1
When I just watched the first episode, I actually liked Ted as the main character. On his first date with Robin, he made the "mistake" that few people make: talking about love too early. The date ended in an avalanche of failure, but when he left with regret, Ted was reluctant to give up and staged a Jedi reversal. He said:
do you know? I'm tired of being single, I'm not suitable for being single. Obviously you can't tell a woman you just met that you love her, but it feels bad not to. One more thing to tell you, if a woman, not saying you, just an imaginary woman, would tolerate what I did tonight, I think I would definitely be a good husband because that's my specialty. I am good at making her happy and being a good father.
At that time, I felt in my heart that I could see such a hero in an American sitcom who was serious and responsible for his feelings when he first appeared on the scene.
Later I found out that I was so naive. Good at being a competent husband? Twice this season, Ted failed to be a good boyfriend.
2
Episode 4 was my most hated episode of the season. Ted got a certain insight from an old dress. On a whim, he found his ex-girlfriend Natalie, who had broken up for several years, to get back together. After a few days, he felt that the other party was not his true love, and dumped her again.
Objectively speaking, regardless of the three views of the characters in this play, at least the screenwriter's three views are relatively positive most of the time, and the fourth episode is the lowest point of the screenwriter's three views.
Ted made this opening statement to his children:
Children, you are still single and trying to find lifelong happiness. But of all the love stories you've ever experienced, only one has such a happy ending, and the others will leave at least one of them hurt. That's the story I'm going to tell.
After watching this episode, this sentence is simply a fallacy that Ted wants to justify his mistakes! Regardless of whether there is a love story that really does not leave any pain, even if it is assumed that the hurt must exist, it can be divided into the helpless one and the "how come" one.
To be honest, I really wanted to berate Ted at the time:
It's not that the last time it was a ridiculous phone breakup, this time you choose a face-to-face showdown, it shows that you have matured the way you deal with relationships.
Nor is it that Natalie's later marriage and three beautiful children mean there is a "relatively positive" side to the damage you've inflicted.
Don't even think that "you got beat up by a girl" distract the audience and the whole thing can be laughed off.
It is always shameful to hurt others. It is even worse to mislead children in order to whitewash their own mistakes.
3
So far, Ted & Robin is not the kind of love I would appreciate at all. But I am not disgusted to see the story between them. A horizontal comparison of the first season of "Friends" is also a character setting where the man likes the woman very much and the woman has no feelings for the man at first. The relationship between Ted & Robin is much more expressive than Ross & Rachel. Of course, this is also related to the weight of the characters in the plot, not entirely a question of the level of the script.
Compared with similar sitcoms, the biggest feature of "How I Met Your Mother" is naturally in the form of narrative. All the stories are memories Ted told his children 25 years later, which also gave the audience an anticipation for the overall framework of the show until the finale.
For example, according to my expectations, this should be a story of Ted on the way to find love, being baptized by fruitless romances again and again, becoming mature step by step, knowing more, and finally ushering in his best self.
That's why even though I have a lot of disapproval, I still give a five-star review. After all, in such a preconceived framework, the technique of wanting to be promoted before being restrained cannot be avoided.
The plot of Ted hurting Natalie twice, and the plot of Ted dumping Victoria for Robin, both are the same scumbag behavior. But I listed the former as the most hated episode because I agree that the latter is necessary, and that episode also gave a lot of descriptions of Ted's inner war between heaven and man as a buffer, while the former is really just Disgusting audience.
In addition, Ted made this mistake for Robin, after all, there is a major reason for "just learned that Robin likes him too". But there is only one chance to gain some understanding from the audience by taking this opportunity. If this is still the case in later seasons, the star will be deducted.
4
In "How I Met Your Mother", Barney has the most prominent personality among the five protagonists. Through the plot of this season, we can probably sum up three characteristics of him.
First, playboy. In fact, I would have been disgusted with this kind of character, but after all, in the urban romance sitcoms I have watched, the protagonists are all playboys, and Barney has undergone a 180° transformation because of emotional injuries. , it doesn't really matter.
Second, attach great importance to friendship and righteousness. In addition to the small details of helping Ted and Marshall with advice and even money, what impressed me most was the part where Barney was going to convince Robin to go to bed, and found that Robin liked Ted and became serious in seconds.
Third, chaos evil + rational evaporation. The most representative incident is the introduction to Ted of a female partner in episode 19, but deceived Ted that she is a prostitute without the woman's knowledge. But even this Barney, when Ted acted demented for Robin, had to "reduce" to the rational side, it was really one thing.
As for the remaining four, if I were to describe their characteristics, I can only say that Ted is moderate but idealistic in love, Marshall is a simple and honest man, Lily is a bit silly, and Robin is a woman in the workplace but has a history As a free and easy ingredient.
These are not strong settings. Or rather, not a setting that would work well when writing jokes. I don't want to use the phrase "characters don't have distinct personalities" because that's a negative review, but now I've found that it's good to have a strong setting for a character or not.
As a sitcom, if the final level of comedy does not reach a good level, I will think that the character setting is too ordinary to hold back. A typical example is "The Daily Life of Boys' High School Students". But if, like this play, "Laughing Fruit" has reached the standard, it shows that the screenwriter can achieve this level without resorting to convenient means, and the strength is not bad. In addition, this can also try to avoid the routine of the joke setting, this kind of problem exists in the later stage of "The Big Bang Theory".
5
My favorite single episodes this season are 12 and 14.
Episode 12 is Victoria's appearance.
Episode 14 was some temporary self-doubt that Marshall & Lily had when they saw the Ted & Victoria love scene. Reminds me of that quote: true love begins to emerge when you feel it begins to fade.
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