Today we will dance across the backs of dead Greeks.

[rogueslayer452]

++ Hello and welcome to everyone from the recent friending meme that had been going around. *waves* There's been an influx of friending memes on LJ lately, and I'm glad for that. This site probably won't return to the level of activity it used to be during its heyday, at least many are attempting at it, so the more the merrier.

++ The alternate ending for How I Met Your Mother has been released, also known as the one and only true ending the show should have had.

I know series finales in general can be a hit or miss for people depending on how they're executed, and you cannot please everybody, but I have never seen a series finale so universally hated as what was originally aired for HIMYM. I will never understand the reasoning for choosing the ending they decided to show, and why it was so hard for them to basically see that this ending was the one people were wanting, one that made sense given what they were leading up to. It actually feels like a proper bookend to the show. I was never invested with the series, had only sporadically watched episodes throughout the years, but it makes me really angry that they wasted all that time for a crappy finale when they could have had this, which unfortunately even though we have it now seems "too little, too late."

++ Over the course of the week I watched some movies I hadn't seen before. First was Doom, which I ended up liking. It was entertaining and reminded me a bit of Resident Evil, and not just for the fact that they're based off video games. Next was one that had recently come out but I didn't go see in theaters: 300: Rise of an Empire, which Eva Green was practically the main star of the whole thing and stole the spotlight, let's be honest here. She was magnificent. I just wished there had more Lena Headey. Though I actually hadn't seen the first 300, so that may be next on the list.

Comments

[philstar22.livejournal.com]

That ending was so much better. We still have the Barney/Robin divorce, but at least this feels in character, Tracy is given some actual respect, the rather gross messages about guys being creepy and still getting to date the girl and the girl really having feelings for the guy who keeps pushing and goals about having a family are superior to goals about careers, and there is hope at the end.

I'm pretty sure most of the reasoning for the original final boils down to Carter Bays seeing himself as Ted and writing himself getting the girl.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

What I took away from this was that Barney and Robin had troubles in their marriage, but had managed to repair them. But that's one of the reasons why I like this version much better, because regardless whether they really got divorced in the end or not, the fact is that they remained adults while doing so and therefore in-character, instead of severely reducing their characters like the aired finale did.

And I agree, with that and with Tracy and Ted, that there's a level of hope presented with these characters and their relationships with each other. This is how a finale should be.

I'm pretty sure most of the reasoning for the original final boils down to Carter Bays seeing himself as Ted and writing himself getting the girl.

Pretty much yeah, and I just think that's super gross.