HIMYM (10/12)

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The couple-friends story line was mostly lame, but the "sexless innkeeper" was awesome. Especially the poems.
 
The B story was great, Ted is always awesome in support, but the A story just irked me. Yes, I liked Marshal's videos, but everything else was utter fail... not the least of which is the fact that it didn't make sense that this came as a surprise to Robin. Ted was courting Robin for over a year, and dated her for as long afterward. If Robin/Barney get the hard sell for couples friends, you would think Robin/Ted would have ranked that, as well. This is a show which lives and dies by the call back (they are continuity freaks), when something like this gets thrown in it is distracting as all hell. The could have resolved it with half of a sentence "Oh yeah Robin it was different for us because we were all living together, but Marshal and Lily...". It was already lacking in humor, but it didn't make sense in the story either.

The good news is the way they sailed the final line makes it clear, the days of Barney/Robin are numbered, thank God. Robin and Barney are great characters but they have no chemistry and what they've done so far has been forced as hell.
 
I enjoy reading the threads about TV shows, even though I have never seen any of them. I'm not sure why, but I find it entertaining. I use it as a barometer for entertainment, since I feel that we will see a shift to pay-as-you go, interactive entertainment as opposed to the broadcast media that we have today. Anyhow, it's neat.
 
OK. I'm familiar with the show, I just wasn't familiar with the acronym "HIMYM".

Is the dark haired girl still thin or has she porked out?

Something I noticed from the first episode was that she was pretty and slender from about the waist up, but from the waist down she was quite thick. An extra slice of cheesecake here, a metabolism shift there, and she could be expanding before our very eyes.
 
She was pregnant. Already had the kid. So did the other gal, Alison Hanigan, and it seems to have done wonderful things to her sweater kittens.
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HIMYM is the only TV show I watch. I'm catching up on the seasons on my laptop though, since I found out about it too late, and I'm only through season 3 so far. It's mostly been hilarious, although it got slightly too soap/drama-ish a few times, and every now and then they do something totally out of character and forced for Barney that doesn't make any sense based on everything else they've told you about him (flying to SF to tell Lily to get back with Marshall at the end of S2, falling in love with Robin at the end of S3).
 
One the note about flying to SF. Barney is an emotional child who was abandoned by his father and neglected by his mother. His trip to SF was not out of character, but rather revelatory. Barney rejects marriage as a concept because he fears it. This is a personal issue which he masks by trying to get those around him to join in. That noted, the group that Barney belongs to represents truly the only family he's ever had. His trip to SF was not about saving the marriage as much as protecting the unit he relies on for support. It was a selfish act, driven by his need for security. Marshal and Lily serve as an ideal for him, but not one he is confident enough to strive for. Keep in mind, that it has been shown repeatedly, that Barney's mantle of awesomeness is false. Barney is a deeply wounded romantic.

Barney was, into his early adulthood, a hippy, not a lady killer.
 
wow Mia...psychoanalyze a bit?
Here I was just thinking Barney was a man *****. Don't go trying to ruin that image for me.
 
Hat, I've got a degree in psychology and a lot of free time on my hands, what can I say?

I think they have done a pretty great job of building characters on this show. There have been times where they've stepped out a tad, but on the whole the decisions they've made on how to use the characters has been fairly consistent. I think this is absolutely true on something like Barney's SF trip.

That said, I have to agree with the question mark on the Barney/Robin relationship. I think it is out of character for both Robin and Barney (less so Barney), and I'm not entirely sure what it is in service of. I don't buy that Robin would be interested in Barney for anything other than a fling (though the fling, I see), and I don't see how the relationship can do anything but make Barney a less interesting (read: funny) character. If you want them to end up together, then you'll have to tone Barney down or amp Robin up... neither choice would be good for those actors or the roles. I suppose you could have Barney turn on a dime, and become a new version of Barney (precedent established in the hippy->businessman transition)... but that is a hell of a gamble to make with the show's most marketable character. Not to mention the fact you have to explain why Robin will commit to Barney and not Ted.

At the end of the day, the thing that gets me is that there is chemistry between the actors of Ted and Robin, that relationship always made sense... but Barney and Robin seem kinda forced at every level. It has been good for some laughs, but I can't see where they are heading at this point. I think it would have been better played had they not done the puppy dog thing with Barney last season, and instead very subtly imply that the one time Robin/Barney hook up kept recurring. Neither character pulling the sad eyes, but clearly strengthen the history between the two before even addressing the feelings part of it.

I don't know... I think I watch too much TV.
 
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