re: How I Met Your Mother (5/14) -- The Season Finale

the question i want answered- How did marshalls giant brothers fit inside the Fiero?

Well.. reading the co-creators comments, it seems like Robin and Barney are definitely getting married, and its no ruse or double wedding.. which sucks. I hate them together.. he says they've known for 3 years now that those two would get married.. frick that.

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I don't buy that Barney was ready to be a father and marry Robin, then suddenly he's willing to help Ted win her back with no reservations, and then he ultimately marrys her. That's too many sudden changes.

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You forgot the whole, falling in love in 5 minutes with the stripper and becoming even more of a wuss, and propsing to her in the middle there somewhere before going back to Robin and marrying her.

He has surpassed Ted in being a bitch this season.

At least Ted has sort of come to terms with his inner homo and being single.

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"37 points on the best defense in the league. Suck my dick." -Bill Belichick after beating the Jets 37-16 on 11/13/12

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What else happens in the future?

I've seen every episode of this show. After following this season, and seeing the finale last night, I can't help but think that this show has fallen off hard.

This show is full of circular development and plot lines that make the progression of this show almost unbearable. They've slowed character development to a crawl, I'm guessing because they don't know how many seasons that they have left. I can respect the process of writing and producing a great sitcom like HIMYM, but come on. Every character that is introduced is pretty much useless (the girl that Ted dated that didn't want the building torn down, the dude from Harold and Kumar, the stripper that Barney marries). All of them served their purpose to get the viewers to step outside of the original group of 5 friends, but ultimately, the main plots still rotate inside that immediate circle of 5 friends.

This show goes NOWHERE now. Nowhere at all. They played the whole "and that's where I met your mother", "your mother was in that same room/building/street", "which just so happened to be where your mother..." you get the point. They played that card so many times that it got frustrating. So they just started introducing characters and developments that are easily expendable.

It was obvious, when you go back and watch the older seasons, when the show was renewed for more seasons. They slow development all the way down, they add new characters that really bring nothing to the mix, and they add little subplots. It all feels like filler that takes up the entire season before the group of 5 friends are advanced at the very end of the season.

It's getting frustrating to follow this show now. I still watch because I feel like I've already invested a lot of interest and viewing into this show. I'm not going to skip out on the last season or anything, but I feel like the writers are selling themselves short and continually playing the viewer for a fool.

I think that the end to this past season was a cop out, and I hope that they get some sort of timeline for their seasons that they have remaining so they can develop the plot and characters accordingly.

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What else happens in the future?

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Good catch

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So Robin's whole thing with Ted was not wanting to get married and have kids...then she almost marries Kevin and gets upset when she can't have kids. Now she possibly marries Barney? Kind of a slap in the face to Ted. Also, like someone said about Barney, going from absolutely not wanting to get married to getting really close multiple times. I don't think anything is out of the realm of possiblity at this point.

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This is one of my biggest problems with it.

Since Barney and Robin broke up, Barney has--Met his father, showed tendencies to want to be a father, been in multiple commited relationships and liked it. Basically hes grown up a ton and became a better person

Since Barney and Robin broke up, Robin has-- done absolutly nothing except break Barneys heart (the Kumar thing). She has shown no growth as a person and has only furthered her views on kids and marriage which oppose Barneys views

Seriously Robin has basically been a secondary character for 2-3 seasons and has not changed one bit, while Barney is a completely different person now. It just doesnt make sense to get them together


My other problem with this is that its already happened. We saw them together ad it was a disaster. If the writers wanted them together that bad, them get them the frick together 3 seasons ago instead of waiting til now. All Barneys change is pointless because he ends up with someone who he was with before the change. Teds little fallback with Robin is also irrelevant. Basically YOU JUST MADE THE PAST TWO OR THREE SEASONS COMPLETELY POINTLESS YOU DICKS, WHY DO YOU LIKE WASTING MY TIME??

It might be one of those things where Barney is joking about backing out of the wedding and he and Ted are talking in the back of the church and they see this sexy girl and Barney calls dibs just to find out it's his sister. Then he gets all freaked out and Ted walks up and starts a conversation with her