I'll still keep watching, but I've lost a lot of love and patience. I just want it to end already.
This is how I feel too.
I hate to say this - I truly mean that - but those were probably the two worst episodes the show has ever produced. Absolute garbage, and I say that as maybe the most one-eyed fan this show has.
The biggest concern I have is that this show has ruined its own legacy and will continue to do so. Like we all remember how amazing it was when Marshall and Lily got married at the end of season two. Them having a baby together should have elicited the same feelings. Instead, my only reaction was "thank god it's been born". HIMYM of old would have dealt with that brilliantly, but this was very poor. Friends cops plenty of criticism but at least when it did stuff like this it did in a way that pleased the fans. What if when Ted finally meets the mother, it's completely underwhelming? I can't deal with that. This show has always been there for me, and I need that moment to make tears well in my eyes.
Marshall has been the biggest supporter of his wife. Been through everything with her. Are we really supposed to believe that he would willingly get whisked away to Atlantic City, gamble, get blind drunk, turn off his phone and be stuck without a way home with his wife about to go in labour? Give me a break.
Lily's Dad has been shown time and time again to be awful character, so bringing him back was completely superfluous and aggravating. Added nothing. The stories they were telling Lily weren't that funny, save for the Breakfast Club one. The door joke didn't pay off.
And then we had the second half. Already we've immediately delved into unfunny jokes with the baby, a classic case of the way the writing has slipped in recent years. I did chuckle at "our first baby's outing was at a bar" and Ted and Barney's middle-aged Marv jokes, but that was it.
Barney and Quinn. An absolutely ridiculous scene at the airport. So much set up just so he could propose. And yet another example of how the show has lost its way - Barney was the womaniser for so long, and then he began falling for Robin and began changing. I welcomed it, and they wrote it really well for quite some time. Touching, entertaining and funny as well. But here, in this episode, we have BARNEY STINSON PROPOSING, and I felt nothing. So, so poor. I kinda like Quinn. She's cheeky, and she's hot. But this whole thing was so rushed and never really made sense. Redecorating Barney's apartment? I was almost sick.
Then we have Robin telling Ted he's wasted the last seven years of his dating life and tells him to call Victoria. I was okay with it - I seem to be one of the few who's always liked Victoria - until she walked in wearing a wedding dress. I was hoping it was going to be one of those multiple scenario things they've been doing - wedding dress, business suit, chef outfit, cowboy getup, whatever, but no, it was real. "1:30? I might have a thing later." What's the thing? "Oh well I'm getting married." I wanted to punch the laptop screen. Awful, awful idea.
Then I thought well, Ted's a good guy. Too good, sometimes, but still a good person. I've always liked that. So I was happy when he said he'd take her back to the wedding.
But then, in by far the worst moment in HIMYM history, "you just drove past the church" "I know" and then the final shot was them clasping hands in perfect position with the sunset. I wanted to stab my fucking eyeballs out. I've put up with Zoe, I've put up with Kevin, I've put up with a whole range of stupid storylines in the past few years, but that was just shocking. Friends would never,
ever have done something as saccharine as that.
Then we cutback to the wedding and wouldn't you know it, Robin is the bride (and girls - wasn't her dress just
terrible?). And in that moment, I despaired; not because Robin and Barney are getting married, I like that, but because it means I've got a whole 'nother season to sit through before we get somewhere, and it might not even be the last season.
Long post, I know, but I'm so upset that my favourite show ever has turned to crap. I've never had this feeling before.
I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised by season eight, and I'll be streaming every episode as it airs, but I'm not holding my breath.