2014 TV thread

[RockRaines]

Realistic or not, the show had themes and motivations that ended up meaning dick in the end.

Like every show ever?

 

I expected a finale in tune with a network comedy and it delivered IMO. It wasnt my favorite and I wasnt completely happy but I didnt expect the writing to all of a sudden get great.

[Jenksismyhero]

Like every show ever?

 

I expected a finale in tune with a network comedy and it delivered IMO. It wasnt my favorite and I wasnt completely happy but I didnt expect the writing to all of a sudden get great.

 

Well sure, I wasn't expecting an Emmy winning drama script either, but I wanted something that didn't make me feel like the prior 9 seasons was a waste of time. They devoted hours and hours to certain story lines and then did a 180 on them.

[southsider2k5]

Well sure, I wasn't expecting an Emmy winning drama script either, but I wanted something that didn't make me feel like the prior 9 seasons was a waste of time. They devoted hours and hours to certain story lines and then did a 180 on them.

 

Yep. Exactly.

 

[Harry Chappas]

Yep. Exactly.

 

Don't watch the show but it seems to me there never really was a game plan for ending the show and working the mother in?

 

The show denied everything kind of like Lost and then ended in a way that it should have worked toward for a few seasons.

[LittleHurt05]

The Mother plot was a major part of the show this season though.

 

Some parts of the finale worked for me. The end absolutely did not. Part of that, to me, is because the timeline on the show isn't the timeline that we get while watching the show. They tell us 6 years passed between the Mother dying and the final moments, but we, as viewers, have about 20 seconds to process that fact before Ted is chasing Robin again. Rather than writing three terrible final seasons (Zooey, the Barney-Robin relationship), they could have told the story they told in the finale over the course of the final three seasons. Then it might have worked for me. We could have seen how good the Ted/Mother relationship was. We could have seen the emotional hit of her dying and seen why Ted/Robin made sense again (Robin steps in and is great with the kids, whatever).

 

Instead, the ending felt rushed and felt way too soon.

 

Oh and spending the last two seasons on the terrible Robin/Barney relationship, only to blow that up in the first 10 minutes of the finale was just awful.

 

Well said, that's what I was thinking too. If that final episode had been played out over the entire season 9 and/or 8, it would have gone over much better. Instead, they just fed us all this meaningless rarely funny content, to only blow it all up in one hour.

[LittleHurt05]

How could a show divert if you already have an ending? I don't get it.

 

 

Like every show ever?

 

I expected a finale in tune with a network comedy and it delivered IMO. It wasnt my favorite and I wasnt completely happy but I didnt expect the writing to all of a sudden get great.

 

Like you said, it's a network comedy, not a detective murder mystery. They had a plan in season 1, but as time progressed they could have altered their thinking as the show developed differently. They didn't need to have the awkward scene with the kids and instead the mother could have lived or something else.

[bmags]

Like you said, it's a network comedy, not a detective murder mystery. They had a plan in season 1, but as time progressed they could have altered their thinking as the show developed differently. They didn't need to have the awkward scene with the kids and instead the mother could have lived or something else.

 

I think after season 5, around when I stopped watching, they should have just quit with the idea that he was actually telling his kids anything. Just stopped, no explanation.

 

There are a lot of gimmicks network tv shows begin with as an interesting idea to get on TV that don't necessarily lend themselves to multiple season commitments.

 

For instance, the office, at some point nobody really remembered that this crew was "filming a documentary". Eventually that was just a style, and occasionally they'd nod to it.

 

Now that show went off the rails in its own way, but it would have been severely restricted if they kept to that. Jim could have never left the scranton office.

 

At some point they could have pivoted narrators to freshen it up. How I met your Mother would have been a general theme about looking back to their younger days.

[RockRaines]

Well sure, I wasn't expecting an Emmy winning drama script either, but I wanted something that didn't make me feel like the prior 9 seasons was a waste of time. They devoted hours and hours to certain story lines and then did a 180 on them.

The other 9 seasons were 99 percent Robin and 1 percent the "mother". So they did make sure it wasnt a waste of time.

[Jenksismyhero]

The other 9 seasons were 99 percent Robin and 1 percent the "mother". So they did make sure it wasnt a waste of time.

 

The lack of the mother was a legit gripe of mine and other fans 2-3 seasons ago. That was one of the reasons I stopped watching until the last few weeks (that and the same jokes were getting really old).

 

But that still doesn't excuse the bait and switch. They spent the last 3-4 seasons trying to sell the audience on the idea that Robin and Ted were not going to be together, that they had both moved past that, that Robin and Barney were a legit couple (and Barney had changed his ways and had grown up) and then nope, erase all that, we changed our mind literally the last 30 minutes of a show that aired for 4,576 minutes. Please audience, just buy it.

 

Like Joseph Smith, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dummmmbbbbbb.

 

 

Just to be clear, it wasn't the worst finale ever. It had its moments. It had a lot of call backs to earlier episodes which I liked. They really nailed the scene where Ted finally meets/talks to the mother. But the ending was just brutally awful.

Edited April 1, 2014 by Jenksismybitch

[RockRaines]

Frankly once they introduced the mother I wanted to see less and less of her, especially in that horrible tight dress.

[southsider2k5]

The lack of the mother was a legit gripe of mine and other fans 2-3 seasons ago. That was one of the reasons I stopped watching until the last few weeks (that and the same jokes were getting really old).

 

But that still doesn't excuse the bait and switch. They spent the last 3-4 seasons trying to sell the audience on the idea that Robin and Ted were not going to be together, that they had both moved past that, that Robin and Barney were a legit couple (and Barney had changed his ways and had grown up) and then nope, erase all that, we changed our mind literally the last 30 minutes of a show that aired for 4,576 minutes. Please audience, just buy it.

 

Like Joseph Smith, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dummmmbbbbbb.

 

 

Just to be clear, it wasn't the worst finale ever. It had its moments. It had a lot of call backs to earlier episodes which I liked. They really nailed the scene where Ted finally meets/talks to the mother. But the ending was just brutally awful.

 

The bits to tie up back stories on some of the bit characters from the past was great. I really liked that.

 

I didn't Soprano's hate the ending, but it was pretty bad IMO. It wrecked a lot of the series for me.

[kev211]

The lack of the mother was a legit gripe of mine and other fans 2-3 seasons ago. That was one of the reasons I stopped watching until the last few weeks (that and the same jokes were getting really old).

 

But that still doesn't excuse the bait and switch. They spent the last 3-4 seasons trying to sell the audience on the idea that Robin and Ted were not going to be together, that they had both moved past that, that Robin and Barney were a legit couple (and Barney had changed his ways and had grown up) and then nope, erase all that, we changed our mind literally the last 30 minutes of a show that aired for 4,576 minutes. Please audience, just buy it.

 

Like Joseph Smith, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dummmmbbbbbb.

 

 

Just to be clear, it wasn't the worst finale ever. It had its moments. It had a lot of call backs to earlier episodes which I liked. They really nailed the scene where Ted finally meets/talks to the mother. But the ending was just brutally awful.

Just last week Robin told Ted she should be with him minutes before her wedding. Before that Ted went way out of his way to get a locket for her so no they haven't spent the last 3-4 years telling us they were bad for each other. Ted has always loved Robin.

 

Even still the Mother and Ted spent 9 years together. That's a great relationship and Ted waited 6 years after her death to go for Robin. Ted moved on from the mother just like the mother moved on from her first love after he died.

[southsider2k5]

Just last week Robin told Ted she should be with him minutes before her wedding. Before that Ted went way out of his way to get a locket for her so no they haven't spent the last 3-4 years telling us they were bad for each other. Ted has always loved Robin.

 

Even still the Mother and Ted spent 9 years together. That's a great relationship and Ted waited 6 years after her death to go for Robin. Ted moved on from the mother just like the mother moved on from her first love after he died.

 

Except they do all of that in about 30 seconds on the show, after nine years of building up to that moment in real time. It sucked.

[Rowand44]

Just watched the HIMYM finale, I actually really liked the episode but wasn't crazy about the ending either. Just seemed so abrupt and forced.

[southsider2k5]

The ending of HIMYM was the equivalent of Walt walking away from the meth business and becoming a Chemistry teacher again.

[flavum]

...or Dexter becoming a logger.

[Kyyle23]

...or Dexter becoming a logger.

 

i fully expect him to come out of hiding in a few years when Showtime wants to milk the cow again

[southsider2k5]

...or Dexter becoming a logger.

 

Nice.

[farmteam]

Justified with a real good one last night. Next week is the season finale. I have to imagine Darryl Crowe Jr. is going down.

[Harry Chappas]

3 episodes into House of Cards and the Kevin Spacey accent kind of grates on me from time to time. I also can not decide if Robin Wright is hot or I just think she is supposed to be hot.

 

Other than that I think I will really like it.

[Brian]

Justified with a real good one last night. Next week is the season finale. I have to imagine Darryl Crowe Jr. is going down.

 

That episode was awesome. With next year being the last one, anything can happen next week and Darryl is piiiiissed.

 

I love the accent with Alicia Witt. Always had a thing for that ginger.

[Soxfest]

That episode was awesome. With next year being the last one, anything can happen next week and Darryl is piiiiissed.

 

I love the accent with Alicia Witt. Always had a thing for that ginger.

Should be a great episode next week all ready having withdrawals of being last episode till Jan 2015.

[GoSox05]

I am going to miss Justified after it ends next year.

[Balta1701]

I don't know if others gave up on it, but I'm really enjoying where Agents of Shield has been going the last several months. Really solid twist I didn't see coming last night.

[Soxbadger]

I think the ending of HIMYM was fine. Life isnt always what we expect.