we got this (4.05)

[jlh]

Before I start in on this week, a note from last week I forgot: Notice that after an entire episode of talking about how she throws away all momentos because "they weigh you down" Robin is the one who asks Becky the waitress to take a picture of them at the booth.

Right, on to this week.

Well, I can see how if they hadn't got renewed they could have made Stella the mother, but I think we all kinda knew she wasn't the mother. My only real criticism is that I wish we had heard something at all about her ex before now, not that she wasn't over him but just that he existed and had his daughter some weekends. I don't remember that being established and thought he was way out of the picture for some reason.

Still, I want to know how Stella leads us to the mother. And where is the yellow umbrella?

Re the fake scene with the fake kids: Craig & Carter said that during season 2 they filmed a shot for the finale. I think they said with the kids--kids they can't use anymore because they grew and are now huge. Do you think it's akin to that scene of Stella and the not!kids?

Also, I wonder if this means that Robin won't be invited to Ted's wedding next time? Or by then is she not really still an ex? And so now will Ted and Robin be in the apartment? How do they get it back so quickly? And what job will Robin have now?

OMG, Barney and his white board, and then blowing it in just the way that Lily said he would. And how he was sad briefly until he started having sex again. I had thought that Barney would use his ex-hippie knowledge at the Palais du Yoga but sad, that wasn't to be--I love all references to past!Barney. I love how this stays humming in the background and I'm so intrigued to see where it goes.

With Lily's involvement in Barney's pursuit of Robin, and Robin having her own career issues, and Ted being, well, Ted, Marshall hasn't been that much in evidence except 4.02 and his protest about Manhattan and New Jersey. I'm hoping for big things in November from you, young man.

Thoughts?

ETA: Um, I messed up the coding--there is actual content behind the cut now!

Comments

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I MISSED HIMYM last night! I was watching...wait for it.. SpongeBob with my kid. *headdesk* Arrrrrgh.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

My guess would be that Robin totally could be at the real wedding. Because all the stuff Stella was saying wasn't *completely* true--Robin could have been at the wedding no problem. Sure she gave Ted that speech, but that was just about her past feelings for him making her really know what he wanted romantically and how this wasn't it. She still had feelings but they really weren't that unresolved. I think if Ted is marrying somebody he's meant to be with she won't feel as weird about it, or the weirdness will be out there and dealt with. (Or else they'll keep continuity and just say Robin wasn't there but sent something nice.)

With Stella, of course, the real issue was that she had unresolved issues and while I'd like to have known about Tony before it was certainly clear from the second she said she "hung around for five years waiting for him to decide he was ready" that *that* relationship was unresolved. She was still waiting.

I love Barney's screwing up--that meant so much more than Lily telling him he couldn't really be in love and act that way. He's going to have to learn from experience how he really feels about Robin--his feelings will probably have to grow. If he gets with her eventually it will be because he doesn't really want what he has now. The little hippie romantic Barney will creep out of the hole where he's been hiding. He'll get vulnerable and it will be legen--wait for it--dary.

Or else something else. It'll be cool, though.

Loved the "if only I'd let Stella talk to Robin..." speech because man, just think of how bad it would have been if Ted had gone through with the wedding. Tony would not have gone away, Ted.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I definitely hope that Robin is at the real wedding, and that by then she in some weird way isn't an ex? It was more FutureTed's final comment on the episode that made me think that. I think I read in the TWOP interview with Craig that Tony is on for two eps, so we'll see if Robin freaks out on them or not, though my main thought was, where was their daughter?

It'll be cool, though.

What is this feeling of trusting a creator to do a good job at something? Oh HIMYM, you are so healing.

OMG, what horrible hell if Ted had actually gone through with it! Think of how much it was Stella pushing Ted to act, with the proposal and the move and the sudden wedding, as though she kept hoping that if she went through with these things she'd be able to get Tony out of her system. Poor Ted.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Of even worse she was actually always pushing *Tony* to act. Even if it was only unconsciously. Because it's seriously hard to believe that she would have gotten married without her daughter there, so the sudden wedding was forcing some kind of confrontation--his witholding the daughter was a way of holding back the wedding.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

True, because the wedding was two weeks out when they decided to take the date over from her sister, and I'm sure that Stella had been working on Tony all that time, but why did she not freak out until the last moment? That all should have happened while she was still in the city. So yeah, maybe it was all about pushing Tony, and hey, if Tony didn't move he'd never move and she'd be better off with Ted anyway.

oh SHOW!

[misscake]

I do think that Robin will be at the next wedding (or at Ted's wedding to the kids mom, because who knows how many almost-weddings there might be), mostly because the kids call her 'Aunt Robin' so I'm thinking she may have bonded with the wife.

I agree with you about the abrupt way they ended the story line. Although, I do like how they replayed Stella's comments in retrospect and it all made sense. It's a shame that it was all done in the span of one show rather than having it laid out over several episodes to tie it all in.

It would have been awesome, though, to get a glimpse of the yellow umbrella on the boat.

And Barney... man, I am becoming obsessed with his storyline. NPH is so completely awesome.

(I need HIMYM icons!)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

There must be a HIMYM icon comm. I need to get me some new ones.

I did like the recap of what Stella said, and even looking back at the entire Stella storyline, I realized that she was really pushing the relationship forward very quickly, almost as if she was hoping that if she didn't stop and think, she'd be rid of her feelings for Tony.

Besides, she didn't like Star Wars.

[scrabble.livejournal.com]

So, unrelated, but Alyson Hannigan is pregnant.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I just read that! Do you think they'll write it in?

[scrabble.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering that myself! It's one of those pregnancies that I'm sort of like, "Oh, how nice!" about because I really like her husband, but on the other hand I was hoping that no one would have babies during the timeline we see on HIMYM. I can't think of any show where I've liked a baby addition because either suddenly there's too much baby, or else the baby's never around and it makes the parents look bad. (I Love Lucy is a classic example of this. When Little Ricky is a baby, Lucy and Ricky are constantly ditching him for weeks at a time, and then when he's an infant there's a bunch of annoying episodes about him.)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

The only show I can think of where the kid shows up and things are normal but not normal in a bad parenting way is Murphy Brown, and you know, you don't really expect her to be all that doting in the first place. Plus, Eldon as nanny is the most inspired thing that show ever did.

Given that the show manages Marshall/Lily so well just in terms of being married and not being annoying or boring, I think they probably could get a lot of comedy out of the baby. I mean, it's very unpredictable, how Lily will react. On the one hand, kindergarten teacher, on the other hand, unsentimental cigar smoking and somewhat crazy chick who spends too much money on boots.

I wish I had a better sense of where they are in their production schedule. If she's in her second trimester now, which is when people usually announce these things, she'll be due in April ...

But what am I even saying. There's the SAG strike to get past anyway.

I didn't put it in the entry, but in the fast overnights HIMYM tied with Dancing with the Stars with a 3.9 HH rating! If Big Bang were doing better they'd be winning the hour! I'm so excited that the show is doing so much better in the ratings now.