Record: 31-16-7 (first place in division, third place in conference)
The rivalry is back! Last night's game brought back the days of Chris Nilan swinging at the Bruin's bench on his way off the ice causing a brawl down into the locker rooms that enticed coach Terry O'Reilly to join in. It was up tempo hard nose hockey right from the opening face off. The score was a little out of hand, the defense and goaltending a little sloppy, but it didn't take away from the enjoyment. If the last two weeks have proven anything its that this team has heart. Gone is last year's team that couldn't find it in themselves to defend their teammates and put a little hurting on the cheap shoting Penguins. The Bruins lead the league in fighting majors, ahead of, surprise, surprise, the Pittsburgh Penguins. The message has to be out, don't mess with this team, don't take liberties with them, or you will pay the price. It's awesome to see old time hockey being played in Boston again.
It's been a while since I've written about this team and a lot has happened. Jordan Caron has been sent down to the minors and then brought back up. Marc Savard has come back from concussion problems and then had his season ended with concussion problems. Nathan Horton has disappeared. Brad Marchand has emerged. With all the change, somethings have stayed the same. Michael Ryder and Blake Wheeler need to go and Tim Thomas is the team MVP. I have no problem admitting when I'm wrong and my early opinions of Horton and Marchand were wrong. After a quick start Horton has proven to put out more lack luster performances then not. Hopefully his five point game last night will signify a reemergence of the player we saw early on, but it is going to take more then one game to make this the case. If this team is going to make a run at the cup they need the Horton we saw last night and not the one we've been watching the last few months. Marchand has gone in the other direction. His move from the "Merlot Line" to the second line between Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi has jump started his offensive production. I wasn't sure that he had the skills to be an offensive force in the NHL but boy was I wrong. It is looking like Marchand could turn out to be a better skilled Randy Burridge, a solid scorer who plays physical on both sides of the ice, the type of guy every hockey team needs.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Top 5: TV Shows Cancelled Before Their Time
Thanks to all the snow in the northeast, I have found myself with tons of free time. Which means I should be able to get back to a regular schedule with this thing. I'll start with a Top 5 list I eluded to in a previous post, Top 5 Shows Cancelled Before Their Time, in honor of Terriers, which was much to good of a show to be taken off the air after one season. I decided to limit the list to shows that only lasted one season or broadcast under 20 episodes. I would have liked to include shows like Ed (which lasted 4 seasons) or Pushing Daisies (which lasted 2) or Veronica Mars (which lasted 3) but the real point of the list was to honor shows that I felt ripped off by not getting to spend more time with. That's not to say I wasn't devastated when Ed was taking off the air or that I wouldn't have wanted to spend 9 seasons watching Veronica Mars solve crime, but when all was said and done I had spent enough time with these characters to enjoy what I was given. The shows on this list weren't given that chance...
5. Firefly (14 episodes)
I'm not as big a fan of this show as some, and the movie that followed really didn't do much for me, but there was something extremely interesting about the shows premise that Fox just didn't give a chance to develop. Nobody had really explored the idea of a space western and it seemed like a great idea for television. It had a good cast, Nathan Fillion as the lead, Adam Baldwin as the gun happy disagreeable second, and bad television sc-fi all-star Morena Baccarin as a beautiful whore and was created by Joss Whedon, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. The network gets the blame for this one not working, forcing Whedon to air the episodes out of order and not giving him the chance to develop the characters that would have made this show pop.
4. Terriers (13 episodes)
I've documented my love of this show on this blog, so to write much here about it seems repetitive. Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James were amazing and I really feel cheated out of spending time with two of the best television characters ever. Some people want to blame the lack of success on poor promotion by the network and a title that didn't really tell anyone what the show was about. The fact of the matter was the ratings were just so horrible there was no way it was going to get a second season. So, we all end up losing.
3. Andy Richter Controls The Universe (19 episodes)
The show technically ran for two seasons, but only aired 19 episodes and functioned both seasons as mid-year replacements. Andy Richter has been a part of a few television bombs that deserved better fates, but this was by far the best. The wacky off-beat comedy had me in stitches on a regular basis. The cast was made up of mostly people that are still unfamiliar other then Andy and Paget Brewster, who was hilarious. Again, Fox never really gave this show a chance, putting it on mid-season with little or no promotion. It was a sitcom that was ahead of its time and because of that wasn't given a chance to be a success.
2. Undeclared (17 episodes)
Not the show that put Judd Apatow on the map, but his second big failure before hitting it big time on the big screen. I cherish my DVD collection of these 17 episodes and at the same time, get angry every time I watch them that I wasn't given more. An absolutely hilarious look at college life. And even though it had its ridiculous moments, it was a much more realistic take then most college comedies. Apatow was able to nail and skewer what going to college was like. The cast was made up of Jay Baruchel, who has been in many of Apatow's movies, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam, who is now the lead in Sons Of Anarchy, Monica Keena, Seth Rogan, Jason Segal, Kyle Gass, of Tenacious D. One of my favorite shows of all time, even though there are only 17 episodes to watch.
1. Freaks and Geeks (18 episodes)
The show that did put Apatow on the map, as well as a whole cast of others. The amount of talent involved in this failed television show is staggering. You should all know who Judd Apatow, writer and co-creator of the show, is. He went on to make The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Funny People, and Knocked Up, amongst others. Seth Rogan, star of Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, writer of Superbad, was in it. Jason Segal, star of How I Met Your Mother and the writer and star of the upcoming Muppet movie. Linda Cardellini, Velma from the Scooby-Doo movies and spent a stint on ER. Martin Starr, Samm Levine, Busy Phillips, who all have cult followings. Oh yeah, and this guy named James Franco, who you might have heard a thing or two about recently. The show was funny, it had heart, it was wonderfully written, it was amazingly acted. If it had gotten the chance it would have gone down as one of the greatest shows ever. But for whatever reason it didn't pull in the ratings and was cancelled after one season.
Honorable Mentions: The Ben Stiller Show (13 episodes), October Road (19 episodes), Clone High (13 episodes), Rubicon (13 episodes), Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (25 episodes)
5. Firefly (14 episodes)
I'm not as big a fan of this show as some, and the movie that followed really didn't do much for me, but there was something extremely interesting about the shows premise that Fox just didn't give a chance to develop. Nobody had really explored the idea of a space western and it seemed like a great idea for television. It had a good cast, Nathan Fillion as the lead, Adam Baldwin as the gun happy disagreeable second, and bad television sc-fi all-star Morena Baccarin as a beautiful whore and was created by Joss Whedon, of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. The network gets the blame for this one not working, forcing Whedon to air the episodes out of order and not giving him the chance to develop the characters that would have made this show pop.
4. Terriers (13 episodes)
I've documented my love of this show on this blog, so to write much here about it seems repetitive. Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James were amazing and I really feel cheated out of spending time with two of the best television characters ever. Some people want to blame the lack of success on poor promotion by the network and a title that didn't really tell anyone what the show was about. The fact of the matter was the ratings were just so horrible there was no way it was going to get a second season. So, we all end up losing.
3. Andy Richter Controls The Universe (19 episodes)
The show technically ran for two seasons, but only aired 19 episodes and functioned both seasons as mid-year replacements. Andy Richter has been a part of a few television bombs that deserved better fates, but this was by far the best. The wacky off-beat comedy had me in stitches on a regular basis. The cast was made up of mostly people that are still unfamiliar other then Andy and Paget Brewster, who was hilarious. Again, Fox never really gave this show a chance, putting it on mid-season with little or no promotion. It was a sitcom that was ahead of its time and because of that wasn't given a chance to be a success.
2. Undeclared (17 episodes)
Not the show that put Judd Apatow on the map, but his second big failure before hitting it big time on the big screen. I cherish my DVD collection of these 17 episodes and at the same time, get angry every time I watch them that I wasn't given more. An absolutely hilarious look at college life. And even though it had its ridiculous moments, it was a much more realistic take then most college comedies. Apatow was able to nail and skewer what going to college was like. The cast was made up of Jay Baruchel, who has been in many of Apatow's movies, Carla Gallo, Charlie Hunnam, who is now the lead in Sons Of Anarchy, Monica Keena, Seth Rogan, Jason Segal, Kyle Gass, of Tenacious D. One of my favorite shows of all time, even though there are only 17 episodes to watch.
1. Freaks and Geeks (18 episodes)
The show that did put Apatow on the map, as well as a whole cast of others. The amount of talent involved in this failed television show is staggering. You should all know who Judd Apatow, writer and co-creator of the show, is. He went on to make The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Funny People, and Knocked Up, amongst others. Seth Rogan, star of Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, writer of Superbad, was in it. Jason Segal, star of How I Met Your Mother and the writer and star of the upcoming Muppet movie. Linda Cardellini, Velma from the Scooby-Doo movies and spent a stint on ER. Martin Starr, Samm Levine, Busy Phillips, who all have cult followings. Oh yeah, and this guy named James Franco, who you might have heard a thing or two about recently. The show was funny, it had heart, it was wonderfully written, it was amazingly acted. If it had gotten the chance it would have gone down as one of the greatest shows ever. But for whatever reason it didn't pull in the ratings and was cancelled after one season.
Honorable Mentions: The Ben Stiller Show (13 episodes), October Road (19 episodes), Clone High (13 episodes), Rubicon (13 episodes), Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (25 episodes)
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
How I Met Your Mother: Oh, Honey
I have to get this out of the way right off the bat. In the grand scheme of things this seems like a minor problem, but it is the premise that kicks off the episode's whole story line. Who buys ketchup in glass bottles? Do they even still make ketchup in glass bottles? I don't think I've seen a glass ketchup bottle outside of a restaurant in 10 years. I find it very hard to believe that Robin and Ted would have had a glass ketchup bottle in their kitchen. You would think the writers could have come up with a way to kick off the story line with an event that would actually happen in 2011. But again, in the grand scheme of things, I guess this is a minor point.
The episode as a whole was very middle of the road. There was nothing offensive (other then a glass ketchup bottle), there were a few laughs (but not as many as I would like), and the over all story line was pushed forward in a creative way (even though it felt a little sappy). I really enjoyed how the episode played out, the structure being set up by one of the first lines of the episode, "the longer he [Marshal] stayed there the more it was like he never left Minnesota." As sappy as the Ted/Zoey hook up was, I couldn't help but feel the writers were making fun of the situation by having it play out like a teenage drama. The only thing missing from Marshal's experiences with the phone was a conference call with one party not knowing the other was listening. The funnier ending of the episode would have been Marshal being on the phone with Ted and deciding to call Zoey and ask her if she liked Ted.
Obviously, Zoey's divorce opens the door for her being the mother. I still don't think that will be the case. Again, because we know her name, the kids would already know that was their Mom and the idea that this is Ted telling his kids the story of their parents meeting would be over. So, unless Zoey is forced for some reason to change her name, she's not it. I am interested in where this relationship goes though.
The episode as a whole was very middle of the road. There was nothing offensive (other then a glass ketchup bottle), there were a few laughs (but not as many as I would like), and the over all story line was pushed forward in a creative way (even though it felt a little sappy). I really enjoyed how the episode played out, the structure being set up by one of the first lines of the episode, "the longer he [Marshal] stayed there the more it was like he never left Minnesota." As sappy as the Ted/Zoey hook up was, I couldn't help but feel the writers were making fun of the situation by having it play out like a teenage drama. The only thing missing from Marshal's experiences with the phone was a conference call with one party not knowing the other was listening. The funnier ending of the episode would have been Marshal being on the phone with Ted and deciding to call Zoey and ask her if she liked Ted.
Obviously, Zoey's divorce opens the door for her being the mother. I still don't think that will be the case. Again, because we know her name, the kids would already know that was their Mom and the idea that this is Ted telling his kids the story of their parents meeting would be over. So, unless Zoey is forced for some reason to change her name, she's not it. I am interested in where this relationship goes though.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
How I Met Your Mother: Last Words
How do you follow up a stomach punch ending about the death of a close family member when you are writing a comedy? I want really bad to criticize this episode for being to emotional and sappy, but at the same time I'm not sure what choice the writers had. They couldn't just leave Marshal's pain out there and not dealt with but at the same time I tune in to HIMYM to laugh, I tune into other shows to deal with these issues. Like I said in my review of the last episode, I don't mind a little drama mixed in with my sitcom as long as its done well and we don't lose the funny. This episode just felt a little to somber. The Robin storyline was probably the funniest part of the episode and was a good example of finding silly situations amongst the drama. Lilly's joy in being her mother-in-law's bitch was humorous as well. Where I think the writers dropped the ball the most was with Barney and Ted. Humor is an important part of any funeral, many times the mourning benefit from being reminded of the good times, the funny times they spent with their lost one. Showing videos of people getting punched in the nuts was not only not funny, it's lazy and inconsiderate. If anything it made me think of the two as really bad friends. There was humor to be found with these two that could have made the episode a gem but it just didn't happen.
I also found Marshal's fixation over his father's last words poor story continuity, something the show is normally so aware of. I could help but think every time Marshal lamented how poor his father's last words were about the wonderful scene between the two in the previous episode. Why would Marshal focus on the final few words when one of the last conversations he had was so great and comforting? And if the point was that we focus on minor details when we mourn, why wouldn't Lilly or one of the gang point this fact out?
This isn't to take away from the fine acting Jason Segal and Alyson Hannigan have put in over the last two episodes. You don't usually see such good chops in a sitcom. When you add Neil Patrick Harris into the mix, the fine acting is one of the things that puts this show ahead of so many sitcoms on tv.
I also found Marshal's fixation over his father's last words poor story continuity, something the show is normally so aware of. I could help but think every time Marshal lamented how poor his father's last words were about the wonderful scene between the two in the previous episode. Why would Marshal focus on the final few words when one of the last conversations he had was so great and comforting? And if the point was that we focus on minor details when we mourn, why wouldn't Lilly or one of the gang point this fact out?
This isn't to take away from the fine acting Jason Segal and Alyson Hannigan have put in over the last two episodes. You don't usually see such good chops in a sitcom. When you add Neil Patrick Harris into the mix, the fine acting is one of the things that puts this show ahead of so many sitcoms on tv.
How I Met Your Mother: Bad News
I've knocked the super sappy HIMYM episodes in the past, but there isn't much bad I can say about this one. Bad News, even though it wasn't what I like most from HIMYM, was just good TV. The tugging at the heart strings was genuine and didn't feel forced or over done. Marshal's relationship with his father has never been up front and center, but we've gotten enough of it over the years to feel the strong bond and feel Marshal's pain. Looking back it feels like a lot of the Marshal/Lilly stuff has been moving us towards this episode and whatever the aftermath of the death will have on their relationship.
The moral of the story... even though I watch HIMYM for the laughs, I enjoy well done drama as well.
Some other notes from the episode...
I liked seeing the return of the Sensory Deprivator 5000 from season two's Monday Night Football episode.
Loved the fact that nobody believed that the doctor was Barney's doppelganger. Why would you? We have enough history to not believe anything said by any one looking vaguely similar to Barney.
The sperm sample scene in Marshal's bathroom with his parents yelling through the door was one of the most painfully hilarious scenes I've seen all year on TV!
The moral of the story... even though I watch HIMYM for the laughs, I enjoy well done drama as well.
Some other notes from the episode...
I liked seeing the return of the Sensory Deprivator 5000 from season two's Monday Night Football episode.
Loved the fact that nobody believed that the doctor was Barney's doppelganger. Why would you? We have enough history to not believe anything said by any one looking vaguely similar to Barney.
The sperm sample scene in Marshal's bathroom with his parents yelling through the door was one of the most painfully hilarious scenes I've seen all year on TV!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Top 5: 2010 TV Shows
I'm back. Had to take the holidays off since I was leaving my house at 5 am and not getting back until midnight. Didn't really leave much time for blog writing. Anyway, my schedule has opened back up so I should be able to get back to updating this thing on a regular basis.
Normally this time of year I would start a series of Top 5 Of The Year lists, but I have become super out of touch with music and movies are best done when the Oscars come around in another month, so the Top 5 TV Shows of 2010 is all I really feel qualified to do. I might do a Top 5 Books I Read In 2010, but that won't be a best of 2010 since there are a good chunk of this year's books I haven't gotten around to yet. So, here's my best of 2010 list, Top 5 TV Shows... (Note: I don't get HBO so shows like Boardwalk Empire and Treme couldn't be considered for the list)
5) Community
NBC is said to be the worst network on TV and maybe that's what the ratings say, but for my money it's the best network tv has to offer. Community is one of two NBC shows on my list. No other network is represented. I still enjoy How I Met Your Mother and Modern Family, but Community has rocketed into my favorite sitcom position. Everyone is the cast is spot on, the comedy is fresh, its the most consistent comedy on tv. Each character feels like they could have their own show. Even the side characters like Ken Jong's Senor Chang and John Oliver's Professor Duncan are never wasted. If you're not watching, you're missing out.
4) Walking Dead
I don't think I've ever been rewarded by a TV show I so highly anticipated then with The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman's awesome zombie comic was beautifully transformed into TV magic even if it was for 6 short episodes. The show creators did a good job of mixing the comic's theme of human survival with good old zombie horror. At it's heart the comic was more about what humans are capable of doing to each other then a zombie invasion. The tv show got that and started to convey it before the season was abruptly ended. I can't wait for next season (which should be a full 12 episodes).
3) Terriers
Why didn't anybody tune in to this show? By far the best new show of 2010. I'm going to miss Hank and Britt even though I just got to know them. I won't go on too much about it since I spent a lot of time on this blog going over each episode. I'm thinking I'm going to do a Top 5 Shows Cancelled Early list soon in it's honor.
2) Friday Night Lights
Another show that doesn't get the audience it deserves. I haven't seen the Direct TV episodes airing right now, but last season was as strong as ever. It makes me sad to know that this will be the last episode. Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are the best couple on TV, if not the best of all time, and two of the best television actors around. So many characters over the 4 seasons have made such an impact, much like the Wire, I will only be able to see the actors that played them as Matt Saracen or Jason Street or Tim Riggins or Vince Howard. For whatever reason, Minka Kelly will always be Minka Kelly and not Lyla even if she marries that overrated Yankee.
1) Mad Men
I've enjoyed Mad Men right from the beginning, but this season was one of the all time best seasons of any TV show ever. The four episode run of Waldorf Stories, The Suitcase, The Summer Man, and Beautiful Girls was the best four episode run ever, with The Suitcase being the gem of the whole season. If you don't watch this show you are missing out on story telling at it's absolute best. Anyone who says TV is vapid and cheesy and that film is a better medium isn't watching this show.
Honorable Mentions: Sons Of Anarchy, Fringe, Tosh.0, Rubicon, Breaking Bad
Normally this time of year I would start a series of Top 5 Of The Year lists, but I have become super out of touch with music and movies are best done when the Oscars come around in another month, so the Top 5 TV Shows of 2010 is all I really feel qualified to do. I might do a Top 5 Books I Read In 2010, but that won't be a best of 2010 since there are a good chunk of this year's books I haven't gotten around to yet. So, here's my best of 2010 list, Top 5 TV Shows... (Note: I don't get HBO so shows like Boardwalk Empire and Treme couldn't be considered for the list)
5) Community
NBC is said to be the worst network on TV and maybe that's what the ratings say, but for my money it's the best network tv has to offer. Community is one of two NBC shows on my list. No other network is represented. I still enjoy How I Met Your Mother and Modern Family, but Community has rocketed into my favorite sitcom position. Everyone is the cast is spot on, the comedy is fresh, its the most consistent comedy on tv. Each character feels like they could have their own show. Even the side characters like Ken Jong's Senor Chang and John Oliver's Professor Duncan are never wasted. If you're not watching, you're missing out.
4) Walking Dead
I don't think I've ever been rewarded by a TV show I so highly anticipated then with The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman's awesome zombie comic was beautifully transformed into TV magic even if it was for 6 short episodes. The show creators did a good job of mixing the comic's theme of human survival with good old zombie horror. At it's heart the comic was more about what humans are capable of doing to each other then a zombie invasion. The tv show got that and started to convey it before the season was abruptly ended. I can't wait for next season (which should be a full 12 episodes).
3) Terriers
Why didn't anybody tune in to this show? By far the best new show of 2010. I'm going to miss Hank and Britt even though I just got to know them. I won't go on too much about it since I spent a lot of time on this blog going over each episode. I'm thinking I'm going to do a Top 5 Shows Cancelled Early list soon in it's honor.
2) Friday Night Lights
Another show that doesn't get the audience it deserves. I haven't seen the Direct TV episodes airing right now, but last season was as strong as ever. It makes me sad to know that this will be the last episode. Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton are the best couple on TV, if not the best of all time, and two of the best television actors around. So many characters over the 4 seasons have made such an impact, much like the Wire, I will only be able to see the actors that played them as Matt Saracen or Jason Street or Tim Riggins or Vince Howard. For whatever reason, Minka Kelly will always be Minka Kelly and not Lyla even if she marries that overrated Yankee.
1) Mad Men
I've enjoyed Mad Men right from the beginning, but this season was one of the all time best seasons of any TV show ever. The four episode run of Waldorf Stories, The Suitcase, The Summer Man, and Beautiful Girls was the best four episode run ever, with The Suitcase being the gem of the whole season. If you don't watch this show you are missing out on story telling at it's absolute best. Anyone who says TV is vapid and cheesy and that film is a better medium isn't watching this show.
Honorable Mentions: Sons Of Anarchy, Fringe, Tosh.0, Rubicon, Breaking Bad
Saturday, December 11, 2010
How I Met Your Mother: The Mermaid Theory
"The Mermaid Theory" was season 7 of HIMYM encapsulated in 30 minutes, a constant flow from great funny moments to total misses. I wish I was just able to say that this episode was awesome or just plain horrible, but my opinion seemed to change with each changing scene. The opening scene was classic. The Happy Captain/Scary Captain was hilarious and brought back one of my favorite moments, Marshal's obsession with blowing up pictures and charts at work. Lilly's theory about a single person and a married person of the opposite sex hanging out had potential as well, but then Ted screwed up the narration and things took a turn for the worse. I loathed this storyline. It was stupid and took you out of the flow of the episode. It might have worked better if it was the main story, but I didn't care about Lilly and Barney in this episode so the constant changing of the story was just annoying. The one saving grace was when Ted showed up in a green dress. I love when later episodes are set up!
The Marshall/Robin story was very hit or miss as well. The idea of them having an awkward dinner was cool. We've all hung out it groups and while we can have a good time hanging out with everyone in the group, there are some people who we know we just wouldn't enjoy hanging out with alone. I thought that's where this was going, but when it took a turn in a different direction I didn't buy it. At the same time, The Mermaid Theory was awesome. It was HIMYM at it's best, taking a nugget of truth, spinning it into a funny theory and introducing it with either a college flashback (because where else did any of us have the time to come up with these types of theories then college?) or a fake historical reenactment. I would have been much happier if they had used the theory with another storyline, but oh well.
The Ted storyline had its moments, but for the most part I though it was a miss. The ticking Mermaid clock at the end of the episode had no punch at all. Really? There's going to be sexual tension between Ted and Zoe? Why the hell would she be hanging around if there wasn't? The episode acted like it was some big revelation that Ted was going to find her attractive, that the clock was ticking before Ted saw her as a mermaid, but I was under the impression that he already liked her. The mermaid theory says that someone that is not attractive to you slowly becomes attractive. It seems to me that Ted has always been attracted to Zoe, he just can't admit it for various reasons (she's married, she wants to stop his building of the GNB building, etc).
It seems to me that the writers of HIMYM are still trying to capture the magic of the first few seasons and haven't quite figured it out yet. This type of search almost always results in a hit and miss season and that it exactly what we are in the middle of. Nothing has showcased that more then this episode that seemed to go from hit to miss back to hit minute by minute. All we can hope for is that when all is said and done, it's been more hit then miss and they figure things out so next season can be all hit.
The Marshall/Robin story was very hit or miss as well. The idea of them having an awkward dinner was cool. We've all hung out it groups and while we can have a good time hanging out with everyone in the group, there are some people who we know we just wouldn't enjoy hanging out with alone. I thought that's where this was going, but when it took a turn in a different direction I didn't buy it. At the same time, The Mermaid Theory was awesome. It was HIMYM at it's best, taking a nugget of truth, spinning it into a funny theory and introducing it with either a college flashback (because where else did any of us have the time to come up with these types of theories then college?) or a fake historical reenactment. I would have been much happier if they had used the theory with another storyline, but oh well.
The Ted storyline had its moments, but for the most part I though it was a miss. The ticking Mermaid clock at the end of the episode had no punch at all. Really? There's going to be sexual tension between Ted and Zoe? Why the hell would she be hanging around if there wasn't? The episode acted like it was some big revelation that Ted was going to find her attractive, that the clock was ticking before Ted saw her as a mermaid, but I was under the impression that he already liked her. The mermaid theory says that someone that is not attractive to you slowly becomes attractive. It seems to me that Ted has always been attracted to Zoe, he just can't admit it for various reasons (she's married, she wants to stop his building of the GNB building, etc).
It seems to me that the writers of HIMYM are still trying to capture the magic of the first few seasons and haven't quite figured it out yet. This type of search almost always results in a hit and miss season and that it exactly what we are in the middle of. Nothing has showcased that more then this episode that seemed to go from hit to miss back to hit minute by minute. All we can hope for is that when all is said and done, it's been more hit then miss and they figure things out so next season can be all hit.
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