How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[O'Haire]

Six Feet Under and The Shield are probably the best finales to me. Pretty much perfect.

 

[JP]

E! has a great fan voted ranking. I never watched BREAKING BAD, but totally agree that FRIENDS ended superbly.

http://www.eonline.com/photos/10012/the-best-and-worst-tv-finales-of-all-time/

 

[SV Fan]

I wouldn't say that was the problem at all.

I might have worded my statement wrong(I edited it). When I say they want Bill Shakespeare, I am referring to the writers/producers

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I might have worded my statement wrong(I edited it). When I say they want Bill Shakespeare, I am referring tot he writers/producers

And I don't think that was the problem.

E! has a great fan voted ranking. I never watched BREAKING BAD, but totally agree that FRIENDS ended superbly.

http://www.eonline.com/photos/10012/the-best-and-worst-tv-finales-of-all-time/

See, I am always right.

 

[Erzengel]

E! has a great fan voted ranking. I never watched BREAKING BAD, but totally agree that FRIENDS ended superbly.

http://www.eonline.com/photos/10012/the-best-and-worst-tv-finales-of-all-time/

So far they are ranking How I Met Your Mother as 3rd worst?

 

[SV Fan]

So far they are ranking How I Met Your Mother as 3rd worst?

Something fresh is bound to rate higher or lower right after the episode then it will 2-3 years after it airs.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I don't think it was as terrible as others but generally series finale's are rarely well received. I mean, how many finales were people ultimately happy with...?

MASH
Newhart
Cheers
Six Feet Under

Not a heck of a lot when you think about it.

This is true.

And, in retrospect, I do think they did a great job this season setting this all up, when you think about it.

During Season 9, they planted alot of seeds (the most crucial being the "How Your Mother Met Me") episode, for why Ted would ultimately reunite with Robin after The Mother's death.

TBH, the ONLY real problem is with how they dealt with Robin's relationship with Barney. The way they went about it would've worked better if they hadn't gotten married at all.

Having them get married, then divorced, just kind of sullied things. They should've had that realization that they weren't meant to be together before their marriage.

And as far as the Mother's relationship with Ted, we've seen MORE than enough this season to know how much she ultimately meant to him. We didn't have to see that in the finale after they showed it to us all season.

HOWEVER, they did need to show her telling Ted, or him having the realization of his own, that it was okay to move on.

 

[Dark Raven]

I liked the last episode of Futurama.

Office was okay too.

And I think most fans were happy with Sex and the City.

Definitely SATC. That did not leave you with a feeling that everything had been invalidated or that they made a hash job of it. It left the door open for more adventures (which continued on the big screen). That's what they should've done with HIMYM.

I don't think it was as terrible as others but generally series finale's are rarely well received. I mean, how many finales were people ultimately happy with...?

MASH
Newhart
Cheers
Six Feet Under

Not a heck of a lot when you think about it.

Star Trek:TNG had a satisfying ending. DS9 was also, for the most part, unless anyone had a problem with Sisko becoming one of the prophets and his son being left behind. But everyone still felt it wrapped everything up well and was true to the spirit of the series.

Star Trek: Voyager's ending was just too sudden. They reach the Alpha Quadrant and then it ends. It didn't invalidate the series at all, but just seemed as if it didn't give itself enough breathing space. There should've at least been an epilogue.

The less said about Enterprise, the better.

Frasier's finale episode was okay. So was Burn Notice. Eureka too. That was done well.

 

[LostSon88]

You may not like the ending, but that is far from getting the finger. Getting the finger is no ending for Deadwood.

Spending an entire season on the days leading up to Barney and Robins wedding...divorced in the final episode.

Spending an entire season finally introducing us to the infamous Mother...kill her off with a throwaway line in the final episode.

Have a fantastic scene of Ted officially "letting go" of Robin thus officially bring a close to their arc...hooks back up with her in the final episode.

Spend the past 2-3 seasons establishing some legitimate character growth by Barney...throws it away by having him be a womanizer for another 5 years before his baby.

It's not the fact that I didn't get the ending I hoped for that bugs me. It's the fact that they went the worst possible ending in my opinion. They went against almost everything they'd established the past two seasons and for whatever reason found this angle to be the best approach. I mean, really?

I understand the point was to establish that life doesn't always work out the way you expect it too and that not everyone has a 'traditional' happy ending.

If that's the case, why'd you even bother teasing it for 9 years?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

If you truly think that is the worst possible ending, we really can't have a discussion on this. So best just to drop it.

 

[JP]

So far they are ranking How I Met Your Mother as 3rd worst?

Looks like it... and I didn't watch the two shows listed after.. so.

Can honestly say I've never been this upset at any finale.

 

[Nathan]

It's not the ending I wanted, but it's not the worst ending I've ever experienced. There's still Mass Effect 3.

This was worse than Mass Effect 3's ending for me. At least ME3's ending didn't make me want to have nothing to do with the franchise anymore.

 

[Erzengel]

I went from Scrubs to the Office to HIMYM. I rank HIMYM behind both. I need to invest in another show.

 

[LostSon88]

If you truly think that is the worst possible ending, we really can't have a discussion on this. So best just to drop it.

I've said my peace and so I will.

 

[Teelie]

The ending could be worse but it could be a whole lot better. What they had may have worked but they forced themselves into a corner nine years ago when they already decided Robin was going to be the end result of this epic search for "the one." Instead of finding a way to end the final season with some more time showing Ted and Tracey they did what amounted to a montage of their next several years and it came up short.

 

[Erzengel]

This was worse than Mass Effect 3's ending for me. At least ME3's ending didn't make me want to have nothing to do with the franchise anymore.

In terms of investing of time it was worse. I beat 1 and 2 multiple times until I had a perfect game going into 3. I started working on 2 after playing 3 and I just couldn't continue because I wasn't going to get that perfect ending.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The ending could be worse but it could be a whole lot better. What they had may have worked but they forced themselves into a corner nine years ago when they already decided Robin was going to be the end result of this epic search for "the one." Instead of finding a way to end the final season with some more time showing Ted and Tracey they did what amounted to a montage of their next several years and it came up short.

Exactly my point. The idea and intentions were sound. The execution was way, way off. A lot of this material was penultimate season stuff. The finale is what the entire final season should have been.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

There are no sisters involved. "Aunt" Robin isn't really Penny and Luke's aunt. She's just affectionately called that. She isn't the sister of Tracey...

She isn't literally their aunt.

True,
but, at the point that you realized that your dad "has the hotties for" your "aunt" Robin, and your encouraging him to call her... maybe it's time to drop that affectionate nickname

I always thought, the kids were too old to still be calling their dad's friends "aunt" an "uncle", anyway

 

[SpideyFan866]

So, how many of us are still excited for "How I Met Your Dad"?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

So, how many of us are still excited for "How I Met Your Dad"?

Greta Gerwig. Of course I am excited.

 

[Nathan]

So, how many of us are still excited for "How I Met Your Dad"?

Nope. They lost me as a viewer. I'm not gonna invest any time in a spin-off, after this debacle.

 

[Erzengel]

If that show is on for 2-3 seasons with glowing reviews then yes. I mean I waited 5-6 before I started watching HIMYM.

 

[Dark Raven]

So, how many of us are still excited for "How I Met Your Dad"?

I don't care to follow that story at all and then have some stupid twist at the end that invalidates everything. Who wants to waste the next 9 years of their life that way? If I had known HIMYM was going to end this way, I wouldn't have even bothered watching. It was an utterly futile show in the end.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The lack of love for Greta Gerwig is saddening.

 

[ЯɘvlveR]

They made us fall in love with the mom then took her a way.
Even after i got over the fact that robin wasn't going to be the mom.