Tuesday, May 08, 2007

I was talking to an older friend about TV shows. I’m trying to find some worth watching without wasting my time trying to determine if they are.

"'How I Met Your Mother' is a good one."

I’m skeptical of gimmicky shows. TV has been getting better, but it’s still bad. But this has 'met' in the title, which is past tense for 'meet.' If it takes place in the past, it might be like 'The Wonder Years,' that would be cool.

"Well, no. It takes place present day."

So he’s telling the story from the future! That’s amazing. Do they show the kids, are they wearing metallic space suits? Do the live underwater, or on the moon, or under the regime of a totalitarian alien government? I mean, yeah, it’s gimmicky, but it’s original. It will be cool just to see how they incorporate robots into their daily lives.

"They don’t show the future much, if at all."

You mean it’s just another story about some dude trying to meet a girl, only eventually we know he marries her and has kids. I watched it last night, and that’s pretty much what it is: guy trying to meet girl he’ll have babies with... pretty gay.