If I'm honest, I kept watching HIMYM out of mere loyalty. Lately, I had been noticing that it barely made me laugh and I had been feeling that the plot was very inconsistent. Or so I thought. I explain. As I continued to watch the show, I noticed that the series was drifting off Ted's plot line way too much and way too often. I felt that it sometimes focused more on Robin's and Barney's relationship, or Marshall and Lilly having the baby, or the deal with Lilly's father, etc. I even felt that the writers were just leaving Ted with the most ridiculous and irrelevant stories, making his advances towards meeting the mother very slow. This episode explains WHY. The whole point of this series is to show a man who holds on to his dream of finding perfect love even though life hits him once and again with disappointment and failed relationship attempts. He tries over and over again, and he gets let down by love each time, but he still clings to hope, for love is his biggest dream. And his friends make their lives, they go on, they suffer and are let down by love also, but through it all, after 8 years, they've managed to get their lives in order and become happy, and right there, alone, in the middle, is him (which is the reason why this series had a cast of 2 women and 3 men, instead of 3 and 3, like "Friends" which is something that had always bugged me; we needed to reach this point, the point when Ted woud feel completely lonely). Now, his hope is gone. This is pointed out in this episode by his subconscious through adorable and mega talented Jayma Mays. He doesn't even want to try anymore, he feels it's going to be same-old same-old. It's not a matter of laziness, it's just that he just doesn't want to go through it all again, through the disappointment of once again putting all his eggs in a basket which, ultimately, will turn out NOT to be the love of his life. Why do that for the umpteenth time? This rock bottom he's hit (for I'm sure he has), will become solid ground for him to set his feet on, which is necessary for him to finally recognize true love when he sees it. I mean by this that he is (FINALLY!) ready to meet the mother. The very first episode of the show started with something like this: "Kids, I'm going to tell you a story. The story of how I met your mother". If you ask me, it should have gone something like this "Kids, I'm gonna tell you the story on how I held on to the hope for love for 8 years, until I met your mother" which sounds mega cheesy, but which also, I think, is what the series are really about. I applaud the writers. This is the first time in about 2 seasons of HIMYM that I feel that they really know where they are going with the story and what they wanna communicate. Excellent episode. Excellent.
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Wow...
27 November 2011
I actually have not followed Glee much since the first season. I missed the whole second one and am now catching up with the third. There were some hints on previous episodes that leaded towards where this one goes to, so you kind of see it coming, but the way it is presented is truly heartbreaking and breathtaking. I really have no intentions on spoiling it, but you might want to expect some killer dialogs, gasps of surprise by what some say and do, and a GREAT ending for the episode. I soooo want to see what's next... And just hoping this doesn't spoil it, I'd just like to say that even if I COMPLETELY feel her pain and would never want to be in her place, reality is that she had it coming.
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