HIMYM 4x01 - Do I Know You?

[jetpack_monkey]

Okay. Dudes. Seriously. The best way to prove that you are not going to be iffy like Season 3 is by keeping the gang together better. Everything was freakin' pairs. Barney and Lily. Barney and Robin. Ted and Stella. Ted and Marshall. Also, Marshall and Robin get pretty shafted in all of this.

Now that I have that out of the way...

BARNEY HAS BEEN INFECTED BY FEELINGS! YOUR ODE TO BIMBOS CANNOT FOOL ME!

Ahem. I like how they're letting Barney deal with the Robin thing in a very Barney way -- by playing a part to lure the vixen into his... boyfriend zone. Except boyfriend, ew. He just wants to smell her hair and be with her every second of every day. He doesn't want a commitment.

Also, NPH was robbed at the Emmys. I'm just sayin'.

Ted and Stella plotline was less interesting. We knew she was going to say yes -- otherwise she would've answered at the end of Season 3 and there would've been a moping montage. The Star Wars thing was... okay, I guess. I like the idea, but it really needed to be pushed. Brought to the next level. Heightened. I think it would've been funnier, honestly, if Marshall had been watching with Stella, sekritly vetting his best friend's fiancee for him.

Also, I'm taking odds right now that...

- Ted and Stella break-up before the wedding
- Ted leaves Stella at the altar
- Stella leaves Ted at the altar (my personal favorite)
- Messy divorce
- Clean divorce
- Stella's the mother

In conclusion, welcome back, show! Now shape up!

Comments

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

What?! What?! I missed it?!

*looks cute*

I can haz file?

[njordsifusansoo.livejournal.com]

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/ should have it available for watching. Not sure on the quality of the stream yet, but will find out when I get home (I haven't seen the episode yet either).

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

Let me know how the stream looks.... my internet at home is really spotty, since I'm leaching off someone's unsecure network until Comcast can get out here and fix up my internets.

[njordsifusansoo.livejournal.com]

it looked fine on my laptop (I wasn't viewing full screen though).

[kittycat22.livejournal.com]

ARGH! I didn't know that started last night! GRRRR. I would have watched it over the silly Heroes party thingy. Damn.

Now must go download. Well, when I get home. Not at work. That'd be wrong.


Right?

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

This whole being-without-electricity-and-cable crap has been murder on my TV viewing! I can't wait to see this whenever I'm able.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I thought it wasn't a bad episode. The thing about pairing them off is that, well, people often hang out like that. The friends in the group are really -- not interchangeable, that's the wrong word, but they can pair off and break apart and then come back together again -- and as someone who has a friends group like that, I found it pretty authentic.

I like that Barney kind of failed at asking Robin out. It fits with what we know of his past.

I don't think that Stella is the mother, personally. It's about how he MET her, and clearly they've already met. I'll likely believe that until proven wrong.

[thesawg.livejournal.com]

I just started Netflixing season 1 on DVD. I love this show now, wow NPH is the funniest person out there right now. I have always avoided CBS comedies because they are pretty generic family comedy stuff. But with enough THEM members loving this show I was glad I gave it a try.