A Newcomer Opines About “HIMYM” Finale

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Totally joined the bandwagon here! So, admitting that………….

Okay, read about the series enough to understand it, read the pilot episode while trying to teach myself how to write a sitcom (it read GREAT! [The “HIMYM” one, not mine :)]), and watched a few from different seasons in syndication while watching the episodes that led up to finale:

So, my verdict (for what it’s worth):

This was a classic case of over-ambition. (I agree with the rabid fans who complained that they had to sit through a whole [and final] season based on one (!) storyline that just should have been a two-parter, then a two-parter finale that could have been a whole/the last season. But I do admit putting that much history in a two-parter was interesting and punchy.) Your pilot said you were different from a certain NBC white-people-living-in-New-York-in-your-20s-show you “replaced” (that I’m still a huge fan of), and then, from the perspective of the fans, you took that back. (After making them weep.) The problem is this: you could have just watched the pilot and the two-parter finale, and you would have had THE WHOLE STORY.  So all of the bells and whistles–the narration, the flashbacks and flashforwards, etc.–didn’t really pay off.

I ALMOST got into this show, but never mind. When I want to watch fantasy New York City white people in the afternoon or evening, I’ll stick to the gang at Central Perk. 🙂

re: “The Bachelor”: What’s “Wrong” With Juan Pablo Galavis? Nothing Outside The Sexist Norm, Perhaps?

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Boy, are a lot of people mad with this guy!

I was laughing all the way through, because he was clear what he was about all along: I’m gonna use my Latin charm, athletic six-pack and lookism completely to my advantage, since a group of fame-hungry women and a broadcast television network are allowing me the complete power to do so. I’m gonna be on TV dating and tonguing (and more) some princesses for a couple of months, and have ABC pay for it. Boy, this is fun! Oh, I’m sorry to hurt you.

(Now, I’m gonna stop oinking for a moment 🙂  to ask a feminist question: What kind of gender-conscious woman would volunteer–fight, actually!–to play this game in the 21st century? Talk about “enlightened sexism!” And no, “The Bachelorette” doesn’t even the score.)

Juan Pablo Galavis refused to play along with the show’s mythology last night (and, really, for the whole season), and exposed this series for the sham it was conceived to be, last year’s “happily ever after” couple be damned.