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re: Why does "How I met.." get love, but "The Big Bang..." gets hate?
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:38 am to lpgreat1
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:38 am to lpgreat1
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How I Met Your Mother, while also now in syndication, has just never grabbed the casual viewer like Big Bang, Friends, Seinfeld, Raymond or any other widely syndicated show. The hate is the natural backlash to mainstream, which seems to always be a thing to a certain group of people.
Man, I'm sick and tired of this line of argument. "Oh, you just hate anythign mainstream." That's completely BS, mainly because HIMYM is pretty f'n popular. It's on CBS and has had ratings to justify a nine season run. It's about as mainstream as you can get. The difference is popularity between the two shows is marginal.
I swear, the next person to mention "hipsters", should be punched in the taint repeatedly. It's such a lazy argument. If you think BBT is better show, argue for its quality, but spare me the strawman of "people hate things that are popular." Maybe that's true for a small subset, but most of us are adults and don't give a crap about that stuff.
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Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:40 am to Baloo
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Man, I'm sick and tired of this line of argument. "Oh, you just hate anythign mainstream." That's completely BS, mainly because HIMYM is pretty f'n popular. It's on CBS and has had ratings to justify a nine season run. It's about as mainstream as you can get. The difference is popularity between the two shows is marginal.
I swear, the next person to mention "hipsters", should be punched in the taint repeatedly. It's such a lazy argument. If you think BBT is better show, argue for its quality, but spare me the strawman of "people hate things that are popular." Maybe that's true for a small subset, but most of us are adults and don't give a crap about that stuff.
Well said.
Posted on 2/26/13 at 9:44 am to Baloo
quote:We'll have to disagree on that. I've spent too much time (years) on this board and the music board not to see the hipster effect.
I swear, the next person to mention "hipsters", should be punched in the taint repeatedly. It's such a lazy argument. If you think BBT is better show, argue for its quality, but spare me the strawman of "people hate things that are popular." Maybe that's true for a small subset, but most of us are adults and don't give a crap about that stuff.
quote:Eh. The ten or so episodes I watched had me not giving a crap about anyone else except Barney. All the others were forgettable.
HIMYM has my favorite literary device, the unreliable narrator, so it sucks me in. That's a personal thing, though. It doesn't make it automatically "better", just more appealing to me. though I think the quality of writing is higher and the cast is superior.
This post was edited on 2/26/13 at 9:49 am
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