How I Met Your Mother - Season 9

phasers

It did indeed



I really enjoyed the episode, I wish they spent more time on the Mother's story instead of all of the filler nonsense they've been doing!

Wellyd

I loved last night it was what this show was all about. I loved that we finally are getting close to the big meeting!

Zwillinge

I actually enjoyed that episode and her story.

So much, I went "Oh yeah, that whole thing." when they went back to Lily, Marshal, Barney and Ted at the end during her song.

Alfred Borden

Two very good back to back episodes in years. Last night was brilliant, there should have been more focus on her story and not all that crap we were made watch for the last few weeks. Hoping this keeps uo now.

FreudianSlippers

I also enjoyed the episode, but it didn't really fill me with much desire to see the spinoff.

Killer_banana

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

I also enjoyed the episode, but it didn't really fill me with much desire to see the spinoff.

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

AlmightyCushion

Killer_banana wrote: »

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

It didn't really subvert that trope very well seeing as Ted is more of a woman than most women.

Killer_banana

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It didn't really subvert that trope very well seeing as Ted is more of a woman than most women.

Well in the beginning at least they seemed to be trying to subvert it since he was looking for his soulmate and Robin didn't want anything serious. They also did all of this while making them seem like real people whereas now they're all hideous caricatures.

FreudianSlippers

Killer_banana wrote: »

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

Irrelevant. I know it's not going to be the show from 'the mother's' perspective, but I meant it's clear any show that is a spinoff is going to be along the same lines and basically going to be HIMYM with a woman lead (who'll probably be 'butch' and not fill the female trope...) boring.

Necronomicon

Two really fine episodes in a row, well I'll be damned. Though it does make me more annoyed at the amount of tosh we've gotten. I wish they'd made it a 12-15 episode season.

iguana

Not a bad episode at all, though I did have an unintentional laugh at how the mother is practically virginal as her first relationship was painted as if it would have been "Lily/Marshall 2.0" if he hadn't died. Then she was celibate for years until she met Hulk Jr, who loved her so much he would have married her. All the while Ted is filling his kids in on his many years of being a raging slut.

Agent Smith

After seeing the last episode



it truely was one of the best episodes

don ramo

looks like they are going out with a bang, which is great to see, i remember hearing that all of this season would be based over the wedding and thought what an unbelievably sh1te idea that was, but i must say they have done a fine job, im really looking forward to the end,

i also really like that they have shown the mother and ted married and with kids, nice touch

iguana

I just realised the meaning of the children's names, they are called after Ted's lucky penny (Luk - e Penny) that lost him the job in Chicago in S2. What are the odds that the coin was originally the mother's?

Agent Smith

I'll Admit i laughed too much at this

phasers

Luke is called Luke because Ted loves Star wars. He always says he's naming his kids Luke and Leia. I think you're right about the penny though.

Killer_banana

phasers wrote: »

Luke is called Luke because Ted loves Star wars. He always says he's naming his kids Luke and Leia. I think you're right about the penny though.

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

scottmcb04

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

The mother said to Rachael bilson something along the lines of "you should have taken him into to see my lame penny collection" after she said that Ted seemed to like everything of hers!

So I would presume that she would have had a big say in her name?

Dman001

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

This is Ted we're talking about, of course she had no say...... :P

iguana

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

Ted found his lucky penny in S2, the mother is probably the person who lost it.

Clareman

So they completely blow off the spin off show in a half an hour, well 20 minutes. The wife spends years getting over the love of her life, then she's going out & living with someone who wants to marry her and then in 1 year meets and gets engaged to the next love of her life.

This show annoys me but I can't stop watching it.

SureYWouldntYa

Clareman wrote: »

So they completely blow off the spin off show in a half an hour, well 20 minutes. The wife spends years getting over the love of her life, then she's going out & living with someone who wants to marry her and then in 1 year meets and gets engaged to the next love of her life.

This show annoys me but I can't stop watching it.

The spin off is supposed to be on a different set of characters i think

S.M.B.

Huh? The spinoff show involves the story of a completely new set of characters, not Teds wifes story. They've recently announced the characters.

"How I Met Your Father" will revolve around Sally, Juliet, Frank, Future Sally and gay married couple Danny & Todd.

^ That's in reply to Claremans post.

phasers

TVline posted a description of the spinoff gang, and it sounds horrible.

SALLY | She’s vibrant, messy and unpredictable — a “female Peter Pan who has never grown up and has no idea of where she’s going in life.” She’s thinking of calling it quits with her husband of a year, Gavin. She’ll lean on her circle of friends for advice and support through the inevitable divorce. That circle includes…

JULIET | Sally’s sexy, flamboyant, energetic, party-girl BFF. She runs a successful fashion blog. She’s delighted to learn Sally is ending things with the terminally boring Gavin.

DANNY | Sally’s older gay brother, a Type A, overachieving lawyer whom she shares little in common with. They nonetheless share a tight bond, although Sally’s decision to move in with Danny after her split with Gavin promises to test that bond.

TODD | Danny’s warm, outgoing husband and one of Sally’s closest friends from college. Unlike Danny, Todd welcomes Sally into their home.

FRANK | The head of IT for Juliet’s fashion blog. He’s a hot nerd. He has genuine feelings for Sally, but it’s a one-sided flirtation. At least for the moment.

NARRATOR | It’s Sally from the future. She’s reliving the events of her past to her kids.

Killer_banana

phasers wrote: »

TVline posted a description of the spinoff gang, and it sounds horrible.

See on the hand this sounds awful. On the other only one sounds like rehash of an existing character whereas I thought all of them would be.

S.M.B.

Those descriptions are always going to sound pretty terrible. I'm sure the original character outlines were just as bad.

Interesting that they're going with the 'currently married' angle. That actually sounds somewhat interesting and sets it apart from the original and any other sitcom I can think of.

Alfred Borden

When HIMYM finishes up ill be jumping of this boat, dont think i will give that new show a chance.

Skerries

sounds like it is going to be That 80's Show all over again

phasers

Lawyers and journalists/bloggers are such TV careers, aren't they? In TV land, lawyers work 4 hours a week and make about $50,000 a month :pac:

phasers

Robin did a Poochie and flew out of the show! That scene was embarrassing.

Holy crap this episode looked atrocious! I think their green screen is from 1992 or something, that scene on the bridge looked like a bad B-movie!

Weird visuals aside, the episode was... ok. It wasn't funny but at least it seems that Ted if finally over Robin, and the story progressed a bit.

Alfred Borden

This episode had so much potential especially on the back of two good episodes but it was terrible. Way too much Ted moping over Robin again, even if the story has progressed, sick of seeing them two in scenes together.

Killer_banana

If you're going to have a character pointlessly revisit a love interest we know he's not ending up with (even though though you did a wonderful job closing the book about three times) and then build it up and up and up deliver a good episode that makes the revisit worthwhile and gives the arc a worthy end.

Robin turning into a balloon, figuratively or not was atrociously awful and I cannot buy that the writers thought that was in any sense a good idea at any point. Even ignoring that the whole episode was a snooze. I normally like when the show does emotional stuff but nothing Robin and Ted said or did was in anyway interesting. I am really tired so I don't know if it's in my head or not but was something off about Cobie and Josh's performance? Normally I think they're pretty good actors.

The locket nonsense was stupid and made no sense since we know Ted found it in the pencil box (which makes me wonder what the locket Victoria sent actually was). Unless anything comes of wherever Lily was then the fight with her and Marshall was a waste as well (Segel has complained about playing the happy couple boring so thinking it might have just been put in to keep him happy). Nothing Barney has done has been interesting or funny for seasons so nothing new there.

As others have said the visuals were really low quality. As well as the crappy green screen, in the scene where Barney slapped the two guys you could see his hands went no where near the faces. So odd...

certifiedcrepe

I enjoyed this episode. I liked how Barney was passing on everything he knew to the two young guys.
And at the end when Ted asks Robin if on their first date if she had wanted him to kiss her and she says yes it was cute and emotional for me because at the end of the pilot episode Ted says he eventually found out that Robin did want him to kiss her.

But no matter how much I love HIMYM, the whole Robin flying away like a balloon thing was cringey.

Dman001

Was Robin actually present for all that conversation with Ted, or was it him hashing out the conversation in his head so he could let go?

Think it's only wishful thinking on my behalf that it was in his head, as the whole episode was so cringey in its writing and delivery (as well as the same old being redone) I'm hoping, for the sake of character development, they wouldn't put Ted through that once more. If this episode was to serve as the ultimate moment Ted moves on from Robin, it was very poorly executed.

Killer_banana

Dman001 wrote: »

Was Robin actually present for all that conversation with Ted, or was it him hashing out the conversation in his head so he could let go?

Think it's only wishful thinking on my behalf that it was in his head, as the whole episode was so cringey in its writing and delivery (as well as the same old being redone) I'm hoping, for the sake of character development, they wouldn't put Ted through that once more. If this episode was to serve as the ultimate moment Ted moves on from Robin, it was very poorly executed.

I took it up as it all happening except for the part where Robin flew off.

phasers

phasers wrote: »

TVline posted a description of the spinoff gang, and it sounds horrible.

OMG you're such a Juliet.

Just started the latest episode. Wow that's some bad greenscreening.

oxygen

I've only just realised from reading the last page that the last episode wasnt the back door spin off. I presumed it was because it was soo cringy, just awful. I assumed the two young guys were going to be in an American Pie\Play Book spin off. That's why I excused the awfulness of it, I watched it and decided I wasnt going to watch the spin off. Now I realise its a HIMYD thats not the HIMYD crew from 2 episodes ago.

At this stage Im only watching because of loyalty. This season hasnt been terrible, but that last episode was terrible. Also why not just film a scene in central park instead of badly green screening it.

Boom_Bap

oxygen_temp wrote: »

I've only just realised from reading the last page that the last episode wasnt the back door spin off. I presumed it was because it was soo cringy, just awful. I assumed the two young guys were going to be in an American Pie\Play Book spin off. That's why I excused the awfulness of it, I watched it and decided I wasnt going to watch the spin off. Now I realise its a HIMYD thats not the HIMYD crew from 2 episodes ago.

At this stage Im only watching because of loyalty. This season hasnt been terrible, but that last episode was terrible. Also why not just film a scene in central park instead of badly green screening it.

The green-screening of Barney meeting the 2 young lads was also pretty rough....come to think of it, the green-screening of Marshall's road trip was pretty bad as well.

I think that this is a difficult season for the writers, they know that we know the show is coming to an end, and they have to build up to that by tieing up loose ends. In the most recent one, it's all about how Ted got the pendant, and how Barney is to hand over the play book. Alos, how Lilly and Marsh resolved thier dilema.

I'm still enjoying it, but really just waiting for the big moment when the mother is met.

Killer_banana

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I think that this is a difficult season for the writers, they know that we know the show is coming to an end, and they have to build up to that by tieing up loose ends. In the most recent one, it's all about how Ted got the pendant, and how Barney is to hand over the play book. Alos, how Lilly and Marsh resolved thier dilema.

I'm still enjoying it, but really just waiting for the big moment when the mother is met.

But we saw how he got the pendant last season when Lily told him it was in the pencil box so don't see the point of adding all the scenes from last week except to fill time and awkwardly shoehorn in a monologue from Ted about not giving up on love.

I thought with it ending in March that there were no breaks but the next episode isn't until the 24th now.

Dman001

Killer_banana wrote: »

But we saw how he got the pendant last season when Lily told him it was in the pencil box so don't see the point of adding all the scenes from last week except to fill time and awkwardly shoehorn in a monologue from Ted about not giving up on love.

I thought with it ending in March that there were no breaks but the next episode isn't until the 24th now.

I kinda lost track on the whole pendant thing - If it was found in the Pencil Box, what did Ted's Ex throw into the river?

Killer_banana

Dman001 wrote: »

I kinda lost track on the whole pendant thing - If it was found in the Pencil Box, what did Ted's Ex throw into the river?

We don't know. Some other locket? We weren't told, we were just shown a version of events slightly different to last season (if I remember correctly the stuff with Stella we knew about already but not the rest). I'm guessing it'll get explained at some point...possibly when Ted decides actually he hasn't let go of Robin this time either. :rolleyes:

allym

Dman001 wrote: »

I kinda lost track on the whole pendant thing - If it was found in the Pencil Box, what did Ted's Ex throw into the river?

It was that pendant. Victoria ended up with it and sent it back to Ted, and crazy Janine opened his mail and found it.

Killer_banana

allym wrote: »

It was that pendant. Victoria ended up with it and sent it back to Ted, and crazy Janine opened his mail and found it.

Except last season we saw Ted find the pendant in the race car pencil box after Lily told him Robin dug it up drunk before moving to Japan and he's planning on giving it to Robin as a wedding present.

phasers

Killer_banana wrote: »

Except last season we saw Ted find the pendant in the race car pencil box after Lily told him Robin dug it up drunk before moving to Japan and he's planning on giving it to Robin as a wedding present.

I just saw the first episode of the new season on E4 yesterday and the box was empty when Ted looked, and it turns out Stella had it from when they lived together or something.

To be honest the explanation was complete toss, but long story short; Stella had the locket, not Ted.

That locket that went in the river was indeed the locket Robin was looking for.

The bit I don't get is that Robin still wants her locket, it belonged to her and some random woman threw it in a river because of Ted...

Really, Ted should tell her about the whole locket thing and get her some sort of replacement.

Killer_banana

phasers wrote: »

I just saw the first episode of the new season on E4 yesterday and the box was empty when Ted looked, and it turns out Stella had it from when they lived together or something.

To be honest the explanation was complete toss, but long story short; Stella had the locket, not Ted.

That locket that went in the river was indeed the locket Robin was looking for.

The bit I don't get is that Robin still wants her locket, it belonged to her and some random woman threw it in a river because of Ted...

Really, Ted should tell her about the whole locket thing and get her some sort of replacement.

I actually got the episode where Lily tells him and the first episode with him flying all over the place jumbled up in my memory into one episode so thank you. And you're right, that locket was important to Robin and she'll never see it again. Also having Ted flying all over the place to get it to have it thrown in the river at the end makes the whole thing pointless. They could have done the stupid balloon thing without the locket anyway.

iguana

Or just have made one of the other times that Ted let Robin go, have been the time he actually let her go instead of him being such a whiney sad sack for years. Christ, when he was about to marry Stella, Robin opened the door for him and he rejected her. He was clearly over her at that point, just because Stella left him doesn't mean he has never stopped loving Robin. It means he is fixated on an ex that he knows isn't right for him. It's not romantic it's boring and pathetic.

Killer_banana

iguana wrote: »

Or just have made one of the other times that Ted let Robin go, have been the time he actually let her go instead of him being such a whiney sad sack for years. Christ, when he was about to marry Stella, Robin opened the door for him and he rejected her. He was clearly over her at that point, just because Stella left him doesn't mean he has never stopped loving Robin. It means he is fixated on an ex that he knows isn't right for him. It's not romantic it's boring and pathetic.

Well yes I'd have preferred if they stopped rehashing the same thing I just meant adding the locket added nothing to it.

I never really felt any of the revisits were justified since we knew he was never going to marry her but I thought the one after she broke up with Kevin was done well. Ted deciding they couldn't keep the deal to get married if they were still single in years to come was great because Ted said it and he chose to move on. To have him still fixating on her years later devalues that completely (and all the other times the writers seemed to close the book on it).

FreudianSlippers

If he really gave a toss he'd get in there and swim around for it. That river isn't that deep or fast moving tbh. Of course, it's Central Park so it is full of piss and needles, so there is that...

iguana

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

If he really gave a toss he'd get in there and swim around for it. That river isn't that deep or fast moving tbh. Of course, it's Central Park so it is full of piss and needles, so there is that...

I'm sure we'll find out he did as he hadn't given up on his love for Robin at that point.