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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 3, 2014 19:42:11 GMT -5
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Post by wildknight on Apr 3, 2014 20:11:08 GMT -5
... none of the news coming out about this show is promising.
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 3, 2014 20:21:30 GMT -5
... none of the news coming out about this show is promising. I feel the same. I was excited about it before anything was said about it (other than that it was a thing), but the more they reveal, the less I'm interested. |
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 4, 2014 1:01:14 GMT -5
The newest episode of Arrow was pretty good.
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Post by Rush on Apr 4, 2014 9:22:52 GMT -5
Hank hill is the best animated tv dad
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Post by miketheratguy on Apr 4, 2014 19:14:23 GMT -5
I've never paid any attention to How I Met Your Mother but the show ended the other day and it's been all over the internet because apparently most people are pissed off about the finale. I'm entertained by controversy so I decided to look it up and see what the fuss was about (complete and total spoilers to follow, of course).
Apparently the whole conceit of the show, and how the first episode begins, is that a father tells his children the story of how his friends' wedding caused him to begin a search for his soul mate, a story told through narrated flashbacks. You learn about the father's life and emotional development over the years and are gradually provided with details about the mother without ever actually seeing who she is or how and when the meeting took place. The father falls for a woman in the pilot episode and it's established that she's his first love, but the first big joke of the series is that she's a red herring: The kids assume that this is the story of how he met their mother but he explains that no, while he loved the woman she didn't want to rush into a relationship. He explains to the confused kids that this is how he met their "aunt Robin" and that the story of how he met their mother would be a long one.
The show finally revealed the mother's identity by the ninth and final season and the series finale illustrated at last how they met. However, rather than ending as a happy-go-lucky scenario where the mother comes out to hang with the father and the kids and reminisce and make corny sitcom jokes, it's shown that the father's grateful and loving relationship with the mother ended when she became ill and passed away several years prior to the telling of the story, thus revealing to the audience that she'd been dead the whole time. The kids ponder why he told them the story and begin to think about their aunt Robin, long since established as one of the major characters of the series, noting that there was still a connection between she and their father and wondering if she hadn't been on his mind. Despite his dismissals the kids encourage him to approach her. He finally does, visiting her apartment and holding an item that she liked and which he wanted to give to her during their date in the first episode. The two smile at one another, and the series ends.
I guess people are pissed off because they thought that the finale was a "cop out", that it was disappointing to watch the show answer the title in the finale after having built a mystery character for 9 years only to then have her die (offscreen) and see the father join someone else. But what I find interesting is that this finale was not just conceived at the beginning of the series, it was actually filmed after the end of the first season so that the age of the young actors would be appropriate to the chronology of the scene. The creators have given old interviews where they cryptically said "(the father) meets the perfect woman, and it’s still not his final love story." It was apparently a long-planned decision that was meant to give dramatic weight to the character's growth over the years and illustrate that while nothing is perfect, nothing lasts forever and not all endings are happy, it doesn't mean that life can't still go on.
I dunno, as someone who never watched (or plans to watch) the show I've got the benefit of not having invested nine years of emotion into it but from my outsider's perspective it sounds like the fans are blasting a project that, as the sum of its parts, strikes me as interesting and kind of poignant.
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 4, 2014 19:18:14 GMT -5
The show was fantastic. The only problem I had with it is they hardly ever introduced new characters that actually impacted the show, so the first season was exactly the same as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc.
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Post by Straight Edge Steve on Apr 4, 2014 19:21:08 GMT -5
That was the basis of How I Met Your Mother!?
The whole three episodes of that show that I watched didn't seem very emotional...
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Post by Rush on Apr 4, 2014 19:30:45 GMT -5
I always thought that show was terrible. Big Bang theory terrible
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Apr 4, 2014 19:34:45 GMT -5
I always thought that show was terrible. Big Bang theory terrible Big Bang Theory is not terrible... |
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Post by Rush on Apr 4, 2014 19:52:01 GMT -5
It's far from good
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Post by wildknight on Apr 4, 2014 19:53:04 GMT -5
I lost interest in HIMYM in like... season 2. They just kept recycling the same tired jokes over and over, and for some reason it's fans have a ridiculous hatred of Big Bang Theory, which isn't much better, but I tend to with whichever side isn't launching infantile attacks in such cases 8)
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Post by pinksparklepuff on Apr 5, 2014 0:08:14 GMT -5
Psych ended, like, maybe two weeks ago, so as long as everyone else is miserable too, I'm happy.
Suck it, world.
I've seen the endings to a few HIMYM episodes. As far as I could tell it just revolved around Neil Patrick Harris acting like a doof in a bar.
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 5, 2014 0:56:43 GMT -5
Psych was awesome too.
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Post by miketheratguy on Apr 5, 2014 1:33:22 GMT -5
The show was fantastic. The only problem I had with it is they hardly ever introduced new characters that actually impacted the show, so the first season was exactly the same as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. What did you think of the ending then? That was the basis of How I Met Your Mother!? The whole three episodes of that show that I watched didn't seem very emotional... See, that's what I thought. The show looked like your average cheesy sitcom (and for all I know, was exactly that) but I think that the overall story, at least the one that was cemented by this particular ending, is a good one. The more I think about it the more I like it. I can imagine that people who actually know these characters, their chemistry (or lack thereof), and all the specific little events of the show's nine years could have any number of things to be upset about but as a basic summary of the trajectory of the narrative I think it's pretty cool. Also: Big Bang Theory is obnoxious crap. Kill Sheldon and boil his annoying corpse then have the other characters eat it and consume enough knowledge to no longer be complete social retards and maybe the show would look entertaining. |
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 5, 2014 1:45:24 GMT -5
The show was fantastic. The only problem I had with it is they hardly ever introduced new characters that actually impacted the show, so the first season was exactly the same as the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. What did you think of the ending then? I haven't watched the last season yet  Been watching other shows/movies. I still have to catch up on the last season of Psych and HIMYM. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Apr 5, 2014 2:48:21 GMT -5
Ah okay. Well then, I hope you either saw my spoiler warning and didn't blow the ending for yourself or read ahead because you didn't care.  |
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Apr 5, 2014 2:55:53 GMT -5
Didn't care |
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Post by wildknight on Apr 5, 2014 5:35:22 GMT -5
Also: Big Bang Theory is obnoxious crap. Kill Sheldon and boil his annoying corpse then have the other characters eat it and consume enough knowledge to no longer be complete social retards and maybe the show would look entertaining. ... yeah, not even a salient analysis of the show (only Sheldon and Raj are socially retarded, Leonard is just weak willed and Howard, while a pervert, can get along just fine in normal society), and even if it were, it would still be a funny show. The increasing focus on Sheldon's worse personality traits was getting tiresome for a while, but he's actually "receded" some since Blossom joined the cast, and overall it's a pretty entertaining program. |
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Post by muta75 on Apr 5, 2014 7:17:57 GMT -5
TUF Brazil: 3 for some odd reason is going out of it's way to make Chael Sonnen look professional (or at least it seems that way at times) and Canderlei look very much the opposite. kinda reminds me of TUF 3: Ortiz v. Shamrock, where Tito (who is a pile of shit) looked very professional and Shamrock (an equally big pile of shit) looked like he was there just for the chance to fight the other coach.
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Been watching other shows/movies. I still have to catch up on the last season of Psych and HIMYM.
