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I feel like I ought to have an opinion of the How I Met Your Mother finale, but I really don't. I've been fannishly invested in the show for a long time now, dating back to my second year in college. It's a show I really strong associate with friendship and community, because for much of its tenure I watched it along with my friends, playing games and making jokes alongside the show's games and jokes. My friend Sara and I have been betting pastrami sandwiches on the show's plot twists for years. We had a party to mark one of the season finales, and I served the alcoholic tootsie roll drink from the show's "Slutty Pumpkin" episode. I wrote both fic and notfic to celebrate the off-handed revelation that Ted is half-Jewish.
And at some point along the way, watching HIMYM became a rote exercise instead of something to look forward to. I still think the show has some really terrific people writing for it, and I still love all the main characters, especially Lily, and I still root for Ted to find the mother, but... it's arrived, and I'm not sure that the destination was as much fun as the journey was.
Dear JJ Abrams,
I'm used to Star Trek movies violating the laws of physics. But usually it's the laws of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics that you're violating. This movie, you seemed to spend a lot of time violating Newtonian mechanics. What's with that?
Love,
Ferret
P.S. Seriously, you kicked Scotty off the Enterprise for half the movie? I don't know if we can be friends anymore.
Also, Arrested Development Season 4 is a comedic masterpiece unlike anything I've ever seen. The complexity of its plotlines astounds me. There is no fat on that sucker, just a weaving, swirling, twisting, continuously forward-moving human drama lasting more than seven hours.
It's not even that I haven't ever seen comedy done that well, which I'm pretty sure is also true. I've never seen a comedy structured anything like that before. I can't even think of anything to compare it to, which for all the greatness of the original series, I couldn't say. You could compare original AD to Newsradio, to Larry Sanders, to Seinfeld. Season 4 transcends.
It is seriously an amazing piece of braincandy.
And at some point along the way, watching HIMYM became a rote exercise instead of something to look forward to. I still think the show has some really terrific people writing for it, and I still love all the main characters, especially Lily, and I still root for Ted to find the mother, but... it's arrived, and I'm not sure that the destination was as much fun as the journey was.
Dear JJ Abrams,
I'm used to Star Trek movies violating the laws of physics. But usually it's the laws of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics that you're violating. This movie, you seemed to spend a lot of time violating Newtonian mechanics. What's with that?
Love,
Ferret
P.S. Seriously, you kicked Scotty off the Enterprise for half the movie? I don't know if we can be friends anymore.
Also, Arrested Development Season 4 is a comedic masterpiece unlike anything I've ever seen. The complexity of its plotlines astounds me. There is no fat on that sucker, just a weaving, swirling, twisting, continuously forward-moving human drama lasting more than seven hours.
It's not even that I haven't ever seen comedy done that well, which I'm pretty sure is also true. I've never seen a comedy structured anything like that before. I can't even think of anything to compare it to, which for all the greatness of the original series, I couldn't say. You could compare original AD to Newsradio, to Larry Sanders, to Seinfeld. Season 4 transcends.
It is seriously an amazing piece of braincandy.
