FTA-TV How I Met Your Mother Part 2

[jonesy86]

With the exception of the 1 minute summary of the whole show, this series needs to lift.

 

[TheTrademark]

just show us the mother already!

the producers have had 8 seasons of milking the story line, there is no milk left. show the mother!

Unless the mother is an established character, I will be disappointed with whoever they every actually reveal to be the mother, especially if in the last few episodes (or even worse if just a shot at the end of the final episode).

I mean after 8 (or 9 years), if we are shown this actress playing a woman for whom we have no attachment, I will not really get any closure from this.

Or if they introduce the mother early in season 8 for us to get to know her (or if there is a season 9, I would speculate they will likely introduce her at end of season 8 or early season 9), would the show then be flogging a dead horse. I think, if they introduce any new love interest in Ted's life, the audience will suspect her to be the mother (why waste any more time with random women in his life) and thus the producers will be creating a show worse than the final series of Scrubs as they try to develop a relationship between two people that we know end up together and fill episodes with nothing to build to!

So... either "established character" or " camera pans up from feet to shoulder than cuts out" for me!

 

[NSWCROW]

Bangtoberfest - This time it's REALLY not personal

 

[GreyWind]

God that episode was bad. Ted and Victoria need to break up and so do Robin and what's his name and get with Barney already.

I think when Ted finally meets the mother he will know that she is the 'one' but at some stage he will lose her and then win her back with some grand gesture. It's going to suck.

 

[lyall]

Could probably skip the next 20 episodes and not miss anything really

 

[GreyWind]

Could probably skip the next 20 episodes and not miss anything really

The sad thing is that's probably true.

 

[Ochre]

If there was one thing everyone was calling out for, it was to bring Mickey back.

Hopefully Zoe reappears soon too.

 

[exile]

I'm sick of all this negativity.

A season is like 24 episodes right? Let's say this is the final season. Progression must have meaning, right? If there was story progression every episode then we'd probably find out the mother in the 10th episode. Robin and Ted boasting over who has a better relationship leads to what Victoria said at the start of last season. Their tension has to be gone for Ted to find the one. It's the third episode, guys...

 

[JP Sauce]

If there was one thing everyone was calling out for, it was to bring Mickey back.

Hopefully Zoe reappears soon too.

Bring back Kevin!

 

[JP Sauce]

I'm sick of all this negativity.

A season is like 24 episodes right? Let's say this is the final season. Progression must have meaning, right? If there was story progression every episode then we'd probably find out the mother in the 10th episode. Robin and Ted boasting over who has a better relationship leads to what Victoria said at the start of last season. Their tension has to be gone for Ted to find the one. It's the third episode, guys...

People aren't just complaining because there's no story progression. People are also complaining because the episodes are bad and un-funny.

 

[lyall]

People aren't just complaining because there's no story progression. People are also complaining because the episodes are bad and un-funny.

Pretty much. Felt like a chore to watch the second episode. Wedding and meeting the mother will be episode 24 going by every other season of this show

Robin is just incredibly lame these days. I dont think she's always been like this? Maybe shes just so damn hot I failed to notice before.

 

[Arecsa]

Someone should sit down the whole creative crew and make them watch season 1 and then the tripe from either of the past 3 seasons to see how far they've actually fallen.

 

[GreyWind]

For me the worst part of that episode was when Marshall and Lily were screaming that they didn't have their baby, took a breath and then screamed at the camera, it was just so so lame and then the thing with Mickey's thumbs. The whole show is just turning into a joke, it's not funny and the plot so far has been terrible.

 

[Caesar]

I honestly think this is getting to the point where it's worse than later-season Friends.

 

[kane249]

I honestly think this is getting to the point where it's worse than later-season Friends.

So you are picking Barney to move to move to LA and star in his own TV show?

 

[Burzum]

So you are picking Barney to move to move to LA and star in his own TV show?

That would be more exciting than what's happening at the moment.

 

[The King!]

How long has he sat these kids down for the story, meet the mother already.

Not an all time favourite but i enjoy/ed the show but its getting stale and annoying. The mother could join and reinvigorate it, but most of this has stuff all to do with meeting anyone

 

[NSWCROW]

Barney's BROller

Robin wins again

Funniest ep this season ( not hard )

 

[ROSEMVP]

I hope we get a Barney Spin Off

 

[Ochre]

That was ****ing shithouse.

I'm done with watching it week to week, I'm waiting til the end of the season now.

 

[LadyPants]

How can a show in 2012 still have such a bad green screen?

 

[hamohawk1]

i have a view that everyone except for barney and maybe robin has run there course in the show. i know its revolved around meeting teds mother but i am finding ted dry, lilley no use and marshall still okay. its good to get a few laughs from barney each week but some of the characters have run their course

 

[matt_897]

The boobs on the bus go up and down, up and down.

 

[electricfeel]

Wasn't remotely funny at all. Lily was at an all time low with her crying.

If anything Robin was finally not lame and boring.

 

[The Flying Belgian]

Wasn't remotely funny at all. Lily was at an all time low with her crying.

If anything Robin was finally not lame and boring.

While this season are pale imitations of what the show once was, comments like this give me the shits. Are you saying you didn't laugh, smile or even smirk at anything in that episode?

I read this in a review of the first episode of this season. It reads a bit wanky, but it's a different way of looking at things (at least for some people):

... the creators of How I Met Your Mother don’t know if season eight will be the show’s last. They’re putting their long-planned endgame into effect, but they also have a Plan B in case the network and stars come to an agreement to extend the show into season nine.

The debate that has intensified with each passing season is whether the whole idea of an endpoint, embedded as it is in the show’s premise, increasingly works against the comedy as the years pile up. You can expect to hear a lot of opinions on both sides from TV critics all over the web. My answer has been consistent (at least as far as I remember) for the four seasons I’ve been writing about this show: The premise is only a liability if the viewer makes it one.

That sounds like a “you’re watching it wrong” argument, but I don’t mean it that way. The writers have occasionally let the focus slide too far one way or the other, toward “premise shmemise!” or “mythology above all.” But taking the seven seasons as a whole, there has been an impressive balance between the comedy of the moment and the happily ever after we want for the characters. The fundamentals haven’t changed; in fact, the detours and wheel spinning that from one angle seem intolerable, from another angle advance the show’s underlying theme of embracing maturity. We’ll get the pleasure from this show that we allow it to give us.