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re: Anyone else still mad about the way How I Met Your Mother ended?
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:55 pm to PBnJ
Posted on 5/21/15 at 1:55 pm to PBnJ
I just think it's funny when people get caught up in the plot of a sitcom. It was all just a means for comedy. The show wasn't really about Ted meeting their mother, and that was pretty clear from the start. It was just a funny premise to have a show about post college people.
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Posted on 5/21/15 at 2:05 pm to SwaggerCopter
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a show about post college people.
Yes, it was called "Friends." And to avoid having EVERYONE say "oh, this is just a Friends replacement," they came up with this hook and kept going back to it to keep everyone watching.
If they had used that ending after 5-6 seasons, I would have been OK, but many of us who stuck with it for the entire 9 seasons mostly did so to find out who the damn mother was. Then they ran the Ted/Robin thing into the ground until we were over them as a couple, made the mother completely awesome, and then killed the mother to send Ted back to Robin AGAIN.
The non-mother centric episodes could be watchable again, but the ones that advance the Mom plot are just awful now.
This post was edited on 5/21/15 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 5/21/15 at 2:14 pm to SwaggerCopter
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I just think it's funny when people get caught up in the plot of a sitcom. It was all just a means for comedy. The show wasn't really about Ted meeting their mother, and that was pretty clear from the start. It was just a funny premise to have a show about post college people.
That is an argument to be made for shows like Seinfeld or It's Always Sunny where there is not meant to be any character growth. But HIMYM is a comedy with plenty of dramatic moments. I don't see why a comedy can't be held the similar standards of a drama when it comes to story telling. The plot of this sitcom is part of what drew people to the show.
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