HIMYM: Stella!

STEEEEEEELLAAAAAAAAAAAAA DDDDDDDD:

Ugh. Urg. No. Bad. Wrong. DO NOT WANT D:

I always liked Stella. I liked Stella because Ted liked Stella, and I tend to like the things Ted likes - which is good, since it's told from his point of view. But really, I liked Stella. She and Ted were a good match. Not a big, grand romantic!Ted kinda match, but she was someone I could have pictured him settling down with.

So I had some problems with this episode.


My problems were the exes. First, Tony. He was weird to the point of being a little creepy. He's kind of hunky and in years past I could imagine him being smoking hot. So I understand why Stella hooked up with him back then. But he didn't want to commit. He's not gonna magically realize that he should have married her just because she's marrying someone else. Like Sharona going back to her ex-husband on Monk. It's impossible to pick something up right where you left off after years. After a few months of "happy" life, Tony's gonna get cold feet again and Stella should have known that. I mean, I'm assuming they see each other because of Lucy, so if he was going to realize that he still loved her, he would have done so sooner. What he was having was a knee-jerk reaction. Plus, the man lived in a crapshack. I doubt he even wanted her - he just wanted what she represented (ie. contentment, stability, wife and 2.5 kids in suburbia).

Uh. Also? Lucy? It looked like they ditched the girl on Schelter Island. And how is Stella gonna explain that she's never gonna see the nice guy who read her bedtime stories again, but will be living with her deadbeat dad who ran out on them? Stella is a better mother than that! We know she is, she has been up until this episode!

With Ted/Robin, they set up the break-up episodes, if not more than a season, in advance. They said at the very beginning of S2: these two people are not meant to be, look at Ted's parents and you'll see why. They dropped hints that it was gonna happen. But with Ted/Stella. Nothing. They have a couple of spats, like couples do, but their biggest argument is that he doesn't want to move to NJ, but he's perfectly willing to once he realizes that he loves her and Lucy enough to give up NYC. They're perfectly happy, no foreshadowing whatsoever, and then one day she up and leaves him at their wedding totally out of the blue?

Please, Craig and Carter. You can do better.

Having Stella ditch Ted at their wedding for a guy she was with seven years ago felt contrived, rushed and incoherent, forced, stupid, a Plot Device Stronger Than Common Sense^TM, other adjectives conveying LAME.


Second, Robin. I get why Ted wanted her at the wedding. And it was perfectly natural for Robin to not want to be there and Stella to not want to have her there. And she made some valid points about Ted's wedding: disappearing into someone else's wedding isn't his style. I agree that the wedding itself was wrong, but even Robin has said in the past that Stella was not wrong. Ted and Stella should have held out and had their own wedding. It would have been legendary.

But I think he point is that he was willing to, for Stella, and having the crappy wedding to make her happy was the big romantic gesture. Stella, admittedly, should have realized they really shouldn't do it. But I'm not surprised she didn't, considering how painfully out of character she was in this (her final!) episode.

As for her thing about how Ted has become settled!Ted instead of romantic!Ted, he stopped doing ridiculous things for Robin after they got together. He did his big romantic gesture for Stella: the 2 minute date, but at some point he needed to start being responsible!Ted instead of flighty!Ted. And he had. That's not a bad thing - he's just growing up.

My major problem, though, was her idea that if she ever decided she wanted a husband and kids, Ted would still be there.

UM. NO.

First, this didn't even make sense for her to say. She's never gotten jealous of his relationships before (the ones after they broke up, anyway), she totally approved of Stella right until the wedding day, and she was the one who kept saying that her and Ted's different life goals weren't going to go away.

Second, Ted got all indignant that he was her "back-up," and with good reason. They had a good thing, but they clearly want very different things from life, and it wouldn't work out (see Ted's parents as an example). Robin's too much of a free spirit for him. I love going back to watch S2, and back then I was pretty convinced it would somehow work out that Robin would be the mom. But we know she isn't. We know they don't wind up together. If she and Ted were to get back together, it would be retreading old ground that we know is just a pointless rehash of seasons past, because she is not the mother.

If Barney ever gets himself together, he and Robin would be a great match. Ted/Robin was great while it lasted, but it's over now. Move on, world. They're not meant to be.


But. Uh. Aside from Stella and Robin both being OOC and the main plot making no sense whatsoever... the subplots were good.

The monkey rocked. With his marshmallows.

Barney rocked. I felt kinda bad for him, except that he's Satan. She was practically falling in his lap D:

And I think that they finally acknowledged the fact that all these people are alcoholics. They all flipped out a bit when they couldn't get a drink.

Moar platonic Lily/Barney, plz?


ETA: So this post isn't just me hating on a show... Heroes theories.

In the preview for next week, Claire says something's wrong with "everyone's" abilities. But the only two whose abilities are actually on the fritz are Claire and Elle, so it's pretty easy to assume that it's because of the OH NOEZ BRAIN-RAEP. They're the only two to have survived it, other than Peter, but Peter can heal and his head didn't get all the way cut open, while Claire's did, sooo...

But if it's really true that the brain-rape isn't what's wrong with them, then I retract my theory that Elle isn't naturally evolved. If the Eclipse is effecting her abilities, she's gotta be natural, which fucks my Haitian theory. But if the brain-rape is what's wrong with them, they should just go to Sylar to fix them. He could, and I bet he would, too. And Elle wouldn't have the brain-rape = real rape issue that Claire apparently does. At least, I really really doubt she would.

Yeah. I'd believe Pinehearst can "fix them," but since Papa has Elle's ability now, Pinehearst could also kill them dead. Or maybe Elle would latch onto Papa as a replacement for Daddy. But I guess she and Claire hook up (what? gay almost-incest is this show's signature bit) team up. Which... idk. Hopefully neutered!Elle will still be cool and will make Claire cool again.

I used to like Claire in S1. WHAT HAPPENED, KRING? D:

Oh, I'm also calling it officially: if Elle's not the baby mama, Eden McCain is. For realz. Unless Baby Noah really is a Chia Pet :|
Also officially calling it: Meredith and Flint are Jawesome!Pyrokinetic!Siblings Of Win.

Also. Maya. DO NOT WANT. DIE NAO PLZKTHNX.