How I Met Your Mother Post Series Discussion. Rustled Jimmies to the Maximum

[nomadicsole21]

I'm sort of at a loss.... Not quite sure what to say because I don't know how I should feel.

Part of me hates it, but at the same time; its almost sort of fitting with how the last 30 seconds unfolded.

The whole episode was just executed poorly I guess

This. Waited overnight just to catch it on my DVR and I'm honestly at a loss of feelings. So many things left unsaid and soo many questions. I had a hint the mother was dead/dying or divorced. I mean why else would Ted be the only one trying to explain to their kids how they met.

I'm just kinda pissed it ended with Robbin because the entire last season was pointless to build up the Wedding and Ted moving on from the thought of Robbin getting married. The last season contradicted the entire ending since the ending just literally went the opposite of what we were led to believe. Felt lazy and cheap to have that ending.

Like other people have said should of ended at the Farhampton station or at least a proper goodbye to the mother if they wanted to kill her off. I was thinking instead of them being told the story in the living room which we were made to see and believe, they were actually in the hospital waiting room the whole time instead. Ted walks in to her hospital room dying on her death bed to relive the moments deliver the cheesy last final speech on love and life like we all wanted to hear and it would of been a tear fest and BAM, series over but no they had to end it with Robbin

 

[rck3sactown]

I liked the finale. It made sense the entire show was basicallyTed confessing his love for Robin.

This is kind of what I've come to the conclusion of.

HIMYM was never truly about the Mother.

It was about the daily ins and outs of Ted and the gang. The Mother all along was sort of just a red-herring like we all sort of had a feeling once the show started to drag on after the first few seasons

Part of loving someone, is being able to let go and wishing that person a happy and fulfilling life; while moving on and living your own individual life.

Hell, the entire gang loved each other and eventually had to grow apart a bit; and that doesn't mean they didn't all have love for each other.

At the end of the day, Ted was able to do that and let go of Robin and live a full life with the Mother, have kids, etc. Which I think is what this final season was trying to show.

When the Mother died, he was able to 'let go' and move on and go after Robin with permission/insistence from the kids; reminiscent of the scene where the Mother asks for a sign from her dead lover to move on.

I still feel they could have added a lot more substance in building up the finale, but the show just merely touched on the future and struggles of their decisions with the judgeship/Rome, Chicago/moving on, Barney/Robin. And that is sad since they had entire episodes dedicated to those issues.

 

[Master Zik]

Another thing I felt was incredibly sloppy was Ted I need to find my destiny wife since my mid 20s cuz I'm a super simp Evelyn Mosby knocks this chick up twice, sticks with her for 7 years before proposing the right way and not having a grand wedding. It's like as years went on son lost all that extra go hard simping he had for every other broad.

I mean that's Marshall not having a job for months leave the house with no pants status.

Like what the **** was up with that? Get engaged and stay that way for 5 years? :x

 

[red is on nt]

Well done!

 

[everysingletime]

Lol, well Ted probably wanted a perfect wedding with all the trimmings (being the perfectionist that he is) but stuff probably kept coming up along the way that prevented that, ej. the two pregnancies or whatever else we may imagine it to be. After 7 years, I think the show was trying to say that Ted matured enough to the point where he realized he didn't need a fairy tale wedding. Just two people professing their love for each other in front of their friends and family was enough.

Zik, your 'I wish Ted was just dead' comment made me LOL. That was funny. It would've been a real twist, for sure.

I disagree that the ending cheapens Ted's relationship with Tracy. I've already beat that point to death a couple pages ago (and on different forums and I'm tired LOL) and I'd just be repeating myself. We can agree to disagree.

 

[everysingletime]

I'm sort of at a loss.... Not quite sure what to say because I don't know how I should feel.

Part of me hates it, but at the same time; its almost sort of fitting with how the last 30 seconds unfolded.

The whole episode was just executed poorly I guess

This. Waited overnight just to catch it on my DVR and I'm honestly at a loss of feelings. So many things left unsaid and soo many questions. I had a hint the mother was dead/dying or divorced. I mean why else would Ted be the only one trying to explain to their kids how they met.

I'm just kinda pissed it ended with Robbin because the entire last season was pointless to build up the Wedding and Ted moving on from the thought of Robbin getting married. The last season contradicted the entire ending since the ending just literally went the opposite of what we were led to believe. Felt lazy and cheap to have that ending.

Like other people have said should of ended at the Farhampton station or at least a proper goodbye to the mother if they wanted to kill her off. I was thinking instead of them being told the story in the living room which we were made to see and believe, they were actually in the hospital waiting room the whole time instead. Ted walks in to her hospital room dying on her death bed to relive the moments deliver the cheesy last final speech on love and life like we all wanted to hear and it would of been a tear fest and BAM, series over but no they had to end it with Robbin

It's a nice thought but that ending would've made little sense. No way the mother is at her deathbed and Ted is telling his kids wacky stories of his 20's before meeting the mother.

 

[rell826]

Never watched this, but the polarizing ending made me interested. The Washington Post left a pretty scathing review that basically highlights the incompetence of the writers for not accounting in the character development among others with having the endgame already decided from day 1. A commenter put it on par with the Dallas dream ending for the fact it ignores everything.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/s...r-mother-finale-and-avoidable-disappointment/

 

[big j 33]

Yeah, Alan Sepinwall.. one of the TV critics had a similar point. The creators had this idea in mind and wouldn't budge off something they thought of 7-8 years ago. On the one hand, most shows that run this long don't have their endgame in mind and they kind of make it up as they go along.. so it's kind of cool that they stuck to their guns like they did.

To me, I don't have a problem with the story they told, but if they knew this is what they were doing the whole time.. I don't like how it was handled on a micro level. Too many episodes and scenes and moments were devoted to things that they just reversed in the last episode. Even if that's "the point", it felt abrupt.

 

[welcometothetonezone]

These two are better alternative endings than the actual ending


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source: reddit/r/himym

 

[everysingletime]

I don't remember who, but there was a writer that reviewed the finale and wrote about how the twist was hidden in plain sight. The more I thought about it, he was right.

Ted starts off with how he meets Robin.

Ted was in a relationship with her the whole 2nd season.

He broke up with Robin, and then he cheated on Victoria with her.

Robin was actually the reason he broke up with Victoria twice. Victoria even foreshadowed the whole thing, "The whole being friends with your ex thing? That never happens. I hope you get Robin."

The whole being roommates thing. They were that for a couple seasons. And then when Robin moves out, he's so heartbroken that he couldn't bare to live in that apartment alone and he ends up giving the apartment back to Lily and Marshall.

The whole locket thing. It was Ted who found the locket. Not Barney.

The time when Robin found out who she couldn't have kids. It was Ted who went big to make her feel better. Not Barney.

He was willing to move to a whole city just because he couldn't stand to be around Robin being married to his best friend. And it was only in the 12th hour, when he meets the love of his life, that he changes his mind.

Can we really blame the writers for sticking to their end game?

Sure, the case can be made that the writers could've adjusted for character development and went with the whole mother being alive thing and Barney and Robing staying together. But there is also equal weight to the argument that the writer stick to their guns.

 

[everysingletime]

That Washington article was very good, I must admit.

 

[durantula]

My synopsis of the last episode:

Why make 90% of the episodes in the last season for a wedding if they were going to get divorced? Why not cut that down into 3 or 4 episodes, show some time with the mother, have her get sick, have them be there for each other like they always were. Then a few episodes leading to ted and robin getting back together. And Barney, the most beloved character on the show, and we dont even know what the **** happened to him. He had a baby with a girl we never saw, and now what? Hes telling girls at the bar what theyre doing is wrong. So whats barney doing when hes not at the bar? SMH This entire last season was handled poorly.

Still one of my favorite, if not my favorite show of all time. As I said earlier this show had a real life cartoon vibe to me, something like a real world simpsons

 

[tee eye ehm]

I loved how it ended.

In the end, every character got what they wanted.

I can see people's gripes being about the pacing, but look at the bigger picture, everyone lives happily ever after, even Tracy. She got to spend the rest of her life with the man of her dreams, raise a family, and as if she knew she was going to get sick, she knew what Ted would need after she would die and gave him something no one else could. She was the one who convinced Robin to come to the wedding and come back to his life.

 

[sonoftony]

I just watched the finale.

I loved the ending, I damb near shed a tear when Barney met his daughter..

 

[Master Zik]

I don't remember who, but there was a writer that reviewed the finale and wrote about how the twist was hidden in plain sight. The more I thought about it, he was right.

Ted starts off with how he meets Robin.

Ted was in a relationship with her the whole 2nd season.

He broke up with Robin, and then he cheated on Victoria with her.

Robin was actually the reason he broke up with Victoria twice. Victoria even foreshadowed the whole thing, "The whole being friends with your ex thing? That never happens. I hope you get Robin."

The whole being roommates thing. They were that for a couple seasons. And then when Robin moves out, he's so heartbroken that he couldn't bare to live in that apartment alone and he ends up giving the apartment back to Lily and Marshall.

The whole locket thing. It was Ted who found the locket. Not Barney.

The time when Robin found out who she couldn't have kids. It was Ted who went big to make her feel better. Not Barney.

He was willing to move to a whole city just because he couldn't stand to be around Robin being married to his best friend. And it was only in the 12th hour, when he meets the love of his life, that he changes his mind.

Can we really blame the writers for sticking to their end game?

Sure, the case can be made that the writers could've adjusted for character development and went with the whole mother being alive thing and Barney and Robing staying together. But there is also equal weight to the argument that the writer stick to their guns.

I really don't think that many ppl are mad Ted ended up with Robin, they're mad at how we got there. I don't mind Ted & Robin at all but seesawing them being together was something fans complained about.

Everything after what Victoria said in your post is bad writing to me. They shouldn't have became roommates and I think **** buddies at one point, the locket thingwas pure bull **** like they pulled that out of there *****, all the decisions based on not having Robin, etc. Just not good story plots or good ups and downs as far as writing go.

I agree from your last post to just agree to disagree but durantula basically explained it a bit more to what I mentioned earlier. Season would've been much better if they shortened the eps dedicated to the wedding, gave like 2-3 eps leading up to Barney's and Robin's divorce, Marshall and Lily in Italy and back to NYC with him as a juge throughout more stuff with the mother, Barney ep, an ep for w/e Robin is doing, Tracy's death could've been the 2nd to last ep. Then maybe an adjusted version of that talk with the kids to start off the hr finale and then the rest of the ep to Ted simping over Robin to end things with them together.

 

[pr0phecy718]

I just watched the finale.

I loved the ending, I damb near shed a tear when Barney met his daughter..

I'm man enough to admit I shed a tear lol...I really did...that scene was best part of the finale.

 

[daprescription]

I don't get why so many people are upset. The way the show went, it makes sense that he would end up with Robin. The entire run was Ted professing his love for Robin, so why wouldn't it make sense that he ends up with her?
I forget the exact words, but the kids summed it up when they said he loved Aunt Robin.

 

[hiimgroceryboy]

Man. that umbrella scene was perfection.

dunno why they couldnt just ended it there.

 

[pr0phecy718]

These two are better alternative endings than the actual ending


or

source: reddit/r/himym

Wow that edit would've been great for the final moment.

 

[everysingletime]

I don't get why so many people are upset. The way the show went, it makes sense that he would end up with Robin. The entire run was Ted professing his love for Robin, so why wouldn't it make sense that he ends up with her?
I forget the exact words, but the kids summed it up when they said he loved Aunt Robin.

It basically boils down to people just being very attached to the mother. That's just a testament to what a good job Cristin Milioti did.

That umbrella scene was flawless. It just makes me wonder if the writers had pondered an alternative ending due to the strength of that scene alone.

 

[denni5themenace]

that YT edit is PERFECT, imo.

 

[danger style]

The problem that most people have isn't that Ted eventually ended up with Robin, its how they got there. If this was their planned endgame all along then it should have been a story that was told in maybe 4 or 5 seasons. Instead, the creators and CBS got greedy and dragged the damn thing out.

They drove the ted/robin storyline so much into the ground that I think even the most devoted shippers got sick of that relationship. The scene this season where Robin floated away was AWFUL

They spent the last three years growing up Barney and making it seem like Barney/Robin was an important relationship that might have lasted. I mean they spent the ENTIRE last season devoted to their wedding weekend. And then they blew up the whole damn thing in the finale in less then 20 minutes and regressed Barney back into his same old schtick. :x I feel sorry for anybody who cared about their storyline The scene where Barney met his daughter was a nice acting moment for NPH but it was totally not deserved for the Barney character because of everything that just happened before. Oh this time you're changed for real now? Ok.

 

[Renaldo Balkman]

These two are better alternative endings than the actual ending


or

source: reddit/r/himym

Wow that edit would've been great for the final moment.

Hate to admit it, but that probably would have been the best way to end the show

 

[Undefined]

Any of those is how it should've ended 

 

[danger style]

One of the worst things they did was make that great "How Your Mother Met Me" episode, which is where pretty much everybody fell in love with the character, and then they pulled the rug out from underneath us :x

I basically spent this entire last season not caring and only watching to see it freaking end and also because watching it was something that my brother and I did together. Every episode i nothing but diss it for how bad it was and just basically paid half attention watching while browsing stuff on my ipad. And then they dropped that mother episode on me and made me care for her ...and the finale happen. These ******* got me one last time man