Thank you! I tried rewatching HIMYM a while ago and just wanted to turn it off immediately. Some episodes are still good but the characters are honestly just shit. Ted I supposed to be this good guy but is honestly worse than Barney. And robin just gets so much shit for wanting to get own thing all the time. It just sucks.
I really used to love that show. But it honestly aged worse than friends
My pet peeve in any sort of fiction, but especially on TV because that's where you find it most, is a shitty asshole character that is packaged as a good person who you're supposed to root for (see: literally every character in The Big Bang Theory) which is why Ted and Lily are a hundred times worse than Barney. Lily is a selfish, manipulative asshole who thinks she has the right to dictate how other people live their lives, plays god with her friends' relationships, tries to ditch her baby and run away to Spain, and pretends to be a feminist but gleefully slut-shames other woman CONSTANTLY. And then Ted is a fucking cretin. Just a total creep. A Ross Gellar sequel. HE MADE ROBIN GIVE UP HER DOGS BECAUSE HE WAS JEALOUS OF THEM??? AND CAME CREEPING AFTER HER FIVE MINUTES AFTER HER FIANCE DUMPED HER? AND JUST REFUSED TO STOP TRYING TO WIN HER OVER EVEN THOUGH SHE KEPT TELLING HIM THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE KIDS AND HE DID? At least Barney wasn't labouring under any illusions of being a good person, and at least NPH played him in such a way that you could recognise how pathetic the character was, which was the one thing that saved him from being totally irredeemable. But Lily and Ted are just The Worst. I think my hatred of her edges Ted out purely because she got to be married to the best, sweetest, least problematic character in the show when she was so undeserving.
