How I Met Your Mother - Part 5

[Jason Kane]

Why is the boy grinning from ear to ear when his sister mentions their mom has been dead for six years? Do you think the kids killed her?!

Them and Ted.

**** it! We'll blame it on Hydra

 

[Nathan]

Still can't rewatch this show, knowing the outcome.

 

[The Apocalypse]

Still can't rewatch this show, knowing the outcome.

Same, man. I see reruns on TV, I can't even leave them on.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

"All these years"? It ended last summer...

 

[Sawyer]

Still can't rewatch this show, knowing the outcome.

Same, man. I see reruns on TV, I can't even leave them on.

Seems a bit melodramatic and that's coming from me. You're going to let what you perceive as a bad ending ruin the whole thing for you, even though said bad ending wouldn't have affected you so much if you didn't care about what came before so much in the first place?

It's like a relationship. Just because the break-up sucks, you don't just throw the memories away. Didn't Jim Carrey teach you people anything?!?

 

[Jason Kane]

Didn't watch on first air and a damn well don't plan to watch the repeats or get the DVDs. Had it got canned at season two, the intended ending would've worked but by the subsequent seasons on, it was rendered null and void

Bays and Thomas done screwed up

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

They should just retitle this show 'How I Killed Your Mother'

 

[JP]

Still can't rewatch this show, knowing the outcome.

Haven't watched a single epsiode since it ended.

 

[Mister J]

I've not watched one either. Before, I'd usually make a run through it on Netflix. I started in on one a month or so after the finale and couldn't get into it after about 5 minutes and queued something else. Outside of that, I haven't had any interest. Weird.

 

[SpideyVille]

I haven't been able to rewatch any episodes since either. That finale really did kill the series.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I haven't been able to rewatch any episodes since either. That finale really did kill the series.

That's not the only thing it killed.

 

[MadVillainy]

Yeah I havent had any real motivation to rewatch the series either. Which is weird. It couldnt have just been the finale.

 

[Mister J]

I had a lot of meh toward the show over the last 3 seasons or so. I think the finale just pushed it further. Still, odd that I don't really have any inclination to watch the earlier seasons I actually enjoyed... before an onslaught of character idiosyncrasies began to fray my nerves.

 

[Sawyer]

I haven't been able to rewatch any episodes since either. That finale really did kill the series.

Oh bull ****ing s***. The finale did no such thing. Did it retroactively kill any joke that got you to laugh previously? Did it undo the fact that it was the only multicamera comedy in this day and age to actually be creative with their narrative? I don't think so.

 

[Sawyer]

And honestly, as much as I might have had issues with the finale itself, I take greater issue with the season as a whole. Setting the entire thing over a weekend and then making the finale cover 15-20 years was just dumb. It should've been flipped. Have the entire season cover 15-20 years.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I think it should have ended with Ted dumping the "Mother" in the ocean and moving to Canada to become a lumberjack.

 

[SpideyVille]

That's not the only thing it killed.

Oh bull ****ing s***. The finale did no such thing. Did it retroactively kill any joke that got you to laugh previously? Did it undo the fact that it was the only multicamera comedy in this day and age to actually be creative with their narrative? I don't think so.

Knowing how the series ends, and the little "twist" they took, and the fact that they knew abou this ending from the first season, yes, it does hurt everything that precedes it.

Does it still get laughs, in certain places yes. But overall, the heart of the show, the thing that it was based on seems more like a complete misdirect. It's no secret that just about every show that goes on for several seasons tries to push the narrative along for business purposes, but the best shows are the ones that maintain some type of consistency and end in a way that provides proper closure. HIMYM did not have that. They spend 8 season building up the hype of something that ultimately gets unwritten in the last 5 minutes. Knowing this going into any episode really makes it lose its charm.

 

[antsman41]

Oh bull ****ing s***. The finale did no such thing. Did it retroactively kill any joke that got you to laugh previously? Did it undo the fact that it was the only multicamera comedy in this day and age to actually be creative with their narrative? I don't think so.

Well, it did ruin the outcome... which was the whole main goal and objective of the show, ala the title and everything Ted did for 8.5 seasons.

 

[Sawyer]

So to you, the series was the finale, and everything before it was just preamble?

 

[SpideyVille]

So to you, the series was the finale, and everything before it was just preamble?

I've always compared the show to Smallville because in both cases, the ending was already known, it was just a matter of how do we get to that ending. And in both cases, the finales left a bad taste in people's mouths because no matter how bad certain seasons or episodes may have been, there was the overall feeling of the ending proving it worth it.

For what it's worth, had the series ended with the Alternate version, it would have been okay. Heck, the mother could have died and they could have left it at that, and it still would have been okay. But for them to kill the mother, and then reveal that Ted is only doing this so he could find a way to tell his kids he's in love with Robin, it completely changes the perception of the show. For me personally, I can't look past any of the episodes where Ted claims to move on, or they both decide that they won't ever work out, it just seems like drama for the sake of drama. Watching the series now, with the lens that Robin and Ted end up together, and the fact that the producers knew this would happen for 8 years, despite how much they tried to say that the Mother was the only one for Ted, it really devalues the journey and makes the characters look bad.

 

[batdude]

I can still watch episodes of this, but man is that finale hard to get through. Particuliarly the Robin/Barney breakup and the fact Ted comes off as a jerk

 

[Broseph44]

I always hated Barney and Robin as a couple anyway.

 

[Naked Shia]

I made my peace with the ending. I don't care for it, but since Lily and marshall are the one my and my wife relate to, it's fine. We're in the process of watching season 1 again for the first time since the show ended. That first season was really fun.

 

[Superman Earth1]

I've always compared the show to Smallville because in both cases, the ending was already known, it was just a matter of how do we get to that ending. And in both cases, the finales left a bad taste in people's mouths because no matter how bad certain seasons or episodes may have been, there was the overall feeling of the ending proving it worth it.

For what it's worth, had the series ended with the Alternate version, it would have been okay. Heck, the mother could have died and they could have left it at that, and it still would have been okay. But for them to kill the mother, and then reveal that Ted is only doing this so he could find a way to tell his kids he's in love with Robin, it completely changes the perception of the show. For me personally, I can't look past any of the episodes where Ted claims to move on, or they both decide that they won't ever work out, it just seems like drama for the sake of drama. Watching the series now, with the lens that Robin and Ted end up together, and the fact that the producers knew this would happen for 8 years, despite how much they tried to say that the Mother was the only one for Ted, it really devalues the journey and makes the characters look bad.

I will never forgive Smallville or Welling for CGIman.

As far as this shows goes the only way I was able to get over it was by pretending that ending never happened and as I said before taking the first 11 minutes of part 1 of the finale and mixing that with the alternate ending. It was the only way. What is stupid about the ending to the series is the writers already admitted they messed up the first time around with Barney and Robin when they saw how much the fans loved them together and then then they go and pull the same move again just because they didn't want to change a dated ending.

 

[Prison Mike]

You guys are crazy. I don't let a finale ruin the entire show for me. While I didn't hate it, I also didn't love it but I can still appreciate each episode individually. The finale doesn't take away the humor of the individual episodes (which is what I watch it for since it is a comedy series).