[ SECRET POST #2679 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2679 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/NTDblVH.jpg

[klutzygirl]

Still would have been pissed and angry cried, tbh. And I actually like Lily, but she doesn't have to die in your fantasy world (which you mentioned, but that's what I'm focusing on). They could have gone the extremely stupid way of Barney and Robin and divorced.

FOREVER FUCKING BITTER AND ANGRY ABOUT THE ENDING OF THIS SHOW. There's still occasional moments where I cannot believe it ended like that.

[(Anonymous)]

+100000000000000000 to all of it.

You know that even the official reviewers for The Washington Post were fuming about that finale?

[rubbertea]

why worry about the continuity when you're talking about something happening in the series finale of a show?

[fauxkaren]

lol. Because this show has had flashforwards and Lily was alive in them. So yeah. It'd mess with that continuity.

[rubbertea]

oh, right. duh.

[(Anonymous)]

She's not ideal for him, perhaps, no ... but their relationship is probably the most realistic on the show. Most of the people I know like him ARE with people like her - bitchy people need a good person to balance them out and keep them in check, and nice people have an equal need for a bitchy person to keep them from becoming doormats.

[intrigueing]

1. Is there a law saying nice people are not allowed to be with bitchy people even if they're genuinely very happy with said bitchy person? Relationships aren't about tallying what people deserve, you know.

2. Anyway, who says people can't change over time?

3. Thank god I bailed on this show in season 7. I will never watch the season finale as long as I live, not for anything.

[othellia]

Thank god I bailed on this show in season 7. I will never watch the season finale as long as I live, not for anything.

You and me both.

[sparklywalls]

Marshall is the only one who never really pissed me off at some point. And honestly the only character I truly enjoyed in the last season was the mother and she went and got narratively screwed over.

[(Anonymous)]

IA. I liked the mother enough to almost wish for another season, just so she could be awesome and maybe help me hate Ted less.

[sparklywalls]

I absolutely can't stand Ted and spent most of the season thinking "she's too nice, why is she with him?" because maybe it's just me but I didn't get any meaningful character development vibes from him. Another season may have resolved that but never mind. Actually, even just not spending ALL season on the wedding that meant nothing in the end would have been good.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, the one reason I persisted in liking Ted throughout the whole show is because of the light I saw him in -- not as the young guy who I saw onscreen, but as the voiceover -- a wonderful, perceptive, intelligent, appreciative 50-something year old dad looking back on his ups and downs and struggles and not being afraid to tell his kids about the times when he was shitty or immature, while showing so much love for the wife he eventually became worthy of, so much appreciation for his friends who helped him along, and so much respect for his children by judging them to be capable of understanding the importance of what he was telling them, that nothing young!Ted did could ruin the sanctity of old!Ted.

Oh right, except the FUCKING FINALE.

[philstar22]

I'm kind of surprised at all the hate Lily gets. I really like her. I may have been colored a bit by my Allison Hannigan love, but I think her flaws are vastly overemphasized by the fandom. Its like people never got over the fact that she made a mistake and left Marshall early on in the show (and really, it wasn't exactly what I'd call a huge mistake because its perfectly legitimate to not be sure about a relationship and want to explore other things for a while).

[harp]

I am, too. I got the impression that Lily was the nice, perky one. Emotional, sentimental, the humor coming from if something was bad enough to make her snap.

Maybe it's because I've only *just* started watching the show over on TubePlus and have been watching the episodes out of order. Maybe my impression of her leans heavily on the episode where she sat through Barney's play and tried to be a good sport until she absolutely couldn't take it anymore. Veteran fans will probably laugh at me for saying this, but I thought she'd sooner eat dirt than be mean to a friend.

The most terrible?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think Lily is a saint or anything, but I think I'd clock Barney and Robin and maybe Ted as more terrible, which means, of the core group, Marshall maybe ended up with the least terrible, in my opinion anyway. But, hey, if you're rewriting the finale in your head, maybe Marshall could end up with Tracy (the mother) and she could, you know, live. And Lily could join in a weird foursome with Ted, Robin, and Barney (Robin would totally be down for that and Barney would too, Ted might take some convincing, but he's kind of a pushover). Also, let's pretend that the kids are completely mortified by their parents and their romantic lives, as they should be.

Re: The most terrible?

[(Anonymous)]

I would watch the hell out of that show.

Re: The most terrible?

[thezmage]

Well, Lily is a woman, so whatever she does has to be more horrible than the time that Barney sold a woman, or broke up her marriage after stealing her car, etc.

Re: The most terrible?

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the secret says "one of" not "THE most."

Re: The most terrible?

[(Anonymous)]

They were all terrible, but Barney was the worst one by far IMO. Full disclosure: I only watched a few of the sydnicated eps to see what all the fuss was about but there wasn't a single one of them I didn't want to punch in the face. All their redeeming traits must have been shown in the eps I didn't see but yeah, Barney....blecchh.

Re: The most terrible?

[(Anonymous)]

what ep was that?

[fleshisyummy]

I find it so weird when people go into watching sitcoms expecting the characters to be "decent people."

The whole thing about sitcoms is that you're placing characters into rather mundane settings and situations, so most of the humor and interest has to come from the characters. If all the characters were nice people, it wouldn't be funny. We laugh because they're assholes and their behavior is absurd/inappropriate. Honestly, from what I saw of HIMYM, the characters are rather benign compared to other sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably the reason I don't like most sitcoms. But they're not all like that. I enjoy Parks and Rec pretty well, and, for the most part, all the of the characters are 'good people' (well, there's Tom. And I personally hate Chris, but whatevs). They have flaws, to be sure, and sometimes they're assholes, but not to an over the top degree.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it also comes down to the kind of jerks you like and the kind you don't. I love Al Bundy the jerk and everyone-on-Sunny the jerk. I even liked Charlie Harper the womanizing jackass. But I couldn't watch ten minutes of Barney Stinson the womanizing jackass without wanting to chuck him in front of a subway train. Maybe it was the tired old 30-something Manhattanite trope that just won't die already (there are other cities; even other boroughs if you must be wedded to NYC), but the HIMYM jerks were much jerkier than I'm used to and way too much for me. I don't think they were the worst people ever on TV, but they were definitely the least sympathetic and the most unwatchable, for me at least. Now if only the local station would stop running those promos for its syndicated run every ten minutes, I might be rid of the damn thing forever.

[(Anonymous)]

oh, fuck off.