Comments | spectralbovine: How I Met Your Mother? More Like "Cow, I Et Yer Brother!"

spectralbovine

How I Met Your Mother? More Like "Cow, I Et Yer Brother!"

May 14, 2008 22:41

How I Met Your Mother was sort of like 30 Rock in that I didn't hear great things about it early on, but then, as the months went by, it seemed like everyone I knew had become a huge fan. I was skeptical because it was a regular sitcom, but the lines people often quoted were pretty funny, and when the end of "Slap Bet" rolled around, I had an ( Read more... )

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spectralbovine May 15 2008, 15:15:17 UTC

Its nice to read a glowing opinion on a show you love, reaffirms your life for it as so to speak
I know exactly what you mean.

The end of 'Come On' still upsets me.
I KNOW! So sad.

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spectralbovine May 15 2008, 15:16:52 UTC

To break up over differing goals and states of being, rather than because someone was a jerk, just seems worse to me.
Yeah, I was really pleased with the way they (both the characters and the show) handled that.

lynevere May 15 2008, 12:04:44 UTC

Yay, HIMYM!

I'll actually read your post in October... but Jacob and I are only up to the end of the 2nd season, so I'm scared of spoilers. (3rd season DVD comes out October 14th!) I picked up the first DVD at Blockbuster on a whim, and we've loved it. It's consistently funny, and I get drawn in by the flashbacks/flashforwards. I hope everything really is as connected as Ted says it is. Also, I really enjoy the fact that (with the exception with the end of 1/start of 2 travesty), we have a happy/funny couple in Marshall and Lilly. A couple doesn't need angst to be compelling.

spectralbovine May 15 2008, 15:19:51 UTC

Jacob and I are only up to the end of the 2nd season, so I'm scared of spoilers.
There are no spoilers for the third season in my post. I try to be as non-spoilery as possible in my pimping posts.

I hope everything really is as connected as Ted says it is.
Oh, me too. I hope the finale is some sort of "Lucky Penny"-esque romp where you can follow the trajectory from the pilot all the way to the moment that Ted meets the Mother.

A couple doesn't need angst to be compelling.
Yeah, I liked that they were happy and together but still had issues.

vwbug May 15 2008, 12:11:14 UTC

The narrative structure is also what caught me about this show, and I'd bet it's why my parents love it as well. It's kind of weird to watch a show like this and know that your parents are watching as well. But, it is good TV.

spectralbovine May 15 2008, 15:20:25 UTC

Parents don't watch good TV! What's up with that?!

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spectralbovine May 15 2008, 16:28:50 UTC

!!!

Aw, dad.

etherealclarity May 15 2008, 12:13:58 UTC

I'm glad you like HIMYM :) I was never really a Friends OR Seinfeld fan, so accepting the fact that I really liked a sitcom was a bit difficult at first. But I'm so very hooked.

Also, you should definitely give more of Regina Spektor's stuff a try... some of it is really out there, so it can take a few listens to get into, but WOW. Fantastic stuff.