re: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 full season thread

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When Barney and Robin first got together it was purely a fling and it was based on sex.

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No, that's what they told each other, and others, but it was based on more than that, and they had a real connection. I nfact, I think they've always had a real rapport, which is why the writers moved the two together.

Everything else you wrote is just a series of complications to prevent the two getting together. Is it realistic? Only in sitcom land, but I don't have much of a problem with it. In fact, it's Robin who arranges for Barney to have a date on Valentine's Day with another girl, and she does it because she loves him and wants him to be happy. It's always been those kind of self-created complications to keep the two apart.

Eventually, the excuses will fall apart and the contrivances will be exposed to be just that and the two will end up together. I don't think it is against anything the show has done, much less everything.

They are fated to be together. So they will. That's how the HIMYM universe works.