Entertainment & Sports: November 2014 Archives
My wife and I just finished "How I Met Your Mother", and boy was the finale a downer.
I was prepared to dislike the Mother purely due to all the build-up over the course of the show, but she was actually pretty great. Oh, too bad she dies in the finale. What the what? As the Daughter told Ted, was the whole story about the Mother just an excuse to go on and on about Robin?
After multiple seasons building up to Barney and Robin's wedding, they get divorced 10 minutes later? All the character development Barney went through gets thrown out the window, along with his character. Sure, in "real life" Barney and Robin probably shouldn't have gotten married. But c'mon, this is a TV show! Can't they have a happy ending? Or at least spare us the dramatic build-up for zero payoff. Then Barney gets a filia ex machina dropped in his lap and has yet another conversion. That sticks? Who knows.
And finally... Ted and Robin? Seriously? Robin is Ted's true love? Blah.
If it weren't for Marshall and Lily anchoring the show it would have ended as total crap. Just pretend the last two episodes don't exist and make up your own ending.
My daughters have been watching a lot of "Frozen" recently (of course) and I dreamt an epilogue for the movie last night:
Prime Minister to Queen Elsa: We're all glad you're back, Queen Elsa!Queen Elsa: Yep, everyone is fine again! Better than ever.
PM: Actually we're not... [one of my favorite lines from the movie -- MW]
QE: What's going on now?
PM: Well, we're all going to starve to death. All our crops died when you temporarily cursed the land with eternal winter. Do you think you can use your magic to bring the crops back to life?
QE: I don't think so.
PM: We'll have to dig into the royal treasury then. Maybe we can buy food from our biggest trading partner: Weselton.
QE: Um... actually I just banished that guy and promised we'd never trade with him again.
PM: Ok... what about the Southern Isles? Prince Hans was instrumental in protecting the kingdom while you were... "away". I'm sure his kingdom would help us out.
QE: Right... so, I banished him too. But on the plus side, I met a guy who runs an ice business. He's dating my sister now, so I'm sure he'll give us a discount.
PM: A discount on ice.
Since my wife turned me on to podcasts (yeah, I'm ten years behind) it seems like I've stopped listening to NPR in the car. Thanks to my revived interest in Dungeons and Dragons I'm currently listening through the back episodes of NPC Cast. D&D fifth edition is pretty cool, and I'm having a great time DM-ing two games, one with my wife and one with my brothers. We're playing through the Starter Set adventure, "Lost Mine of Phandelver", and everyone seems to be enjoying it.
