Ted & Robin

***SPOILERS***

Just watched the season finale and the last episode of 'How I met your mother'. Must admit, a very abrupt ending and shocking indeed. Funny thing is, I have always wanted Robin to end up with Ted. All my friends used to say 'No, Barney and Robin are perfect!' and I used to reply 'C'mon he stole a blue french horn for her!'. In 1st season, they possibly had the most romantic episodes of any series in TV. When Barney started dating Robin, possibly in the 5th season, it was very odd at first, but then they were good together too.

Barney fans must be inconsolable, the character did not get justice at the end. When they finally ended the show with Ted and Robin getting back together, it was bittersweet.

I started watching it way back in 2009. It's been a long journey. A lot of things have happened.
I changed jobs, moved cities, started my MBA, but kept watching the series. Even in later seasons, they sporadically came up with good episodes, 'The PS I live you-Canadian pop star episode', 'The 9th season rhyme episode'...

Goodbye HIMYM..You've been a good friend..

Daniela Andrade

I will remember today as the day I discovered Daniela Andrade...
I have never listened to such hauntingly beautiful rendition of 'La vi en rose'...

https://soundcloud.com/danielasings

Steven Moffat's Coupling

I was obsessed with 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S' during my engineering years. Religiously followed the show in Zee Cafe from 2004 to 2008. Though it got over in US at 2004, the episodes were shown in India only at 2007-2008. Even when I was in Infosys, Mysore getting my arse handed over to me in grueling training, I did not quit watching it.

But then I stopped and moved on to other sitcoms 'That 70's show', 'Two and a half men' and finally landed on 'Coupling'. 'Coupling' was the best thing I had ever seen. I watched the episodes over and over again and remembered all the jokes by heart. Jeff Murdock was the funniest thing on TV. I shamelessly lobbied for 'Coupling' in every 'Which is the funniest sitcom' debate and rated it over 'FRIENDS'.


Recently I have started watching the 'FRIENDS" episodes again and I have to admit a lot of the stuff were copied in 'Coupling'..

"Chandler's breakup with Janice"  - "Steve's breakup with Jane"
"Chandler could not talk to Jill Goodacre" - "Jeff could not talk to the Israeli girl"
"Chandler-Joey" - "Steve - Jeff"
"Chandler accidentally sees Rachel naked" - " Steve accidentally sees Sally naked".

This is a recurring theme in Steven Moffat's creations. He does not seem to be good with originals. But he does exemplary jobs in reviving old stuff 'Sherlock', 'Doctor Who', 'Jekyll'...