#show: himym

[daeneryssansa]

every tv show i've watched: how i met your mother [19/?] think of me as yoda. only instead of being little and green, i wear suits and I'm awesome. i'm your bro. I'm broda.

[thanatos-moon]

there’s something so magical about sitcoms…..they bring me so much comfort….whoever invented sitcoms thank you for your service I literally don’t know what I’d do without them god bless

[drusill-a]

[WWDitS finale spoilers]

Aside from the obvious – the gross shipbaiting and mocking naive viewers who dared to believe an m/m dynamic could be treated as anything other than the butt of the joke – my biggest issue with the WWDitS finale is that it’s an ending that could have made sense… but at most after s2. Back then, we were still watching a story about characters who didn’t share any particular bonds (except for Nadja/Laszlo) and who were entirely static, unaffected by the things they experienced.

The thing is, the creators themselves realized you can’t build a long-running story on that formula – eventually, the characters had to evolve at least a little, and their relationships had to deepen so viewers would have any reason to root for them. And so Guillermo’s position in the group began to change – first, he earned their minimal respect, then a very solid place, until finally, in season 5, all the other characters had reached a point where they didn’t even hide that they genuinely cared about him a lot. The same happened with Colin, who at first was completely left out by the other housemates but gradually earned an equal spot in the group and developed that stupid yet sweet bond with Laszlo (erasing those memories was, imo, one of the writers’ biggest mistakes). Laszlo showed himself capable of empathy, which he proved again in s5 by helping Guillermo, and even Nadja, who used to completely disregard everyone’s feelings, had several moments in later seasons where she openly cared – at least in her own way –  about the others.

And of course, that’s how we got the romantic subtext between Guillermo and Nandor. Over all those seasons – from s3 up until s6 – I was certain it was a classic will they, won’t they dynamic that would end with them getting together. I just couldn’t believe the writers would spend the last 4 seasons making their relationship more equal and showing Nandor’s journey to realizing Guillermo genuinely mattered to him, only to do nothing with it – or worse, regress them back by three seasons. But the late s6 Nandor’s “no homo” attitude has very little in common with the Nandor from seasons 4 and 5, who was openly pining and lusting after Guillermo.

From Guillermo’s perspective, this ending is an absolute tragedy – even the end of the previous episode gave him much more hope. Maybe he’d lost his lifelong dream and still hadn’t found a new purpose, but he had found a family and a place in the world, with a potential chance to build something meaningful with Nandor in the future. I don’t understand why this episode had to undo all of that – to show us that none of his friends really listen to him, that the power dynamic with Nandor will always be uneven, and that ultimately he wasted 16 years, and no one would really care that much if he left. Considering how great Guillermo’s development was, especially in gaining confidence from s4 onward, this ending feels so unfair and insulting to his character.

I feel like the writers’ biggest mistakes have been forcing a return to the status quo after every season. After the breakup in s3, the characters should have stayed apart for at least an episode or two. Colin should have remembered that Laszlo raised him, and they should’ve kept their funny, fucked-up father-son relationship until the end of the show. Guillermo should’ve been a real vampire for at least a full season—or, in my opinion, permanently—because, as it turns out, the writers had absolutely no idea what to do with his character once he lost that goal. Relationships that had evolved shouldn’t be randomly reset by a couple of seasons just because the writers couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort to write anything new for them.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too – if the writers were so dead-set on giving us an  ending that says “nothing in these characters’ lives matters, and nothing will ever change,” they should have made the show half as long and spared viewers the trouble of getting invested in character and relationship arcs that ultimately went nowhere.

This is a comedy show that was supposed to make people feel better. After this finale, I feel mocked by the creators for believing that the queer ship they sold me for 4 seasons had a chance of being treated equally to an m/f ship. I’m also sad because the characters were regressed and left stuck in eternal limbo, and generally I feel ridiculed because the writers openly made fun of us for getting emotionally invested in the story they wrote for us.

And maybe the biggest crime of these last few episodes was that they weren’t even remotely funny—so you can’t even say they prioritized comedy over character development, because it failed on that front too.

[xxdrixx]

@bernthirst-events 📺 Carlos 📺 How I Met Your Mother Season 1 Episode 02 - Purple Giraffe

bonus (bc I need everyone to see that he was wearing flip flops lol):

[vertigoartgore]

How I Met Your Mother opening credits photos (2005). Source Source Source

[https-hunter]

[nadjasnandor]

why did we stop saying shit like the one i love the most is actually nandor. guillermo come back stop trying to be a regular human guy we need insane toxic codependency more than ever

[derangedthoughtssideblog]

I love how Barney and Robin are together because of Ted and Tracy (Ted made them meet, Tracy basically convinced them to get married), while Ted and Tracy are together because of Barney and Robin (met at their wedding)

[swtnrjoji]

category is: characters I can't bring myself to hate because I relate to them too much

[captainspikemasters]

i just added my favorites, sorry if yours isn’t on here 😭😭

[transhetanybodys]

Thinking about how crazy it would be if Ted Mosby and late-show Rebecca Bunch interacted. It would go about as well as putting gasoline on a fire. She would tell him to prioritize figuring out who he is and solving the deeper issues in his life that this search for the one is a proxy for and smoke would come out of his ears before his head exploded. A character like her who wants to focus on non-romantic pursuits not because she's canonically using them to try to make her father proud of her cough cough Robin cough cough but because she's come to realize the value of truly putting herself first and not in a sexy way being in HIMYM would be like someone with a gun showing up to a knife fight. Barney would approach her and then burn up in her presence before he could say anything.

[briochecheese]

I feel like Carm and Syd would have heated discussions over sitcoms (specially himym cause I think Syd would DESPISE Ted and Barney and Carm would think Ted is a nice guy

[willowmosby]

In general I am for long (20-24 episodes) seasons of television instead of short seasons. But also there is too much. Like I have too many choices.

Do I rewatch all of Buffy the vampire and it's spin off Angel. Or black sails or how I met your mother or Phineas and Ferb.

Do I finally catch up on law and order SVU or criminal minds?

Do I actually get around to finishing person of interest or lost or the dragon prince?

Do I watch Homicide:life on the streets, or west wing or nobody wants this or English teacher?

None of that is even considering reality tv like survivor or the amazing race or longform YouTube videos

Life is long but streaming services are expensive and decision paralysis has really got me down

[lilyevanslvr]

i’ve been away from tumblr for a while and i’m having a hard time finding active users because most of my mutuals are deactivated. please like if you post cool shit i’d love to be friends!

[im-a-little-kit]

Benefits

phan fwb to lovers, 2011 era, canon divergent, 1/4 (rated E)

"Stop, stop!" Phil said suddenly, his expression a little softer. "God, what is going on? Before you moved in, we were practically living together and we didn't drive each other this crazy." "I know," Dan said, nodding. "What happened?" They paused for a moment, the air quiet between them. He wasn't wrong. Phil would stay over at his so often that people tended to assume he was living there already. Well, that wasn't all people assumed about them, but that was something they never breathed a word about to each other. Then Phil suddenly looked up at him. "You know what it is? We were having sex."

Or, Dan and Phil come up with an interesting way to settle roommate arguments.

Updates on Sundays!

[shushmal]

Steve and Eddie having a slap bet. The bet was heinous and they never reveal out loud what it was, only that Eddie lost with a jaw-dropping-ly awful wager. Steve was deeply offended. He still took the bet anyway.

Anyways, he gets to slap Eddie five times at any moment, any where. As hard as he wants.

The gag is, every time Steve delivers one of his five slaps, their friends descend on him, yelling. But Steve leans over and whispers in their ear the terms of the bet, and their friend immediately turns on Eddie who is forced to defend himself while being yelled abuse.