There is no The End. It's a totally subjective argument. She's a horrible person in your eyes. That doesn't make her a horrible person in Ted's eyes. And as far as I'm concerned, the one who got left at the altar has the last word on that.....No offense, but I'm going to go with the character's opinion of her over yours.

Well NOW what the hell am I going to write for my season recap....

Damnit J.D. You're making me look bad and I haven't even written the damn thing yet.

I don't think that makes her a bad person. It just means she made a mistake.

Ted obviously doesn't think she's a bad person....that's solace enough for me.

I'll be at the new Terminator movie, so I won't see it live, but that's ok, because my HD antenna blows for CBS anyway. Everything is way too choppy. I'll be downloading it as soon as I get home though.

Here's to hoping no one starts going stupidly ballistic in the comments about the fact that the goat is a different color than the one they mentioned in the other seasons.....OHHH NOOOOO'S!!!

I thought the same thing last week as I was bringing my new girlfriend through first season. I'd really love for it to be her.

quite the insightful comment. very full of unique commentary and explanation of your point....

I'm all for expression of opinion, but hey man.....at least explain WHY you hated this episode/season

considering that pretty much nothing that we necessarily thought was going to happen HAS happened, yes.....it is hard. I don't mean to be rude, but you're speculating and assuming you're obviously correct based on figures in a movie poster that we saw all of 5 seconds of.

And did I miss something....since when do we know that Stella has a friend that lost a yellow umbrella? They aren't exactly commonplace and one would assume that they would've breeched that topic sometime within their relationship, or when she saw Ted holding the yellow umbrella. Or maybe I just missed a second of dialogue, stupid HD antennae.

I'm sorry to take this comment and take you/it down in any way, but, and I mean this in the nicest possible sense....have you been watching the show AT ALL?

The entire show is about character development. Hell, the title implies MASSIVE character development. It's a sitcom, yes, but situation comedy doesn't just imply "only laughs, no character deviation" anymore. There are plenty of shows on TV now, beit the big network or cable that stray away from the typical Two and a Half Men-type of show, where nothing really changes, people just get older and get plopped into different situations with the same jokes in different format. If you want that kind of show, then HIMYM isn't and never has been that kind of show. I don't know where you would ever get that from. This show has always been about making you think or feel something for the characters....thus episodes like Slutty Pumpkin, Nothing Good Happens after 2 A.M., Slapsgiving, and this last episode.

They never said outright that this episode was going to be a mind-blowing episode where everything gets solved. They may have left it lingering and left it a little too much to the imagination, but this episode is just about as far from a one-off episode as it gets. It's not just another episode where Ted gets over Stella. Ted was already over Stella....I've already had 3 people telling me that they didn't like how Ted was still trying to get over her, but I didn't see one semblance of that in the entire episode. It was about Stella making amends more than anything, and Ted trying to get Stella and Tony the hell out of his life.....but most importantly, and perhaps the absolute most important thing this season came out of this episode. The conversation with Stella in the car may not seem important to you, but it's incredibly pertinent. Without that conversation we're left with the Ted that we've seen for the last 2 years, a Ted that's having fun, but isn't fulfilled. Ted's "the one" side has been almost completely lost over the last 2 years. Yes, he loved Stella, but any one of us could've seen and did see that he was just trying to push things when he proposed. it was completely un-Ted-like. And that conversation in the car gives Ted a glimpse of what he has been before and can be again. Perhaps there's more coming in relation to the Stella-Ted thing and what happens because of their meeting. But although this realization was a little more subversive than actually meeting a girl, it's just as potent, because it forces Ted to find what he wanted to find all along, but had since strayed from.

-Jason

I don't think it was the looking right next to a person thing, or at least perhaps not in the way you're describing it.

I think it was more that she just never seemed totally comfortable in the role. She wasn't playing off of the other characters as well as she did with the Scrubs cast. When you're used to interacting with a certain cast for so long, it can be really tough to adapt to a new scene. She did have a couple moments that were genuinely entertaining or emotive, but she never seemed like she felt comfy working on the HIMYM set.

-Jason