How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[bored]

Dark Raven kind of took what I wanted to say. I can't get behind this. I got into this show sometime around season 5, after friends kept referencing it, and have been so into it since. I loved the whole journey, and the character development, especially in the last season, which I thought was brilliant. Yet in the span of an hour, it unraveled. First there was Barney and Robin's split, and how Barney acted after that, which meant that all their adorableness and everything about how they worked better than Robin and Ted meant nothing. Then the last five minutes, confirming Tracy's death and Ted ending the series going after Robin again... It's like, what the hell was the point? We watch stuff like this to see a kind of story play out, and yeah, life doesn't work like that, but this is scripted television, and we enjoy it BECAUSE it deviates in certain ways from real life while still connecting to it.

And this one episode basically said that most of the ride we went on didn't really mean a thing. And this from a guy who loved the end of "Lost".

 

[Nathan]

This woman who we spend nine years waiting for is going to die and the show is going to end with him and Robin. I'm not sure I can watch the show without that in the back of my mind.

I already know I can't. The finale has ruined all 9 seasons for me.

 

[Lily Adler]

It's strange. It's as if instead of raping our childhoods like a typical big budget movie director who's main claim to prominence has been amazing spectacles achieved through special effects some were robbed of their twenty-somethings following this show for nine years.

 

[Dark Raven]

I was expecting something on the level of the 200th episode for the finale. Even the most recent episodes were better than this, not even counting the last 2 minutes. A lot of it almost felt like stuff we would have been seeing in previous seasons and not quite fitting for the ending. I was going to say it should have concentrated more on the mother, but the ending made it clear it wasn't even about her but about Robin, so it's irrelevant now. What a disappointment. How could they come up with this crap?

And they shouldn't have stuck so rigidly to the original filmed ending from all those years ago but should have been prepared to change it.

Now I'm guessing in Arrow the creators will also stick rigidly to Laurel Lance becoming Black Canary at all costs even though it doesn't feel natural at all.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

I can't believe its been that long...nine years? Wow..times flies by...

 

[Just_Human]

And a few years later, Robin leaves Ted after she is being offered a job by Fury.



More exciting than being reporter and having to live with a sore loser, imo

 

[Dr. Evil]

Out of the three finales of my three favorite sitcoms that went off the air in the last year (HIMYM, 30 Rock and the Office) this was the worst of the three.

 

[DyeLorean]

And this one episode basically said that most of the ride we went on didn't really mean a thing. And this from a guy who loved the end of "Lost".

Because the end of Lost provided some kind of closure for everyone involved. It didn't erase anything that happened before it. On the contrary, it provided meaning.

A sitcom finale shouldn't be this controversial. They put themselves in that position.

 

[Lily Adler]

BUT it was on the HIGHEST rated network, thus it's good.

 

[Dwarf lord]

It's strange. It's as if instead of raping our childhoods like a typical big budget movie director who's main claim to prominence has been amazing spectacles achieved through special effects some were robbed of their twenty-somethings following this show for nine years.

I think it's hard for me since I tend to see myself as Ted (I think a lot of people do, which is why the show works). But yeah, I live in a city with my best friend of forever and his girlfriend. I have had a lot of trouble with women and I also tend to gravitate towards lofty romantic ideas. I'm also relatively pretentious in a very Ted Mosby way. So, I guess in a lot of ways, it feels as if my love story ends in tragedy. That sounds stupid, but that probably explains it a lot.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Because the end of Lost provided some kind of closure for everyone involved. It didn't erase anything that happened before it. On the contrary, it provided meaning.

A sitcom finale shouldn't be this controversial. They put themselves in that position.

Exactly. Look at the Office. The show had been mediocre in its last few seasons, but they had a brilliant series finale.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

And a few years later, Robin leaves Ted after she is being offered a job by Fury.



More exciting than being reporter and having to live with a sore loser, imo

haha so true... Take that, Ted. She ain't Robin anymore. She works for S.H.I.E.L.D with a brand new spanking name: Maria Hill.

 

[Shifty]

This was their plan since the beginning and at one point it would've worked if they were cancelled after two seasons but the last half of the series changed this ending. The kids scene was shot way back then, saved for the last episode. Whenever that was going to air. The Aunt Robin twist, which caught me when I watched the series the night it premiered, ending up ruining the show.

They should've known that people wanted to meet the mother and see why she was the mother for a season or two. Not this garbage. I'm glad I stopped watching two seasons ago but to spend a whole season leading up to Robin/Barney's wedding and having it come undone in 20 minutes with commercials? Terrible.

There were two scenes worth watching, Barney and his daughter and FINALLY when Ted met Tracey. The rest was just more poor decisions by the writing staff. This finale could hurt the chances of HIMYD getting picked up or even with ratings.

 

[Dark Raven]

A good ending to any series should make you want to watch it again and shouldn't invalidate everything that has gone before so that it feels pointless to watch it again. It's like the creators took the sentiments that existed back in the first season or two when people did want to see Robin and Ted together and didn't think that everyone has moved on with the characters and the series to where they were at the wedding.

If they put out something like the 200th episode, then they can't expect anyone to want to see Ted and Robin together again. And especially after the 201st episode where Ted let go of her on the beach, no one is going to want to see that.

What is worse is that, while Ted may have had 6 years to get over Tracy's death, we haven't. She was ripped from our affections in a few seconds and then the creators honestly expect us to get over her and be happy that he is with Robin. That is just a slap in the face. I still want Tracy because she is the one we all fell in love with, and many of us closely identified with Ted, so his feelings for her were ours.

 

[blknrdcllctv]

A good ending to any series should make you want to watch it again and shouldn't invalidate everything that has gone before so that it feels pointless to watch it again. It's like the creators took the sentiments that existed back in the first season or two when people did want to see Robin and Ted together and didn't think that everyone has moved on with the characters and the series to where they were at the wedding.

If they put out something like the 200th episode, then they can't expect anyone to want to see Ted and Robin together again. And especially after the 201st episode where Ted let go of her on the beach, no one is going to want to see that.

What is worse is that, while Ted may have had 6 years to get over Tracy's death, we haven't. She was ripped from our affections in a few seconds and then the creators honestly expect us to get over her and be happy that he is with Robin. That is just a slap in the face. I still want Tracy because she is the one we all fell in love with, and many of us closely identified with Ted, so his feelings for her were ours.

Thank you...I was trying to explain this to a friend - "slap in the face" is exactly how I feel. Such poor writing. I can't even put into words how disappointed I am. If this was the plan all along, then the show shouldn't have been titled, "How I Met Your Mother". We just sat through a 9 year long manipulative lie.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Another thing... I don't think the Mother dying is inherently a bad thing in itself. This show has dealt with hard things in the past. Quite gracefully at that. In fact one of the highest points that the show ever achieved was the arc that dealt with the death of Marshall's Dad. But it was how it was glossed over. It was so quick I didn't have a chance to even feel bad for Ted and I'm usually a massive sap when it comes to television.

They could have easily had a Bob Saget narration about how much he missed his wife and that how you have to play with the cards you're dealt. And how life doesn't always work in your favor. And how just because things don't work out, doesn't mean you have to be alone. Just something to make it seem like the entire story wasn't just a pitch for him to start dating Robin.

Take away the love story and this show is a story about how to survive all the **** life throws you when you're in your mid-20s. So make this another lesson. Don't make a one eighty on the show's concept in the last three minutes of a 9 season run.

 

[Teelie]

After this ending, I wasn't even thinking of HIMYF but now it does give me pause to reconsider it. If they are going to end the series off like this, I have to wonder how they will end the father in the spinoff. Will he die too? Will she meet him in the first episode and then spend the next several years not being with him only to turn around and discover him in the finale?

The more I think over this ending the more I argue with myself over it. I like parts of it and hate others. It has in several ways worked. People are certainly talking about it.

 

[Dark Raven]

Btw i'm glad I watched CA:TWS before I saw this finale. If it had been the other way round, I would've thought "away with you Robin Scherbatsky! " when Maria Hill was on screen.

 

[TheSpectacular]

Btw i'm glad I watched CA:TWS before I saw this finale. If it had been the other way round, I would've thought "away with you Robin Scherbatsky! " when Maria Hill was on screen.

 

[Marvolo]

Look on the brightside guys. We only waited 9 years for this crock of ****.

 

[chicagodave]

Ive been going around other forums and reading all the twitter posts the consensus is the pretty much the same and i agree one of the worst ending ever just makes the whole show seemed pointless now.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Oh, hey. I underestimated how bat**** it would get in here.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

http://time.com/44702/how-i-met-your-mother-finale-review/

 

[Lily Adler]

So what sitcom should I go watch now as my Friends substitute? I had Happy Endings until ABC screwed up. Now I probably won't be watching any reruns now.

 

[Dark Raven]

The 200th episode showed Tracey finally letting go of her dead boyfriend and it was a poignant moment for her. There was none of that same feeling here. Instead it all felt very flippant and we were also forced to move along and let go of her and realign our affections with Robin. It can't just happen like that though. We as viewers need time to mourn Tracey's death before even entertaining any other possibilities. They stole that from us.

Even if she had died they should have dropped the kids urging him to pursue Robin and that whole "happy" scene with the blue french horn, which was not in fact a happy ending for us at all because we couldn't enjoy that whatsoever.