For all it's many, many (many) shortcomings.... at least Big Bang - as far as I'm aware - has the balls to introduce new characters... something which HIMYM never had the skill or conviction to do, and the show suffered because of it.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Well yes, but it's due to the initial unbalance in the cast - 4 guys and 1 girl was original and it was the main (positive) difference between TBBT and the other sitcoms. In HIMYM you can't really introduce a new character - it has 2 pairs, Barney and the "mother", whose place is reserved from the start.
And that's what annoys me the most in TBBT - that they changed from a decent "nerd" comedy with a lot of original screenplay ideas to a very bad romantic sitcom for which these characters wasn't suited at all.
I adore Community a lot because of this. Their screenwriters know too much about TV to do such mistakes
Well that was fecking terrible. They basically just hit the reset button after 9 seasons.
So he met the mother by tapping her on the shoulder. That was a very long-winded way of coming to that moment.
I watched up to episode 3 this season, I've kept up with this thread. I'm skipping straight to the finale.
More like Antonio Valencia. Started out ok, extremely good after the first year, before a rapid decline
So I look like an absolute moron and was horrendously wrong.
Brilliant episode but my initial response to seeing that ending was "This is fecking pathetic". And to be honest, it is. Ridiculous decision to do that.
Brilliant episode but my initial response to seeing that ending was "This is fecking pathetic". And to be honest, it is. Ridiculous decision to do that.
Good decision.
Weird watching the credits..
Its funny thinking back on my own life over those years too and how its progressed.
.. and seeing how they've all changed in 8 years.
Its funny thinking back on my own life over those years too and how its progressed.
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Why are some people treating the show as if it was a big mystery like lost? The show was never really about how he met the mother, it was a good funny show about a group of friends, the whole mother arc was never really appealing to me since i knew from day one that we'll only find about her on the final season, the ending was perfect and either way it doesn't change the fact that it was a great show.
A show I've never really got into, it's only ever been background noise while I've been on the computer. Didn't find it remotely funny, every joke seemed forced and obvious.
Plus, who the hell has a memory that good? Most of the shows aren't anything to do with the mother either? Couldn't the whole show, been over in about 1 episode if we're honest?
I honestly can't see any appeal to this show, even that ginger chick isn't as hot as she once was.
Plus, who the hell has a memory that good? Most of the shows aren't anything to do with the mother either? Couldn't the whole show, been over in about 1 episode if we're honest?
I honestly can't see any appeal to this show, even that ginger chick isn't as hot as she once was.
As someone said on Twitter, the way it ended makes the entire series look like a huge con job, as a huge part of its appeal was the feeling that everything would be Okay despite all the hardships, as we knew that Ted would his true love and get his happy ending.... At least we thought we knew that.
Also, I read an interesting article about how this finale was another piece of evidence that TV writers have become addicted to making unnecessary twists in the final episodes. When you look at how Lost ended, how Sopranos ended, how House ended, etc, it all seems like the writers tried a bit too much to be smart (actually, I thought Sopranos ending was class, but no doubting it was a bit out there) and either failed to provide satisfactory explanations or delivered endings that seemed out of place with the rest of the show.
Anyways, it was definitely a big "feck you" to the fans, given that the vibe the show has emitted for nine years turned out to have been a scam.
Also, I read an interesting article about how this finale was another piece of evidence that TV writers have become addicted to making unnecessary twists in the final episodes. When you look at how Lost ended, how Sopranos ended, how House ended, etc, it all seems like the writers tried a bit too much to be smart (actually, I thought Sopranos ending was class, but no doubting it was a bit out there) and either failed to provide satisfactory explanations or delivered endings that seemed out of place with the rest of the show.
Anyways, it was definitely a big "feck you" to the fans, given that the vibe the show has emitted for nine years turned out to have been a scam.
Well I can kind of understand with drama's that people often tend to complain if there's nothing big in the finale. But really with sitcom's if you don't want you're fanbase to complain you just round the bases and give the characters the endings the fans want if you want to make people happy. I can think of very, very few sitcoms that have managed to put in twists and nailed it in their finale. Particularly in the case of American sitcoms where they tend to end after their peaks in which case the reason people tend to still be watching is they like the characters and then want them to get a happy ending.
The Office finale last year was probably the perfect example of how a sitcom past its best should look to end if you want to please most the fans.
I'm not a huge fan of How I met, but I thought the first few seasons (1-3, maybe 4) were good. There were some genuinely good and funny (all subjective of course, might not be your type of humour) episodes along the way and it was a decent sitcom with a good standout character (Barney). Even Marshall and Lily's story was ok, though I started raising eyebrows when she pissed off and then came back, that was weird. Anyway, in any case it was hard to base the show on such a weak lead character (Ted is incredibly shit, crazy that they could base 9 seasons around such a poor character, and it's telling that the best episodes more often than not didn't involve him). Not a great show by any means, but at the very least decent for a while.
Agree with you there, thought the writers did really well to round off the series of The Office US but I felt they'd picked up a few episodes before that
starting from the moment they brought the 4th wall down and looked into the struggles of Pam and Jim's couple
The worst part for me was that the entire season was completely pointless. Why spend 24 episodes on a wedding weekend where they show them getting divorced in three years? Why keep blabbering about Ted going to Chicago when we know he didn't? Why force 16 years of content into one episode when they easily could've spent the entire season doing it instead?
The worst thing is that the scenes with the kids were filmed at the start of the show, so obviously they knew all along where they were going, but I bet they never planned 9 series and never planned all that sidewards shit like Barney and Robyn getting married etc, maybe in the original context of things it would've worked better, who knows?
They should've jsut (as implausible as it is) kept Lyndsey Foncesca in it on the couch all the way through, wearing less and less clothes as the years rolled on. That'd be worth it.
The worst thing is that the scenes with the kids were filmed at the start of the show, so obviously they knew all along where they were going, but I bet they never planned 9 series and never planned all that sidewards shit like Barney and Robyn getting married etc, maybe in the original context of things it would've worked better, who knows?
They should've jsut (as implausible as it is) kept Lyndsey Foncesca in it on the couch all the way through, wearing less and less clothes as the years rolled on. That'd be worth it.
I didn't like the depiction of ending. Pointless and hurried. I agree with Cina, showing lyndsey fonsesca would have been enough.
The show should have been called How Ted met Robin via the mother.
Ted is a sly cnut isn't he?
Telling his kids a long elaborate story with an heart break ending just to ensure that he gets the permission of his kids to date his best friend's ex-wife. What a cnut!
Telling his kids a long elaborate story with an heart break ending just to ensure that he gets the permission of his kids to date his best friend's ex-wife. What a cnut!
I'd watch that. Repeatedly.
Finished it now
I guess that was ok
I guess that was ok
This. All day long.
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Watched the two last episodes now, and I actually quite liked the ending. The most of this season was brutal though, think I skipped about six or seven of the last episodes.
I didn't watch much of the last season, but seeing all the posts on social media today has made me realise that I'll miss it. I watched it right from the beginning and grew up with it in a sense, with a big relationship of my own ending a few years back. So I could sort of relate to it. I even welled-up on occasion. I might just have to watch some re-runs.
Is it just me, or did that get really real all of a sudden?
Every episode was high-fives, fart jokes and lollipops - and then all of a sudden in the last episode it's just like a sudden "SHE'S DEAD. THEY'RE DIVORCED. SHE'S NOT THEIR FRIEND ANY MORE. HE HAS A KID" it was a lot to sink in at once.
Every episode was high-fives, fart jokes and lollipops - and then all of a sudden in the last episode it's just like a sudden "SHE'S DEAD. THEY'RE DIVORCED. SHE'S NOT THEIR FRIEND ANY MORE. HE HAS A KID" it was a lot to sink in at once.
If you mean it wasn't funny anymore and all soap, then this happened two seasons ago.
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Maybe drifting in that direction, but I wouldn't have thought to this degree. The last episode did feel very rushed and a completely different genre. Why they built a whole season towards Barney and Robin marrying and then simply ended it in 5 minutes the next episode is a little odd to me
Haven't seen the finale yet, but I have to agree with bucky. There's been loads of unfunny 'dramatic' episodes for a while now, with very little laughs in them.
The Sopranos of the sitcom world. Genius work. Planned clearly from the start, and simply too good for general viewers.....which is odd, because everything else about this show was pretty basic -_-
I doubt it was planned from the start. They probably filmed tonnes of different outcomes and then just sort of glued the most fitting one onto the abomination the show had become by the time it was nearing the end.
They filmed the end at the start of the show as they wanted the kids to look the same 10 years later. The kids had to sign contracts that stopped them from giving away the ending although it got predictable towards the last series.
Surely tongue in cheek?
The show went downhill for the past seasons, but I think it's silly to suggest they didn't have a clear plan from the start. The show was simply never meant to run for this long, and - like many other shows - the quality suffered because of it.
Thought it was a pretty fitting ending. I didn't expect much in the way of comedy, but it did well to tie it all together I thought - although I would've preferred if they had spread it out over a few episodes and cut out some of the fillers. The whole montage of the different years felt a bit too short, compared to some of the pointless stuff we've been served during this season (and the ones before, for that matter).
What?
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-i-met-your-mother-to-release-alternate-ending-20140405
I don't understand how the people in charge of the show didn't realize that people would hate the obvious "twist" ending.
This should have been the ending.
I don't understand how the people in charge of the show didn't realize that people would hate the obvious "twist" ending.This should have been the ending.
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Didn't actually mind the episode. Disliked him ending up with Robin though it was coming.
To think I started watching it because of Have you met Ted? and The Naked Man.
The fact that this ending was planned from the start makes it about 10 times worse.
When Barney went to tell Ted about the bass player I was really hoping they were going to have them meet for the first time with a 'haaaave you met Ted' introduction, that would actually have been cool.
That would work for me.http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/how-i-met-your-mother-to-release-alternate-ending-20140405
This should have been the ending.
Not that I'm particularly annoyed by aired conclusion though.