because when I reread it I actually distinctly remember him giving this interview
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We know how he feels, that is obvious from what he thought in the past. There is no doubt that he's just saying these things (even though nobody really cares anymore) to get people to go along with what they did in the finale. That ending simply did not go with what we saw and how these characters evolved over the years into real people who we identify with and understand
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I'm not sure how many in this community would remember when Garth Brooks tried to launch his Chris Gaines alter ego, but that's pretty much the whole point. :crickets:
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The shipping is part of the issue, sure, but the bigger one is the misdirection of the audience, and the claiming that they had no idea the reaction would be like this, oh silly silly audience. Um, no. Come for the upbeat romance that tells us everybody has their perfect match out there somewhere, do not stay for the harsh lesson that the universe can rip that match away through divorce or death at any moment and even if the perfect one does stay, wave bye-bye to lifelong dreams. That's not what romantic comedy is for, and I would be very much surprised if this creative team got another shot at bat after this.
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Neil talks about the finale he says he likes it but to me it's just the same stuff he's said already and it sounds like something CB/CT would say. But, he then follows up with that he wished that B/R ended up together. To me this is more proof that he doesn't like it, he talks about B/R's relationship with a smile and playing that down by talking like Barney didn't love Robin enough to stay with her so he left her.
http://www.eonline.com/news/624518/neil-patrick-harris-defense-of-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-may-help-ease-your-pain
And, btw it doesn't change my mind and never will. It's clear he's lying to safe face cause that's not what happened in the failnale and C/N didn't act that way either so he's either lying to safe face or he's over it and moving on.
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