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How I Met Your Mother Season 8 |OT| Finish your goddamn story, Ted.
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Reports are just reports, but here's the most recent one: http://www.avclub.com/articles/this-will-be-how-i-met-your-mothers-final-season-u,85105/
Basically, Bays and Thomas started this season under the mindset that it was the last. But if they get a good offer for a ninth season, they could come up with an idea. They're also having it where they have two ideas for a finale, where one is the end end, and another could lead to another season. Plus, the show could technically go on without them if the studios and nets really wanted to. Same goes for the actors. Even if they're saying they'll leave, if they get a high-paying offer (because this show is a gold mine for them) I'm sure they'll do it. And if they don't, they'll push on without a character.
So in summary: this might be the last season. If it's not, then Bays, Carter, and most of the cast might come back for more seasons. If those people don't come back for more, they'll make a show somehow anyway. It's all going to depend on how badly 20th Century Fox and CBS want the show.
Why is that a spoiler? that was at the end of season 7. If people still don't know about it. well it is their fault. since the show starts tomorrow.
Quinn is perfect. I never understood why they would put Robin is better for Barney over anyone else since he has changed his life around for his other gfs not for Robin.
last season showed them to both be...pretty big assholes. we already knew that about Ted but he went to another level, and Victoria now just seems psycho
brucewaynegretzky
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Completely disagree. Quinn was awesome.
The Real Abed
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Yeah, I miss Quinn and was so happy when the wedding came up and was like so happy because he was going to marry --- Robin? WHAT? COME ON! Quinn was so awesome and probably wants children. Why, Barney? Why? Don't you want a little Barney? Robin never has children! You suck. Why. How. Dammit.
So anyways.. yeah, I look forward to seeing what they do now. *sigh*
So anyways.. yeah, I look forward to seeing what they do now. *sigh*
I watched the whole thing recently (I'd never seen it before) and I would say Season 6 seems a lot weaker than S7. The show's quality is pretty consistent though, IMO. Can't wait for this one although I do hope it's the last.
I loved the first 6 seasons, maybe 1 - 4 were a bit stronger.
Skellig Gra
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Getting older will do that.
AstroNut325
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My wife and I recently started watching season 1. You're telling me that they're in season 8 and Ted still hasn't met the mother????
Edag Plata
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I don't like Victoria anymore after the last finale. It's supposed to be that girl you were totally into for years, and you see each other for a bit but something gets in the way. Then you keep thinking "What if?" the entire time and then you finally get with her, and you find out she's a little crazy (if not completely insane).
I think Ted will see that. The chick just walked out on her own wedding for a guy she didn't have the balls to call for 6 years. Something's a little nutty about that.
I think Ted will see that. The chick just walked out on her own wedding for a guy she didn't have the balls to call for 6 years. Something's a little nutty about that.
slightconfuse
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The show ends with Robin being recruited by Nick Fury for the Avengers initiative
ConfusingJazz
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Robin and Barney are a terrible couple, and I don't know why people want to see them together. I was saddened that they went back to this relationship last season, and feel worse that they are going back to it yet again.
Ted is a douche because they don't know what to do with him.
Marshall and Lily moving back to NYC was just a giant fucking cop out, and I am not looking forward to fucking stupid, by the trope baby episodes.
Yet I am still watching
Ted is a douche because they don't know what to do with him.
Marshall and Lily moving back to NYC was just a giant fucking cop out, and I am not looking forward to fucking stupid, by the trope baby episodes.
Yet I am still watching
Grassclipper
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God damn I was pissed off after the last episode in season 7, one of the reasons for this was that I hate Victoria, I've hated her since way back in the first season. Another was that Ted acted like the biggest most unlikable asshole ever and that they just gonna throw Quinn and Barney away for a relationship that last time they tried it almost ruined the show with its suckiness.
It really was a horrible, horrible episode.
It really was a horrible, horrible episode.
It's not that though. Look at her in Trilogy Time. She looks as good as in the first season. It's the combination of her hairstyle in season 7 and drastic weight loss somewhere around 2011 (she is WAY too skinny in there, almost unhealthily).
Yeah, thats kinda what I meant. I mean I thought Lilly looked better as the series went on.
Coldnoodle
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Robin had a baby you fools D:
Same here. While I do hope the show eventually has a satisfying conclusion, I'm fine with it going on as long as it entertains me. The main problem being that the overarching storylines the show has relied on the in the past couple seasons don't seem to allow for as much organic humor as the early seasons.
ConfusingJazz
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It's her hair.
Lone_Prodigy
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There's an upcoming SHIELD TV show she could star in.
Incendiary
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The thing about How I Met Your Mother is a lot of the episodes change meaning over time. The best example I can give is the Bad News/Last Words episode from season 6, which was a gut-punch and sad overall, yeah. But last year my dad got cancer, and while he got through it, the episodes took on a whole new meaning and are much more important now.
On a more lighter note, in season 5 there was the Hooked episode, which I thought was only okay at first glance, but a couple years later on rewatch I'd experienced what had happened in the episode and I appreciated it more.
I was 20 when How I Met Your Mother first started airing, so I'm kind of getting to the phase in my life where I'm the same age as when Ted started out, and a lot of the finer points of the episodes are starting to hit home more often. There is definitely some retreading and I'll admit I hated the season 7 finale, but overall I think the magic is still there. I mean, Ducky Tie from season 7 is viable as a classic HIMYM episode I'd say.
Wut ?
She's always looked hot, still does, and you're all wrong
cobie smulders had a baby
wasn't that a few years ago ?
DUFFMCWALIN
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Yuuuuuuup. Thats why I'll be watching to the bitter end.
This show's still going? And Mother hasn't been introduced yet? UGH. I quit watching in like, 08, after
How in the hell has Ted Mosby been constantly almost running into his future wife for 8 years without ever once seeing her? Who did he marry? Carmen Sandiego?
Quite possibly the best spin-off of all time.
he got dumped by the doctor chick.
How in the hell has Ted Mosby been constantly almost running into his future wife for 8 years without ever once seeing her? Who did he marry? Carmen Sandiego?
Quite possibly the best spin-off of all time.
It's funny how I skipped out an entire season two years ago, and coming back a season later, and it's like I didn't miss a thing.
Anyway, Ted and Victoria came off as assholes in the season finale, and I forgot who said it, but I agree that Ted pretty much regressed in recent seasons. Either that was intentional or it was because of terrible writing.
Show needs to end soon. I'm probably going to bail out when either Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders bail out. Marshall remains consistently the best character of the show, and Robin remains somewhat the more interesting character vs. Ted and Lily. Unless the writers manage to keep things interesting.
How I Met Your Fury.
Anyway, Ted and Victoria came off as assholes in the season finale, and I forgot who said it, but I agree that Ted pretty much regressed in recent seasons. Either that was intentional or it was because of terrible writing.
Show needs to end soon. I'm probably going to bail out when either Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders bail out. Marshall remains consistently the best character of the show, and Robin remains somewhat the more interesting character vs. Ted and Lily. Unless the writers manage to keep things interesting.
How I Met Your Fury.
MetalFearSolid
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show the mother already!!
Well, that's probably how it's going to go. Then a quick montage of what they did together (dates, proposal, marriage, pregnancy, kids), then in "present day" popping into the couch scene. I'd imagine a quip from either kids saying how "that felt like years" and they actually looking older.
It's called "How I Met Your Mother," not "How Your Mother And Ended Up Here."
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