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re: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 full season thread
Posted on 3/25/13 at 7:58 pm to Cap Crunch
Posted on 3/25/13 at 7:58 pm to Cap Crunch
It was creative and funny.
It fits in with the usual non plot moving episodes.
It's my opinion, sorry bro.
It fits in with the usual non plot moving episodes.
It's my opinion, sorry bro.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 7:59 pm to Baloo
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can't believe this was such a hard thing to figure out. Additionally, how the hell is this a filler episode? It moved the ball thematically forward. It tethered the audience's relationship to Ted to create his future feelings towards the mother and have them retroactively apply.
It's about love. It stripped away the quirk and got to the core. It's about Ted's love for his wife and his family.
Ehh I guess you're right. It was just a very roundabout way to say all of that. I guess since we really can't do much between now and the finale when he meets the mother, this is as much we can move forward in an episode
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:02 pm to Baloo
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No, it wouldn't make sense. I see no way to read this episode as if the mother is now dead. He's just saying that if you love someone, you wish you had as much time with them as possible, even those 45 days. Or 45 seconds.
Guess people just take these things differently. Him crying just set off that thought to me. Someone you see every day wont give that type of reaction if you had a chance to go back and see her imo. He seemed like he was grieving
He also said "You know exactly where id go" to the kids. I dont see how they would instinctivly know that he had that deep of love he has for his wife (theyre teenagers, with little experience on the subject). But if he was mourning it would make a ton of sense
Its just what I got from it
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Additionally, how the hell is this a filler episode? It
Literally nothing happened. We already knew they were meeting at the wedding, and we know the wedding is the season finale. Nothing changes, nothing moves forward.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:11 pm to wildtigercat93
I kind of half watched this episode but maybe the whole premise of HIMYM was Ted telling his kids everything about their mother as a way to grieve after she died
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:14 pm to Big Lake
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kind of half watched this episode but maybe the whole premise of HIMYM was Ted telling his kids everything about their mother as a way to grieve after she died
Thats my whole theory
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:18 pm to wildtigercat93
Haha I only glanced through your post.
I don't think that's where the show is going because its a little dark for HIMYM but that would be a good mind blowing twist.
I don't think that's where the show is going because its a little dark for HIMYM but that would be a good mind blowing twist.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:23 pm to Big Lake
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I don't think that's where the show is going because its a little dark for HIMYM but that would be a good mind blowing twist.
I just think that the scenario of the mother being dead would take too big a shite on the audience for a 9 season show. I don't see a way that viewers wouldn't be really pissed.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:34 pm to Warfarer
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I just think that the scenario of the mother being dead would take too big a shite on the audience for a 9 season show.
Theyve been shitting on the audience off and on for 2 seasons now...but i digress
This post was edited on 3/25/13 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 3/25/13 at 8:49 pm to ProjectP2294
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Especially since we've never seen her in any flash forwards.
Well, in one where they are at the school reunion smoking, Marshall asks Ted "Where's your wife" and Ted laughs and says "I don't know"
Posted on 3/25/13 at 9:01 pm to lsufan251875
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Well, in one where they are at the school reunion smoking, Marshall asks Ted "Where's your wife" and Ted laughs and says "I don't know"
Yeah he gets high in the hall and he says, "Where's my wife?"
Plus there was the one where he meets Wendy the Waitress and Meeker at the airport and she asks him if he's still with Zoey and he says God no but that he's married now and that they have two kids.
I guess it could have been before their mother died but he did seem pretty old in that airport.
This post was edited on 3/25/13 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 3/25/13 at 9:43 pm to lsufan251875
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Well, in one where they are at the school reunion smoking, Marshall asks Ted "Where's your wife" and Ted laughs and says "I don't know"
Thank you for remembering that. This was getting depressing.
Did anybody catch Ted saying something along the lines of "Robin and Barney were probably fighting about another thing about their wedding". Seems like the rest of the season will be a ton of bickering between them.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 9:49 pm to wildtigercat93
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kind of half watched this episode but maybe the whole premise of HIMYM was Ted telling his kids everything about their mother as a way to grieve after she died
That was my immediate thought when tonight's episode ended
Posted on 3/25/13 at 9:54 pm to Baloo
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No, it wouldn't make sense. I see no way to read this episode as if the mother is now dead. He's just saying that if you love someone, you wish you had as much time with them as possible, even those 45 days. Or 45 seconds.
I can't believe this was such a hard thing to figure out. Additionally, how the hell is this a filler episode? It moved the ball thematically forward. It tethered the audience's relationship to Ted to create his future feelings towards the mother and have them retroactively apply.
It's about love. It stripped away the quirk and got to the core. It's about Ted's love for his wife and his family.
This guy gets it.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 10:01 pm to LNCHBOX
I LOL'd when Marshall asked Robin, "You're goona step to this...In the STREET?"
Posted on 3/25/13 at 10:13 pm to rondo
The mother being dead has been an idea ever since season 2
Jason Seagal in an interview mentioned it as something HE thought would be a cool idea but to dark for the show.
Ill be very surprised if the mother ends up dead.
Jason Seagal in an interview mentioned it as something HE thought would be a cool idea but to dark for the show.
Ill be very surprised if the mother ends up dead.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 10:21 pm to DestrehanTiger
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Did anybody catch Ted saying something along the lines of "Robin and Barney were probably fighting about another thing about their wedding". Seems like the rest of the season will be a ton of bickering between them.
Good, i hope one of them leaves at the alter.
But yeah they keep throwing hint in there like that. Earlier in the episode Barney made a joke about his 3rd wife and Ted said "youve been making that joke a lot"
I think its more of a schtick than it is a sign of things to come but im all for it. Find it hilarious that Barney doesnt know his wife-to-be's womb is bare 45 days before the wedding but im sure thatll be a last minute "OMG I HATE YOU...2secondslater...Ok i forgive you lets get married" moment
Posted on 3/25/13 at 10:50 pm to wildtigercat93
That's pretty much how all the episodes have been since Ted and the crazy bitch broke up. The playbook, the apartment sale, etc.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 11:05 pm to Cap Crunch
It's pretty clear the writers are just stalling until the wedding, but I'm not going to stop watching now.
Posted on 3/25/13 at 11:29 pm to ohiovol
Here's my two cents.
If the mother is dead, and let's say she died of a disease (cancer, etc.), Ted may very well go from being the most hated character to the most lovable character on the show. If in fact she developed this disease after giving birth to the kids and died close to the time they were born, it shows that Ted stayed with her no matter what when he knew of her condition ( and probably never remarried), and is telling the story to his children and the good times before and after meeting their mother.
I only theorize about this because I know a few people in the real world that have gone through this problem and it shows how strong of people they are. Hopefully this isn't the case with this show, but it would make for some depressing shite.
THE END
If the mother is dead, and let's say she died of a disease (cancer, etc.), Ted may very well go from being the most hated character to the most lovable character on the show. If in fact she developed this disease after giving birth to the kids and died close to the time they were born, it shows that Ted stayed with her no matter what when he knew of her condition ( and probably never remarried), and is telling the story to his children and the good times before and after meeting their mother.
I only theorize about this because I know a few people in the real world that have gone through this problem and it shows how strong of people they are. Hopefully this isn't the case with this show, but it would make for some depressing shite.
THE END
Posted on 3/25/13 at 11:56 pm to Make It Rayne
I loved this episode. All the complaints I'm reading is about how it's a filler episode well what the frick do you expect at this point? With a set plot (with the ending of the plot being the show's title) it's kinda hard to digress from what they have now. Just enjoy the show for what it is.
What I loved about the episode is how classic it felt, with the Marshall/Robin shenanigans, no Marvin, Barney wanting to do something childish yet awesome....and then for it to go back to reality and show how in real life, shite moves on, and Ted is getting pretty old for a single dude. It may not have "moved the plot forward," but it's as good and on topic as a "filler episode" will get.
What I loved about the episode is how classic it felt, with the Marshall/Robin shenanigans, no Marvin, Barney wanting to do something childish yet awesome....and then for it to go back to reality and show how in real life, shite moves on, and Ted is getting pretty old for a single dude. It may not have "moved the plot forward," but it's as good and on topic as a "filler episode" will get.
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