How I Met Your Mother: Farhampton

     So I've reached a point where I have a small dilemma writing about this show.  Up until last season I went into every episode wanting to see a great half-hour of comedy and storytelling, but then slowly over the course of a horrible season I lost that enthusiasm.  I'm now at a point where I find it hard to write about the show because I go into each episode with a huge negative bias.  Even with a whole summer between episodes it only took a matter of minutes for me to remember why I disliked this show so much last season.  I hate where all the characters are.  I hate where all the characters seem to be going.  I'm tired of the writers little tricks.  And the show just isn't funny any more.
     The season started off with another disruption of time, a HIMYM technique that has made the show as hard to follow as an episode of Lost.  I don't want to spend my time watching the show trying to figure out when exactly everything is happening.  They pulled another bait and switch, one that we all knew was coming, but still, by not even taking a full episode to write off Victoria.  And they ended with yet another tease of Ted meeting his wife.  We've seen so many of these teases at this point, they have a negative effect on my viewing.  Instead of getting excited or giddy, I get really pissed off.
     As far as the jokes went, the Marshal and Lilly "new parent" bit was flatter then week old soda, Barney's seduction of the German bodyguard was stupid and it seemed like they couldn't decide whether the Ted and Victoria angle was supposed to be funny or drama, so it ended up being neither, and if I here another joke out of Ted's mouth about his story telling I'm going to put my fist through my TV.  Ironically, after that last comment, the only thing that worked was Barney's 52 second summation of the show up until this point.
     I had very small hopes for this season, but there was a part of me that thought maybe because this looks like the last season, HIMYM might end strong.  If this season opener is any sign, that little bit of hope is gone.  HIMYM is looking like it's heading towards a Red Sox or Dolphin like season. 0-1!