![]() ![]() What did Victoria, Ted's almost-fiancee, think about their relationship? What did she feel about their breakup? What happened to her after she left Ted's orbit? Not only are we taught not to care we are taught not to ask in the first place. They were, in the moral constellation of the show itself, barely "people" at all. They served the needs of their stars-bland necessities of story arc and character development and general bildungsroman-in a way that was almost purely utilitarian. These people were occasionally delightful-" I've had a nice parade of co-stars," Josh Radnor once remarked-but they were also satellites, nothing more. Because what it amounts to are social circumstances that alienate their outsiders. There is "the gang"-a phrase used, unironically, several times in last night's HIMYM finale-and then there is the "everyone else." HIMYM, just like Friends did throughout its own long run on the air, took advantage of its success to bring in a dizzying march of quirky guest stars. There was Britney Spears. And Kal Penn. ![]() But this is in large part what makes any sitcom, HIMYM certainly included, seem so regressive, and so dimensionally suited to the small screen. ![]()
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