I just finished watching the fifth season of How I Met Your Mother. It is a thoroughly enjoyable tv show. I always appreciate when writers think about what's coming and what's passed in a series and use ongoing jokes.
HIMYM is very good at this. There have been many a chuckle.
Also, there's some good advice for living in there somewhere. Definitely not from Barney. He's got issues. But from the others some things can be learned about relationships and suchlike.
There is one theory about in every relationship there is one settler and one reacher. The reacher has ended up with someone who is out of their league and the settler has, well, settled for someone below theirs.
I can see some truth in this although I think that once you love someone there is none of that. You both feel like the reacher. Unlike Lily and Marshall who each thought they settled.
One more theory which was pretty good is titled 'on the hook'. It states that a person may be 'on someone's hook'. This occurs when on person strings along another, usually in order to get things like foot massages, chocolate cake, or like Robyn, laundry done by Bob the cameraman.
It's definitely difficult to tell if you're on the hook because of a level of infatuation you have developed for the other person. It's hard to know when you're being used.
It's can also be tough to determine if you've got someone on your hook. Sometimes it's unintentional and can feel good. But you have to be like Ted and let the other person know that nothing will happen between you.
Lily found this difficult and kept adding the "for now" to the end of that sentence. Wrong thing to say. Instead she needed to say, "never ever".
Thus concludes Dating 101 as told by How I Met Your Mother, delivered by Katie.
So much to learn, just like Scrubs.
ReplyDeleteAnd to think you were hesitant to start HIMYM cause of BBT... ref.
Ohhh I dunno. I still really like BBT. Can't decide which one's better.
ReplyDeleteScrubs! Oh man. So much to do, so little time.