How I Met Your Mother - Part 5

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[Webfoot Hero]

I think the biggest sin of the finale, whether it was on the page or in the edit, is the general lack of reaction to Tracy's death we saw from Ted. They kind of glossed over the whole thing until Penny really made it official.

Yep. My biggest gripe is that what we saw in the finale could easily have been the basis of the entire last season and it would have worked better.

 

[Dwarf lord]

The entire episode, I thought they were leading up to revealing that Ted was telling the kids this story because he was FINALLY just about to marry the mother. That would've been fantastic for me. They kept going on about how they weren't married yet, so I expected that to be the "twist."

Now THAT'S downright genius.

 

[Sawyer]

Yep. My biggest gripe is that what we saw in the finale could easily have been the basis of the entire last season and it would have worked better.

That too, but that's really an issue I have with the season as a whole, rather than the finale. I probably have more issues with the format of the season than the finale itself.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

That too, but that's really an issue I have with the season as a whole, rather than the finale. I probably have more issues with the format of the season than the finale itself.

Yep, very true. They were so deadset with having the actually meeting in the finale, they hurt the season.

 

[Shifty]

Seems kind of egregious when you put it that way. I mean, there's always going to be material that gets cut in order to air, but 18 minutes! Of the FINALE.

Good lord...

Well the finale didn't really boost their Monday night lineup. They probably would've been better off doing a 30-60 long retrospective followed by a 60-90 minute finale and then a 30 minute special detailing all the clues and teases about the Mother.

You know, NBC-size the finale!

With the way things are now in the TV industry, The Big Bang Theory could be the last comedy to reach 200 episodes for the next decade! Maybe Modern Family or The Middle if they reach 9 seasons. I don't see New Girl or Parks and Rec surviving that long. So CBS should've made a bigger deal about it. The whole night should've been a celebration! Clips from old episodes would've given the angry fan base something to enjoy.

Instead they tried to launch another series off it and the karma from this finale will likely sink the poorly reviewed Friends with Better Lives and HIMYD.

8:00 How I Met Your Mother 5.4 13.13 million
9:00 Friends With Better Lives 2.6 7.63 million
9:30 Mom 2.2 7.27 million
10:00 Intelligence 1.2 5.55 million

This was a show that went nine years and survived the dark days of live action network comedy in the mid-2000s.

There was only the 3 other CBS Monday night comedies, 4 Thursday night comedies on NBC and just failures on ABC and Fox. ABC and Fox were only airing 1-2 live action comedies and nothing worked. According To Jim was their highest rated comedy by default.

Back in fall 2013 CBS had 8 comedies, ABC had 8, NBC had 4 (with the hope of 6 later) and Fox had 4 (plus 4 animated) on their schedules.

To do well during that time and then enjoy great success later I think CBS should've done more. Perhaps that's how things are there.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The show really was a huge accomplishment.

 

[Shifty]

When it premiered in 2005 it was the last season of Arrested Development and King of Queens but the first of Bones, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Prison Break, Deal or No Deal, Everybody Hates Chris and My Name Is Earl. Plus plenty of other cancelled shows which didn't get a second season.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I remember when it was the show Willow was going to be on.

 

[TheBat812]

Just rewatched the episode. It worked alot better when I knew what was coming. Still don't think they nailed it, but it was a satisfying end to the story. I'm still not convinced it's a better way to end than just with him saying "And that's how i met your mother" without her having to be dead. But it's good in it's own way. Really wanna see the extra footage for the finale though.

 

[Sawyer]

Just rewatched the episode. It worked alot better when I knew what was coming. Still don't think they nailed it, but it was a satisfying end to the story. I'm still not convinced it's a better way to end than just with him saying "And that's how i met your mother" without her having to be dead. But it's good in it's own way. Really wanna see the extra footage for the finale though.

I rewatched it today and I feel the same. I didn't feel a great amount of dislike for the finale to begin with, but doing a rewatch was more enjoyable for me. I wasn't as tense waiting to see how it ended up only to feel "Oh, that's the way they ended it? Eh... alright." I honestly just enjoyed it more the second time around.

 

[Dwarf lord]

Also I wouldn't have showed Ted at all in the final scene, just so they could keep the Bob Saget voice over. I think Radnor is extremely talented, but there's something in Saget's voice that just sells every aspect of the story. He has a wistful world weariness that sold a lot of the more meloncholy parts of the show and I think if Bays and Thomas wrote a final monologue about love, friendship, loss and moving on (which is something they can definitely do), it would have been a much better ending.

 

[Prison Mike]

I'm going to miss watching Ted Mosby every Monday night.

 

[Sawyer]

 

[Prison Mike]

I liked how they did those credits at the end. Man, I can't stop thinking about the finale. I'm just glad it wasn't boring or cliche.

 

[Verbal21]

I liked how they did those credits at the end. Man, I can't stop thinking about the finale. I'm just glad it wasn't boring or cliche.

Was there a theme to them and I'm just missing it?

 

[TheSpectacular]

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The ending we deserved...the ending we needed.

 

[Orb]

I guess this is the ending people wanted safe and secure. Despite its flaws, Josh Radnor add Neil Patrick Harris knocked it out of the park!

 

[HighFivingMF]

Was there a theme to them and I'm just missing it?

It's all from the first episode. Except Tracy's, though her clip took place on the night of the first episode.

 

[JP]

I guess this is the ending people wanted safe and secure.

No, good.

 

[Prison Mike]

No, good.

To each their own. I thought the finale we got was fitting.

 

[TheSpectacular]

If they excluded the bit about how Ted wants Robin in the end, it would've been great.

 

[SpideyFan866]

The finale and how they ended makes alot of since, and I have to applaud them for sticking to their guns from Day 1.

I just wish Barney and Robin's courtship, and the death of the mother, was handled better. But besides that, it really was how it should've of been from the beginning.

The revelation that the story Ted was telling was about Robin, not the Mother, makes sense. Considering that, outside of Ted, the primary focus of the show has always been Robin.

Especially in the last 4 seasons.

And I mean really, there's a reason the show began when he met Robin, and not at the Wedding ; a point many people have made.

Throughout this series, as much as we learned the story of Ted and how he would eventually meet the mother, we learned just as much (if not more) about Robin, and how she got from the point she first met Ted, to 2030.

 

[Orb]

By the way does anyone know the ending song form the finale?