Happy

This post contains spoilers for How I Met Your Mother 4x12, and Gossip Girl 4x15

What's the opposite of speechless? You know, when something great happens and you just need to talk about, or you'll explode? Well, that's more or less how I'm feeling now, because I've just seen the newest episode of How I Met Your Mother (412). And I'm giddy. Which might be why I can't think of that word... anyhow.

To think, before I watched this I had actually planned to write about how glad I was HIMYM wasn't doing a lot with the romance of Barney and Robin, (or BrOTP, as it's known among the nerds. And yes, I ship them regligiously. ), and how I had realized this was a good thing. Because I was annoyed at first, that every time the ship came up, it was always for the sake of comedy, with either Barney or Robin acting in a very silly and (especially in Robin's case) out-of-character way. But then I realised, this is a great thing. It's actually a good thing. Because if shows ignore their concept (HIMYM being a sit-com) just to please the rabid shippers, the result isn't going to please anyone (yes, I'm looking at you, Bones). So I was happy I wasn't getting any shipping-love from the show.

And now I realise I've just been kidding myself. I wanted an episode with a serious plottling focusing on Barney/Robin. I wanted and episode like 412. It was just so cute, and funny, and just warmed my crazy fangirl heart. And it was funny at the same time, too! So it's not just about the romance. It's about doing it right. Which HIMYM does.

In other news, Gossip Girl is exceptionally weak compared to mybeloved How I Met Your Mother. I really couldn't care less about Dan and Serena's half-sibling, who's going to show up at some point. Actually I couldn't care less about Dan and Serena at all. They're boring. The only thing that manages to tug my heartstrings is Chuck, as usual. But the whole Chuck-and-Blair buisness is getting kind of old, to be honest. Not that I'm not enjoying the ride...