How I Met Your Mother: The Autumn Of Break-Ups

     I was going to write something nice about the latest HIMYM episode, I really was.  There was some stuff that was pretty funny and combine that with my decision to lower my standards of what makes a good HIMYM episode and we were heading to the first positive review of the season.  I loved Brover!  He was easily the best/funniest new character we've seen in years.  The idea of Barney walking around with a suited-up dog as a wing man cracked me up.  I would have loved to have him stay around for a few more episodes, but I will take one solid story line.  Plus knowing the HIMYM writers tendency to return again and again and again and again to certain stories, this may not be the last we see of good old Brover.  My fingers are crossed.  This was also a great Lilly and Marshal episode.  Although the idea of Marshal trying to harness his inner Oprah is extremely silly, it had me laughing.  And of course, it was a great set-up to him giving a series of bad advice.  I think the bad advice could have been a bigger story line then three quick one-liners, but again, I take what they gave me because it was probably the funniest moments we've had all season.
     And then we got to Ted and Victoria.  Oddly enough, after complaining for two seasons now about the writers not sticking to the stories they've set up in the past, I got mad when they brought up something that did happen.  Maybe in an attempt to be a little forgiving for what was being presented to us, maybe because I was to wrapped up getting upset about other things, maybe because I just loved Victoria so much I didn't care, I hadn't even thought about the history of Ted and Victoria to question them getting back together.  Why would Victoria date Ted and hang out with the him and the girl who he broke up with her for?  Nobody would do that!  It wouldn't take until Ted proposed for her to ask him to chose, it would have been the first question when he showed up at her wedding.  Yes, she was obviously looking for a way out of her wedding and Ted provided that, but wouldn't she address the Robin thing right away?  It was already established that she didn't like the relationship between Ted, Barney and Robin.  It's not as egregious an error others we've seen the last few seasons, I understand the rational, but at this point I would have come up with another reason for the relationship to fail then something that should have probably prevented it from starting (of taking off pause) in the first place.  Victoria and Ted breaking up could have been so much more of an emotional moment, but it just fell flat.
     All that being said, I'm feeling generous this week... 2-3