Aw, crap.

[sapote]

AW CRAP. How I Met Your Mother, it's not been a great season, but are you seriously making like the one straightforwardly childfree woman I've seen on a tv show pregnant? What the crap! There is no way she's going to have an abortion on an American sitcom, so I guess this is time for her to discover gooshy feelings about children or whatever. Man, I'm really disappointed.

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[the_oscar_cat]

i don't watch any more but is robin pregnant? lame.

[sapote]

YES they've been trying to reform Barney as a person for two seasons now and he and Robin got it on and now she's pregnant. But she a) does not presently want to date Barney b) doesn't want kids! The whole episode was about how he wanted a baby (to the point of discussing adopting one with Ted, which I thought was an awesome plan). But Robin doesn't! I guess she's going to have to come around to the idea, because network television has no other options. NOT COOL SHOW.

[the_oscar_cat]

but isn't Lily pregnant? (I only watched the first episode of this season.) so wait... having had a season where both actresses were pregnant and they clunkily (as you do) hid it, and now they aren't pregnant they've made them both pregnant in the show.

*le sigh*

well obviously when she has the kid she will see how wrong she is about not wanting them because if people only gave their babies a chance they would see that they are really great! or something. :|

(hell - i have two kids that i chose to have. it's fucking hard work and i don't regret a thing. but if you don't want to have kids - don't have kids. and don't pretend to be a hip fucking show, and knock your female characters up as if abortions and birth control don't exist. they do. fucking accept it.)

(I see your NOT COOL and say, see i'm not going to watch any more so there!)

/rant

hi!

[sapote]

Yep, Lily is also preggers. OH CRAP - she's actually pregnant enough for the sight of her baby's squishy baby face to move a dubious Robin to fecundity. Well now I know the rest of the season and don't need to watch it anymore.

See, this was the fate of Friends, too. At the time, however badly it handled them, it was a show that discussed novel family structures (Ross and his son and his son's mothers, for instance - it was badly handled, but it was still a queer blended family on primetime). But the longer it went on the more ... weirdly conservative the writers got, to the point where in the last season one of the writers said in the disc commentary that she thought the show was still cutting-edge for introducing the possibility of men working as nannies. IN 2002. TWO THOUSAND TWO. One of the things that I initially loved about HIMYM is that it treated its characters very well in the first two seasons, and took seriously that Robin DID NOT WANT KIDS, zero kids, enough that that was a driving plot point, while also taking seriously that other characters did. Like in the real world!

(I personally want kids and have had enough experience with wee babies that I have some idea what I'd be getting into, but I am related to a young woman who's making the opposite call for the only reasons she needs to - that she doesn't like them and doesn't want to parent them - and I was honestly happy that there was a sitcom that I could point to and go "look, this character did the same thing and still had a good happy life! Don't listen to people who try to pressure you out of making this decision for yourself!" OH WELL guess that doesn't apply anymore. CRAP.)

This is the kind of point in a show where one decides everything before Season N is the real canon and everything after that is an AU. Sigh.

/rant

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[januar]

Seriously?? Robin's pregnant?? Excuse as I facepalm for infinity.

[sapote]

IRL I would never say I am rooting for an abortion as I am on team Whatever Choice Works for You With Your Sacred Right To Make Your Own Bodily Choices Free of Pressure and Constraint.

But I have to admit I'm rooting for the incredibly improbable times a thousand American Sitcom Abortion.