How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[Superman Earth1]

I hated the ending of the show. I wish they would have kept Robin and Barney together. To me the ending was just wasn't that good.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Robin is good but Tracy is better if the show ended with Ted/Tracy talking under the yellow umbrella while it was raining and the camera started to pan out and next he says and that's HIMYM fade to black screen. The ending would have been better anyone agree?

thats pretty much how I felt, it should've just ended with him meting her, and leave it at that...

it'd be one thing if, that scene of them under the yellow umbrella was, either in the season final of last season or in the first episode of this season (even like mid season) an they stretch out all the events of this last, into a whole season...

cause my issue wasn't with what happen (still probably wouldn't have been happy about it, but, wouldn't have been mad ) it was how rushed it was

it was very lazy and half a**ed, an even ignore continue (things like the flash forwards of, Ted wedding day) they didn't even bother to age the characters as they went through the timeline (other then slightly changing the hair styles) what happen to bald Marshall lol

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I just watched the finale on comcast on demand.

It was intresting to know what Lyndsy Fonseca shot for finale back In season 1/2.

A show called How I met your mother and not ending with ted happy with
mother was bad idea no matter how you slice it.

I must be one of few who don't like Cobie Smolders because In watching show was never big on Robin.

Neil Patrick harris as barney was always one of best parts of show but they did a total reboot of character after divorce from Robin.

I completely disagree with this. I think this is a situation of execution, not idea. The idea is sound, and potentially very poignant. I thought it always made more sense that Ted was telling a story about someone who was gone. After all why is he telling the story by himself?

I wasn't a fan of Robin either, but I adored Tracey. She was wonderful.

I don't see how Penny really deduced that Ted was in love with Robin all along and this was the whole point of the story. It was more about him letting go and realising she wasn't right for him, and finding his true love with the mother. Penny's interpretation seems a bit forced and more something that someone from the perspective of still being stuck in Season 2 would have (which is when that was filmed).

It seems the only people who really would've loved this ending would be those who stopped watching it many seasons ago and just tuned in for the finale to see what it was all about.

The whole ending is a bit like, in Smallville, having the creators kill off Lois in the last couple of minutes after all that was built up about her, only to suddenly stick Clark back with Lana, even though they established that she wasn't right for him and he had long since moved past her.

You mean the show that figured the only way Clark would get over Lana was to make her literally untouchable to him? That show?

Barney and Robin never worked imo. It is one of those situations when you start pairing off the friends, because everyone needs one. So Barney and Robin felt extremely forced for me. Especially when watching the show binge style.

Also I think it is a fallacy to apply the idea that Robin being "wrong" for Ted in the past, means they can't be right for one another in the future.

Stretching a weekend over 20+ episodes and then wrapping up 20 years in one episodes was horribly awkward pacing. The Mother was basically a plot device for "How I always wanted to be with your Aunt Robin." If the show had ended at the train station under the yellow umbrella it would have been a perfect ending. The kids were also WAY too enthusiastic about their dad moving on from their mom. Even after six years, and wanting your dad to be happy, I imagine most kids would be a little more reserved while encouraging their dad to date again, horrible direction.

I don't think it is the enthusiasm as much as the carefree nature of the scene. After showing Ted's happiness, his first and last moment with the love of his life, the kids are way to cheery.

It is one of those moments where the intent and storytelling didn't match up.

 

[Superman Earth1]

You mean the show that figured the only way Clark would get over Lana was to make her literally untouchable to him? That show?

Or the show that gave us a CGI Superman in a distance as the big payoff for over 10 years of teasing where the actor would not even put the suit on for 5 minutes hell even 5 seconds just to even do a shirt rip.

 

[RetroNaz]

I'm sorry, but this was ****ing horrible.
Absolutely horrible.

This was Dexter bad.

 

[Superman Earth1]

To me the show ended with Ted and Barney doing that high five and then from there Ted at the train station meeting the mother. IMO the rest didn't happen.

 

[Nathan]

To me the show ended with Ted and Barney doing that high five and then from there Ted at the train station meeting the mother. IMO the rest didn't happen.

We need someone to do an edit of the finale.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

To me the show ended with Ted and Barney doing that high five and then from there Ted at the train station meeting the mother. IMO the rest didn't happen.

Well, it did in fact happen. t:

 

[Superman Earth1]

Well, it did in fact happen. t:

What happened.

 

[Nathan]

I don't know what he's talking about.

 

[bullets]

I just started this series on netflix. I liked the twist with Robin at the beginning. It's kind of a shame they went back on that , but I can see why. I don't mind the spoilers. However one thing that gets me is it becoming ok to move onto someone's sister. Normally it would be frowned upon. Unless the brother or sister dies , then it's game on apparently.

 

[Erzengel]

I started getting into this show because of reruns on FX and any show that had Star Wars references in it was . So, I started watching episodes when they were on Season 6 and because of Netflix I was able to catch up and last night was one of the handful of episodes I was able to watch "live".

So after 206 episodes, I was caught up and obviously invested.

If this was about 5 singles in NYC and the trials and tribulations of dating, friendships and relationships I would have been fine with a story of a Ted and Robin, Ted and Tracy then Ted and Robin again. However, we were on this up and down with Ted and Robin to the point that we wanted him to just be with Tracy only to have Tracy ripped away and saddled with Robin. It doesn't help that I didn't even like Robin 2nd best. I liked Victoria better.

I understand that this is what the writers had in mind since the beginning but I agree that the show outgrew that and I'm not walking around with the warm fuzzy feeling I had after watching the last episode of Futurama. I wanted that ending and not what I felt some sort of cobbled ending.

 

[Nathan]

I just started this series on netflix. I liked the twist with Robin at the beginning. It's kind of a shame they went back on that , but I can see why. I don't mind the spoilers. However one thing that gets me is it becoming ok to move onto someone's sister. Normally it would be frowned upon. Unless the brother or sister dies , then it's game on apparently.

If you just started watching this show, stop at Season 2, then watch the Finale.

 

[samsnee]

Kids, here's a story of how I banged half of New York, banged your mom, and now want to go back to banging this other chick who rejected me for 9 years so she could bang my best friend, who also banged the rest of New York.

 

[Superman Earth1]

If you just started watching this show, stop at Season 2, then watch the Finale.

IMO I would say say

Spoiler

watch when Robin and Barney get together and get engaged and get married

only watch a few bits and pieces of the finale meaning the end of the wedding and the whole train station part.

 

[Dugath]

To me the show ended with Ted and Barney doing that high five and then from there Ted at the train station meeting the mother. IMO the rest didn't happen.

Agreed, when Ted and the Mother were talking about the umbrella and destiny.. that is where it should have ended.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What happened.

I don't know what he's talking about.

The truth happened.

I started getting into this show because of reruns on FX and any show that had Star Wars references in it was . So, I started watching episodes when they were on Season 6 and because of Netflix I was able to catch up and last night was one of the handful of episodes I was able to watch "live".

So after 206 episodes, I was caught up and obviously invested.

If this was about 5 singles in NYC and the trials and tribulations of dating, friendships and relationships I would have been fine with a story of a Ted and Robin, Ted and Tracy then Ted and Robin again. However, we were on this up and down with Ted and Robin to the point that we wanted him to just be with Tracy only to have Tracy ripped away and saddled with Robin. It doesn't help that I didn't even like Robin 2nd best. I liked Victoria better.

I understand that this is what the writers had in mind since the beginning but I agree that the show outgrew that and I'm not walking around with the warm fuzzy feeling I had after watching the last episode of Futurama. I wanted that ending and not what I felt some sort of cobbled ending.

I adored Victoria. Ted was a pretty lucky guy.

It is funny, the opening twist almost put me off the show for life. But I watched 2 and half seasons, but I left. Catching up binge style was fun the last couple of years. I am happy I did.

I don't think the show outgrew the idea, but they wrote themselves in a direction that did it no benefit. There was no need for the structure of the last season, or avoiding Mother for so long.

 

[Superman Earth1]

The truth happened.

You mean

Spoiler

Barney and Robin got married and live happily ever after, Marshall and Lily had another kid and Ted and his wife lived happily ever after till her death?

The yes the truth did happen.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That did happen. And so did the rest. Life goes on after death.

 

[Erzengel]

I did wonder how it was going to work with Ted and Tracy because the reason Victoria and Ted never worked out was because of the specter of Robin. In reality most women wouldn't be okay with you hanging out with your ex. Just feels the mother's role/legacy is diminished because he went back to her again.

 

[Nathan]

He got the house and kids that he could have never got with Robin. That's all she was good for apparently. After she expired. He finally could get back with Robin, and had the whole package. Robin, kids and a house.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I did wonder how it was going to work with Ted and Tracy because the reason Victoria and Ted never worked out was because of the specter of Robin. In reality most women wouldn't be okay with you hanging out with your ex. Just feels the mother's role/legacy is diminished because he went back to her again.

Think that is why they went with Robin sort of "abandoning" the situation. Another reason why a season or two to explore the situation would have worked much better imo. Tracy is basically Melanie from Gone with the Wind, with a husband who actually loved her and no Scarlet to deal with.

He got the house and kids that he could have never got with Robin. That's all she was good for apparently. After she expired. He finally could get back with Robin, and had the whole package. Robin, kids and a house.

I got the idea that Robin regretted that fact. That she lost out on that with Ted. She all but said it.

 

[Steyin]

I don't think I'd feel as horrible if the show didn't make me hate Robin for the last few seasons. Honestly, she is/was my least favorite character and I fail to see a relationship with her and Ted, at any stage in life, ever lasting. She was better suited for Barney, and even the whole Robin-Barney ride made me dislike Barney more. Still in shock here, ugh.

 

[Erzengel]

Think that is why they went with Robin sort of "abandoning" the situation. Another reason why a season or two to explore the situation would have worked much better imo. Tracy is basically Melanie from Gone with the Wind, with a husband who actually loved her and no Scarlet to deal with.

Yeah but Scarlett also had a better fit in Rhett than he did for Ashley.

That's why you kinda rooted for Tracy because she was such a better fit for Ted, almost too perfect because that's not what usually happens in life.

I got the idea that Robin regretted that fact. That she lost out on that with Ted. She all but said it.

It felt forced especially since it took her that long. I remember when they forced the whole Ted and Robin thing in Season 7 and that bothered me. But maybe that was the point, to always keep Robin in the background. Season 9 would have been fine if they just put Ted with Tracy, the End. But the fact that tried to shake things up with the last 2 episodes just screwed everything up.

 

[Nathan]

When did the whole Robin/Ted scenario start to go downhill? I know I liked Robin for at least the first 1-3 seasons. But at some point, I just wanted her gone, because I was sick of the whole back and forth. And I acknowledged that her and Ted simply weren't right for each other anymore. And the last couple seasons they kept hammering it into our heads that they wouldn't work.