How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

The music has always been a big part of it for me. So many bands I was listening to that are sort of known/mainstream (i.e. My Morning Jacket, Head and the Heart, Band of Horses) always seemed to show up at big moments. My all-time favorite band, Pearl Jam, just put it over the top. Future Days is so schmaltzy, but it's my band doing schmaltz. I'd have loved something like Long Road or Untitled, but I get it. Plus it's the third, and likely final, Lightning Bolt single. Might aid sales.

I won't venture to guess where the rest of you are in your lives but I've always given this show the benefit of the doubt because it felt somehow real in my own life. Right friends. Right place. Right obstacles. I could empathize....and point to multiple friends who were Ted or Barney like while I was sort of doing my own Marahall esque issues.

It's not the best sitcom ever or anything but it really was sort of the right sitcom for me as discovered it on a buddy's DVR in the hungover mornings after putting out a paper. Then, it was on TV when I took a huge risk and changed careers. And now it's ending as my first born nears his first birthday. I think anybody who's watched the show can see some parallels in their own life and probably the schmaltz I just typed.

Fuck it. It might get dusty next Monday.

 

Well done tonight. I liked the final slap usage too.

 

Huh, that might have been my least-favorite of the season, or at least the past five or six. So much felt cramped, largely because of the Lilly-Marshall story line.

 

Sandcastles in the Sand playing on the piano during the wedding.

 

How insensitive do you have to be to renew your vows 15 minutes before your best friend's wedding? And where was everyone?

 

That was only 15 minutes before the wedding? I thought it was at least an hour earlier.

 

It was a fine episode. Wasn't great, wasn't awful. Was it cramped? Sure, but there was a lot of stuff that we had to get through. The episode let us FINALLY wrap up the Barney-Robin-Ted storyline, and it also gave Marshall and Lily one last moment in the spotlight before what I assume will be a Ted/Mother-heavy final hour.

 

Being since we are only a couple of hours removed from Marshall and Lily going at it while Robin and her mother were stuck on a balcony, the pre-wedding hijacking of the alter may have been the most sensitive and subtle thing that they've done on the wedding day.

 

Meh. I'm just so burned out by the Ted/Robin thing that this was one last flip-flop that I didn't care about. The episode seemed very disjointed with the two rooms -- almost like the actors had different schedules. But the last scene was nice and show does really do the music incredibly well.

I liked the "it was a really long weekend" line by Sagat.

Two other random points -- 1) when Sagat said in the final voiceover that the promises/vows which Barney and Robin made to each other were legendary, was that meant to indicate that they didn't last as a couple because Robin said that legendary means not real?

2) a lot of shots with crosses/religious symbols in the background. I know it is a church, but it just stood out for me, even in the scenes before the ceremony.

 

I assumed it meant the vows were actually legendary, as opposed to all of the "legendary" bs Barney has done before.

 

The episode starts 32 minutes before the wedding.

Really, though? We're talking about 15 minutes before the wedding! People would have been sitting there, and then out of nowhere, the matron of honor and one of the groomsmen randomly walk up to exchange vows. The sex made Robin and her mother a little uncomfortable. Actually using the chapel for the vows was a weird, contrived attempt to steal the bride and groom's thunder.

The timeline of the episode was all off, though. And why was Lilly not with Robin?

 

It's possible that, if this place is a popular wedding destination, it could have two weddings set up. I wasn't paying close enough attention to remember if they had the same flowers and everything.