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HIMYM = Whitest show on tv

The second season of Arrow is shaping up really well, still a little on the cheesy side at times though.

These next 5 eps are gonna be so good.

Loving the music in this season too, has really kicked it up a notch.

-PB

HIMYM ending was such a let down.

[spoiler] 9 seasons of setting it up that Ted and Robin are not together, only for them undo everything in 20 minutes and let them end up together. What was the point of proving that they were never right for each other. She has time to look after 5 dogs and take Ted back straight away, but no time for Barney, WTF. Was quite a let down of an ending. I thought the initial mother was perfect. She was the perfect fit with the group, and got on extremely well with Ted. Far better than Robin ever did. It just doesn't work with Ted and Robin together.

I believe the ending was recorded when they did season 1 so I guess they had no choice, but then at least set up the rest of the season so it does not end up in the most predictable way. Everyone felt it was Robin from the beginning, we got told it wasn't, then we get told, it actually is. Basically if you want to know the story, just watch the first fifteen minutes of the pilot episode. [/spoiler]

Edited by zimbos_05: 4/4/2014 09:48:02 AM

Im surprised Steve buscemi still had the propensity to do comedy on Portlandia

He seemed set about in his ways as Nucky Thompson on Boardwalk Empire

Not at all keen for the GI Joe episode of Community oday. No animated episode will ever live up to Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas.

Speaking of Boardwalk- 5th and final season soon. Hope its a good 'un

This. HIMYM never really stood out for me. I thought it was a decent, watchable show but I'm surprised that a lot of people got so into it.

He's had plenty of key dramatic roles before Boardwalk and has never let that stop him turning in some fine comedic performances too, I don't think it's surprising at all tbh.

I'm surprised they've decided to end it so soon considering there's still plenty to cover from a historical perspective but Terrence Winter has always made it clear the show is about Nucky not the history of organized crime. I'd love it if HBO picked it up again in the near future and focused on the rise of Al Capone and Luciano and co. Capone's story arc was the most interesting for me in S4 and the Luciano story has been criminally underdone.

[spoiler]Not really, the show was 'How I Met Your Mother' not 'Who Ted Ends Up With'. The mother is still Tracy and the speculation around Robin always centred on if she was the mother or not, the last 2 minutes was irrelevant to the main story.

Also I don't agree with them being "never right for each other", they always were right for each other and the story didn't necessarily set-up that they weren't. In fact the entire last season was spent stretching out the Ted/Robin thing, with the locket, Ted moving to Chicago, the scene on the beach and Robin wanting to leave the wedding with Ted it really emphasised that there was still a lot between them. When you think about it it does make sense, the reason they couldn't be together was they wanted completely different things. Ted wanted to have kids and settle down while Robin never wanted kids and wanted to travel the world for journalism. They both achieved those things so it does make sense that afterwards, considering they were both single, they would get back together.
However I will admit I would have preferred that 'perfect moment' of him meeting the mother and the story ending there with that 'happily ever after' everyone had been expecting for years. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]After he said, "and that is how i met your mother". THe girl says, nonsense, "you still like Aunt Robin." They spent many episodes trying to prove they weren't right for each other. I just thought it was the easy way out for the story. The whole thing about Ted was the 'perfect/right one' the 'perfect moment'. The ending we got was totally not that. Robin really wasn't the 'perfect/right one'. She was just the one that feelings were always there for and turned out to be the easy option for an ending.

I just thought it was a very tacky ending for what was turning in to something good. Especially the way they build the suspense on the mother. To just kill her off and end it like that, very easy way out
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There's a fan made (and better) alternate ending that cuts out the last few minutes. Worth a watch if the finale left you disappointed.

My main gripe with it was [spoiler]it undid a lot of Barney's character development, and I always thought he had great chemistry with Robin. Every time Ted declared his love for her after they broke up at the end of Season 2 annoyed me. It also means they spent a whole season on a wedding that didn't end up lasting in the end, although there were a few other things that were addressed at the wedding.[/spoiler]

In spite of the bits I didn't like, there were some really beautiful moments in the finale, and I think that's what the haters are overlooking. The scene where [spoiler]Barney meets his daughter for the first time was beautiful, as was the train station meeting.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]True, even though she played such a little part of the show the mother was really the star in the way that we waited 9 years for her thinking she was the most important character of the show. To watch the finale and find out she was to an extent insignificant and Robin was more important is disappointing. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]I feel like you have to give Bays and Thomas some huge credit for not only having the show go 9 seasons but for giving it the ending they'd always planned from the start. It's not an easy thing to do at all

Also don't know why anyone is surprised, they basically told everyone how it would end back in February last year "How I Met Your Mother started with a guy who spots a girl from across a crowded bar, and that's Ted and Robin... It's so built into the DNA of the show, and we're heading towards this huge finish for the series"[/spoiler]

My main gripe is with the season as a whole which was mediocre for the most part with the exception of a few episodes here and there. Probably would've been better off finishing after Season 8 like it was supposed to.

Who? What? Where? When?




This exactly.

Edited by zimbos_05: 5/4/2014 12:31:14 PM

It's been taken down by Youtube but I'll do a quick search and post the link if I find it.


Also, apparently on the season 9 DVD there'll be an official alternate ending.





EDIT: This was the only video of it I could find, there's a brief commentary before hand so skip to about :55
Oh yeah and CONTAINS SPOILERS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1e81odmqgQ

Edited by A16Man: 5/4/2014 01:05:47 PM

Just finished watching Brooklyn Nine Nine. It's literally the best parts of The Office and Parks and Rec put together. Love it.

Still deciding what I think of True Detective, it'd help if it had subtitles!

Regardless, that six minute shot in the hood at the end of episode 4 was stunning.

Only up to episode three. McConaughay is fucking brilliant in it.

Wow, there are some questionable average ratings there.

Well if anyone watched the checkout on the ABC last night, I know of one of the actors who did one of the sketches on the show last night

He was a former arts tutor of mine and he sure as hell knows who I am :p

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FX's TV adaptation of 'Fargo' drops soon, it's a pretty well loved cult film so it will be very interesting to see how well they handle this, the casting looks pretty interesting though.

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Final season of Californication starts today :(

About to sit down and watch the first season of Revenge. I remember watching the first one or two on FTA, but then Uni got in the way and I lost track of it. Should be good.