How I stretched a 15 minute story into 9 fucking years
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because I’m still simping for your Aunt Robin and want to let you know that she’s about to become your new mother
(Also still salty)
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I was annoyed through all of season 2 when he was dating Robin. At the end of the very first episode of season 1 she was called “Aunt Robin” and then we had all of season 2 wasting an entire season with a relationship we were already told didn’t work out.
(And that’s ignoring the meta situation of “today kids I’m going to tell you about all the sex I had with your Aunt Robin”)
“Kids, did I ever tell you about all the women I banged, including the time I pulled two hot chicks for a threesome?”
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The complete reversal of character development is what killed it for me as well. With the same ending and removing the reversal the ending is 100x better. Just let their growth mean something instead of pissing it all away.
GoT has entered the chat
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I’m going to say something controversial:
IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.
If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.
I was thinking of GoT when I wrote this. It’s similar, but GoT was so much worse.
The ending: Nah we just pretend to change and any growth you think a person makes is just cope.
That’s true but I didn’t care for new character at the end is the mom, let’s make you like her, then haha just go for Robin.
Don’t watch for the ending. Enjoy the journey.
There was actually an alternative ending where the mom lived. It’s on YT. I prefer to think about it as the real ending
I was fine with the mother dying. It was just the immediate twist of “Mom’s dead, and this is me now spending 9 years explaining to you why I want to go bang your aunt”.
I think the bittersweet ending of finding out that the mother was dead all along and Ted was telling the story to his kids would have been a great ending without the add-on Robin double-twist.
That would have been better
Skip the whole last season.
I tried to get in it. Didn’t enjoy
Hated the journey as much as I hate Jason Segel
I’m guessing you realised you hated it after only a few episodes and it only got worse as you watched the rest 😏
It was too sappy for me, like rewatching friends is a bit cringe now that im older. Or full house. Good memories but shows I won’t revisit ever
Honestly, I loved that show. But this picture is still so damn true.
Great show, loved the show, would have been better without the premise.
The twist should have been that the mother was indeed the stripper from season one.
The laugh track adds up to two whole seasons
You can probably say that about any show with a laugh track. I usually don’t mind it if the show has jokes. But then there are things like Big Bang Theory where they just pasted the laugh track over the dialogue in regular intervals without the jokes. I also don’t remember How I Met Your Mother being funny.
The story was never about getting from point A to point B. It was about every little distraction or detour in between that allowed getting to point B to have the impact that it had.
Any sitcom plot is just a shell to tell jokes And funny situations. Hearing people flip their shit about that is funny
So a regular story told by somebody with ADHD
I hated Ted. Were you supposed to hate Ted?
AKA why I never ask my in-laws about their day.
I remember during early seasons a friend of mine saying “I think the mother is not Robin but he’ll end up with Robin” and I said lol that would be so lame
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What did you expect?
ADHD by any other name.
Which wouldn’t be a problem, if the show was any good.
- Do you want the short version or the long one?
- Yes.
