Hooked on HIMYM

[arkady_]

So last month I started for the second time a rewatch of How I met your mother.

Under the cut SPOILERS for seasons 1-7!

Comments

[rogueslayer452]

I remember when HIMYM first started and I initially thought it was great during its earlier seasons, and at points it still is especially individual episodes, and have often thought about doing a rewatch. But if I have to be brutally honest, the series finale really ruined most of what I enjoyed about the show because when you look back you really see how selfish and horrible Ted is and how little his character changed throughout the show.

(It's kinda like how you look back at Friends and realize just how much of a douche Ross was, and how Rachel deserved much better.)

And I totally agree, Robin definitely deserved treatment than how she got on the show. She was such an awesome character and needed more of an agency outside of the group, and they could've done so much more with her and show her as this independent woman as she is. Sadly, she was reduced to merely being a love interest. She was so much more than that, and yet. :(

[arkady_]

My heart cries for Robin

[erychan86]

Plus, the end was the worst thing that could have happened to the show
It was so bad! I agree... It ruined Robin as a character... Well it ruined everybody... Robin and Lily's friendship was awesome and strong and they just grow apart like that? Because of Ted? SO PAINFUL... Barney had the best character development EVER always staying on character and it gets ruined completely and brought back to who he was at the beginning... The only cute scene was the one where he holds his child!

The writers had a finale in mind since the beginning, but the story evolved, and - instead of evolvine the finale - they decided to keep it and destroy more than half of the show... That was stupid... They wanted people to react to it, and people did, they hated it and they were loud... No one wanted to buy the DVD so they had to say that they put an alternative finale in them who was just a series of cuts badly made!

[arkady_]

Robin is summarized as "the apparently tough girl who doesn't really love Ted but can't stand to be without a boyfriend at the end". So sad.

And Barney is also diminished: after 3 attempts at relationships plus one short marriage, it turns out he never wants to try again? This Robin thing was just a stupid challenge and he ends up having sex with anything that moves until his last days? WTF. (The baby thing was cute, but it's not enough.)

I don't really remember what happened between Lily and Robin (couldn't end the series yet this week), but I'll come back to you.

I had heard they shot several finales during the first season (with Ted's kids) and had them stored to choose in the end which was best. I don't know which were the other finales (I'm not sure I watched any other than the one that was aired) but if they really had nothing better than this, it would have been as easy as shooting the kids on S9 and saying at the end "wow, kids, you look like you are grown up, how long have we been here?" and problem solved!

[erychan86]

I LOVED HIMYM up to the series finale! To me it was not good at all and it ruined it all for me! I loved the show, it was a perfect substitute of Friends to me! I wish they could take back the finale!

[arkady_]

This last time I watched it I realised HIMYM has a ton of stuff stolen from Friends (but A LOT). Happily, it turned out well enough. The only sad thing is that HIMYM is the lovelife of Ted Mosby, and Friends was something else.

[blakmagjick]

"Isn't it sad how an awesome character like Robin is only on the show because he's the love interest of the main character?"
YES!!!
Also, I hate how that show ended >.>

[arkady_]

I think we are an army. ¬¬

[carbonpaper]

Lily and Marshall are goals!

[arkady_]

I loved them so much in this rewatch! ^_^