I finished watching season 7 of How I Met Your Mother recently. The show’s still going strong. The season opened with references to Barney’s wedding, and the season chugs along showing us how he gets there. Season 6 opened a closed with the wedding as well. The opening made it seem like Ted was getting married, while we discovered at the end that it was Barney’s wedding. Season 7 opened with the same, and ended without actually getting to that moment. It surprised me a bit that two seasons could be capped with the wedding, but I suppose the whole thing is one tale of how Ted met his wife anyways.

What’s important to me is that it hasn’t bored me yet. More than that, it hasn’t annoyed me. Scrubs was my favorite show for the longest time, yet the characters never grew. Throughout the show, there were times in which JD seemed to grow, but he would just revert. In How I Met Your Mother, we see many characters actually grow. They all seem to be growing towards mature adults. Even Barney, who is still used as a player who objectifies women, has grown out of that. They do a great job of keeping that style of Barney comedy while allowing him to change.

I just hope Ted ends his story before the show is cancelled.