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POLL : What did you think of How I Met Your Mother - Something Old?

7 May 2013

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43 comments:

  1. klutzy_girl7 May 2013 at 01:31

    I am so pissed right now. Like, what the hell, Robin? YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO TELL HIM IT'S IMPORTANT INSTEAD OF THINKING HE AUTOMATICALLY HAS TO KNOW SOMETHING'S WRONG. He was doing having fun and something was going on. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but A+ Ted for defending Barney.

    These issues came out of nowhere and ugh at Robin's "signs from the universe" random ass crap. And Ted - Leave it go and grow the hell up already. I have a bad feeling about the ending of this episode.


    Other than that, the Marshall/Lily storyline was hilarious but the episode as a whole was rage-inducing.

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  2. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 01:39

    Goodness gracious I loved that episode...all of it, the Marshall/Lily parts, the Barney/Robin Sr. parts, and the Ted/Robin parts. Couldn't stop grinning at the end, although I strongly suspect I am one of few in that respect...oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts!

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  3. Jekkah Fanfiction7 May 2013 at 02:28

    I'm about to quit this show, I'm so irritated by the rehashing of Ted and Robin. It's extremely irritating and a blatant attempt to extend the life of the show.

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  4. Lars Lund Andersen7 May 2013 at 02:46

    My feelings exactly, the writing definetely lost both edge and quality several seasons ago :(

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  5. Youmna7 May 2013 at 03:15

    Am I the only one not seeing this Ted/Robin thing as writer desperation? I watched the episode and thought "wow, they have an amazing friendship."

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  6. MeatyStakes7 May 2013 at 03:22

    Well, the title was apt. This is something really old.


    I'm not flipping a table because it was forsahdowed that at least one more Robin/Ted thing was left to happen, but honestly, it doesn't make it any less repetitive.


    Marshal/Lilly were awesome, they are one of my fave couples.

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  7. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 03:23

    I don't either! Romantic or platonic, they just have a beautiful relationship.

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  8. Maria Pinochet7 May 2013 at 03:43

    I will hate it if the mother is Robin. but is not possible. she can't have children. ted talk to the mother in front of her door, saying that he knew the mother has a boyfriend that could punch him, and I don't think that kind of strong guy is Barney. I really wouldn't mind if the mother, it isn't someone familiar in the show. I would like to see a new face, that I can grow to like. and see how Ted and her fall in love.

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  9. ShatteredOne7 May 2013 at 04:35

    I was going to say truly terrible, but the episode did have some good lines. But overall it was very lackluster and can we, for the love of God, drop the whole Ted/Robin stuff? We know it's not going to happen. Just move on already.

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  10. Lissie_Bee7 May 2013 at 04:55

    Okay, I love Ted and all, but the writers need to stop making him Robin's hero. I know they're great friends, and he gets her, but they're making Barney out to look like an idiot who doesn't care about her. I feel like if someone started watching the show from this point they'd think Barney was awful for her, and that she should break it off to be with Ted. And this close to their wedding? I know they still have stuff to work out, and that she gets nervous the day of, but seriously... the way they're handling these relationships frustrates me. Especially since we knew from the PILOT that Ted and Robin don't end up together. Why do the writers need to keep pretending like it's going to happen?

    Other than that, I really enjoyed the episode haha. The Marshall/Lily/Ted stuff was great, and I was dying at the laser tag scenes with Barney and Robin's dad.

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  11. Lissie_Bee7 May 2013 at 04:57

    I definitely agree that Robin and Ted have a beautiful friendship. I love that they're still close, and that they know each other so well. I just feel like Barney's character always has to get torpedoed in the process, which isn't necessary. Can't they give them some scenes that aren't at the expense of Barney's relationship with her?

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  12. Babar Suhail7 May 2013 at 07:04

    Since I don't watch the show for the "ships", I thought this episode was awesome.

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  13. andy s7 May 2013 at 07:44

    I don't know how old you are. You could be 10 or 50. But haven't you ever felt the need to just be understood? Not to tell everything explicitly to someone you love and someone who is supposed to love you. If you didn't, you are in vast minority. Also, this much shipping is not really healthy. You are forgetting rules of human behavior. What we need of a tv show (book, movie) is for characters to act as we would have in similar situations, it's the only way we can relate to them. In my experience, this need for understanding and subtext is even more prevalent in women than in men. So Robin acted naturally. Barney was playing and couldn't have cared less for her subtext. Ted had an important meeting and dropped it all. Here you see, not perhaps that Ted and Robin belong together (though I still think they do, but I reserve my final judgment until we meet the mother), but that Barney still has ways to go. Whether Robin has patience to wait for him remains to be seen, but this episode was an incredibly emotional, human and realistic. If two people don't belong together, they shouldn't force it and we shouldn't force it on them. But it is realistic to explore it and that is what Robin does. To sum up, relax and watch. Also that you are this afraid of these two characters potentially wavering or having doubts should tell you that even you aren't sure they belong together. If you were, you would welcome any challenge that comes to that because you would be sure both could pass it.

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  14. andy s7 May 2013 at 07:46

    Relax guys, she isn't the mother, the writing wasn't bad but poignant, and it is natural to revert to old ways and secure place in the moment of doubt. It's not always about the destination, but also about process.

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  15. andy s7 May 2013 at 07:46

    Thank you! One of the best in recent seasons.

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  16. Bobby MassBrah Janjic7 May 2013 at 08:54

    with all that we've been given im sure that ted and robin dont end up together. but it wouldnt be too surprising if barney was doing all this on purpose to get ted and robin back together, a new page from the playbook "the ted and robin" him becoming the ultimate wingman by getting them back together.

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  17. fisk7 May 2013 at 10:20

    Glad to see there are others like me!

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  18. Sara Sleegers7 May 2013 at 10:28

    Please everyone is sick of the whole Ted and Robin thing, she belongs to Barney and no one else

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  19. chestal7 May 2013 at 10:28

    I totally agree with you. And I'm big fan of Barney/Robin, so I don't think Ted/Robin belong together but their friendship is so sweet. I felt so bad for Robin when I thought Ted wasn't coming either. Sometimes all you need is a friend. Maybe if Barney came instead of Ted, she wouldn't have talked about her insecurities. Now she has and she has to pass them. She and Barney both. So here's hoping for a good Robin/Barney talk where they put all the things out.

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  20. LunaticDesire7 May 2013 at 10:56

    Maybe Robin has already mentioned this whole thing to Barney and he dug it up at some point as a romantic gesture and will give it to her before the wedding? Or maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic ;)

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  21. andy s7 May 2013 at 11:24

    Absolutely. Remember 5x01? They need to define their relationship. Ted will always be a better friend for Robin than Barney. Which only means RB marriage will not be based on true friendship. That could also work, but they have to work on it, and for that they need to start talking about it. I am glad that show allows us to discuss it this way, instead of only teen-soapy questions 'will they or won't they' or 'who will what with whom'

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  22. chestal7 May 2013 at 11:59

    Exactly. Probably the thing that made me big fan of Barney/Robin was the fact that if in the end it's Ted/Robin, the writers will be going against what they said in the pilot. Also, I think they are great together, I can't imagine Barney with another woman. So as far as I know, I'm sure they're "endgame", that's why I don't mind watching them reaching to that point and the problems they have to confront. Knowing how Barney is, knowing Robin's fear to commitment, it wouldn't be realistic if they hadn't any problem.

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  23. klutzy_girl7 May 2013 at 12:16

    This!

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  24. klutzy_girl7 May 2013 at 12:27

    And Ted was an idiot for dropping an important job interview just to help a friend who he cannot let go of after eight years.



    So what if Barney didn't pick up on it? Robin should have told him.



    I know they're going to end up together, but I'm sick and tired of Ted being presented as this perfect person who does anything for Robin and makes Barney look like a jerk when it wasn't even his fault this time.

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  25. chestal7 May 2013 at 13:36

    that would be great! :)

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  26. Michele Klinger7 May 2013 at 13:37

    I just saw it as Ted knowing Robin so well and wanting to be there for a friend when Marshall and Lily are about to be leaving for Italy. I thought it was a cute moment

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  27. Lucy Payne7 May 2013 at 14:15

    in the next episode she has the locket but does this mean barney may have already dug it up? but omg i loved the ted and robin he is such a good friend, but he needs to focus on himself..

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  28. Maggi Marcus7 May 2013 at 16:06

    I thought Robin and Ted was great example of friendship until the looks and the handholding....


    And Ted's speech at the end was great and got me thinking.

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  29. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 16:34

    100% with all you said. Perfect! Regardless of anything they do with Barney/Robin, I will always feel that the relationship Ted/Robin had in season 1-2 and the friendship they've had ever since trumps it. But as you said, I will sit and reserve any judgment for the end of the series when everything pans out with the mother. Point of the matter being that the Ted's lingering feelings and Robin's doubts are completely natural and shouldn't be scorned.

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  30. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 16:46

    Indeed! Although I've always loved Ted and Robin's relationship, if I was going to take it personally I would just view it as a major and cruel tease and feel frustrated. I may not always like Robin/Barney's relationship, but I don't let it make or break an episode for me. I like seeing the progress the characters they move through, and thought the episode was fantastic with both humor and emotion.

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  31. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 16:59

    Just curious, but how do you think Barney's character is being torpedoed? I mean, if Robin would have told him something was wrong, I, and probably everyone else, knows he would have been there in a heartbeat. I think they're just being true to both Ted and Barney's characters...Ted has always been the more sensitive one and Barney has always been the more fun one. I mean, Ted even made the joke last night about being a girl lol. Obviously Barney is capable of being romantic and sensitive, but it's not as ingrained in him as it is with Ted. One isn't necessarily better than the other, it's just different.

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  32. Lissie_Bee7 May 2013 at 17:10

    I totally agree with you - Ted and Barney are very different people with very different personalities, and it's clear that they both love Robin and care about her well being. And yes, if Robin had told him she really needed him, I have no doubt he would have been there in a heartbeat. Maybe I'm just nitpicking and seeing things that aren't there, but I feel like there's an underlying implication in the scene that "If Barney knew and loved her half as well as Ted did, he would have heard that thing in her voice that meant he should come running, too."


    Maybe I had a poor choice of words by referring to Barney's character - he's really the same guy he's always been, and they're staying true to that. I don't think that's in question at all. I just felt like maybe they were undermining his feelings for Robin this time around.

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  33. Chalice937 May 2013 at 17:13

    Ted is truly a great guy, whoever the "Mother" is, she is really lucky.


    As for Robin? Lots of luck lady, you're gonna need it with Barney for a husband.

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  34. Universe Gal7 May 2013 at 19:13

    Well, first of all, we know Robin isn't the MOTHER from the pilot, not that she isn't the one he'll end up with. Second, we've been having hints dropped since the first episodes that the Ted/Robin situation wasn't half over, especially with the "I'm the one she's marrying" bit Ted and Barney (who's being sabotaged by the writers since last season when he purposely let his best friend go through the torture of giving him the woman he loved). If anything, I know this has been a ploy, and that the writers are desperately trying to buy time, but I also know Ted/Robin isn't that farfetched. We already saw what happens when you put Robin and Barney together: they get old and fat because they're so alike they burn each other out no matter how they've matured. On the other hand, we see how functional Ted/Robin's relationship was, and we didn't see the endgame because back then they had different views on life. Things have changed, Robin's ready for marriage. In my opiniom that just means that whether we like it or not, Robin is ready for Ted now.

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  35. amyk_7127 May 2013 at 20:26

    Okay, I gotcha...I would think that wasn't the writers' intention, but I can see how it could be viewed as that, especially by someone who maybe has only recently started watching the show and don't know the dynamics of the characters as well.

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  36. r_guy7 May 2013 at 21:50

    I think the best thing would be to all of us wait and see what the hell will happen in this season finale! Then we will be able to see what was in the mind of the writers... Just one week!

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  37. Halliebear8 May 2013 at 02:12

    That's what I'm hoping too :)

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  38. Halliebear8 May 2013 at 02:55

    I love the series, but I wasn't wild about the rehashing of Robin/Ted that was hinted at towards the end. It's not that I see those two as a bad couple (I would've been fine if she'd turned out to be the mother, actually), but that it seems like tired, old ground we've been over so many times before. And each time, they've come to the conclusion it doesn't work for them, and for perfectly good reasons, not misunderstandings, not fits of passionate ignoring and missed signals. Since it's already been established many times over that it doesn't work out and they're better as platonic friends, I don't really see the point in poking around there yet another time and would rather see them move on to new ground.

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  39. Jekkah Fanfiction8 May 2013 at 04:42

    I know she isn't the mother. That isn't my problem. My problem is that they manufactured this Ted never let go of Robin thing out of nowhere last season. It's not doing any of their characters any justice. It makes Ted look pathetic. It makes Robin look like a user (because she knows of Ted's feelings for her). It makes Barney look like a jerk because he's not as "perfect" as Ted. If the mother was smart, she'd run from this mess (but clearly, she doesn't as she's the mother).

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  40. RoseannaLima9 May 2013 at 03:59

    I thought about that too. I hope we are right. ^.^

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  41. KalPak BhaVe10 May 2013 at 15:21

    Barney HAS in fact been behaving like a jerk! I completely sympathized with Ted in Band v/s DJ. Poor guy! Barney does not deserve Robin at all. Not just this episode, see how he behaved when Robin asked him to sell his house? He spat at Ted like a jerk the other day when Ted asked him to behave more like a guy who is engaged. As opposed to that, look at Ted! Remember how much he did for Robin in Symphony of Illumination without even knowing the reason behind her grief.
    Barney doesn't deserve her indeed!

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  42. chestal8 April 2014 at 02:14

    wow slow down! now Ted is a moron cause he cares? nonsense, he's just being a good friend, you're seeing things you shouldn't i think. He didn't know why Robin called him, he knew it was IMPORTANT, maybe not a life or death situation but he knew it was important for Robin. I wish I had a friend who could leave a job interview if he/she sensed that something was wrong with me. He went there cause he cares, how could he not go? He's supposed to not care about Robin anymore now that she's engaged? that's not how friendship goes. Besides, he did nothing but encourage Robin to her wedding, so how is he being a moron?? If someone needs to grow in this show, it's Barney. I love him but he cannot be like that all his life. And I think Robin can do Barney good, that's why I love them together. But they need to talk long and deep.

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  43. klutzy_girl8 April 2014 at 02:14

    It's totally fine for Robin to have doubts and it's normal.



    What I don't like is Ted being a moron like this who stupidly didn't go to a job interview when that personally affected his life when the thing with Robin wasn't a life or death situation.


    And how do you think The Mother (and the kids) feel listening to this story of Ted's neverending love for Robin? There comes a point - hopefully soon - where Ted needs to grow up and move the hell on.

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