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I've read a couple of posts and have made some comments about it, but thought I'd haul out my own post for it.

I suffered through the first season and kept going when people swore it'd get better. And now I'd say I find it entertaining enough to watch it as it airs. But last night was...pretty stupid. I'm not upset that they decided to split up Barney and Robin (I'm not a die-hard anything for this show, other than hating seeing Ted with just about anybody), however I felt like my intelligence was insulted.

So they split up Barney and Robin last night, and they actually had valid points for it underneath the giant mess the writers came up with. But the valid points were played for laughs. And not just humor laughs, LOLZ laughs. Barney in a fat suit laughs.

I kind of feel like I have a bit of whiplash from it. Everything else on this show has felt fairly genuine - all the breakups and the relationship buildups. (Maybe not in the situations, but in the emotions.) Last night, though, was a "wut?"

It's really sort of turned me off to the show right now. Instead of being happy that hound!dog!Barney is back (I actually did really like hound!dog!Barney in the past - legend...ARY!), I found his reemergence extremely off-putting at the end. Probably because the whole thing was couched in such lazy writing. And this is probably why I don't generally watch sitcoms.

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Yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to need to shelve this show for a while until I can put this episode on the back-burner of my brain (RIGHT NOW IT FEELS SEARED INTO IT) or at least until someone assures me that it's gotten better. Plus, with Doctor Who around the corner again, my inner fandom nut is happier focusing on that. XD

I'm just feeling very "meh" about the show right now. I doubt I'll bother watching it live next week. Might pick it up after the season's over.

It was hard to believe anything that was happening with the fat suit and the old lady-ness. It felt like an AU or some dream of a terrible future, rather than what was actually going on. It didn't feel real in any way. Except for that final conversation between the two of them, which was honest and actually felt like something that could happen. The lead up, though...

Definitely lazy writing. I don't get it at all. Break them up, sure, but do it in a more dramatic way -- sure, it's a sitcom, but there was plenty of drama in getting them together, why not in the breakup? Why go the caricature, way OTT route?

Yes! Very AU because of the warped-ness! I've been trying to put my finger on why it felt so off, and I think that's a large part of it. Not only was it played for laughs, it was hard taking any of it seriously.

The whole episode was really off-putting. Especially all the arguing in the stake-out car at the end. I don't know what the writers were thinking. Clearly they weren't. You put us through a whole season's worth of "will they, won't they?" give us about five episodes of them together, and then pull *that*?

The Big Bang Theory was even more fail last night. CBS seriously derailed last night.

Right. It seemed so off and...just kind of dumb, quite frankly. I guess I shouldn't have expected too much from a sitcom.

I've just about given up on getting invested in any fictional relationships, because if a show goes on long enough everybody will eventually get together and break up, and half the time they both feel more like the writers imposing it than something organic to the characters. The only way any plot development sticks is if the show ends.

But I am feeling a bit cynical today.

Yeah. *sighs*

For my money, Cougartown and Community have both blown my HIMYM love out of the water, and that's saying something.

Though, I haven't been grooving on the current season. They're rapidly running out of story to tell--so just tell it and be done. How often can they renegotiate the Ted/Marshall/Lily triangle, for example? How long can Ted continue to be Sad Single Guy? Robin/Barney should have been happening as a counterpoint to Ted/wife. THAT would have kept it fresh. Gar. Hrmph.

Community looks like something I could like. I might have to check that out.

On HIMYM, to me the whole "who is Ted's wife" mystery should have been resolved years ago. They're taking the title of the show way too literally - it shouldn't just be a years-long telling of how they first met, but about their whole relationship. And I'd love to see it happening along side Robin and Barney.