How I Met Your Mother
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"How we built up this women for 9 years and destroyed her in 40 minutes"
"How we built up for a season a wedding between my two best friends and I ended up with the bride"
"How Barney spent 9 years against kids and seemed okay with being a baby daddy in a few minutes time"
"How we tried to cover 10 years in 40 minutes"
Yeah.....not impressed. Still a great show. Felt like leaving March madness in the sweet 16. Great run, time well spent, but left wanting more.
"How we built up for a season a wedding between my two best friends and I ended up with the bride"
"How Barney spent 9 years against kids and seemed okay with being a baby daddy in a few minutes time"
"How we tried to cover 10 years in 40 minutes"
Yeah.....not impressed. Still a great show. Felt like leaving March madness in the sweet 16. Great run, time well spent, but left wanting more.
When you look at it this way, it actually makes a lot of sense. The show is "How I Met Your Mother", not "How I Met Your Mother and Our Life Until She Died".
The more I think about it, the more I feel like they used the last 20 minutes as sort of an Epilouge. As if the show really ended 40 minutes in at the train station, and then they just kinda showed how everyone's life played out.
I guess the other side of the coin is why would Ted end up with someone they barely talked about in 9 seasons....the show was about the 5 main characters. Also, I heard the show did so well, the writers said in hindsight then didn't really need the "mother" gimmick and the characters could have carried the show on its own.
I've got mixed feelings on the finale. At first I thought it was terrible, but its grown on me a little since last night. I agree with most people that it just felt rushed, particularly because of all the time they wasted on pointless episodes earlier this season.
I'll admit I didn't catch the first couple seasons - but I disagree with this notion that it isn't about meeting the mother, it's about his infatuation is Robin. Yes - that was a carrying theme. And a tired, tired, very tired one.
I had actually hoped that all this season, his chasing that freaking locket, then giving it to Barney, and the scene where Lily notes that there was something different about this girl when Ted calls her the next day.... that was some sort of actual growing experience for Ted and he FINALLY was happy and found someone.
But in the end, it was just CREEPY. "Really your mom is a footnote in my life and I really want to be with Robin". That's what the writers left us with. And as others have noted, 15 episodes of 3 days - most of which had NOTHING to do with the mother. Then she's in and out in 15 minutes? Yuck.
Horrid ending.
My wife had a theory about the ending a few weeks ago when the idea of he being sick was first put out there and I liked it. That the story would end with him telling the kids about how they met, while at a hospital or something and they were waiting on test results of some sort of dire situation. Even if they didn't answer it, it would've been better.
I had actually hoped that all this season, his chasing that freaking locket, then giving it to Barney, and the scene where Lily notes that there was something different about this girl when Ted calls her the next day.... that was some sort of actual growing experience for Ted and he FINALLY was happy and found someone.
But in the end, it was just CREEPY. "Really your mom is a footnote in my life and I really want to be with Robin". That's what the writers left us with. And as others have noted, 15 episodes of 3 days - most of which had NOTHING to do with the mother. Then she's in and out in 15 minutes? Yuck.
Horrid ending.
My wife had a theory about the ending a few weeks ago when the idea of he being sick was first put out there and I liked it. That the story would end with him telling the kids about how they met, while at a hospital or something and they were waiting on test results of some sort of dire situation. Even if they didn't answer it, it would've been better.
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I've always thought that Ted was a whiny college kid who couldn't get over that first love from high school. 9 Seasons and too many TV years of not being able to get over someone...thats pretty lame.
There were some good ones on reddit.
"How I used your mother to have the kids Aunt Robin could never have. "
"How I Met Your Stepmother"
"How I Settled for your Mother"
"How I got permission from my kids to date Aunt Robin"
"How your uncle barney banged out your future stepmother."
Why would we get alot of Ted and Tracy's relationship? The show is how he met the mother, not how he dated the mother.
This bold part. I really didn't like how they attempted to tie up every loose end. I think the show had a perfect ending before this final season started. I like open endings where you have to come to your own conclusion of what happened exactly.
He needed to end up with Robin or the girl from Scrubs. He should have never screwed that one up
The girl from Scrubs is a babe but Robin just isn't attractive to me whatsoever. Personally I would have gone with Victoria from the earlier seasons.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. People LOVED the Breaking Bad finale for tying up all loose ends. People HATED Lost for not tying up loose ends.
While the finale wasn't one of my favorite episodes, the best word I could use to describe it was "satisfied". I was satisfied how they closed out the show based on the previous 9 seasons. It could have been better (less rushed), it could have been worse (not tying up anything).
I guess I don't get the hate...the show went 8 seasons without meeting the mother and now people are screaming they wasted 9 years watching. Well what about the first 8 years when you had no clue who the mother was? Again, the whole purpose of the show wasn't about the mother...it was about the group of friends and specifically Robin and Ted. I thought they explained that pretty well last night.
