Yeah I agree, the laughing track seemed really obvious as well, was laughing at nearly every line. If it wasn't the last season I'd probably stop watching but might as well bare another few episodes of it.
Television How I Met Your Mother
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Yeah I agree, the laughing track seemed really obvious as well, was laughing at nearly every line. If it wasn't the last season I'd probably stop watching but might as well bare another few episodes of it.
Next episode out and after watching it I do feel this is the weakest season, even though it's only 3 episodes in. Having all the characters split up loses the magic that was this programme, and it's sad for me to see this as I have throroughly enjoyed watching it through the years. However, Lilly's speech at the end is incredibly sweet, and hopefully the final scene will stir things up a lot to make the upcoming episodes more interesting to watch. I still stand by my prediction of the ending; it will happen.
What's you prediction?
Alyson Hannigan has to be the worst actress on TV.
Uh oh, I'm not going to enjoy this if that's true, I've felt it's been shit for many seasons now and a chore to watch
We watched the double bill opener and I didn't even come close to laughing a single time, yet the laugh track was played after what seemed like every line.
It's not been a comedy for years, but this season looks set to be the worst.
It's not been a comedy for years, but this season looks set to be the worst.
It's idiotic how they are forcing it after every single line.
Although they are really setting this out to be a Robin and Barney marriage and Ted and "the Mother" to end up together, which both will happen, I still think that Ted and Robin will be together. Not soon after obviously, because Ted has kids with the mother and Barney and Robin do get married. But I just have this feeling that they could drop a bomb like the mother has passed away as he is talking to his kids in the year 2030, and all these hints about Barney and Robin that they have so much doubt about this marriage in this final season and bits of last kind of points towards that way.
Who knows, maybe they just all end up happy together as the story is playing out. But I'm predicting a Ross/Rachel type ending where they have been on and off for all those seasons, and do end up together.
I think they'll end up together too, somehow. The end will probably be stupid.
God that would be so incredibly shit, and the show's pretty shit already as it is.
It would be the best ending for what it is. And that's not saying much.
Nah, the best ending would have been one that came about 3 years ago.
That would actually make sense given how much they've forced Robin-Ted onto the viewers despite her never being the mother. Would be a shit ending though
Do we already know what happened at the carousel? I've only half been paying attention for about a series now
"You.. son of a bitch!"
What carousel?
Exactly. After ALL the years of them being on and off, for them never to finally end up together would seem bland really. He always refers to her as Aunt Robin to his kids, but if they ended up together they wouldn't call her mum or Robin, they would still call her Aunt Robin after growing up with her all those years, so it may be a way of throwing off people off the trail, if that makes any sense at all.
At the end of the previous season, the penultimate episode. it's when Robin and Ted were digging up the locket but never found it, and in the pouring rain they are on their knees holding hands, and have a moment looking at each other, thinking "Maybe it was us that were meant to be?". At least I believe that look was what it was. That moment is by the carousel, when Barney was off playing lasertag with Robins dad. So basically next episode is going to flash back to him leaving laser tag to go help her, but of course Ted got there first, and Barney has kept it a secret until now.
You're the KingEric7 of HIMYM.
I don't feel proud of that somehow. Which threads do he rule? ha
You know what would have been better? If Robin had found a bloke out of the group, if Barney (if he had to find anyone) found someone out of the group, and if Ted had found someone out of the group... which could have been acheived if the writers were capable of a) writing for and b) succesfully introducing new characters and making them feel part of the show - and if all this had happened long before the end of series 6.
I really don't see how Ted and Robin can end up together when the entire way through the show she's been referred to as 'Aunt Robin'. It'd be a bit weird for your step-mum to be referred to as your aunt.
It'll also be incredibly shit. So yea, they might do.
It'll also be incredibly shit. So yea, they might do.
If Robin is the mother, it would mean the kids were fecking morons, not to work out who the mum is and stop listening to their dads shitty escapades.
True... it'd basically rely on the idea that their mother has never told them anything about her life. Maybe she becomes a mute... or something.
Robin is obviously not the mother but she might have married Ted after their biological mother died because her marriage with Barney failed and it's not at all weird that Ted married their Aunt.
Yeah that sounds fecked up
Yeah that sounds fecked up
His theory wasn't that she's the mother, it was that the whole premise would be; "this is how I met your mother, but as you know we split up not long after having you guys, and since then I've been back with your 'aunt' Robin."
Robin would still be mum to them if she raises them. Plus, if the long winded story he's telling his children ends with their mother dying at birth, then he's just a cruel sadistic man.
The theories!
Exactly, which is one possible ending, one I thought would be happening for ages. Or she died; HIMYM isn't exactly a story of happy endings. But I don't think they would have split, unless he loved Robin more than he did his wife. Not enough space to explain that sort of story though.
We all know Ted rambles on with stories and loves telling them, so he wanted to tell 8 seasons worth of stories to his kid, not so much to ask is it?
Robin can't be the Mum. Old Ted refers to her as Aunt Robin when talking to the kids.
God, what an appalling pile of kack this show has become.
God, what an appalling pile of kack this show has become.
Hell I'll say it, I still love this show. It's been poor for a while now but this new format is like a breath of fresh air IMO. It's weird that Marshall is 'off set' so often. I hope he comes back soon. That said, I don't mind so much; it's like it gives the likes of Ted and Lily more chance to bond. I also like that James seems to be more of a regular. People are still treating it like a sitcom (which it technically still is), but it's become more like a light-hearted drama now. Are we really watching for a laugh still? Or are we watching to see how it pans out.
Ted's reaction at the end by the way - not intended to be funny? It was like a comic reaction that would get a laugh, but I think it's going to be a really serious situation.
Also, at what point do Barney and Robin get cold feet? We know that happens, but how?
Ted's reaction at the end by the way - not intended to be funny? It was like a comic reaction that would get a laugh, but I think it's going to be a really serious situation.
Also, at what point do Barney and Robin get cold feet? We know that happens, but how?
The problem with the show changing course is that they really don't have the setup for it. I don't know if it's the actors, writers, directors or whoever is at fault (most likely a bit of everything), but the show is in all honesty terrible now - even if you accept that it's no longer a comedy. If they completely stopped trying to make it a comedy it might actually be a lot more enjoyable really, because the "jokes" they put in are terrible and they keep repeating them. Just to mention a few that really annoys me:
- Screaming. It's something they've done more and more over the past seasons and I never understood in what possible way it was supposed to be funny.
- Lily saying "you son of a bitch" over and over again. Now, I don't mind a catchphrase (the show's success if pretty much based on Barney's catchphrases from when it was actually funny), but despite saying it so many times the delivery of the catchphrase is still incredibly poor.
If they really wanted to make it a drama - like you suggest - they need a decent story, which they really don't have right now. The show has been treading water for a long time now just milking the success - what has actually happened over the past few seasons? The writers have run out of ideas, which is especially evident by the small side-plots this season that takes up a lot of time but lead absolutely nowhere. Robin and Barney being afraid that they're related wins the prize so far, but the whole "senior citizen"-nonsense in the latest episode deserves a special mention. Still going to watch it though, just to see how it ends - it's only 20 minutes after all.
No one has ever said she was the mum. But good to know you're on the same page
I thought this season has been alright so far to be honest. Better then last few anyway. Love Barney's line in the first episode about Joffrey being a great leader Made me genuinely laugh out loud, something that HIMYM hasn't done in years really.
Made me genuinely laugh out loud, something that HIMYM hasn't done in years really.Who are you? Barry Norman?
He's the KingEric of this thread!
It seems to have gone to his head.
Celebrity often does that to you.
I agree with this, also if you want to basically change the genre of a show your audience has got to commit to it. As soon as a show stops being funny you can't pass it off as a drama, it's just an unfunny comedy really. I think it has got to the point where the viewers are probably watching because it's the end and it's easy enough to watch so you get the reveal. If there was 3 or so seasons left I'd not e watching it still.
I don't think the actors are particularly at fault, they all look like they're just doing what they're told. It's just the jokes have ran thin. Lily's "catchphrase" for example is ridiculously unfunny and kind of cringing to watch every time she does it. The show just reminds me of the sitcom in Extra, When the Whistle Blows.
I hope that Ted and Robin don't end up together, it will be a really poor way to end the show but judging how it's gone so far it wouldn't surprise me.
Spoiler for next episode based on trailer for it. not sure how to do spoiler tags on this new fangled caf.
Barney doesn't seem to care as the trailer shows them doing yoga together and playing cards. He also tells Ted not to worry about it
Not reading the spoiler, but well done on the innovation; white text is far better than typing out spoiler tags. This should be the system.