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HIMYM S07E23/4 "The Magician's Code" 14 May 2012

15K views 94 replies 34 participants last post by  DUDE_NJX 
#1 ·
As much as I like Quinn, I'm glad that Barney is marrying Robin...

And I loved Robin's vet stuff with Lily. Very funny...

And little baby Marvin definitely has the coolest middle name ever...
 
#54 ·
Thank you, we FINALLY agree on something. :D
:up:

It's funny that the people I have the biggest disagreements with on the forum, are probably the people I would like the best if I met them at a meet or something. I think there's a certain amount of respect between debaters. I find it fun and fascinating to argue points of view with people who don't agree with me. You're a good dude :)

Now back to our regularly scheduled thread. :D
 
#55 ·
Second half of what? Did you not watch the whole episode?
No. It was split into two half-hour segments for us.

How come?
I don't know. I just don't.

I don't think that this is Barney and Robin's wedding. I have a suspicion that somehow, these are two different weddings.
 
#56 ·
I don't think that this is Barney and Robin's wedding. I have a suspicion that somehow, these are two different weddings.
Even though in the season premiere it was Barney's wedding and Lily told Ted that the bride wanted to see him...

...and now in the season finale, Lily tells Ted that the bride wants to see him and the bridge is Robin?
 
#62 ·
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
 
#63 ·
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
The 500 miles episode was one of my favorites of the series.

I said to my wife, the door they were all going into was a closet.
 
#65 ·
So, have they confirmed that next season is the last?

Saw Cobie Smolders on a show last week and she mentioned she was sad that they wouldn't be working together after next year...
I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.

And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.

Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?
 
#66 ·
I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.

And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.

Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?
Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.
 
#68 ·
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
Saw Segel on one of the talk shows and he showed that clip, except it was a blooper and when he was supposed to peel out and take off, he stalled it out.
 
#69 ·
Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.
Totally agree.

Let's take this a little further. The flash forward episode ran in April, which would presume the baby was born in February 2015 (to account for sweeps and everything), and the mother would announce she's pregnant in May 2014 (again, sweeps). So let's say the latest Ted got married was that May 2014 date and the mother announces she's pregnant there. Then the question becomes what is the shortest courtship possible for Ted and the mother before they get married? If we keep going with the sweeps theme, they'd get engaged either in November 2013 or February 2014. That means if we meet the mother in next season's finale, they'd be dating for a year before they got married/announced they were pregnant (not unreasonable at his age). So even if next season isn't the end of the series, unless they stop moving with the current calendar (a BS move), the mother would almost have to be introduced one way or another sometime next year.

I know I'm probably over analyzing this, but work isn't tremendously exciting right now.
 
#71 ·
If the discussion above is accurate, then there won't be any episodes that air after May of 2013.
Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?

[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]
 
#72 ·
Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?

[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]
My logic?

The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.
 
#73 ·
My logic?

The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.
I thought that the discussion you were referring to was the post immediately before yours. Now I see what you were saying.
 
#75 ·
I was supremely let down when they revealed the bride was Robin. My wife and I really liked Quinn, she seemed to be a perfect match for Barney. I hate when TV shows do this, spend a bunch of episodes building up a character so the audience likes them, and then ditch them in 1 episode. I assume we'll see some of Quinn next season, but who knows. I'm over Ted & Robin, and Barney & Robin. I don't mind Victoria, but I hate that Ted is back in a relationship that we know goes nowhere.
 
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