How I Met Your Mother - Season 9

phasers · 28-01-2014 12:39pm

It did indeed

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I really enjoyed the episode, I wish they spent more time on the Mother's story instead of all of the filler nonsense they've been doing!

Wellyd · 28-01-2014 12:47pm

I loved last night it was what this show was all about. I loved that we finally are getting close to the big meeting!

Zwillinge · 28-01-2014 2:53pm

I actually enjoyed that episode and her story.

So much, I went "Oh yeah, that whole thing." when they went back to Lily, Marshal, Barney and Ted at the end during her song.

Alfred Borden · 28-01-2014 7:48pm

Two very good back to back episodes in years. Last night was brilliant, there should have been more focus on her story and not all that crap we were made watch for the last few weeks. Hoping this keeps uo now.

FreudianSlippers · 28-01-2014 8:27pm

I also enjoyed the episode, but it didn't really fill me with much desire to see the spinoff.

Killer_banana · 28-01-2014 9:59pm

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

I also enjoyed the episode, but it didn't really fill me with much desire to see the spinoff.

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

AlmightyCushion · 28-01-2014 10:53pm

Killer_banana wrote: »

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

It didn't really subvert that trope very well seeing as Ted is more of a woman than most women.

Killer_banana · 28-01-2014 11:25pm

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It didn't really subvert that trope very well seeing as Ted is more of a woman than most women.

Well in the beginning at least they seemed to be trying to subvert it since he was looking for his soulmate and Robin didn't want anything serious. They also did all of this while making them seem like real people whereas now they're all hideous caricatures.

FreudianSlippers · 29-01-2014 12:59am

Killer_banana wrote: »

The spinoff isn't her though. How I Met Your Father is a completely new character trying to find 'the one'. Basically a female Ted...despite the fact one of the points of HIMYM was subverting the woman looking for love trope. :rolleyes:

Irrelevant. I know it's not going to be the show from 'the mother's' perspective, but I meant it's clear any show that is a spinoff is going to be along the same lines and basically going to be HIMYM with a woman lead (who'll probably be 'butch' and not fill the female trope...) boring.

Necronomicon · 29-01-2014 11:27pm

Two really fine episodes in a row, well I'll be damned. Though it does make me more annoyed at the amount of tosh we've gotten. I wish they'd made it a 12-15 episode season.

iguana · 30-01-2014 2:19pm

Not a bad episode at all, though I did have an unintentional laugh at how the mother is practically virginal as her first relationship was painted as if it would have been "Lily/Marshall 2.0" if he hadn't died. Then she was celibate for years until she met Hulk Jr, who loved her so much he would have married her. All the while Ted is filling his kids in on his many years of being a raging slut.

Agent Smith · 31-01-2014 7:09pm

After seeing the last episode

it truely was one of the best episodes

don ramo · 31-01-2014 8:59pm

looks like they are going out with a bang, which is great to see, i remember hearing that all of this season would be based over the wedding and thought what an unbelievably sh1te idea that was, but i must say they have done a fine job, im really looking forward to the end,

i also really like that they have shown the mother and ted married and with kids, nice touch

iguana · 31-01-2014 11:21pm

I just realised the meaning of the children's names, they are called after Ted's lucky penny (Luk - e Penny) that lost him the job in Chicago in S2. What are the odds that the coin was originally the mother's?

Agent Smith · 01-02-2014 1:09pm

I'll Admit i laughed too much at this

phasers · 01-02-2014 2:02pm

Luke is called Luke because Ted loves Star wars. He always says he's naming his kids Luke and Leia. I think you're right about the penny though.

Killer_banana · 01-02-2014 4:06pm

phasers wrote: »

Luke is called Luke because Ted loves Star wars. He always says he's naming his kids Luke and Leia. I think you're right about the penny though.

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

scottmcb04 · 01-02-2014 6:50pm

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

The mother said to Rachael bilson something along the lines of "you should have taken him into to see my lame penny collection" after she said that Ted seemed to like everything of hers!

So I would presume that she would have had a big say in her name?

Dman001 · 02-02-2014 2:12pm

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

This is Ted we're talking about, of course she had no say...... :P

iguana · 02-02-2014 2:14pm

Killer_banana wrote: »

Yup all the theories I've heard is she's Penny because he likes/is interested in pennies and he's Luke because of Star Wars. Did the mother not get a say? :P

Ted found his lucky penny in S2, the mother is probably the person who lost it.

Clareman · 02-02-2014 2:14pm

So they completely blow off the spin off show in a half an hour, well 20 minutes. The wife spends years getting over the love of her life, then she's going out & living with someone who wants to marry her and then in 1 year meets and gets engaged to the next love of her life.

This show annoys me but I can't stop watching it.

SureYWouldntYa · 02-02-2014 3:53pm

Clareman wrote: »

So they completely blow off the spin off show in a half an hour, well 20 minutes. The wife spends years getting over the love of her life, then she's going out & living with someone who wants to marry her and then in 1 year meets and gets engaged to the next love of her life.

This show annoys me but I can't stop watching it.

The spin off is supposed to be on a different set of characters i think

S.M.B. · 02-02-2014 3:55pm

Huh? The spinoff show involves the story of a completely new set of characters, not Teds wifes story. They've recently announced the characters.

"How I Met Your Father" will revolve around Sally, Juliet, Frank, Future Sally and gay married couple Danny & Todd.

^ That's in reply to Claremans post.

phasers · 02-02-2014 4:56pm

TVline posted a description of the spinoff gang, and it sounds horrible.

SALLY | She’s vibrant, messy and unpredictable — a “female Peter Pan who has never grown up and has no idea of where she’s going in life.” She’s thinking of calling it quits with her husband of a year, Gavin. She’ll lean on her circle of friends for advice and support through the inevitable divorce. That circle includes…

JULIET | Sally’s sexy, flamboyant, energetic, party-girl BFF. She runs a successful fashion blog. She’s delighted to learn Sally is ending things with the terminally boring Gavin.

DANNY | Sally’s older gay brother, a Type A, overachieving lawyer whom she shares little in common with. They nonetheless share a tight bond, although Sally’s decision to move in with Danny after her split with Gavin promises to test that bond.

TODD | Danny’s warm, outgoing husband and one of Sally’s closest friends from college. Unlike Danny, Todd welcomes Sally into their home.

FRANK | The head of IT for Juliet’s fashion blog. He’s a hot nerd. He has genuine feelings for Sally, but it’s a one-sided flirtation. At least for the moment.

NARRATOR | It’s Sally from the future. She’s reliving the events of her past to her kids.

Killer_banana · 02-02-2014 5:26pm

phasers wrote: »

TVline posted a description of the spinoff gang, and it sounds horrible.

See on the hand this sounds awful. On the other only one sounds like rehash of an existing character whereas I thought all of them would be.

S.M.B. · 02-02-2014 6:00pm

Those descriptions are always going to sound pretty terrible. I'm sure the original character outlines were just as bad.

Interesting that they're going with the 'currently married' angle. That actually sounds somewhat interesting and sets it apart from the original and any other sitcom I can think of.

Alfred Borden · 02-02-2014 6:01pm

When HIMYM finishes up ill be jumping of this boat, dont think i will give that new show a chance.

Skerries · 02-02-2014 11:57pm

sounds like it is going to be That 80's Show all over again

phasers · 03-02-2014 12:19am

Lawyers and journalists/bloggers are such TV careers, aren't they? In TV land, lawyers work 4 hours a week and make about $50,000 a month :pac:

phasers · 04-02-2014 10:53am

Robin did a Poochie and flew out of the show! That scene was embarrassing.

Holy crap this episode looked atrocious! I think their green screen is from 1992 or something, that scene on the bridge looked like a bad B-movie!

Weird visuals aside, the episode was... ok. It wasn't funny but at least it seems that Ted if finally over Robin, and the story progressed a bit.

How I Met Your Mother - Season 9

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