This entire series has become one of my favorite TV shows ever. While each episode itself is intended to be funny overall, they also freely touch on many of the most important aspects of real human relationships: Ted's traumatic love life, Barney's search for his real father, Marshall & Lily's marriage and desire to have a child.
While this may not have been the funniest or even the most exciting episode, it did something none of the previous ones have. It took me on the most extreme emotional roller coaster rides I have experienced from a TV show. The last one I can think of that provoked this kind of response was Scrubs ep3-14 "My Screw-up".
Providing me a steady stream of laughs and sense of happiness and success for the characters and their finding out that the hope of having children is still a strong possibility, this episode then completely dropped me over the hill. It was a masterful stroke that silenced my laughing and satisfaction instantaneously. I was -literally- saying "No, no, no ." to the TV.
In a similar fashion I lost my own father when everything else in my life was going great. Taking what should have been a great time in my life and making it much less bright.
I am not so pompous that I believe everyone will be moved the same way, I just feel this event helps the show remain grounded and makes the characters that much more believable and subsequently more enjoyable to watch.
While this may not have been the funniest or even the most exciting episode, it did something none of the previous ones have. It took me on the most extreme emotional roller coaster rides I have experienced from a TV show. The last one I can think of that provoked this kind of response was Scrubs ep3-14 "My Screw-up".
Providing me a steady stream of laughs and sense of happiness and success for the characters and their finding out that the hope of having children is still a strong possibility, this episode then completely dropped me over the hill. It was a masterful stroke that silenced my laughing and satisfaction instantaneously. I was -literally- saying "No, no, no ." to the TV.
In a similar fashion I lost my own father when everything else in my life was going great. Taking what should have been a great time in my life and making it much less bright.
I am not so pompous that I believe everyone will be moved the same way, I just feel this event helps the show remain grounded and makes the characters that much more believable and subsequently more enjoyable to watch.