What we don’t want to see on ‘How I Met Your Dad’
Reincarnations of the same characters
It would be lazy of the creators – and therefore, highly unlikely – but we don’t think we want to see another gang of four to six with The Couple, the Womanizer (or, Manizer). There are tons of careers out there, so hopefully this new gang won’t have a newscaster, lawyer, teacher, architect and/or whatever Barney does. (Although, we just found out last week. Didn’t see the episode? Read the spoilery recap here.)
The characters’ relationship with technology
How I Met Your Mother premiered in 2005 – virtually an entirely different world compared to today. The iPhone wasn’t around, Facebook was merely a blip in Mark Zuckerberg’s eye and people weren’t Instagraming their meals before eating.
HIMYM has touched on the topic of the digital evolution – there was the blind date Ted went on with Amber Steven’s Janet McIntyre in season 7’s “Mystery vs. History,” wherein they agreed not to look up each others online profiles (that backfired) and Ted’s ‘texty-text’ conversation with the woman of his dreams, who turned out to be Barney and Marshall on the other end.
We’re assuming HIMYD‘s characters will be in their 20’s today – that is a more Snapchatting, Tweeting, and all around smartphone-addicted generation than the HIMYM gang, whom are just nine years older. Despite all this, we don’t want to see this new crew gather around the bar, or cafe, or wherever, and immediately glue their eyes to their texting conversations.
“Kids, this is the story of the time…”
We just spent nine years listening to Ted (Bob Saget) explain to his captive audience – his kids, and us – that “this is the story of the time I/the gang did [insert crazy adventure].” We know that because of continuity within the episode, it technically makes sense for Ted to set up the story as such, but we hope the narrator of How I Met Your Dad has a slightly more inventive approach to her narrations.
It’ll be hard to watch HIMYD initially because we’ll be coming off nearly a decade of HIMYM and expect to know everyone’s quirks, ticks, stories, tells, qualities, but we’ll have to be patient and allow the story to grow naturally.
We know the characters will have no connection to the current story, but man, wouldn’t it be great to see the tiniest nod to Ted or the bar or a blue french horn? We can already see the gifsets paralleling the two series!
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