TheKasp said:
Also, incoming rant
Season 5 should have been the ending, I suppose I can see that they wanted to go with Lily and Marshall getting pregnant, but it's still unnecessary. It's true that they're literally just dragging any little thing out now. First we had Marshall and Lily move to the new apartment, then they moved to the suburbs, and now they're moving back into the old apartment. And with each move by them we have Future Ted telling us how that was their place and blah blah blah.
Then we get to Ted. I'll just start with Victoria since that's easier. After she disappears in the 1st season, we don't hear from her until this past year, and we're told that "Ted has been holding these feelings for her and never got ever her." To which I say bullshit. I get we're talking about a half-hour sitcom, but if you're going to drop something like that on the viewers after 6 years, you're gonna need something to go on. Even just a throwaway line during one of his girl-of-the-week episodes saying he missed her would have been fine. But we get nothing, and now Ted is running off with her for no reason. We know she isn't the mother, so that silly "driving into the sunset thing" is a waste.
Which brings me to Ted/Robin. Stop it already. The pilot established she wasn't the mother, can we stop flirting with the idea of them in love? There's nothing dramatic about it, it's just appeasing all the shippers out there.
And speaking of the shippers, the Barney/Robin pairing was just silly. Like you said, he had all this character development lately, and we were seeing him evolve beyond a womanizer into someone more mature and then *BOOM* they blow it all to shit. When he dumped Nora to go after Robin and she rejected him, I actually thought that was good. They were finally moving on, not relying on nostalgia and something interesting could happen. When Quinn was brought in and they got engaged I thought the show had one season left. One season of baby-jokes and giving Robin her love story (maybe that guy from that episode in Season 6, her old secret crush or whatever since I think Future Ted mentioned something about them), and then Ted meets Wife at the Barney/Quinn wedding.
But no. Now we have a season of Barney/Quinn breaking up and Ted/Victoria breaking up and Barney proposing to Robin. Then we'll probably get a full season of wedding preparation for Robin/Barney with Ted just moping around before we get the end. And that's a condensed version, which doesn't account for all the $$$ the writers get for every episode they pump out, regardless of plot coherence and quality
At this point I'm finding it harder and harder to care, especially since we're no where nearer to finding out the Mother than we were in Season 5, and the jokes are slipping as well since nobody can pump out consistently good material for almost a decade
/rant
Season 5 should have been the ending, I suppose I can see that they wanted to go with Lily and Marshall getting pregnant, but it's still unnecessary. It's true that they're literally just dragging any little thing out now. First we had Marshall and Lily move to the new apartment, then they moved to the suburbs, and now they're moving back into the old apartment. And with each move by them we have Future Ted telling us how that was their place and blah blah blah.
Then we get to Ted. I'll just start with Victoria since that's easier. After she disappears in the 1st season, we don't hear from her until this past year, and we're told that "Ted has been holding these feelings for her and never got ever her." To which I say bullshit. I get we're talking about a half-hour sitcom, but if you're going to drop something like that on the viewers after 6 years, you're gonna need something to go on. Even just a throwaway line during one of his girl-of-the-week episodes saying he missed her would have been fine. But we get nothing, and now Ted is running off with her for no reason. We know she isn't the mother, so that silly "driving into the sunset thing" is a waste.
Which brings me to Ted/Robin. Stop it already. The pilot established she wasn't the mother, can we stop flirting with the idea of them in love? There's nothing dramatic about it, it's just appeasing all the shippers out there.
And speaking of the shippers, the Barney/Robin pairing was just silly. Like you said, he had all this character development lately, and we were seeing him evolve beyond a womanizer into someone more mature and then *BOOM* they blow it all to shit. When he dumped Nora to go after Robin and she rejected him, I actually thought that was good. They were finally moving on, not relying on nostalgia and something interesting could happen. When Quinn was brought in and they got engaged I thought the show had one season left. One season of baby-jokes and giving Robin her love story (maybe that guy from that episode in Season 6, her old secret crush or whatever since I think Future Ted mentioned something about them), and then Ted meets Wife at the Barney/Quinn wedding.
But no. Now we have a season of Barney/Quinn breaking up and Ted/Victoria breaking up and Barney proposing to Robin. Then we'll probably get a full season of wedding preparation for Robin/Barney with Ted just moping around before we get the end. And that's a condensed version, which doesn't account for all the $$$ the writers get for every episode they pump out, regardless of plot coherence and quality
At this point I'm finding it harder and harder to care, especially since we're no where nearer to finding out the Mother than we were in Season 5, and the jokes are slipping as well since nobody can pump out consistently good material for almost a decade
/rant
