Honestly, I'm a big fan of it, too, with the major exception of Harris's character. I get that the writers tried to play it for laughs, but having Barney scold women--not men, women--for the type of behavior he previously took advantage of was just plain sexist.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I took it as growth of his character. He went from trying to take advantage of naive and/or promiscuous young women to trying to prevent them from being taken advantage of. Now, of course it's not his place to do it for them, but he's showing off his new "fatherly" behavior. I didn't love that part, but it was nice to see him not being a total sleeze anymore.

I didn't mind the finale overall, but I was sad the mom, only recently introduced, died off. I get they were using that as a springboard to get him back to Robin, but I was frankly done with the Ted-Robin pairing.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

trying to prevent them from being taken advantage of

I don't necessarily have a problem with this, (although I'd still rather have him go after predatory men, who are the real problem) but the writers had him scolding and shaming women rather than taking any sort of constructive action.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, yes, I definitely agree with this point.

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's such a strange choice, IMO. I can see just as much (if not more) comedic potential in "former lech hypocritically shames other lecherous men" as the is in "former lech hypocritically shames promiscuous women".