S1E2 : And That Was Quick

June 24th, 2013

It's relatively early, so I'm gonna do another one of these.

Season 1: Episode 2: Purple Giraffe

Same time as episode 1 (2005).

Right away we're continuing on with Robin ('course, if he really was in love with her, she'd be around as a love interest for awhile). I'd also like to state, a "mushroom cloud of casual" does in no way sound like a good thing. :l Personally, I found it entertaining that Ted would try to throw not one, but three parties just to run into Robin, in addition to running all the way around town just to invite her in the first place. Besides it being ridiculous, there is a hint of the idea that he's a romantic. It pretty much just goes to show you that you can't plan out anything entirely; something is bound not to go the way you plan. Not to mention that trying to be something you're not ends up causing you more grief than being honest with yourself in the first place. Three parties worth of grief.
Then there's Barney being his Barney-self, trying to get Ted to hook up with random chicks as he does. On the plus side, he's pretty funny. Especially when just hooking up with a random girl ends up not working out for him when she comes back at party #2. Not to mention that he uses Ted's unfortunate declaration to Robin, to break up with her.
Marshall and Lily are fairly entertaining themselves in between what is happening between Ted and Robin, and I like that to some extent they are relevant to what happens, rather than just wall fixtures. I also found the reference back to the crane machine from Robin's interview a cool way to express Ted's thoughts behind him going up to that roof.
The fact that Robin states that she may never want to get married, in addition to future-Ted's declaration that she's "Aunt Robin," makes it seem that we've closed up the Ted and Robin arc, with Robin becoming one of the gang, especially since Robin states she's going to help Ted find his woman. Unfortunately, with the look that Ted gives Robin in the last some 30 seconds of the episode, it's pretty clear we're not done with this. How Robin ties into Ted meeting the kids' mother however, is a question, assuming that future-Ted isn't just commenting on "Aunt Robin" before he begins to explain how she joined their little gang.
Where the next episodes can go, is pretty open-ended, especially with 20 episodes to go in the first season alone.

~spinedjellyfish