vid: what you're waiting for [How I Met Your Mother]

[loneraven]

So, I finally watched my way through to the end of How I Met Your Mother, now that there's an alternate ending to take the edge of my rage, but, er. Er, I have never been so angry about anything I made a vid to express it before. (I may yet make an actual post about this, in actual words, that are not just "aaaaargh", but we'll see.) I've also

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[khalinche]

Oh hey! I don't know if you have the energy for such things, but Karine Polwart is playing a solo gig in London on Thursday. I would go but I'll be on the train back down from the Highlands.

[loneraven]

Ah, I'd been thinking about that - it's round the corner from my work - so thanks for the reminder!

[lauds]

ah, this was LOVELY. thank youuuu. (yet another female character that leaves me going YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTERRRR)<3

[loneraven]

INORITE. So glad you liked it!

[abyssinia4077]

1) This vid was excellent.

2) AUGH. I just watched the entire last season last weekend and...it was SO TERRIBLE at the end. I was so mad I wanted to throw things at my computer, but I didn't want to break my computer. It was like the show decided to completely undo everything it spent a ridiculous number of seasons doing, making the narrative pointless. Not to mention that the mother was so cool and so short-shifted.

3) I started a Buffy rewatch, a bit before watching the final season of HIMYM. It was...surreal going back and forth between first season Willow Rosenburg and last season Lily Aldrin.

[loneraven]

1. Thank you! :)

2. Oh my GOD I KNOW. I'm just - I just, this show, this show, that was all about deconstructing that love-at-first-sight thing! I mean - and I probably should make a post about this and stop yelling at people about it - I think I would have been pissed off, but less so, if it was just Tracy's death. (I mean - "Vesuvius", the episode set on the snowy day in the future, I rewatched it in the knowledge of what happens to Tracy, and it completely destroyed me, which I s'pose means it was well-written.) But - Robin and Barney! They are so great together, they really built that so well, and to throw that, and Ted and Tracy, all away for nothing - aaaargh.

3. Seriously! I think it's not till halfway through How I Met Your Mother that I genuinely stop mistaking Lily for Willow (especially those flashback college scenes where they seem to be deliberately making her up to look like Willow!). I actually ended up loving Lily, quite separately from how I love Willow, which was pretty damn cool. :)

[yiskah]

Re. 2. OH GOD YES EXACTLY. I loved Tracy as a character but I don't think I would've thought the ending was totally wrong if it had included her death but not all the other stuff. I recognise that I am not entirely rational when it comes to this show - I am the exact same age as the main characters, and I over-identify with Robin AND Ted AND Barney, so - but it did feel in many ways as if the finale were deliberately shitting all over everything they had painstakingly built up over nine seasons. All the stuff with Robin saying no to Ted again and again and again, his finally letting her go, Barney's character development - I don't know, and this is entirely down to my over-identification but it does strike me as a rather bleak vision of the future, not to mention entirely trampling over Robin's agency. SHOW! *shakes fist* (I initially typoed that as *shakes fish* which is a rather arresting image.) All of which is to say please DO write your big rant, I would love to read it!

And thank you for the vid, it is lovely.

[loneraven]

I'm delighted you liked the vid. :) Also, I started writing up a reply to this comment, only - quelle surprise - it turned into the aforementioned giant rant. So here it is. Argh, SHOW. *shakes fish*

[tau_sigma]

I have not yet watched the vid - downloading! - but thought you might like to know that the mediafire link goes to a (non-password protected) viewing page instead of directly to the download link.

(Also <3 <3 <3 Tracy. This weekend, we need to have the FEELS about Tracy, yes?)

[tau_sigma]

Have now watched: THE FEELS. <3 <3 <3

[loneraven]

TRACY! I love her SO MUCH! I'm delighted you like this. :) ALSO YES ALL THE FEELS I am so excited to see you. <3