Yeah, I was just telling someone yesterday that I feel like the writers are dragging out the Barney and Robin/Ted and his mystery wife story because they can't figure out what they'd write about if those storylines were resolved. Which is just making me lose interest in the show. :(
Yeah, pretty much that's why I stopped watching when I stopped watching. I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHEN I STOPPED WATCHING NOW, THOUGH, like, I guess right around when Barney and Robin got together and broke up the first time?
Yeah, I stopped watching with like ~fannish intent~ years ago. It's become my 'nothing else is on' standby and maybe not even that the way things are were looking now.
GOD, HIMYM is like the poster child for dragging things out, it's been a problem for years now but their absolute refusal to pull the trigger on ANYTHING has made the last two-and-a-bit seasons unwatchable for me.
Kal Penn's name is Kevin, I think? I gleaned that from Vulture recaps, I haven't actually watched the show in a year or so.
IT REALLY IS. Also I am glad to know you are a person who still reads Vulture recaps, because as I wrote this I felt a twinge of panic that someday, the mother will come, and no one will hear about it because no one will even casually watch the show at that point. There was a time when any suggestion of Barney/Robin would have lit up the entire internet, now they make out and I don't even hear about it until three days later when thecolorbetween is like "I'm too lazy to watch HIMYM..."
I have just found myself kind of booooored by HIMYM lately. It's better than it was two seasons ago, when I think it was just not good at all, but as you say, enough dragging it out! And I will always hold a torch for Ted/Robin (see icon) and only had my moments of being thrilled by Barney/Robin. But it seems like they're taking them in some interesting directions, so maybe I will catch up soon.
It's better than it was two seasons ago, when I think it was just not good at all I really haven't seen enough to know this but I think it's a really interesting distinction, and it's also kind of how I feel about the Office now? It's interesting that there's a certain point of badness you can hit after which no one even cares if you get watchable again. But the really pathetic thing about HIMYM is that they have two major storylines, both of which are ruining the show with their lack of climax, and they can't even be bothered to resolve one of them
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And at this point finding a way to swing Ted/Robin as endgame seems like one of the few ways they could make their endgame at all satisfying. <-- This is an interesting perspective! I'm rather fond of Ted/Robin but don't know how this could possibly happen/always knew they weren't going to happen because I didn't start properly until faaairly late in the game
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I mean the thing is I'm not sure they CAN swing it. It seems pretty impossible, with that straight up "and that's how I met your aunt Robin" line... I don't know that there is a way to turn that line around, and I know the writers have mentioned regretting that certainty since.
THEY'RE NOT EVEN GREAT!DYSFUNCTIONAL!AWESOME ANYMORE, are they?!?! I don't even know, I guess. It's kind of sad how even if I can sit back and watch an episode of HIMYM, and be entertained by it (Ted and Marshall's storyline was pretty funny in this one), it's really hard to feel anything about it anymore.
Yeaaaah. I mean last night's episode broke me in a way, but it also didn't because every time something "happens" on himym I just kind of handwave it away. MAKE A CHOICE, HIMYM!!!!!
I mean last night's episode broke me in a way, but it also didn't because every time something "happens" on himym I just kind of handwave it away. BASICALLY! When you put it that way it makes me wonder how we'd feel about this episode if it had happened in season 4 or so. Because it was a good episode, we're just... numb to the show, now, I think.
THAT'S WHY THIS EPISODE WAS SO GREAT, it was about Robin!! And her feelings about herself!! Like for real, three seasons ago this episode would have been the best because it seems like the beginning of a Robin-feelings arc (and Kevin would be a good tool for that idk) because like... ultimately she doesn't WANT to be a mess, or loved because she is a mess and that is so interesting!! But at this point I'm not sure I trust anyone to actually go into that??
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Kal Penn's name is Kevin, I think? I gleaned that from Vulture recaps, I haven't actually watched the show in a year or so.
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I really haven't seen enough to know this but I think it's a really interesting distinction, and it's also kind of how I feel about the Office now? It's interesting that there's a certain point of badness you can hit after which no one even cares if you get watchable again. But the really pathetic thing about HIMYM is that they have two major storylines, both of which are ruining the show with their lack of climax, and they can't even be bothered to resolve one of them ( ... )
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THEY'RE NOT EVEN GREAT!DYSFUNCTIONAL!AWESOME ANYMORE, are they?!?! I don't even know, I guess. It's kind of sad how even if I can sit back and watch an episode of HIMYM, and be entertained by it (Ted and Marshall's storyline was pretty funny in this one), it's really hard to feel anything about it anymore.
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BASICALLY! When you put it that way it makes me wonder how we'd feel about this episode if it had happened in season 4 or so. Because it was a good episode, we're just... numb to the show, now, I think.
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