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I've read a couple of posts and have made some comments about it, but thought I'd haul out my own post for it.
I suffered through the first season and kept going when people swore it'd get better. And now I'd say I find it entertaining enough to watch it as it airs. But last night was...pretty stupid. I'm not upset that they decided to split up Barney and Robin (I'm not a die-hard anything for this show, other than hating seeing Ted with just about anybody), however I felt like my intelligence was insulted.
So they split up Barney and Robin last night, and they actually had valid points for it underneath the giant mess the writers came up with. But the valid points were played for laughs. And not just humor laughs, LOLZ laughs. Barney in a fat suit laughs.
I kind of feel like I have a bit of whiplash from it. Everything else on this show has felt fairly genuine - all the breakups and the relationship buildups. (Maybe not in the situations, but in the emotions.) Last night, though, was a "wut?"
It's really sort of turned me off to the show right now. Instead of being happy that hound!dog!Barney is back (I actually did really like hound!dog!Barney in the past - legend...ARY!), I found his reemergence extremely off-putting at the end. Probably because the whole thing was couched in such lazy writing. And this is probably why I don't generally watch sitcoms.