Busy day today. Putting up a couple of posts so I can try to catch up with all that is going on now that the new TV season is up and going. I'll start with my favorite sitcom at the moment, How I Met Your Mother...
Last season was a huge disappointment from what had been the most consistently funny show on TV. Even the show runners admitted that they had steered the show wrong. One of the things I enjoyed most about HIMYM was the shows style, they way the played with time lines, the way nothing that happened was lost or forgotten, the way their jokes kept reappearing much like how jokes between friends do in real life. HIMYM was not a normal sitcom. It wasn't Two And A Half Men or Big Bang Theory. It broke all the conventions those shows rely on to stay funny. Then last season happened. For whatever reason the writers and show runners decided to shift away from what made the show special and made a season filled with stand alone episodes and tepid jokes. That's not to say there weren't some classic moments, like duck vs rabbit or the one joke that ran through the whole season, the doppelgangers, but as a whole I was scared HIMYM was losing steam.
In the months leading up to the season opener, the people behind HIMYM made it clear to the media that they knew they went wrong last season and promised the up coming season was going to go back to what we all liked about the show before. After watching the first episode, I'm still not convinced. The episode felt high on the drama and emotion and light on the laughs. The funniest part of the show was the opening scene with Barney and Ted. Sir Walter Dibs is a classic Barney creation and Ted's response that he didn't "have time for a fake history lesson," was hilarious. I have my fingers crossed that this will be, like the creators said, the best season ever, but the season opener leaves a lot of room for improvement.
A couple things... who's wedding were the boys at is the obvious question the episode brings up. The obvious answer would be Barney's, which then begs the question who is he marrying? The interactions between Barney and Robin earlier in the episode seem to open the possibility of them getting back together. Do Barney and Robin get married? I think more then Barney, it's Robin that is getting married. To who? I'm not sure, probably a character we haven't met yet. Also, the umbrella is mentioned yet again. Ted tells us she is at the wedding... will we finally get to see her by the end of this season. And if we do, what happens to the rest of the show?
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