(Yes, I have posted this previously, and I stand by it.)
What did you think of HIMYM last night? Last week was...bad, but this week redeemed itself. (Yes, sometimes great relationships end because someone makes a choice about a notional future and not the reality of the now. Yes, sometimes, you love and support your friends when they think that they are not worth anyone's love and support. And yes, I have been on that last train and no, they were not really exaggerating.)
But on this day of awful chocolates, tacky jewelry, those tasteless yet cloying little candy hearts (which someone suggested would be my plan for the day), I give you a scene from the first season of HIMYM with one of my favorite songs, and if you have been paying attention, you know what song and what scene it is.
Here is a live version of Bloc Party's "This Modern Love"
But that is a happy and hopeful song, and that was a happy and hopeful clip from HIMYM, and that is not what this day is about for a sizable percentage of my friends who are neither happy nor hopeful. Quite the opposite, honestly.
And for that, I give them another great song which is also a favorite:
"No Children" by the Mountain Goats.
But that is not what I am feeling this year...I am feeling something else. Not necessarily sweet and content (I am still a complete douchebag, you know?) but something like that, so...I give you yet another old song with an amazing video.
(Come on, you loved that video even if you did not love the Gabriel cover of a Magnetic Fields song...you can tell me. I grok.)
Anyway, for some, today is Valentine's Day, for others, it is Toxic Tuesday. Have a wonderful day.
Ted telling Robin he loves her... again is a redemption? When we know Robin isn't the mom.
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In that it works really well with the way that the "Christmas" episode ended, with Ted telling Robin that he will always be there to try to make her smile. They are best friends and completely attached to each other. Ted is just being supportive and this is not a "OMG they are going to GET TED AND ROBIN BACK TOGETHER AGAIN!"
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed it, with the exception of the Barney/stripper story thing.
I hope that is what it is. When I saw it last night that is what I think he was trying to tell her. But part of the issue with Ted is his relationship with Robin, Victoria pointed that out specifically, and until that is resolved Ted isn't finding the mom.
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