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HIMYM 11/7 *spoilers*
Ok this episode annoyed the hell out of me most of the time...we almost deleted the episode before it was over but I gave it a chance and I am glad I did.
I was screaming YES YES when Robin and Barney kissed at the end. I am so happy!!!!!!!
Anyone else find it weird that Lily and Marshall got pregnant during the Hurricane yet she was pregnant in the last episode of last season???????
Re: HIMYM 11/7 *spoilers*
I wasn't a huge fan of last night's episode, but it's better than the earlier ones this season.
I don't particularly want Robin and Barney to end up together (I would've rather seen Robin as a successful globetrotting single career woman, like she was in the very beginning of the series), but I think there's ZERO chemistry between Nora and Barney so if they're going to marry him off it may as well be to someone that he actually seems close to. And I like Kal Penn but I don't like the Kevin character.
I didn't think it was possible, but Ted's gotten even wimpier as the series has progressed. Yuck.
Last season's finale was supposed to have taken place in September. They just skipped over the whole summer and had her find out she was pregnant in September 2011, then this season's premiere picked up at that point. So last year's finale was a flash-forward and this season started in real-time.
Still, they've really been sloppy with the pregnancy storyline. If she's only about 2-3 months pregnant at this point then there's no way they would've found out the sex at the point when they introduced it on the show.
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the pregnancy timeline has annoyed me, too. Thanks for the explanation about last season ending in Sept 2011--the hurricane reference bothered me last night.
Robin seems to getting more and more annoying--flighty, maybe? And I agree with Ted becoming whimpier.
I loved the kiss. As soon as they got in the cab together, I looked at DH and said, They are so going to make out. Yay!
Am I wrong in thinking that Marshall gave his last slap to Robin and Ted?
Yea, I was thinking wow, they are sitting pretty darn close for people who aren't suppose to be wanting each other.
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I can't look at Robin's hair any longer!
I was saying out loud last night that I think it's time to give up on this show, since I thought this was going to be another filler episode. I'm glad I waited until the end for the cab scene.
I don't want Barney with Robin because I don't want Barney with anyone...he's much funnier and interesting as womanizer Barney.
The pregnancy timeliness annoys the crap out of me - so if she conceived the end of August, how do they know the sex of the baby already by mid October? Ugh.
Yea this would be wrong too. I got pregnant in July and am just about to find out the sex this month. This show is making no sense lately.
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I agree about the pregnancy timeline. At least I have it straight now that last season's finale was a flash forward. It seems like the writers are both rushing and slowing down the pregnancy. Also, I wondered why they did that episode now. It just seems a little odd.
The season is seeming like filler to me. I kind of just want them to end it.
They can't even do that, because the storyline was that the doctor wrote it on a slip of paper for them and they waffled back and forth for a whole episode on whether to look at it. So they're just outright lying. (Unless a storyline comes up later where Lily's doctor is proven to be incompetent and it's really a baby girl.)
I'm just amazed that there was apparently nobody on the writing staff who knows enough about pregnancy to write an acurate storyline, or that they're so intent on shoving certain pregnancy-related events into specific episodes (bigger boobs, finding out the sex, "pregnancy brain" and cravings, etc.) that they're willing to just plain ol' make shiit up. Pregnancy isn't some obscure thing where it'd be easily overlooked if something was off, like if Ted made some little architecture mistake or something that the general viewship wouldn't recognize ... how many viewers are architects, versus how many are parents (or just know how human biology works)?
And since Cobie Smulders and Alyson Hannigan are real-life moms, it's not like there's NOBODY on the show who could step in and say, "Um, isn't the timeline a little off here?" Even Neil Patrick Harris mightknow how it really works since he's a dad.
I'm really bad at suspending disbelief for things like this. That just screams sloppy writing to me.
but did they say the doc wrote it down after an ultrasound? I really don't remember and if they didn't he/ she still could have written on the paper after getting the test results back.
I'm not sure I'm following what you're saying.
I was just pointing out that they didn't find out the sex on their own (via a CVS test or whatever) ... the doctor or ultrasound tech did it for them. Whether they did an early test or whether they just expect us to believe that finding out the sex at ~10 weeks is the norm.
I know that I'm in the minority here... but the pregnancy timeline is not a big deal to me at all. It's a sitcom and for the most part the storylines have been really consistent.
In terms of last nite's episode - repping the minority again - I squealed when Barney and Robin kissed. Is Barney funnier when he is a womanizer? Sure! And Robin is much more fun as a single girl. But this doesn't mean that they are going to jump right into relationship mode. kwim?
I was cracking up at Marshall's Poe-like ramblings while gazing at the ravens on the mantel. Lol'ed at Robin and Lily wanting to know where Ted got his boots too. Everyone keeps saying this has been a throw-away season, but I still love this show!
a CVS test is an actual medical test for chromosomal abnormalities, it will also tell you the gender of the baby early. While it's a huge stretch imo for this to be a part of the show I am grasping at straws trying to make it plausible anyway I can lol!
http://www.babycenter.com/0_chorionic-villus-sampling-cvs_328.bc
The pregnancy timeline wouldn't bother me so much if the show hadn't always been so right-on.
To me it seems they try to work it out so they follow a good timeline and things are usually really well done. I think because her pregnancy being such a big part of the show (in theory) they would put the same consideration into it.
BUT I am like PP and I don't let it ruin the show for me. I am confused because I usually feel like they are going somewhere, things are happening for a reason, and this season- other than last nights kiss- has kind of been going no-where... I don't know if we are supposed to be distracted right now. or like previous weeks have stated, we are getting 'filler' until sweeps-- but it is November, so bring it on.
-last note. I love Barney and Robin together! I will look past her icky-hair and weird clothes this season if they can hook up again!!!! I am not a Nora fan!
I maybe completely reading your response wrong, but it sounds like you're not familiar with what a CVS test is. It's not a gender predictor kit you'd pick up at the drugstore. It stands for Chorionic villus sampling, done during the first trimester by a doctor.
There's also a new blood test that can be done extremely early in the first trimester. Two friends of mine have had it recently, but I don't remember the name. But basically it detects the Y chromosone in the mother's bloodwork if she's having a boy. It's something ridiculous like 95% accurate.
You're correct, I thought it was some kind of drugstore test
Thank you for clarifying.
I agree - I feel like it's just lazy on the part of the writers, because they're trying to shoehorn her pregnancy into their set storylines instead of actually working around the pregnancy's natural timeline. It's SO easy to figure out, "O.K., [insert pregnancy milestone here] usually happens during the Xth week of pregnancy, so let's time that episode for when Lily would be around X weeks." They could Google this stuff and figure it out in five minutes. Or the cast/crew members who are already parents could weigh in and they could go from there. I just feel like they've been throwing it together rather than doing a little legwork to make it right.
I kind of enjoyed the episode, until the cab ride. I shouted 'Noooo!' at the tv.
I like them as friends, and really like Barney better with Nora, or as a womanizer, but not with Robin.
There are moments that are hilarious to me, but when I think of the episodes so far this season, I want to scream and demand that they tell me who the mother is!
she shouldn't look pregnant yet either. last night while sitting she had a noticable bump.
I agree. I hate Robin and I really don't want Barney to end up with her. I like Nora!
When Barney & Robin got in the cab, I immediately thought, "We're going down this road AGAIN?!" Not a fan. I like Kevin. I think he can deal with her level of crazy. Homegirl really needs to fix her hair though.
But I think Barney & Robin hooking up again is going to get back to what happened with Cupcake Victoria when she said that the whole Barney-Robin-Ted love triangle is weird. There needs to be some self-actualization at their dysfunctional relationship before any of them can have a functional relationship. So I think they're building up to that.
I think she can have a bump. She is very tiny naturally like me and I had a pretty noticeable one every time I ate at first due to bloat and then it just stuck around after that was done.
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If Robin and Barney hook up then Ted will be the odd man out in their little group, and maybe that'll be a big wake-up call for him. Somehow.