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How I Met Your Mother Season 7 |OT| Weddings guaranteed, The Mother...not so much
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mocolostrocolos
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Yesterday I watched the whole
arc to find clues.
______Victoria_______
viciouskillersquirrel
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Dude, we don't know anything yet - it's probably a big red herring, just like everything else related to that storyline.Rocket Scientist said:
After all, how likely is it that Victoria came back from Germany, give up baking and became Rachel Bilsen's college roommate? How likely is it that Ted would tell his kids that he was *this* close to cheating on their mother with their Aunt Robin? How about the fact that Ted explicitly stated that the first he ever saw of the mother was her ankle?
At this point, the well is poisoned and none of it fits. Victoria coming back is the return of a fan favourite, nothing more.
At this point, the well is poisoned and none of it fits. Victoria coming back is the return of a fan favourite, nothing more.
Bloodsent
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This is the kind of show that would benefit from a definitive end date. It makes it harder every year for me to watch, knowing that they are dragging out some of the original points of the (like the title) just because they keep getting renewed. I am hoping something happens to rejuvenate my enjoyment of the show this season, keeping my fingers crossed!
brotkasten
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Turns out that Ted never met the mother and adopted the kids.Radec said:Will this be like Smallville ?
Where the moment Clark Kent became "Superman", the series ends.
So when Ted met or marries the "Mother", the show ends right? right?
VGChampion
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Since I haven't seen the show the last few seasons do they still show the two kids now and then? If they haven't grown up too much I could almost see the mother walking in on them while the dad talks and the audience just goes "ahhh that's who it is".
brotkasten
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I think they recorded the last scene with the kids around season 2, to avoid the problem you mentioned.VGChampion said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
As someone who started watching with the S1 DVDs before S2 aired, I am so checked out at this point. How could you not be? Each individual episode is still quality and the actors still do their best, but it's just a totally aimless show at this point.
The overall plotlines make no sense, are played with an air of inevitability ("Here are a series of life issues people go through. Check that box. And that's a big checkeroo there. Ooh, pregnancy.") and in a random order. I dunno, man, I just don't care.
Also the stupid hotel plot was the worst extended metaphor ever. Awful, just awful, even worse because it was bundled with a manic pixie dream girl plot.
The overall plotlines make no sense, are played with an air of inevitability ("Here are a series of life issues people go through. Check that box. And that's a big checkeroo there. Ooh, pregnancy.") and in a random order. I dunno, man, I just don't care.
Also the stupid hotel plot was the worst extended metaphor ever. Awful, just awful, even worse because it was bundled with a manic pixie dream girl plot.
It's been a double edged sword, the reason the show grabbed me was the unique framing device. It was really great, unfortunately it's also it's biggest weakness, because it's never paid off. It can also never be meaningful because we don't know the mother. What's the show going to ultimately do? "Hey, look, here's the mother, her name's Jane" or whatever, why would anyone care about that? Unless it's basically Robin, and it's not, there is nothing interesting about who the mother is.
They should have had him meet the mother a couple of seasons ago and just move forward without the son/daughter story telling. People would have been pissed for a bit, but it's nothing like the frustration the show generates at this point.
I still remember the moment that really irked me. There's one episode where he says something like "before the story of how I met your mother, is the story of how I became the man I had to be to meet her", I just wanted to write of the series with that line completely, but I'm quite invested after so long.
They should have had him meet the mother a couple of seasons ago and just move forward without the son/daughter story telling. People would have been pissed for a bit, but it's nothing like the frustration the show generates at this point.
I still remember the moment that really irked me. There's one episode where he says something like "before the story of how I met your mother, is the story of how I became the man I had to be to meet her", I just wanted to write of the series with that line completely, but I'm quite invested after so long.
Stealth Editor
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Fixed.i_am_ben said:
Radec said:Will this be like Smallville ?
Where the moment Clark Kent became "Superman", the series ends.
So when Ted met or marries the "Mother", the show ends right? right?
I'm convinced up until the first kid is born the show won't end. I mean, we had the whole Stella thing where they were going to get married but then she bailed. Entirely possible that he gets married and then they divorce before they have a kid. But if they do that, it'd be atleast 2 seasons which isn't possible if Segel is leaving after season 8.
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Victoria... wasn't she only gone for 2-3 years or something like that at the school in Germany? She should've came back a long ass time ago. Also, does this mean she's baking the cake for Barney's wedding? Seems like the only logical place she would come into play.
brotkasten
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I don't care how they do it, I just want them to bring her back. She was easily the best.Entropia said:
kevo_huevo said:
I still say they fucking killed that character arch.
When I read it I assumed that she was the ex, Its going to be interesting... Apart of me wishes that they could do some retroactive and bring her back for a few episodes. With this show, if they did some retroactive thing in which she was the roommate, it would not be that shocking.
"Drumroll please" is still one of my favorite episodes of any show ever.
"and in 2014, inspired by the comical mishaps of the film Junior starring former president Schwarzenegger, the world's first successful male pregnancy was delivered, and that's how I met your "mother"."Milchjon said:
His fake daughter is hot, I imagine it's getting the point they can't actually have been born much later isn't it?
EDIT: The actress is 24, and it's in 2030, ummm.
planar1280
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I started watching from Season 1 in January for the first time and I couldnt believe I was not watching the show since the beginning, it is one of the best comedies in years.
brucewaynegretzky
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It would be pretty funny if Ted ended up marrying the mother because he knocked her up...
Neuromancer
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The show will be dead to me then.ConfusingJazz said:
I'd be waiting for show to try and introduce a girl who had any real world connection to the other four, maybe a long lost sister for Robin or something, who would end up being the mom, so when I heard Barney had one I just assumed it'd be her.Fuzzy said:
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A uni student, and Ted worked at a uni where his wife was? Ummm
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Yes, many of us have long suspected that Barney's sister will be the mother.
Ohwiseone said:
This. That episode was structured really well, and the payoff at the end is amazing. It helps that the actress is incredibly likeable too. It's strange to think that's a high point that, emotionally at least, I don't think has ever been matched in the show, although the three minute date was fairly sweet. I'm still kind of annoyed by how that arc ended, If they return to it they better do it justice.
Looking forward to the new episodes tonight, even though this show rarely has the great highs of past seasons anymore it's still very watchable.
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