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Spoilers for HIMYM. Or...spoilers for something that happened recently and TPTB talking about why it happened.

http://community.livejournal.com/barneyrobin/410631.html

This is me not able to roll my eyes harder. I'm not even that invested in Barney/Robin, but this is pretty lame. This is completely typical of writers who think that relationships = sweater-vests and bed-and-breakfasts. They have no clue of how to write outside that, and so so many shows stay in perpetual will-they-won't-they UST. I swear that relationships can be interesting and funny and not involve sweater-vests or bead-and-breakfasts. SERIOUSLY. It just takes a bit of creative energy. Just a bit.

Anyway, back to the specifics of HIMYM. The answer doesn't really explain why the breakup was so lame. I really can understand them wanting to break them up, but why not put the effort into it that they did getting them together?

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UGH. I find it incredibly offensive for any PTB to say that viewers don't know what they really want. I started watching because of Barney/Robin, and I'm likely to stop watching now that I know they're not going to let the relationship evolve. WTF, people. Stop buying your own garbage and pay attention to reality.

I think they just wanted to get it over with. "Okay, we're tired of this relationship thing, we're done." They clearly didn't care about it enough to do the break-up right.

Yeah, the whole thing leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I really don't want to watch a show run by this person.

I totally agree with you. The Bones writers basically said the same thing after the backlash the season finale created. It's so offensive to the fans. Where are the writers that have the guts to actually put characters in a relationship and make it interesting. Not everything has to go the Moonlighting way.

And given everything that happened with Moonlighting and why it really sucked,

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2009/09/what_really_happened_to_moonli_1.html

I doubt it would go that way.

Aha! So what are they afraid of exactly, since they're apparently using a non-argument?

They don't want to lose the Barn-man, I guess.

And that is a sign of bad writing, when you can't make your character be interesting in a committed relationship. Shame on them.

Yeah, at first I thought that the 'secret summer sex' reveal in the premiere was really typical of Barney/Robin because they get off on the secrecy and didn't want Lily meddling. But now it seems like it was the writers not able to write the characters during the one time Barney and Robin seemed happiest in their relationship. I mean, they lasted four months being happy and not bogged down by relationship-itis. What a lazy cop-out, writers.

Exactly. Apparently relationships mean cotton candy to them, and there's just no way around that.

I'm just incredibly disappointed. I thought they were building to something way better, and to just randomly end the relationship because they're too lazy to think past Barney as a ladies' man...it's sad. They've also really done Lily a disservice this season, since they've basically just turned her into a meddler. She used to be interesting!

Also, will-they-won't-they is so old and overdone and tiresome. Friends killed that trope dead, and I don't want Barney and Robin trapped in that.

Yeah, no kidding. That interview basically killed my interest in this show. I was never really into sitcoms to begin with, but this is just...SO SITCOMISH. Bleh.

Why did the writers even put Barney and Robin together if they knew they were just going to break them up? And the reason they broke them up is because they want Barney to remain a ladies' man? Yes, because the only facet of his personality should be that he sleeps around. We can't possibly expect character development or anything. That would just be absurd.

Just because characters are in a relationship doesn't mean that everything they do has to be about that relationship. It's just lazy.

I've no idea why they bothered if they weren't going to end it decently.

And you are exactly right. I think most writers haven't a clue how to do relationships, other than the formulaic way that's been done for ages.

I'm going to pissed off to dissapointment to 'fuck you,tptb, I don't want to watch anymore' they're just lazy and didn't care. and now they're flanderizing the characters until the show will just become another generic sitcom
I'm ignoring canon post s4

Yeah, I am not impressed after reading that as well.

I find the fact that they've made such a big deal of it in the whole of previous season the most insulting. You'd think that a season worth of actual build-up would account for something, and all we get is a few episodes on how much relationships suck/are boring, which leads to a superficial set-up for a break up. What the what?

*nods* I'd really be fine with it all if they'd done a decent job of the break up.

Yeah I'm still rather torn over the break up. I would have been able to handle it better if it had been done differently.

Same here. It was just really really lame.

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