How (& Why) How I Met Your Father Dropped One Of HIMYM’s Best Tricks
Although How I Met Your Mother’s Ted shaped the show’s world with his voiceover narration, How I Met Your Father was right to drop this once-innovative storytelling trick. Since its debut in January 2022, HIMYF has provena spinoff follow-up series could successfully reboot an earlier successful sitcom. However, this did require HIMYF to partially change the formula that made HIMYM such a hit.
Although HIMYM was able to pull off ambitious musical episodes and experiments, such as one installment telling its story entirely through rhyme, HIMYF adopted a more traditional sitcom approach to its storytelling in its first season. While later episodes of HIMYF might bring back this sort of playfulness, the reasoning behind the change was likely that the innovations ofHIMYM have since become commonplace in sitcoms and are no longer particularly fresh. By the same token, HIMYF was wise not to let the narrator’s perspective shape the story as much as Ted's did in HIMYM.
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Just asHIMYF can’t bring back Ranjit, the HIMYM spinoff can’t center its narrator’s POV to the same extent as the previous show because Ted's selective view of the world only worked on the original. HIMYM frequently used Ted’s status as the narrator to let viewers inside his head, which at the time meant the sitcom felt less like a conventional hang-out show and more unusual. However, this approach is something that HIMYF has so far avoided and the new show is right not to let Sophie’s fantasy segues, false memories, and self-serving version of events rewrite its narrative.
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