SlowRevolution
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They really completely ruined Ted's character for me in the finale last season, this episode didn't help.
NPH was awesome as usual.
NPH was awesome as usual.
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How I Met Your Mother Season 8 |OT| Finish your goddamn story, Ted.
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Well after all of Ted's relationship fuck ups, it would be nice to see what his [insert German phrase here] is like and why this relationship will work and the rest failed.
Well they prob won't until Fox releases season 7 on DVD on Oct 10th.
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I liked it. Hopefully it improves on the last couple of years.
Who the hell releases a DVD set after the next season has already started?
rocksteady1983
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Awesome to hear Band of Horses at the end of the episode. Song is so damn amazing. Episode was ok.
But he doesn't meet their mother until she becomes a mother. Because then it be how I met my wife
IdreamofHIME
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Good ending to an awful episode, the canned laughter particularly annoyed me this episode. Lilly and Marshal's schtick got old after 2mins, never mind a full episode.
Hope it gets better.
Hope it gets better.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Band of Horses at the end was awesome...
The episode was decent. Though I think the guitar has some sort of significance. Has anyone ever mentioned a guitar player in the past seasons or episodes?
The episode was decent. Though I think the guitar has some sort of significance. Has anyone ever mentioned a guitar player in the past seasons or episodes?
All we know is that his ideal girl plays the bass. And yeah woohoo for Band of Horses
RedAssedApe
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The roommate (Rachel Bilson character) said that the Mother is in a band.
I was just reading an article on tvguide and one of the show creators said that the most requested actress they've gotten to play the mother is Lyndsy Fonseca haha
I was just reading an article on tvguide and one of the show creators said that the most requested actress they've gotten to play the mother is Lyndsy Fonseca haha
Surprise twist: we knew who the mom was the whole time.
Incendiary
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I thought the episode was okay. I laughed at the bit with Barney over the phone "Challenge accepted!" and was surprised they immediately jumped into the Nick relationship, but glad he finally turned up. And the ending was nice. Now we know when he actually meets the mother, not at the wedding but after.
I'm hoping he meets the mother by the end of this season. I don't think it's going to do any more good for the show to put it off any longer.
I'm hoping he meets the mother by the end of this season. I don't think it's going to do any more good for the show to put it off any longer.
RedAssedApe
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I guess this is good news?
How I Met Your Mother Boss on Premiere's Big Moment: It's the Finish Line to Our Series
JK...bait and switch headline. They still haven't decided if this is the last season.
How I Met Your Mother Boss on Premiere's Big Moment: It's the Finish Line to Our Series
JK...bait and switch headline. They still haven't decided if this is the last season.
Loved this episode and love the yellow umbrella. I know I'm in the minority, but I really like where they've taken the show in the last season - No Pressure being my favorite episode in the series. I love that Ted was reading his favorite book, Love in the Time of Cholera on the platform. I can't wait for the endgame now.
It feels like the end game. Also, even though the cabbie said it was a guitar we know she plays bass.
RedAssedApe
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I'd feel better about the show if the creators weren't all..."oh yeah if the actors still want to do the show and cbs wants to renew us we can write-up another season". No matter how they try and spin it it just sounds like more filler episodes to postpone ending the show.
Especially since they seem to be claiming how they already have these key moments planned out (i.e. they planned on Ted meeting the Mother at the train station from the beginning of the show).
Season 9 turns into Season 10...etc. Show has already started to get a little long in the tooth for some of us.
Especially since they seem to be claiming how they already have these key moments planned out (i.e. they planned on Ted meeting the Mother at the train station from the beginning of the show).
Season 9 turns into Season 10...etc. Show has already started to get a little long in the tooth for some of us.
The Real Abed
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I forget.... how did the mother get the umbrella back? Ted took it from the club really early on. Did it somehow get back to her? Or is that a plothole?
Lily and Marshall were boring and annoying this episode. Quinn's still annoyingly incongruent to me. Barney and Robin's plot had a little bit of meta in it with Barney's 58 second summary of the show, but the idea of the secret warehouse and stuff is odd to me. Their relationship is so far telegraphed that it's ridiculous. Even if we didn't have the flashforwards showing their marriage, we'd know it was coming for sure. So it's just tiring, really. At least Barney was funny on the phone.
Ted and Victoria's plot still seemed arbitrary and mean to me, but Klaus leaving too had me hoping it was about to turn around. So: why the hell did Ted need to get rid of her note and make Klaus seem like the bad guy??? Why not have them both leave notes, so Klaus and Victoria share the blame and truly realize they were wrong for each other? The way Ted did it seems cruel.
Klaus was funny, but that's two funny pieces in an episode. Yikes.
Teasing more and more mother stuff, but that could easily be stalled. I just hope that even if the show goes into seasons 9 and 10, the mother is revealed at the end of 8. Technically if they wanted to cop out, they could have the meeting take place at Farhampton even further down the road. But please: no.
Ted and Victoria's plot still seemed arbitrary and mean to me, but Klaus leaving too had me hoping it was about to turn around. So: why the hell did Ted need to get rid of her note and make Klaus seem like the bad guy??? Why not have them both leave notes, so Klaus and Victoria share the blame and truly realize they were wrong for each other? The way Ted did it seems cruel.
Klaus was funny, but that's two funny pieces in an episode. Yikes.
Teasing more and more mother stuff, but that could easily be stalled. I just hope that even if the show goes into seasons 9 and 10, the mother is revealed at the end of 8. Technically if they wanted to cop out, they could have the meeting take place at Farhampton even further down the road. But please: no.
Memento Mori
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He left it in the apartment she shared with Rachel Bilson.
HollovVpo1nt
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Well she did have an instrument with her. She could have been a bandmember at the wedding.
.la1n
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It's not that the episode(s) are particularly bad, it's just for people watching it regularly I think most of us are feeling a little fatigued. Therefore a lot of jokes are falling flat, or simply not hitting at all. This is a generalization, other people's mileage will vary obviously.
injecting the mother into the show half way through season 8 with marshal and lilly taking on reduced rolls in season 9 and 10 would make it alot better and mabye give it a shot in the arm it needs
I rather liked the episode, thought all the non-Ted parts were well done. The ending was sweet.
Barney is the mother, it all makes sense now!
Barney is the mother, it all makes sense now!
.la1n
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Thought it was a pretty good episode overall.
I can't see the show continuing without Jason Segel, so if he doesn't change his mind this surely has to be the last season right? Right?
Also, thank you HIMYM for making me remember this video: http://youtu.be/Z19zFlPah-o
I can't see the show continuing without Jason Segel, so if he doesn't change his mind this surely has to be the last season right? Right?
I'm still 99% sure that Barney's sister is the mother
Also, thank you HIMYM for making me remember this video: http://youtu.be/Z19zFlPah-o
IdreamofHIME
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Nice, my hometown.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Of course she is. Her (or her band) was there to perform at the wedding. The wedding is canceled. She packs up, takes a cab. And that's how she ends up in the exact same bumblefuck Long Island Rail Road station as Ted. Ted will casually look up, come up to her and say "hey...you're Barney's sister right?" and that's how Ted met your mother.
It really did sum up HIMYM perfectly since the first four seasons focused on Ted, and now it's all about Barney and Robin.
This might just be a hunch but do you think someone is going to die this season? I didn't notice this when I watched the episode until I read a review but Ted has a bandage on his right hand when he's at the train station. What happened? Does someone get hurt or worse? Plus the song that was playing at the end was "The Funeral" by Band of Horses. And Ted seemed really melancholic when he was sitting at the bench until that woman asked him if he came from a wedding. Is someone going to die, or is already dead? Will the mother die? Is that why Ted is telling this story to his children? Are they going to her funeral and he decided to tell them this story? Is that why they've endured listening to Ted for this long?
These are just things that I'm thinking out loud, and I don't think we should rule them out, but at the same time this IS network TV and sitcom series finales usually have happy endings. But you never know! I wouldn't be surprised if Bays & Thomas try to pull at the audience's heartstrings this season, especially when it ends.
These are just things that I'm thinking out loud, and I don't think we should rule them out, but at the same time this IS network TV and sitcom series finales usually have happy endings. But you never know! I wouldn't be surprised if Bays & Thomas try to pull at the audience's heartstrings this season, especially when it ends.
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Another death would be rather cheap. If I had to guess, the bandage was maybe from an argument, maybe a fall out of that window, who knows?
But, it'd be even sadder and cheaper if the kids are hearing this story because the mother died sometime around 2030. Though, without a doubt, both Ted and the mom met at Barney's wedding or right after it.
Season opener was weak.
The only parts I liked were the ted & victoria bits,
The barney & quinn parts were ok. That's all I really have to say on that.
The Marshall & Lily were downright awful. They ran with a joke that wasn't funny since the start, and they just kept reusing it. They felt like filler characters to a plot they had no part being a part off minus their baby. And gorram, Jason Segel doesn't feel like Segel to me. He doesn't have that "ERICKSON!!!" "ARGHHHHH! (shaving head scene)" feel that he had in the previous seasons.
TL;DR: Season opener SUCKED.
#bitching, #allday
The only parts I liked were the ted & victoria bits,
until the very end where victoria's ex decides to give us some unnecessary exposition. it was painful to watch.
The barney & quinn parts were ok. That's all I really have to say on that.
The Marshall & Lily were downright awful. They ran with a joke that wasn't funny since the start, and they just kept reusing it. They felt like filler characters to a plot they had no part being a part off minus their baby. And gorram, Jason Segel doesn't feel like Segel to me. He doesn't have that "ERICKSON!!!" "ARGHHHHH! (shaving head scene)" feel that he had in the previous seasons.
TL;DR: Season opener SUCKED.
#bitching, #allday
AlphaSnake
...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
Well she's certainly a looker, and she has a solid background. Assuming they actually do keep her as the mother for the reveal, and not replace her.
is that... can it be...? lol
hopefully it is because it shows that the writers have an end game in mind
snoopeasystreet
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Haven't watched since about season 6 but might get back into it. Is Ted still the worst character on tv?
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