How I Met Your Mother - season 7 thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveF]

It's been a good season. While I'm anxious about revisiting Barney and Robin, they seemed to have learned their lessons from the bad seasons around them dating the first time.

 

[Kaka22]

I cant believe that Robin got pregnant from Barney, I would never expect that happen...

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Tonight's episode was my favorite one in years. Given what future Ted has said in the past, Robin being childless is the only way things could have ended up. But the way it was handled was pitch perfect. Instead of being a pregnancy scare that they rehash again and again, they closed the door on Robin being a mother definitively. It leaves Robin in a genuinely different place for the first time in a long time, and it also means that Barney ever getting together with Robin permanently would mean forgoing having biological children with his spouse. Real life is about closing doors as time goes on, and it was great to see the show recognize that.
The framing with Robin's "children" was heartbreaking. The final beat in the apartment was wonderful.
Only Marshall's storyline was completely slapstick. The rest of the episode was Season 1 & 2 level good.

 

[Citizen87645]

My recording was riddled with dropouts, but the ep still brought a tear to my eye. Final line was so touching.

 

[Greg.K]

Agree, I think it's definitely the best episode of the season, maybe the last two seasons.

 

[Patrick Sun]

I wonder if Ted is proud that his daughter grew up to be a tough-as-nails covert spy.

 

[mattCR]

I agree. I admit, I am fully on board though with Robin and Barney making it work out somehow. Maybe no kids in the picture, but the grand adventure

Originally Posted by Greg Kettell /t/314919/how-i-met-your-mother-season-7-thread#post_3877033
Agree, I think it's definitely the best episode of the season, maybe the last two seasons.

 

[Citizen87645]

Scott was eating the metaphorical sandwich, right?

 

[Hanson]

Hello m'am. Nice to finally see your face.

 

[DaveF]

Incredible episode.

Marshall's storyline never really made sense, but everything else was pitch-perfect.

 

[Citizen87645]

I had a feeling they were going for some kind of Home Alone or Better Off Dead type thing with Marshall, but from the old man's perspective.

 

[DaveF]

I thought it'd be the kid of the father with the super-lights house, out to sabotage competition. But instead it was just a psychopath teen

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Second great episode in a row. The show's found its heart again.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I will say that tonight's episode had one of the better credit tags I've seen.

 

[Citizen87645]

I wish they hadn't gone there with Ted and Robin. It feels like retread and chain-yanking at this point. Not to mention it's kind of crappy of Ted to share that at that particular moment in her life. But I'm sure the show will turn it around somehow and make it not what it seems. In other words, continue chain yank.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I'm hoping the reintroduction of that plays off Victoria's comment from earlier in the season that him rooming with one of the great loves of his life and hanging out with her all of the time is weird and holding him back. I actually thought it was natural to go there, since when they broke up at the end of season 2 they said they'd reevaluate in five years if neither of them had settled down. Well here they are, five years later.
... which isn't to say the show hasn't been spinning its wheels like crazy the last couple seasons.

 

[Hanson]

I loves me some Becki Newton.

That is all.

 

[DaveF]

I enjoy the show, but it's not as sharp as a few years ago. The "A Beautiful Mind" reference was funny, but weirdly outdated. And something of a poor copy of better jokes earlier seasons.

My wife wants it to wrap up and be done.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Tonight's episode was huge for the show. Just when you think the show's going to take another spin on the Ted-Robin merry-go-round, they close the door on it altogether. And the ending ranks in my top five of the entire series. It really leaves me hoping that next season's the last. At this point, I'd really love a sprint to the finish.

 

[Citizen87645]

Supposedly Conan O'Brien was in the background of McLaren's?