The Captain Returns! Ahoy!
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| Which of these three does the Captain want business with? |
A late recap, but homework was my top priority last night so I had only just enough time to watch the episode. Then I had school today, but finally I return now for the reader's convenience.
Ted gets a disturbing voice messege from the Captain to call back. You know, the guy who Zoey was with before she left him for Ted. The scary dude obsessed with boats. Ted gets anxious, thinking that the Captain was calling because Ted had briefly been with Becky a while back ("Boats! Boats! Boats!" When you think about it, a Captain/Becky pairing would actually make sense). Ted explains an art exhibition event that happened one and an half years ago, which in Ted's point of view made it seem the Captain wanted to get revenge harpoon-style when he invited them to his apartment to "see a painting".
However, the Captain asks for Robin's number instead. Ooh! Robin then tells the flashback differently: the Captain was hitting on her, not focused on killing Ted, at the exhibition and had invited the friends up to his apartment so Robin could "see a painting". When Robin calls the Captain and tells him she is engaged, it turns out the Captain had gotten the two women mixed up: he wants Lily.
Lily reveals that at the art exhibition, the Captain had invited them so Lily could see an actual painting, since Lily is an art lover. The reasons why the last two points of view were so different was that Ted had recently "eaten a sandwich" and Robin was a tad drunk. However, when the Captain had called her "just a kindergarten teacher", she took revenge for that rude comment and stole his expensive ashtray (Nice 'Aldrin Justice' throwback, there).
The situation leads to Lily confessing to Marshall that she isn't satisfied with her life in terms of artistic fulfilment, but then comes along a nice convenience! The Captain didn't call to get the ashtray back; he wanted to offer her a job as his personal art consultant, realising he liked Lily's artistic taste.
You have, or have not, realised I have not mentioned Barney at all yet. For me, he provided the best laughs: although he wasn't part of the main storyline, he knew this and kept insisting he was - interrupting the flashbacks while rocking a guitar in the company of two hot girls. You have to admit, Barney's presence in stories does turn things up a certain notch of awesome. Barney's reason for doing this is that he feels he HAS to be in crazy stories, otherwise he doesn't know who he is anymore. Robin and Ted cheer him up by "remembering" he was there after all because he was in disguise for a play from the Playbook.
A couple of things I want to address. First, many Barney fans are disappointed with Relationship Barney and sorely miss Single Barney, but what I think whenever I hear this is exactly the point this episode made: yes, we have Relationship Barney now, but what's How I Met Your Mother without flashbacks? (even 99.9% of the whole show is a flashback from 2030, people!) Single Barney isn't dead fans - he will always live on in new flashbacks, which was exactly what this episode proved. And not only did we see Single Barney again, we got introduced to a new play! (I wasn't even expecting more plays after The Robin, but there you go!) Even Barney himself said he wouldn't know who he was if it weren't for crazy stories starring him.
Second, there was a moment in the episode when Barney said (about his fake appearance at the art gallery) that he would have banged the Captain's first art consultant and her sister, and high fives Ted. Was I the only one who noticed Robin looking really uncomfortable?
We haven't seen too much of Barney/Robin lately, but I'm hoping the writers are naturally letting the audience take a break over the whole fuss about their relationship and saving the good, sweet stuff closer to the wedding date. I think Barney's been given a little free rein outside his relationship with Robin, but I hope he doesn't go too far.
This episode was indeed what people call a "filler": other than knowing that Lily has a new job now, you didn't have to necessarily watch the episode in terms of storyline. Plus, a flashback-driven storyline was already used in last week's episode.
I'm glad that Lily's problem has been revolved though. I was afraid of a similar repeat of Lily leaving Marshall temporarily, but now that they have a family it would've been too far.
My pre-episode prediction: seeing the title before I had watched the episode, I had guessed the episode would have had something to do with the last cigarette ever story arc introduced in Season 5. After all, we still don't know why Robin and Barney stop smoking in the future (especially since the date given to Robin's deadline is June this year).
My last final thought: even though Becky's boat advertisement appeared for, like, three seconds, I had "Boats! Boats! Boats!" stuck in my head while doing my homework afterwards. I was doing some English work when my train of thought went something like this: fables have a purpose, intentionally, to make the "BOATS!" respond to it in a way the "BOATS!" is achieving for. The purpose is what the "BOATS!" is 'generally about' and is the "BOATS!" motivation or starting point for the "BOATS!". You get the idea.
Click the video below to see the promo.
The situation leads to Lily confessing to Marshall that she isn't satisfied with her life in terms of artistic fulfilment, but then comes along a nice convenience! The Captain didn't call to get the ashtray back; he wanted to offer her a job as his personal art consultant, realising he liked Lily's artistic taste.
You have, or have not, realised I have not mentioned Barney at all yet. For me, he provided the best laughs: although he wasn't part of the main storyline, he knew this and kept insisting he was - interrupting the flashbacks while rocking a guitar in the company of two hot girls. You have to admit, Barney's presence in stories does turn things up a certain notch of awesome. Barney's reason for doing this is that he feels he HAS to be in crazy stories, otherwise he doesn't know who he is anymore. Robin and Ted cheer him up by "remembering" he was there after all because he was in disguise for a play from the Playbook.
A couple of things I want to address. First, many Barney fans are disappointed with Relationship Barney and sorely miss Single Barney, but what I think whenever I hear this is exactly the point this episode made: yes, we have Relationship Barney now, but what's How I Met Your Mother without flashbacks? (even 99.9% of the whole show is a flashback from 2030, people!) Single Barney isn't dead fans - he will always live on in new flashbacks, which was exactly what this episode proved. And not only did we see Single Barney again, we got introduced to a new play! (I wasn't even expecting more plays after The Robin, but there you go!) Even Barney himself said he wouldn't know who he was if it weren't for crazy stories starring him.
Second, there was a moment in the episode when Barney said (about his fake appearance at the art gallery) that he would have banged the Captain's first art consultant and her sister, and high fives Ted. Was I the only one who noticed Robin looking really uncomfortable?
We haven't seen too much of Barney/Robin lately, but I'm hoping the writers are naturally letting the audience take a break over the whole fuss about their relationship and saving the good, sweet stuff closer to the wedding date. I think Barney's been given a little free rein outside his relationship with Robin, but I hope he doesn't go too far.
This episode was indeed what people call a "filler": other than knowing that Lily has a new job now, you didn't have to necessarily watch the episode in terms of storyline. Plus, a flashback-driven storyline was already used in last week's episode.
I'm glad that Lily's problem has been revolved though. I was afraid of a similar repeat of Lily leaving Marshall temporarily, but now that they have a family it would've been too far.
My pre-episode prediction: seeing the title before I had watched the episode, I had guessed the episode would have had something to do with the last cigarette ever story arc introduced in Season 5. After all, we still don't know why Robin and Barney stop smoking in the future (especially since the date given to Robin's deadline is June this year).
My last final thought: even though Becky's boat advertisement appeared for, like, three seconds, I had "Boats! Boats! Boats!" stuck in my head while doing my homework afterwards. I was doing some English work when my train of thought went something like this: fables have a purpose, intentionally, to make the "BOATS!" respond to it in a way the "BOATS!" is achieving for. The purpose is what the "BOATS!" is 'generally about' and is the "BOATS!" motivation or starting point for the "BOATS!". You get the idea.
Click the video below to see the promo.
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