How I Met Your Mother: Season 8

[Bruins]

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LOL. That isnt a response to my statement. You use the word "hate." I dont hate the show. Never said anyone hates the show. I said its quality has dropped and that you are the only person I've ever met that believes this season is on par with seasons 1 or 2. Its still a decent show.

Also, using your logic, the third funniest show on television right now is "Two and a Half Men." I mean it has to be, right? Its the third highest rated comedy on television and it keeps getting renewed. Thats simply nonsense.

Two and a Half Men is not my cup of tea, but I can't deny the fact that it is for thousands (millions?) of people. Clearly it's enjoyable for a large amount of people.

But, as in most things in life, the people who don't like something are usually the ones who speak out. There's always so much more to say when you don't like something than there is for when you enjoy it. That's my point.

[AUChase]

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Just like a lot of other shows, they set the bar high early on and anything that comes after it will struggle to meet expectations.

I still like the show a lot, but I'm not as critical as a lot of people.

There are some things I would like to see changed, but for a show that may have been drug out a little longer than necessary, it's still doing well.

[Chrisksaint]

Meh I'll just see how it plays out, the show has always entertained me so I'm gonna stick with it.

[aholbert32]

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Two and a Half Men is not my cup of tea, but I can't deny the fact that it is for thousands (millions?) of people. Clearly it's enjoyable for a large amount of people.

But, as in most things in life, the people who don't like something are usually the ones who speak out. There's always so much more to say when you don't like something than there is for when you enjoy it. That's my point.

I just dont buy that in today's internet age. In my opinion, the best comedy on TV is Parks and Recreation. I hear nothing but praise about that show. Plenty of people who love that show are speaking out about it.

I think Modern Family isnt as good as it was in its first 2 seasons but there is still a ton of praise for it and a ton of people who think its on par with the first season. I rarely hear people bashing or complaining about MF.

Ive heard nothing but complaints about HIMYM since the Zooey storyline. If it wasnt complaints about the creators dragging out the time period when he meets the mom, its people complaining about the back and forth love triangle between Robyn, Barney and Ted. Nobody is saying the show sucks. They are just saying that the show isnt of the quality it used to be. This isnt a case of the minority being louder...its a case of people who are 100% satisfied with the show being the minority.

[SmashMan]

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I'm not sure if I'm right here but I feel like things started going south during the season with Zooey, which would be Season 6 I think. That one seemed to be where it felt like they were just starting to drag things out for the purpose of extending the show as long as they could, which never goes well for any show that I've seen.

The entire story with Zoey and The Captain never connected with me. Felt very much like filler. I'd agree that's when the quality started dropping.

[Jdoug312]

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I still love the show through and through, but I have noticed the last couple seasons weren't quite as great as a whole as the show's first few seasons were. But like AUChase said, I'm not quite as critical as some are. If I were to give the first few seasons an A+, the last couple have been A, or A-. Still an A nevertheless.

I'm pretty interested in Season 9. There are a lot of storylines colliding at the weekend of the wedding, so it'll definitely take some time to thoroughly go through it all. I'm cool with it going the 24 route in that certain episodes take place over a certain period of hours and all of the drama that takes place during that period. I am quite sure the show will finish strong.

[TheMatrix31]

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I'd be upset if the entire season was the wedding but they may very well be going that route. I don't know though, they're usually good with sticking to time. "Kids, in the Fall of 2013", etc. If the wedding is the entire season, that means no Christmas episode, none of that. I just don't think that'll happen in quite that fashion.

Who knows. Last night's episode was awesome and that's all I can say about it.

[DonkeyJote]

I think it's pretty obvious the show has dropped off in quality. That happens, though. Any show that goes this long is going to have that. It's still one of the best shows on network tv (as opposed to its prime, when it was #1 imo).

I don't think using the wedding for the framing of the season is a bad idea at all. With this show's use of flash forwards and flashbacks, I think it could be great. This way, you can still get to see how Barney/Robin and Marshall/Lily end up, and get to see some of Ted and the Mother's relationship happen, while saving the the titular "meeting" for the last episode.

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[TheMatrix31]

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Part of me would be really upset if we don't see what makes them click, but yeah, the title of the show is How I Met Your Mother, so I wouldn't be surprised at ALL if the actual meeting is shown in the series finale.

[Mo]

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I just want to jump in and say, I bash Modern Family all the time. I'm out.

[Chrisksaint]

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Part of me would be really upset if we don't see what makes them click, but yeah, the title of the show is How I Met Your Mother, so I wouldn't be surprised at ALL if the actual meeting is shown in the series finale.

I've always imagined that the show would end with Ted telling his kids "And that is How I Met Your Mother" then credits.

[SmashMan]

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Part of me would be really upset if we don't see what makes them click, but yeah, the title of the show is How I Met Your Mother, so I wouldn't be surprised at ALL if the actual meeting is shown in the series finale.

I wouldn't be surprised either, but as it is his kids have already had to hear unrelated stories about their father's friends, so I would hope we get some sense of why this new girl is THE girl for Ted.

It actually might be really crappy if they don't give any real depth to the relationship. For this to pay off, they kinda have to show the way they click that causes Ted to finally get over Robin. If they just leave it with a "and that's how I met your mother", it almost seems like he's settling for second place.

[TheMatrix31]

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I wouldn't be surprised either, but as it is his kids have already had to hear unrelated stories about their father's friends, so I would hope we get some sense of why this new girl is THE girl for Ted.

It actually might be really crappy if they don't give any real depth to the relationship. For this to pay off, they kinda have to show the way they click that causes Ted to finally get over Robin. If they just leave it with a "and that's how I met your mother", it almost seems like he's settling for second place.

Exactly. The emotions showed by Ted over Robin in the finale and thus far through the series are WAY too strong to just forget about Robin without any explanation.

[rsnomar05]

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The show wouldn't keep getting renewed if the majority of people hated what was going on... As with most things, the minority is usually the loudest.

Or a lot of the people like myself who think the show has been become a largely unfunny, mediocre mess are sticking it out because the show is close to the end, we wanted to see who the mother was, and we still held out some hope that magically the show would return to it's season 1-3 greatness.

Barney was always a cartoon, but he was never portrayed as being this creepy. Sure, he would scheme to sleep with women and lie to them about his identity, but he wasn't pulling a lever to make his bed slide into a compartment in the wall, all so he could eject one-night stands from his apartment, and he wasn't weighing all women trying to enter his apartment with a scale under the doormat. And for all of Barney's childish cartoon qualities, the early seasons balanced that out with grown-up maturity. Sure, Barney often spoke out against marriage, but when Lily had cold feet, it was Barney who pushed her to get back together with Marshall. Adding to that maturity was the initial Robin/Barney relationship, where the writers allowed Barney to evolve into a more responsible, caring person while still retaining a childlike wickedness. Then the writers panicked. They didn't want Barney to change one-bit from his cartoonish womanizing self, so they ended the relationship and had Barney regress. The problem is, he regressed too far. Scheming to sleep with woman became Barney's defining attribute. They played up that aspect of the character to the extreme, to the point where smoke detectors would go off in his apartment if a woman ever said "let's snuggle" or "I'm a week late."

Then the writers turned Robin, who had once been a strong woman, into an emotional wreck who can be seen crawling under her desk and sobbing her eyes out the minute she sees the guy she likes is dating someone else. And unlike the first Barney/Robin relationship, where strong Robin wasn't willing to put up with much of Barney's crap, later season Robin had to magically become okay with it all. The writers had panicked and made Barney regress, and they weren't about to have Barney change or mature again, so for the relationship to work they had to change Robin's character. Now Robin loved Barney, not in spite of his cartoonish ways womanizing tendencies, but because of them.

To make matters worse, because the writers were dead-set on Ted not meeting the mother until the very last moment of the series, they started informing viewers that Ted's relationships were going to end badly. 1. It's hard to invest in a relationship you know is about to end. 2. This meant that when they brought back Victoria, they had to make her completely unsympathetic, turning her into a giant slob so as to make Ted want to end things with her. And each time Ted emotionally revealed he was ready to settle down and meet "the one," the writers would throw him into a bad relationship because it wasn't time to meet the mother yet. The result of this was that one episode after Ted confessed to Lily he was ready to settle down, Lily was telling Ted he needed to date crazy girlfriend Jeanette. Similarly, each time Ted revealed he was over Robin and happy for Barney, the show would revisit the triangle.

The show still did the emotional moments well, like Marshall reacting to his father's death, but those were rare instances of reality in a show that was once based in reality. In seasons 1-3, the characters outside of Barney acted realistically. And you can have one character be a cartoon if the others are grounded in realism. But then the other characters and plotlines started to regress as well. Robin was now on a late-night newscast with a man who did the show in his underwear. Marshall was in court against a guy who constantly bent over to try and sway the jury with his good looks, and Marshall didn't object once.

I could go on and on about how much the quality has declined from the first few seasons, but I've already written a long enough post. Here's to one more season of Robin getting cold feet before the wedding after confessing she still has feelings for Ted!

[Redacted01]

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I wouldn't be surprised either, but as it is his kids have already had to hear unrelated stories about their father's friends, so I would hope we get some sense of why this new girl is THE girl for Ted.

It actually might be really crappy if they don't give any real depth to the relationship. For this to pay off, they kinda have to show the way they click that causes Ted to finally get over Robin. If they just leave it with a "and that's how I met your mother", it almost seems like he's settling for second place.

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