How Is This Show Still On?!

[bklynred]

I can't watch NCIS, L&O:SVU or Criminal Minds anymore. NCIS just seems very vanilla (this whole season has been about Ziva leaving at the end of it? Okaaay.). The latter two rely too heavily on serial violence against women, and it just gets weirder: "He surgically removed their eyes...and made them into sandwiches!" "He's purposely targeting newlyweds!" "He's preying on single black women in Brooklyn!" "He's killing women headed to baby showers and signing his names to the gifts in their blood!" An interesting procedural shouldn't give me nightmares every week.

[Smilla]

I can't watch NCIS

Yeah, I really would have loved it if NCIS had restrained itself into a solid five season arc and then wrapped things up. Would have gone out as one of the most original and entertaining series in a while. The last time I watched I just could not get through even five minutes of it. Wooden performances, bad dialogue and I couldn't manage to care about a single character anymore.

I do miss the Gibbs head slaps, though.

[bklynred]

NCIS is the longest-running show on currently, right? It seems to be on in perpetuity, on 4 or 5 different stations... When I flip past I can never tell where in the storyline they are (it's usually 'Did they shoot that first actress in the head yet?') and if it's super soap-opera soft lighting it's usually an older ep. And they use any excuse for a marathon: a holiday weekend, character appreciation, the winter solstice or whatever the f*ck. I'm always catching Gibbs fade to black & white (what is the POINT of that, anyway?). Hmm, I guess my feelings on this were stronger than I realized.

[chitowngirl]

CSI has been on longer. I have never seen an episode. I actually like the "thunk" and fade to black & white because they also do that coming out of commercial and when I hear that I can come back into the room if I drifted out during the break. USA is the only network syndicating NCIS.

[Atreides]

I've never seen NCIS but I have seen commercials for it while watching Survivor or TAR and what is up what that super soft cinematography? Is Mark Harmon that vain? I can't imagine he or the rest of the cast look that frighteningly hideous in proper HD.

[bklynred]

I don't even think HD was popular when the show started...was it? It's very strange. Also, someone needs to tell the punk rock grown woman with pigtails that she's one Big Gulp away from diabetes. What's kooky or funny in season 1 doesn't do it in season OMG season 11 (had to go to IMDb for that one). One ep I see on heavy rotation is some terrorist's brother is dead, the brother is holding Frances Fisher hostage and they do a Weekend at Bernie's maneuver with the dead body to convince him his brother is alive and driving a car. Good Lord.

[Deleted]

Although I cannot stand How I Met Your Mother anymore, the husband still watches it - last night, a thought occurred to me:

I think that the mother dies.

So I started googling and although I have no confirmation of this - no spoilers here - there is some strong evidence to support this. I am wondering now if the mother dies and Ted and Robyn do eventually end up with each other?

[GirlyGhoul]

That would be a twist. The only thing is the way he's talked to the kids over the years, I've always gotten the impression that 'Aunt Robin' is just someone who comes in and out of their lives and not a steady fixture (as in live in girlfriend or even stepmom). There was an episode where Robin had a conversation with the kids she never had. What if Ted's been talking to imaginary kids all along and is really locked in a mental ward where everyone else in his click are also patients or even doctors. And Robin is his doctor which is why his relationship with her has always been so intimate and yet ultimately unfulfilling. And the mother is really HIS mother whom he has such unresolved issues with that it's taken the whole series for Dr. Robin to piece his sanity back together. But he always keeps looping back to things like the blue French horn and the yellow umbrella and never really uncovering the trauma that landed him in the psyche ward in the first place. Which is that his mother always forced him to practice his French horn at the exclusion of having any friendships or girlfriends until one day he snapped and beat her to death a yellow umbrella. Barney doesn't exist at all but is instead his Tyler Durden who lives the carefree life he's always longed for. The kids are the radiator and toilet in his cell and Marshall and Lily are two squirrels he sees outside his window now and again. Yeah.

And that's officially more thought than I've ever given to HIMYM during it's entire run.

[sardonictart]

Your 'possible' description is also much more interesting than any episode of HIMYM, girlyghoul.

[chonies]

I have never seen HIMYM, but that's a show I kind of want to watch, GirlyGhoul.