I know, right? His character is something else. A cold-eyed realist who cares about law and order and making the streets safe for the little people, but also a bullying thug. How can someone be right about just about everything, and be such a loathsome bastard?

Speaking of Clint, I ran across Unforgiven on TV last night—such an awesome film. Even though most of it works to subvert the cliches of the genre, and does so with a marvelously human touch, it almost seems to do so just to make it all the more awesome when Will Munny slams through the front door in the pouring rain…

It just occurred to me that maybe this is why Ted is so dejected at the train station—not because he did something royally stupid in regard to Robin and everybody hates him, including himself. But because at the end of the reception he got into a conversational corner where he had to admit that he was moving away, and…

Kids, never smoke your TV…..

Yeah, making her a part of Barney's Final Page was a nice way to give the character some dignity, they could have just bowed her out gracefully with that. But paradoxically, that storyline made me want to see more of her. Maybe she gets to play a role in helping Barney and Robin get to "I Do." Just so long as her…

Good point, I don't know if I ever thought about it that way. Going back to the Robin thing is tiresome, but it's been so ingrained in the fabric of the show I haven't questioned it even when it bored or annoyed me. But as you say, by never letting Ted move past it and, say, be telling the process of his journey…

"Assymetry"? Is this a version of the Earth's demise that I could really get behind?

This is the only, immutable reason why I can't enjoy the Abrams reboot of Trek. I don't care how interesting and refreshing the effects and performances are (and they are), you don't get to murder Spock's entire planet just to be "edgy," J.J. Or the Romulans' either. Oh, and the whole "a mining ship is transformed…

Caption: "No, Britta, I"M the worst!"

Also, is it true for Everest what they say about the problem on well-traveled peaks above the height where the weather can vary much, all the piles of human waste that get left behind? Someone just has to take a squat and the rain never comes to wash it away…

Maybe we saw the scene with Lily and Robin fencing, followed by the one where they make the fake scotch, or the one where she bonds with Daphne over Marshall's sports geekery, or the one where she gives Ted a moving speech about keeping the good things about New York and saying goodbye to the bad ones instead? Maybe…

Now that I think of it, the reason they brought Victoria back in S7-8 was probably because she was a fan favorite, they needed to vamp with Ted's love life until they got closer to the end of the series, and they knew the fans were tired of having random new girlfriends introduced just so they could be discarded down…

I'm relieved that the follow-up to this episode's cliffhanger is going to consist more of brotastic bromance than bitter hatred, but kinda disappointed that the previews killed that tension.

I once read a profile of Andre long ago. Fun fact from that article: You could pass a silver dollar through his ring. It also showed a picture of his hand resting behind a can of beer as if he was about to grab it. The can looked like a shot glass. It's hard to grasp just how big that man was without having spent time…

Edit: NVM, you mean Ted, not Marshall

It doesn't hurt that she absolutely looks like a woman that could genetically be the mother of both of Ted's future children. The fact that they a) pulled that off, b) found someone who could act and showed both comedy and drama chops in just her first full episode(s), and c) chose someone who has this great sweet,…

"super artificial and hard to swallow"—Barney and Robin post-chocolate ding-dong.

Like pretty much everyone here, I guess, I've been both wanting and dreading the mother reveal from the beginning. Couldn't wait to meet someone as special as they made her out to be, especially toward the end of last season, but dreading they'd do something to mess it up. Woeful stunt casting, someone who just didn't…

We just call them Hilly Billies.

If I could get away with having the opening shot from Lost in Translation as, like, the screensaver in the background of every aspect of my life, I would.