TV Wrap-Up: How I Met Your Mother: season 3 completed!

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Viewed: 1x01-3x20

Favorite Episodes: Slap Bet, How I Met Everyone Else, The Goat, that one where Robin plays laser tag.

Favorite Character: Barney, natch. How could I not love watching NPH steal every scene he appears in?

Least Favorite Character: It used to be Robin, but now it's Ted. Though that's almost unfair, because I don't dislike Ted. I just don't love him as much as I love the other four.

OTP: Robin/Barney/TheMallSong.

Favorite Jokes Are Always From: Lily & Marshall. Because they are a unit and must always be written as a pair, even in a tv review. I love Lily's sexual comments and Marshall's sweet geeky singing. And the phrase "You've been lawyered."

Favorite Surprise As A Viewer: the scene where Ted meets Barney for the first time, and the entire 3-way conversation at the table.

Favorite Recurring Joke: It's a toss-up between the Slap Bet and "Best friend!"

Who is Ted's future kids' mother? I think we haven't met her yet, but I predict we will in season 4. It's really pushing the limit of a decent reveal.

Fanfic: YES PLEASE. Um... Barney/Robin is great, but gen works too, and more humor the better!

Fandom: I'm going to dive in. If anyone else on my flist loves this show, tell me! I never had an inkling until last week that it would be so awesome. It's almost given me faith in sticoms again.

Plus, now I have a show I can laugh at, and save my angsting for shows about aliens and vampires and robots and time travel and firebenders and killer time-traveling robots and robot aliens and possibly alien vampires too.


WARNING: SEASON THREE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS!

Comments

Re: I love you like the factory smoke wraps its arms around the sky

[irrel.livejournal.com]

I think fandom is too predictable... which is why I don't know how Bryan and Mike got it so so wrong...

Re: I love you like the factory smoke wraps its arms around the sky

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I know! I bet they've learned for their next show, but wow... I can't help but think that a the people who make shows like Lost or BSG or Veronica Mars or, of course, Joss Whedon would take one look at the character list of season 1 and instantly point to who the most popular pairing would be two seasons down the line. Of course those shows do cater to a more sophisticated and older audience, but still. Fandom is *really* predictable sometimes.