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Ben on Monday 9/17/2018 episode of Days of Our Lives.

#rob wilson #ben weston #days of our lives

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“You want a whole universe. Someone who has seen it all and that’s me! I’ve lived longer, seen more, loved more and lost more. I can share it all with you.”

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #jodie whittaker

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apparently Arthur Darvill is pretty good at portraying warriors of a long lost time.

#arthur darvill

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Meanwhile… Losing ‘Friends’ And Tumblr Nudity

#lmao #steven colbert #the late show #tumblr

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#madonna #kylie minogue

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You’ve been looking for this pee tape for two days, and now you’re reduced to digging up the garden.

#candice bergen #murphy brown #avery brown #jake mcdorman

tnerdbean

You know what I find interesting? How I Met Your Mother just like… disappeared from culture after the finale aired. Like sure you might still hear the odd, “Challenge accepted” or use that gif of Marshall hugging the pillow as a reaction image, but no one really uses the phrases in vernacular, no one talks about the episodes.

And I think it has to do with the fact that the finale betrayed fans badly.

Take Friends for instance. It still is a lasting cultural thing. I think we can all agree now in hindsight, that Ross is an absolute douchecanoe, but at the time, the majority of fans wanted Ross and Rachel to get together because it had been this thing that the show had told us through cues was MEANT to be.

In HIMYM, the entire show was predicated on MEETING the Mother, and we had ruled out that Robin wasn’t the Mother. More than that, they had shown us that Barney and Robin were actually perfect for each other. They had spent episodes and seasons redeeming Barney, and softening Robin and showing us why they were meant to be. And to see BOTH of those relationships forced apart for a series finale that they had written all the way back in season 1 that didn’t make any sense for the story they eventually told, was damning for the show’s legacy in culture.

I firmly believe that writers should be able to write the story they want, and if you want to listen to constructive criticism or do a little fan service along the way then great, but when you get to the finale? That right there is 100% for the fans. The finale is when you let go of the story completely. The finale is a love letter to the people who made your show continue for as long as it did. Good finales are why shows survive.

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It wasn’t just that Robin and Barney were a good fit (though they absolutely were), it’s also due to the fact that, over the last few seasons of the show, the writers went out of their way to put the still faceless, nameless mother on a pedestal, to have Ted build up his love for her as something that was once in a lifetime and borderline perfect. His ‘45 Days’ speech at the end of ‘The Time Travelers’ is probably the pinnacle of this, with Ted telling his kids that, if he could go back to that night, he’d go to their mother’s apartment and declare his love for her right then because he wanted that extra time with her because he loved her so damn much (A speech which, by the way rang REALLY fucking hollow the first time I saw it after the finale (I was still incredibly bitter about the ending at that point and have since grown to love that moment again)). All of that was cheapened in seconds as the kids told Ted how the story was really about how he and Robin belonged together and I don’t think I’ll ever forget how pissed I was as I watched that play out live.

The last point at which that ending was still viable was at the end of season 5, when Robin and Barney had tried the dating thing and it didn’t work out the first time, when we still didn’t know much about the mother or the circumstances under which Ted met her…Beginning with season six, they started the build up to the titular moment and began reexamining Robin and Barney’s relationship. And it was at this point that the creators should have scrapped their original ending and began planning a new one. Instead, they tried to have their cake and eat it too, allowing the viewers to fall in love with Barney and Robin as a couple and Ted’s relationship with the mother (leaning particularly hard on the latter in the final season after they gave her a face in the season 8 finale), and then try to have their original ending, which no longer worked in any capacity.

They destroyed so much good will, burned so many bridges, more than they’d ever managed to do during the less than stellar moments as the show drug on…In a way, it’s kind of fascinating. I honestly can’t think of any other show that managed to do that in such a monumental fashion. It was memorable, certainly, though not in the way anyone wanted. It may well go down in television history as the worst television finale of all time, and I, like so many others, was there to witness the train wreck.

#how i met your mother

tnerdbean

You know what I find interesting? How I Met Your Mother just like… disappeared from culture after the finale aired. Like sure you might still hear the odd, “Challenge accepted” or use that gif of Marshall hugging the pillow as a reaction image, but no one really uses the phrases in vernacular, no one talks about the episodes.

And I think it has to do with the fact that the finale betrayed fans badly.

Take Friends for instance. It still is a lasting cultural thing. I think we can all agree now in hindsight, that Ross is an absolute douchecanoe, but at the time, the majority of fans wanted Ross and Rachel to get together because it had been this thing that the show had told us through cues was MEANT to be.

In HIMYM, the entire show was predicated on MEETING the Mother, and we had ruled out that Robin wasn’t the Mother. More than that, they had shown us that Barney and Robin were actually perfect for each other. They had spent episodes and seasons redeeming Barney, and softening Robin and showing us why they were meant to be. And to see BOTH of those relationships forced apart for a series finale that they had written all the way back in season 1 that didn’t make any sense for the story they eventually told, was damning for the show’s legacy in culture.

I firmly believe that writers should be able to write the story they want, and if you want to listen to constructive criticism or do a little fan service along the way then great, but when you get to the finale? That right there is 100% for the fans. The finale is when you let go of the story completely. The finale is a love letter to the people who made your show continue for as long as it did. Good finales are why shows survive.

#how i met your mother #so much this #worst finale ever