Originally Posted By FerretAfros Haha, yah, I might be a little early, but I'm cautious. It seems like they could go two different ways with this, so it could end up fine. The rest of the episode was pretty good (I loved Lily's line about the epidural, but I think it got lost in the scene), but the bombshell at the end just covered all that up.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I guess this week's episode was old, but it was new to me. Definitely a lot of fun, and it provided that missing link for why suddenly everybody liked Zoey. And it definitely took me a good chunk of the show (well past the first commercial) to realize it was old. It was only when I saw Lilly and Robin both drinking that I knew it couldn't be current. Yah, I'm kind of slow like that.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne Well I guess they have now made it absolutely clear that Robin is not the mother. I'd already read an article about this weeks episode before watching it so wasn't as shocked as other viewers but it still made me really emotional. I actually love when they touch on the deeper stuff and thought it was handled rather well.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's interesting that they now seem to have the other characters telling the story. While the last two episodes definitely have an impact that couldn't come from Ted's point of view, it does seem strange in the context of the whole show's story concept. I also thought it was pretty neat that the 'flashbacks' were actually clips from old shows. In the past, there have been a ton of flashbacks to things we haven't seen in the show, but I think this was the first time that it was something from a previous episode (at least when it wasn't back-to-back episodes/stories). Obviously it's not the most note-worthy change, but I thought it was kind of fun. And I've been waiting to see Puzzles for years!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really enjoyed this week's episode. The structure of the different stories in each room reminded me of the 3 Day Blizzard episode, which is one of my favorites (and not just because I know all the extras in it). It seemed like a fresh way to tell the story, yet a logical way that you'd tell the story to a friend, trying to capture all the chaos and many different plotlines. That said, they really need to air new episodes more often. I keep forgetting that it's on. Even when I do catch it at the right time, it's often been so long (with so many random reruns in between, and my real life) that I forget what's supposed to be going on; or maybe I'm just too dumb for TV these days. It seems like a lot of shows are following that strategy, so it must just be me. : (
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne ^^ no I agree, it's happening a lot down here too. It used to be a season started and that was it..maybe there would be a one or two week break for something really big like the Olympics but otherwise theseason ran. Now it seems like they start a season, play two episodes, go on a break, play some re-runs, then another 3 and so on.. It's really frustrating. Plus they continue to be a good half a season behind here so we ddownload straight from the US anyway, but that's frustrating to as often we learn they are on yet another break and we have no idea why!
Originally Posted By danyoung I'm not a big Chris Elliot fan, so they can let that character go. I really enjoyed the wonderful Rebecca Creskoff as Barney's insane date. She played a wonderful recurring role on last year's Justified. This is a totally different character for her, but she really nailed it. Lovely lady, great actress!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really enjoyed the progress made in this week's episode. It basically threw out all of the storylines that were obviously there to just kill time, and began to put the focus back on the search for 'the one'. I think this is the most we've seen of her yet (she has a jaw! and blonde hair!). The shot at the very end was really exciting at first, and then really really disappointing, when I finally saw how many umbrellas there were. Looks like we still have a long way to go (though it can't be that long, since the kids are teenagers in 2030, right?)
Originally Posted By danyoung I had to think about all those matching green umbrellas a bit, but I finally decided that I liked it!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros This week's episode was strange to me. Not bad, but just strange. Is it the end of the season? Are they taking a break for a while? It just seemed to cut a lot of things off unexpectedly. It sounds like Quinn will be around for a while. From the way it was narrated, it would appear that the kids have met her. Could she eventually marry Barney? Does that mean that we'll meet Ted's wife at the wedding? And has Robin been written off the show? He said that they didn't see each other for a long time, but there's still a chance that we could follow her adventures, and meet up with her later, or have her still talking to the others. I guess it would make some sense to have Quinn as the Robin-character's replacement, but it just seems really sudden. I guess I'm intrigued to see what's coming next, but I'm not really excited about it. It just seems like there's going to be a big shift in the feel of the show as a result.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne Ok just watched it and I felt a bit weird about it as well.. perhaps he doesn't see Robin for a while but Lily/Marshall/Barney do so she remains in the show? Maybe they'l skip forward a few months? According to IMDB it wasn't the season finale..but also Quin has a story line in the finale so it does seem like she's around for a while.. I feel like it's lost it's way a bit lately and as much as I don't care about the love story as much as I used to, I really would like them to get back to figuring out who the mother is!!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, they're certainly dropping a lot of hints for what's coming up next! Between seeing Ted's daughter last week and Barney's growing relationship with Quinn, I think we might meet 'her' soon. It's been thoughly implied in the past that Ted and 'her' meet at Barney's wedding, and it's looking like Barney's wedding is coming up in the near future. Since Barney doesn't want Quinn stripping any more, his only way to stop it is to marry her; he seemed more focused on that in this week's episode than before. And seeing Ted's daughter kind of puts a timeframe on everything. In 3 years, she'll be fairly fresh (within a couple months old), which means that they will have met at leat 2 years from now. However, given the way that everything has gone, I don't think that they meet and get pregnant immediately, so we'll probably meet 'her' fairly soon. I don't know how much longer this season runs, but if we don't meet her at by the end of it, we should meet her at the beginning of the next one! In general, I had begun to get a little tired of the show, since it didn't feel like it was going anywhere and the characters were no longer being true to themselves. In the past few weeks, they've done a great job of turning it back around and getting things moving again. I'm not sure why Ted and Robin aren't talking right now (it seemed like they were just growing apart, but his text acknowledged that they weren't talking) but I'm sure that will be resolved at some point. (And isn't it interesting that in the Star Wars every 3 years retrospect, we never managed to catch Ted in his goatee phase?)
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne I just watched the least three eps of the season, but I seem to have somehow missed the one you're referring too.. seeing Ted's daughter etc.. As for the season finale.. Lily and Marshall's baby was a bit whatever, and Barney's proposal to Quinn a little OTT. I suppose the two big moments were Ted driving off with Victoria, which I really didn't see happening and of course, Robin's the bride at Barney's wedding.. I still don't know that this will mean barney and Robin do live happily ever after though.. you know at the start of the episode when Ted's talking to his kids and says 'this brings us to the story of a wedding that went horribly wrong' or something like that.. I still couldn't really establish if he was talking about Victoria's wedding obviously ending badly as she was a no show, or if something will go wrong at Robin and Barney's. Also, it seems to be pretty established that Victoria is not the mother.. so why bring her back AGAIN. I know a few seasons ago the writers admitted they had no idea who the mother was going to be and had intended to make it Stella if they didn't get signed up for another season.. but surely by now they've got an actual plan in mind?
Originally Posted By dagobert I've only seen the first season and I've never liked the show. Maybe it's because I like Friends so much and for me it's a bit of a rip off. I guess I have to give the show another try. Maybe I start to watch it after we have finished the first season of Game of Thrones and the sixth season of Supernatural.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne When it first started airing here I also felt it was a 'poor mans FRIENDS' and would never last. But the more I watched, the more I liked it and I think it now definitely holds it's own- I no longer compare it to Friends at all.
Originally Posted By Labuda I've never compared it to Friends... interesting that other folks have. But, I started watching from the get-go since it had Willow from Buffy and Doogie Howser. hehe
Originally Posted By Mary Poppins I have tried to watch this show at least twice and I just don't get it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Just a quick head's up that we're finally meeting the mother with the season premiere next week! We know who she is, since she had a cameo at the end of the season finale, but we know almost nothing about her And reading back a bit (there were some 'new' comments that I missed), I think that everything makes sense with the show's overall storyline. The pilot began with meeting Robin as the first step toward meeting the mother, so it makes sense that it would be Robin's wedding (of course, the series could have started with meeting Barney, but we saw that in a flashback). We know that she plays bass guitar (or at least carries one) and has the yellow umbrella, so it will be interesting to see what other details they pick up!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Apparently the final season takes place during the one week period leading up to and through Robin and Barney's wedding. Should be fun . I've got my DVR set and ready!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Wow, I didn't realize it would be that condensed. I figured there would be 2-3 episodes of preparation and wedding, and the rest would be after it. They established that it was a while before the two of them were dating (she's currently dating someone else) so I figured the series would end with them becoming offical, not the actual meeting of the mother. It will be interesting to see!
