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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How I stretched a 15 minute story into 9 fucking years

Tap for spoilerbecause I’m still simping for your Aunt Robin and want to let you know that she’s about to become your new mother

(Also still salty)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    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")

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago

    “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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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly, I loved that show. But this picture is still so damn true.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Great show, loved the show, would have been better without the premise.

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  • [+] 56 points 1 year ago* (8 children)
  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm going to say something controversial:

    IMO, Game of Thrones is massively overrated (even without the terrible later seasons) and is just an excuse for a porn and gore fest. I put it in the same category as shows like The Boys.

    If you like it, fair enough, you do you, but nothing about that show resonated with me in any way.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Game of Thrones in the early seasons had interesting intrigues and there were a lot of options for who could be the next king or queen. Plus it had a way of making you care about a character before they were killed off. Yes I'm still salty about Oberyn Martell.

    Then the politics and intrigue became increasingly less important as it became Dany + allies vs Cersei + allies. Yes there were a lot of other issues in the later seasons such as the whole fast travel issue, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The laugh track adds up to two whole seasons

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The 15 minutes includes also all the jokes they told over the seasons.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Robin really wasn't a strong enough character.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Don't watch for the ending. Enjoy the journey.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hated the journey as much as I hate Jason Segel

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    I hated Ted. Were you supposed to hate Ted?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    AKA why I never ask my in-laws about their day.

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  • ADHD by any other name.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    - Do you want the short version or the long one?

    - Yes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A name would've been nice.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Which wouldn't be a problem, if the show was any good.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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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    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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