How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[weezerspider]

"Hey kids, have I ever told you how I met your mother? Well, its funny, I met your Aunt Robin before your mother and, well, long story short I've always kinda had a thing for your old Aunt Robin and, well, you see, I haven't got laid in six years due to your mother's unfortunate sickness....so what do you guys say? Can I enter the Robin's nest? You know what I mean, Penny. I've heard you and your boyfriend....So what do you say? Eh? Eh? Come On."


The real point of the story: Barney embraced his sexual wildness. Ted never did.

 

[LostSon88]

So it's been implied that for a good 5-7 years, Robin was M.I.A. from the group.

Spoiler

Tracy dies and she's apparently back in everyones life. Skank.

 

[souvlaki]

This would have been a good finale if the show ended after season 2.

 

[Mister J]

The last 3-4 minutes made the entire series feel like a con job. 'Con job' might be a bit harsh (although I did like its usage in that Time article) ,but definitely a WTF swerve to me. They spent 9 years of 'The Mother this, the Mother that'; all these goofy coincidences and misfires highlighting her importance. Underscoring why she's different and The One... only to handily sweep her aside in a few lines so we can get back to the Continued Adventures of Ted and Aunt Robin, a dynamic they spent all kinds of time showing why it doesn't work.

It's not even really that Tracy died; be it the mass speculation or my own cynicism, I wasn't all that put off by it. It's that it was glossed over and pretty much superseded by that forced ending. It just seems like a needless way to divide your audience on your ending note.

Making "everyone" happy with a finale is near attainable. However, it's another thing altogether to practically invite consternation. I don't get it. I can still go back and enjoy previous eps, but the experience in piecing it together is definitely colored as to what was (or at least what I thought was) the foremost point to all this. I just don't get it.

 

[O'Haire]

Ted shouldn't of wasted the kids time just said something like...

 

[Donut]

To sum this show up. It was pretty much a story so that Ted can get his kids permission to bang their "Aunt" lol

 

[Infinity9999x]

really put the episode into perspective

It would...had it been handled better. I have no problem with Barney and Robin breaking up after getting married. What I have a problem with is an entire season leading up to said marriage and then ten minutes dealing with the break up.

I may have even been open to the idea of Ted ending up back with Robin after getting past the death of his wife...had we actually seen him get past said death. Or...y'know...even see him grieve! And had they not built up the past few years pushing apart Ted and Robin as a couple, to the point that fans were rolling their eyes in this last season when there still was a bit of thing between them.

All the things that happened in this finale weren't bad in theory, but they needed time to breathe. As I said before; think of it this way: Ted and Robin's last break up had an entire episode devoted to it and multiple episodes after devoted to the fallout. This gave us ten minutes. When Marshall's dad died we had multiple episodes featuring how he dealt with it. In this, we don't even see how Ted dealt with is wife's death!

This ending could have worked had they not spent the entire season building up to the wedding but had the last season span the 20 or so years the ending did. That way they would have been able to give some of these major life events time to breathe instead of cramming them into an hour. It was just poorly executed.

 

[LostSon88]

Basically.

They should've spent some time establishing some moments after Tracy's death and seeing Ted and Robin in that context.

They literally glossed over Tracy's death so quickly it's almost like what's the point of this whole thing?

 

[Loki882]

So they spent all that time building up the mother, and showing us that Barney and Robin are a great couple, only to brush aside the mother in mere minutes and take a big steaming dump on Barney/Robin, ugh. Also, all that crap about Ted "letting her go" was just a big circle-jerk. Yeah, they dropped the ball big time on this one. The title of the show doesn't even make sense anymore.

 

[DyeLorean]

To sum this show up. It was pretty much a story so that Ted can get his kids permission to bang their "Aunt" lol

That's pretty much the same post I wrote a page back.

 

[Lily Adler]

I bet Bays and Thomas are patting themselves on the back and celebrating how clever they were in misdirection of the fans and viewers.

 

[Teelie]

And yet so many thought Tracy was dead or dying. It seemed too cynical, too dark. And it could have been if they spent more than a glancing flash on it.

 

[Infinity9999x]

The last 3-4 minutes made the entire series feel like a con job. 'Con job' might be a bit harsh (although I did like its usage in that Time article) ,but definitely a WTF swerve to me. They spent 9 years of 'The Mother this, the Mother that'; all these goofy coincidences and misfires highlighting her importance. Underscoring why she's different and The One... only to handily sweep her aside in a few lines so we can get back to the Continued Adventures of Ted and Aunt Robin, a dynamic they spent all kinds of time showing why it doesn't work.

It's not even really that Tracy died; be it the mass speculation or my own cynicism, I wasn't all that put off by it. It's that it was glossed over and pretty much superseded by that forced ending. It just seems like a needless way to divide your audience on your ending note.

Making "everyone" happy with a finale is near attainable. However, it's another thing altogether to practically invite consternation. I don't get it. I can still go back and enjoy previous eps, but the experience in piecing it together is definitely colored as to what was (or at least what I thought was) the foremost point to all this. I just don't get it.

I agree. The problem is that the show just outgrew this ending. Had the show ended at 5 seasons, this would have been an ending a lot of people were okay with. Especially if we never really got to know the Mother.

Heck, this ending may have been okay had they not spent the entire season building up to the wedding but set the season spanning the time that passed in the finale so all these major events could have been given time to be fully experienced, instead of the rushed and frankly cheap treatment they got in this last episode.

 

[LostSon88]

The "Letting Go" scene between Ted and Robin a few episodes back was complete bull...

Lol.

 

[Dark Raven]

I bet Bays and Thomas are patting themselves on the back and celebrating how clever they were in misdirection of the fans and viewers.

And meanwhile, the fans and viewers are patting themselves on their foreheads at Bays' and Thomas' misdirection.

 

[Marvolo]

I cant wait to hear what Bay and Thomas have to say.

I doubt they will admit this ending is a load of ****, but Im curious to see how they try to spin this in a positive light.

 

[Mister J]

Ted shouldn't of wasted the kids time just said something like...

Hysterical, given that I queued up the first season of AD immediately after the finale to put me in a better viewing mood.

Not so hysterical is how the entirety of the story is slighted by being told that its purpose isn't really about meeting Tracy, but rather some transparent seeking of permission to date Robin... again. I mean, that's not even interpretation. We're flat out told that. But it's all good because Smurf Penis.

 

[souvlaki]

I bet Bays and Thomas are patting themselves on the back and celebrating how clever they were in misdirection of the fans and viewers.

It wasn't really misdirection though. Every Ted and Robin shipper predicted this exact ending pretty much note for note back in like season 3. I think this ending shocked so many people because it is basically the most predictable ending they could have gone with. I kind of wish they never shot the ending with the kids because I really do wonder if they would have gone with this ending if it hadn't already been shot given everything that happened in the last 5 or so seasons.

 

[Avangarde]

Wasn't this based on the life of the creator of the series? If it really happened to him he'd be the best person to tell the story from his own life experiences, no?

 

[weezerspider]

The thing is...there was no NEED to explain why he's telling his kids the story. Most dads have told that story. It could have ended at the train stop, with him saying "And that's how I Met Your Mother". Sure it 's simple and predictable, but Breaking Bad and True Detective have both recently proven that a simple/somewhat predictable ending is absolutely fine.

 

[DyeLorean]

Are we sure this wasn't an April Fools' episode?

 

[LostSon88]

I thought they said the wedding was supposed to be "crazy"?

 

[antsman41]

They totally pulled a Dexter.

This is as bad as Greedo shooting first.

It was as of Walter would have looked at his wife and kids and merely said I made all of this meth business up to make you guys think I was a badass only becaus I didn't want to be known as a shriveled up cancer victim.

**** Ted Mosby.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Han didn't shoot first. Han was the only one that shot.

 

[Lily Adler]

Now I see someone on The Pit aka IMDb saying this show is now pretty much Friends with the finale.