How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[John Locke]

I knew this was how the show was going to end but I didn’t want to believe it. Even when he said that the Mother was sick I didn’t believe it. I believed that this was the story of how Ted met Tracy. That Tracy was the one girl who could pass Lily’s porch test, , who Ted wanted to spend an extra 45 days with, someone who would help him move on and let go of Robin.

The show gave us that girl only to pull the rug from under us. I hated that the kids wanted him to go after Robin. I figured that he would and he would tell them that he was going after but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought the kids would beg Ted to go after “Aunt Robin” Especially since they know that it didn’t work out the first time or any time after that. Since they know reason Barney broke up with her wasn’t because of him, it was because Robin was never there. Ted’s not destined to end up with Robin, he’s destined to make the same mistakes again because the universe (in this specific case his own kids) makes him think that things will change.

People are pissed Barney learned nothing and reverted back to his old character. Neither did Robin nor Ted or even Marshal and Lily. They all ended up in the same place from when the show began. This is a show where nothing changes. Some may say that’s life and it’s true. But let shows like True Detective and House talk about those things and not a show that was originally taglined as “A Love Story Told in Reverse.”

 

[DyeLorean]

Is it safe to assume the whole show/narration was just Ted's elaborate excuse so the kids would let him bang Robin again?

 

[Lily Adler]

It would have been more realistic to have the kids tell Ted to go after something that made him happy without specifically saying to go after Robin.

 

[Darkness Falls]

i wish it ended after his story, but i figured he would end up with robin again given how quickly they ended barney/robin, wtf was that after a season of buildup to the wedding

 

[Orb]

I dont know how to feel......

 

[Dark Raven]

It's like someone who stopped watching the show after season 1 or 2 came along, disregarded everything that has happened since and wrote the final episode or just tacked on the last minute or two and thought everyone would be happy.

 

[Marvolo]

Is it safe to assume the whole show/narration was just Ted's elaborate excuse so the kids would let him bang Robin again?

Essentially. When you think about it that way it makes Ted seem kind of unbalanced. He's manipulating his children into justifying him banging Robin.

 

[Dark Raven]

Suddenly I don't feel like watching Winter Soldier again. That woman is in there that we wasted 9 years on! She'll just make me feel annoyed when she shows up. Stay away even from AOS and AOU woman!

 

[weezerspider]

Yeah, this ending definately will taint re-watching the series(if I even do re-watch it).


And Colbie, I will forever hate you. Don't blame me, blame your writers.

 

[LostSon88]

Nope. Didn't like it.

The whole finale I found myself quite glad that he didn't end up with Robin.

Spoiler

and then he does.

Smh.

 

[blknrdcllctv]

And one more thing...I think it's messed up Ted kept that stupid blue french horn all those years.

Okay, I'm done.

 

[Sawyer]

I have too many thoughts about this right now to put them all down. I will say, I think you guys are acting like a bunch of drama queens, though. There were iffy little things, but I don't think this was the series-shattering disaster you are all acting like it is.

 

[Infinity9999x]

I read the hitflix review online and that writer summed up my feelings pretty well on this. He basically said, had this show ended around season 5 and this had been what happened, people would have been okay with it. However, since the show went so long, the creators original idea (since we know the "go get Aunt Robin" scene was filmed years ago) just didn't fit anymore. They did too many things to make viewers okay with those two ending up together again. Not to mention, it was COLOSSALLY stupid to have one season LITERALLY building up to two characters getting married to then have them break up halfway through the last episode! I mean, seriously!

But I would have even forgave the Robin/Barney thing had they not had Ted go back to Robin at the end. I couldnt' help but feel that they were throwing years of development out the window. Not to mention, by the end of this series, I liked the Mother for Ted MUCH more than I liked Robin for him.

Overall, it doesn't ruin the whole series for me, but it was a bit disappointing. Still, I'd take this over the travesty that was Season 8 of Dexter.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Damn it, Sawyer. I've been wading through all the poo-chucking waiting to see what you had to say. You finally post and it's saying that you can't post.

 

[Teelie]

If I ever watch the series again it will be altered by this ending. There was so much greatness in it for them to let us down with that finale.

Sawyer is right about one thing, it wasn't a Dexter ending.

 

[weezerspider]

I have too many thoughts about this right now to put them all down. I will say, I think you guys are acting like a bunch of drama queens, though. There were iffy little things, but I don't think this was the series-shattering disaster you are all acting like it is.

I mean it did negate the whole series. We find out that the whole point of it is Ted is in love with Robin. Well we learn all of that in episode 1. The rest of the series is completely useless now. Negating the whole point of the story isn't bad storytelling. It's awful storytelling.

 

[Marvolo]

I have too many thoughts about this right now to put them all down. I will say, I think you guys are acting like a bunch of drama queens, though. There were iffy little things, but I don't think this was the series-shattering disaster you are all acting like it is.

Who are you and what have you done with the real sawyer?

 

[Darkness Falls]

nothing is worse than the dexter ending

 

[Infinity9999x]

I have too many thoughts about this right now to put them all down. I will say, I think you guys are acting like a bunch of drama queens, though. There were iffy little things, but I don't think this was the series-shattering disaster you are all acting like it is.

That's fine man. But I get why people feel the way they do. It wasn't the best handled finale. The problem was that while the idea of how to end it as a concept wasn't bad, the show outgrew their original idea. It got too big, and that was evidenced by how they had to wrangle things in this last episode. Things felt rushed, and it's hard to not feel like a lot of character development for our main cast was thrown out the window in order to make the story fit with the creators idea for an ending.

And again, you have to admit, having one season literally be devoted to two characters getting married, only to have them break up in the first twenty or so minutes of the last episode is just bad planning. I think this ending may have worked better had they spread out some of their ideas in this last episode throughout the season. Cramming it into an hour felt very forced, and made a lot of those moments feel cheapened.

I mean, look at it this way: We had an entire episode devoted to the first Robin and Barney break up, yet here they get ten minutes. We had multiple episodes devoted to Marshall dealing with his Dad's death, yet we barely see Ted grieve over the Mothers! In fact, we never do!

It just wasn't handled well.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I stopped watching the show because I never could get over the fact that he wouldn't be with Robin in the end, and it was what should happen. I guess my initial instincts were right.

 

[Donut]

nothing is worse than the dexter ending

Roswell says hi

 

[Orb]

Looks like Ted got Robin. Tracy got Max.

 

[SpideyVille]

I just rewatched the Finale for the second time, this time by myself, since a group of my friends wanted to watch it at a bar (we tried to get into the one that inspired McClaren's). I have mixed emotions and I want to cry at the Ted/Mother stuff and how beautiful their story is, but I can't help but feel like the Robin ending completely overshadows all the greatness that Ted/Tracy had going on for them. It really sucks at how downplayed her death and legacy were, and I kinda hate how Penny was so enthusiastic about pushing Ted to go after her. I know time had passed and the kids have moved on, but the tone change was too sudden and it seemed like the Mother was not as important anymore.

That was hurts the most, because this was supposed to be some epic love story about how her got to her, but the spotlight was taken away once again but side characters. I once loved Robin and wanted her to be with Ted, but I loved the idea of Ted starting the story by telling how he met Robin because it was fitting that he met the Mother at Robin's wedding, but now it really does seem like it was more about "How I Met Your Stepmother" and its a shame because Milioti was such an amazing addition and her inclusion made this season so much better than it was without her.

 

[Dark Raven]

Roswell says hi

I never watched until the end. Did that end badly as well? And if so, how?

 

[Darkness Falls]

The finale wasn't supposed to be about happy endings, from the getgo it was about what made sense. They wrote the episode according to what would logically happen knowing what we know about these people.

Barney and Robin we all would have loved to see make it, but realistically it was never going to. So it didn't.

Barney knocked a girl up doing what he does, which realistically was going to happen eventually.

Ted and Robin have had dormant feelings for each other for a long time - she wanted to elope with him at her own wedding. He convinced himself he wasn't in love with her anymore, but thats all it was - him convincing himself. When you're in love with someone as hard as Ted was in love with her, it never goes away 100%. The only thing that neutralized it was the love he felt for Tracy, and after six years how much longer is that supposed to make him deny the chemistry he has with Robin? Especially since they had apparently been remaining friendly and seeing each other from what his kids said.

Those feelings never truly go away, and when there's nothing holding them back they return.

THAT makes sense. So that's what happened. The pact between them about getting married if they reach 40 and neither are attached was made in jest, but it was never completely empty because they have had feelings for each other the entire show.

Robin is a lonely 40 year old woman from a failed marriage to someone she openly questioned if she should be with over Ted. Ted is a lonely 40 year old widower who has had 6 years to move on from the death of his wife, and the first true longlasting love he's had is consistently in his life.

The marriage pact is just the frosting on the cake. Ted and Robin happening at this point in their lives makes sense, for the people they are, and thats why Carter/Bays did it.

The only part of this show that was supposed to be a fairytale relationship is Marshall and Lily, and it was. The rest happened as it should have - rocky and inevitable amongst sadness.

The only part of this episode I thought was done wrong was the quickness with which the mothers death was glossed over. I would have liked a funeral, some reaction from the friends, some of the bad times during the cancer (i'm assuming), etc.

The rest wasn't what we wanted, no (Tracy living and her and Ted living happily ever after). But in my eyes its 100% what would have happened given the sequence of events.

really put the episode into perspective