Fans of delaying an inevitable conclusion that will in no way live up to viewers’ expectations, unite!
Deadline’s Nikki Finke reports that [Craig Thomas and Carter Bays' How I Met Your Mother] will be back for a ninth season (which may or may not include the big motherly reveal) after nearly six months’ worth of negotiations between HIMYM‘s cast, producers, and the network. Finke says Jason Segel delayed the show’s greenlight this time around, and had actually decided to bail on season nine, “but he just got turned around [yesterday] at the last second. The show was literally dead [otherwise].” (Via)
I know the correct way to respond to this news is to throw things, burn trashcans, and wonder why How I Met can’t just show us who the damn mother is, then end, only to live on in syndication until the end of time. But last Monday’s two-part episode, “The Final Page,” showed that Bays and Thomas can still write an extremely effective episode of TV, one that’s as good as anything during the show’s season two, three days, so the official WG response to the renewal is: whatever. It’s fun spending time with Marshall and Robin (and the rest) every week, and anyone who’s STILL pissed that the series hasn’t revealed the mother yet is missing the point.
In other words, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER SHOULD HAVE ENDED YEARS AGO, BUT IT’S THE ONLY DECENT COMEDY ON CBS, SO LET’S REJOICE THAT IT’S NOT TWO AND A HALF MEN, PATRICE.
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This season was so bad I stopped watching. Even my wife could give a crap who the mother is at this point. I hate that this, and 2.5 Men, and 2 Big Boobs, and Mike and Molly are getting more seasons whilst Happy Endings, Don’t Trust the B, Community and all of my network friends circle the drain because people don’t watch. It’s so frustrating.
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Can’t believe I forgot “successful”.
Last Monday’s two parter was so good it was frustrating, because it made me wish they put forth that much effort in every episode.
They were good episodes of the show overall, I suppose. But the ending was just like, the sappiest and dumbest thing ever on a really sappy and dumb show.
Sigh. I like the show and I’ll keep watching at this point because of how long it’s been around, but I’m very much ready for it to go away and never come back.
Whenever I watch it’s like spending time with good friends. If it’s not funny it is at least endearing. Having said that I am behind on my watching and I haven’t seen any of this season.
Ugh. It’s like watching the family next door keep their ailing, pain-ridden dog alive for way too long.
I don’t think the people who want the mother to be revealed are missing the point. I think CBS is missing the point if they think that’s not the only reason half the audience is watching at this point.
Last week’s episodes were good, but that highlights the fact that it’s hard to fill a season with good episodes after nine years.
Was I the only one that thought Barney’s psychotic plan to win over Robin was really messed up?
No, but sitcom relationships in general are fucking psychotic.
I think this is the best thing for How I Met Your Mother’s story and fans. I know we all are wondering who the mother is, but I think if they introduce her by the end of this season, than they could spend all of season nine explaining how she meets Ted. My coworker at DISH and I figure that would be the best way to use the ninth season. Whatever they do with this last season, I will be watching on my DISH Hopper. It has PrimeTime Anytime which will record the four major networks automatically, and up to two more channels, during primetime. I will catch every episode to watch when I want, and with five other channels recording at the same time, my family will catch their favorite shows too.
Seriously, these spambots are the best.
Seriously, what the fuck, spambot? DON’T BE A PERSON
I’m just gonna say fuck it and wait for the episodes to go on Netflix, or watch them on the internet. CBS doesn’t deserve my eyes or my money. *Fart noise*
i could feign outrage at this but i just can’t. yes, many weeks it’s a shell of it’s former self. but fuck it, i’m in this far and it occasionally brings me pleasure so i’m fine with another year.
While I don’t blame the cast for taking the comically large amounts of money per episode to do another season, I hate that they are. I quit on this show this season, not caring that this could have been the last season. I am definitely glad that I quit watching the show as they phone in another season.
I just watched an older episode (I think from last season) where the guys are watching the star wars trilogy every 3 years and it flashes forward to Ted with a baby in 2015. If they start throwing out things they’ve already written in, that would upset me. But another season? ok. It’s not brilliant, but it’s not so bad.