Yes I'm still salty
Yes I'm still salty
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“Kids, did I ever tell you about all the women I banged, including the time I pulled two hot chicks for a threesome?”
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This show still makes me salty when I think about it. It's not the only show to undercut it's own narrative, but it's the one that hurt me the most because I believed in it's message.
The message: we are flawed people but we grow and who we are tomorrow isn't who we are today. This is good.
The ending: Nah we just pretend to change and any growth you think a person makes is just cope.
-Trash.
Edit: and yes, I know the ending 'makes sense' that just makes it worse. It went from one of my favorite teen shows to one of my most hated in a matter of 45 minutes. Impressive.
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The complete reversal of character development is what killed it for me as well. With the same ending and removing the reversal the ending is 100x better. Just let their growth mean something instead of pissing it all away.
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The ending: Nah we just pretend to change and any growth you think a person makes is just cope.
That’s true but I didn’t care for new character at the end is the mom, let’s make you like her, then haha just go for Robin.
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Remember when the marketing team posted the reveal of the mother on social media before the episode had even aired on the West Coast, ruining the 8 years build up for like half the country?!?
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I think the joke is that there was not really any actual build up to it. It's more like this is what I did the years prior to meeting your mom.
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...except there was. At least once they'd had multiple seasons under their belt and knew when they wanted to end the show. Before that each season they set it up so Ted's current gf could have been the mother, in case they got cancelled.
As someone who was watching it live at the time, there was a lot of hype built around who the mother was.
I'm not talking about OP's joke
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I watched like 90% of the show and I've still never seen the end and I don't care.
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Don't watch for the ending. Enjoy the journey.
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There was actually an alternative ending where the mom lived. It's on YT. I prefer to think about it as the real ending
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I was fine with the mother dying. It was just the immediate twist of "Mom's dead, and this is me now spending 9 years explaining to you why I want to go bang your aunt".
I think the bittersweet ending of finding out that the mother was dead all along and Ted was telling the story to his kids would have been a great ending without the add-on Robin double-twist.
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That would have been better
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Skip the whole last season.
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I tried to get in it. Didn't enjoy
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The laugh track adds up to two whole seasons
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You can probably say that about any show with a laugh track. I usually don't mind it if the show has jokes. But then there are things like Big Bang Theory where they just pasted the laugh track over the dialogue in regular intervals without the jokes. I also don't remember How I Met Your Mother being funny.
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Robin really wasn't a strong enough character.
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As a straight, white, 45 year old man, I would have been happier if Ted had ended up with Barney
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The story was never about getting from point A to point B. It was about every little distraction or detour in between that allowed getting to point B to have the impact that it had.
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So a regular story told by somebody with ADHD
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Any sitcom plot is just a shell to tell jokes And funny situations. Hearing people flip their shit about that is funny
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life's a detour to death, so take your time :D
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I hated Ted. Were you supposed to hate Ted?
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AKA why I never ask my in-laws about their day.
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I remember during early seasons a friend of mine saying "I think the mother is not Robin but he'll end up with Robin" and I said lol that would be so lame
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ADHD by any other name.
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What did you expect?
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Do you want the short version or the long one?
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Which wouldn't be a problem, if the show was any good.
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Bro I watches and I don't even liked the ending. It was a waste of time! Seinfeld for ever, Giddy Up!
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Seinfeld the paedophile? https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/jerry-seinfeld-dated-a-17-year-old/
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Brought this up to a coworker of mine once, and they countered with "17 is basically just 18." to which I replied "You're right, adults who date "legal" teenagers are just as creepy." He shut up after that.
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Says so much about our culture that he wasn’t roasted alive for this back then.
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I didn't know that, still I'm talking about the series, not the actor.
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How I stretched a 15 minute story into 9 fucking years
(Also still salty)
I stopped watching a season or two before that and do not regret it. I do regret watching all the seasons before that. The premise just got stupider and stupider.
At some point I was just too bored to keep watching.
How’d u do the dropdown?
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Depending on your lemmy app, there might be a spoiler format option built-in for you. Voyager has it, for example.
I was annoyed through all of season 2 when he was dating Robin. At the end of the very first episode of season 1 she was called "Aunt Robin" and then we had all of season 2 wasting an entire season with a relationship we were already told didn't work out.
(And that's ignoring the meta situation of "today kids I'm going to tell you about all the sex I had with your Aunt Robin")