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How I Met Your Mother: The Duel
One of my favorite parts of How I Met Your Mother is the way they handle Marshall and Lily's relationship with such grace and maturity. That's one of the big reasons I'll be sorely disappointed if Lily ends up the mother-in-question, as some of our readers have speculated. Well, needless to say, with tonight's episode degrading to a fencing duel to decide the owner of the guys' apartment, maturity didn't come into play all that much. On with the show!The episode starts with a conundrum that every pair of room-mates with a kickass apartment runs into. Who gets to keep the space? After Lily finds out that she'd apparently been evicted from her own apartment months earlier, Ted invites her to move in with him and Marshall. Marshall's very touched that Ted wouldn't worry about his own space and would invite his fiancee to move in with them. Barney warns Ted that's just the begining and Lily will soon take over. Ted shoots down Barney's theory, but begins to have doubts when Lily replaces a "shocking" old coffepot of Ted's.
Lily begins to influence Marshall more and more--so much so, that Ted feels like it's constantly a two-on-one defecit. During the hanging of a picture, and subsequent taking down of two swords, Ted and Marshall slowly escalate into a fencing match they decide will determine the ownership of the apartment. The fight ends abruptly when Lily is stabbed by a five-year-old folley. (Just walking through the door, fiancee waiting to stab you... I think this may have happened to me...) At the hospital Lily explains while she loves the apartment, once they're married she wants to start a new life, at a new place, with Marshall.
I continue to love this show. I love how they're playing with the "hook" of the show and sometimes flashing back even further. Like tonight's flashback to the single instant that would take down the table. Barney's "lemon-law" will surely be coming to a town near you shortly. I'm happy this got picked up for an entire season, and hopefully will have many more to come. I can't wait to see how these five friends get to live happily ever after.
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