How I Met Your Mother
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If it ended last year I think it would have been a great ending. I think 2-3 episodes from this year plus the finale would have fit great with the ending last year.
I thought it was good and clever. I look at it like his kids asked him if he was ever going to date or remarry again and he told the story to let them know what happened so they saw that Robin wasn't just any girl to replace their mom but someone he really loved.
I thought it was good and clever. I look at it like his kids asked him if he was ever going to date or remarry again and he told the story to let them know what happened so they saw that Robin wasn't just any girl to replace their mom but someone he really loved.
Who's to say Robin isn't his soul mate? Maybe he did end up with his soul mate with her?
I think too many are trying to look at this too two dimensionally when there's much more to it.
I think they said it was just one thing after another. The whole, we have kids and life goes crazy thing.
I thought it was awful, but I guess that was fitting because the show has been treading water for years now.
Ted is a big romantic. How many times has he now committed larceny of the blue French horn in big romantic gestures for Robin, a woman who has repeatedly rejected him because she was not in love with him?
Meanwhile, the mother gives him those two kids he wanted so badly but he can't even manage to marry her for years, so he proposes again while she folds laundry so they can have a quicky wedding on Thursday?
He settled for the mother but she conveniently died so that Robin could settle for him.
Most of the characters came back to being the same idiots that they were 25 years before.
Ted is a big romantic. How many times has he now committed larceny of the blue French horn in big romantic gestures for Robin, a woman who has repeatedly rejected him because she was not in love with him?
Meanwhile, the mother gives him those two kids he wanted so badly but he can't even manage to marry her for years, so he proposes again while she folds laundry so they can have a quicky wedding on Thursday?
He settled for the mother but she conveniently died so that Robin could settle for him.
Most of the characters came back to being the same idiots that they were 25 years before.
I'm not upset that Ted ended up with Robin. A little bummed that the mother died so quickly though.
My biggest problem with this whole last season was that it was a huge build up to a wedding that ended up in divorce. I think it would have been better for Robin and Barney to remain single. Robin could focus on her career and traveling for a long while and then still end up with Ted when the mom dies.
Even if they wanted to have Robin and Barney be together, there's no reason they HAVE to be married. I guess it just was part of the buildup to marrying the bass player at the wedding.
The flash forward showing how their marriage fell apart was depressing.
I DO like how the whole thing went full circle. The first episode and season were all about how he met Robin and I like that the kids told him to go for it. He deserved to be happy.
My biggest problem with this whole last season was that it was a huge build up to a wedding that ended up in divorce. I think it would have been better for Robin and Barney to remain single. Robin could focus on her career and traveling for a long while and then still end up with Ted when the mom dies.
Even if they wanted to have Robin and Barney be together, there's no reason they HAVE to be married. I guess it just was part of the buildup to marrying the bass player at the wedding.
The flash forward showing how their marriage fell apart was depressing.
I DO like how the whole thing went full circle. The first episode and season were all about how he met Robin and I like that the kids told him to go for it. He deserved to be happy.
Was the mother in the show at different times or was the first time she was in the show this season?
She was revealed at the end of last season (just showing her face). She has been in all episodes for the most part this season, however it was either side stories of her life, her meeting the gang, or flash forwards of her with Ted.
They didn't show how she met Ted until the actual finally.
This is bothered me as well. I think I would have been happier if they had just called off the wedding instead of a divorce after 3 years.
I know I watched the show. This season they did show her in different past show stories. I was wondering if he was a part of the original show or did they add her this season.
Ah, nope wasn't in the show before this season (besides her face at the end of last season at the very end). They would tell stories about her being at certain places Ted was also, but you would only see things like her feet, or a girl walking with an umbrella from overhead.
Like with many finales, I think people build up their own expectations that couldn't possibly be met. They develop some idea of how the show should end, and when the episode doesn't live up to those expectations (which it inevitably wont) they are emotionally disappointed. But that is certainly going about the whole experience of the show the wrong way and missing the broader point of the story entirely (something I saw recently saw happen with True Detective as well). This show was about relationships from those with family, friends, significant others and even those with balloons. It was also about self identity and self development. None of these things were abandoned here at the end. Sure I didn't care for how Barney and Robin got divorced, but so what? If it was up to me Ted would have ended up with Victoria (I've got dibs by the way, unless she is already taken) but that isn't how things work. You weren't going to get the perfect ending, just how Ted's adventure to find "the one" wasn't perfect, Barney and Robin's marriage wasn't perfect, Lily and Marshall's pursuits towards their individual dreams weren't perfect. Life isn't perfect. Most of the time, what you initially plan doesn't happen how you intended, but in the end things have a way of working out. And in the end, it is all about love. At least that is what I got out of this show. But of course, you all can reach your own conclusions. I do like hearing different takes. However, the whole issue with tying up loose ends has always bothered me because it seems so trivial and a distraction from the bigger picture. Perhaps the joke is on me for taking a rom-com so seriously.
And for whatever reason, my formatting disappeared and we got a giant paragraph and the edit function isn't responding for me.
And for whatever reason, this site isn't letting me quote anything either.CyFan61, yes the wedding, or the days before the wedding, was the setting for this season. But having just watch this last season in marathon form, I'm not coming away with the impression that the wedding was the focus of the story, it just provided the medium to showcase what I mentioned before.
I've had several haters of the ending tell me they watched it a second time and it was more impressive to them then. Maybe some of you should give it a second shot and see if you come away with the same impression.
And for those hating Barney and Robin got divorced, you KNEW it was going to happen. They stayed true with the first season. In the very first episode future Ted told his kids how Barney is a bachelor. If they were going to stick true to that, you had to know for one reason or another something was going to happen between Barney and Robin.
And for those complaining that all season was spent on their wedding, it wasn't about the wedding at all. The wedding is where Ted was introduced to the mother. THAT was the purpose of the wedding weekend. That's why the "actual" wedding was about ten seconds long with just a VoiceOver from Ted. Because it wasn't ever about the wedding.
And for those hating Barney and Robin got divorced, you KNEW it was going to happen. They stayed true with the first season. In the very first episode future Ted told his kids how Barney is a bachelor. If they were going to stick true to that, you had to know for one reason or another something was going to happen between Barney and Robin.
And for those complaining that all season was spent on their wedding, it wasn't about the wedding at all. The wedding is where Ted was introduced to the mother. THAT was the purpose of the wedding weekend. That's why the "actual" wedding was about ten seconds long with just a VoiceOver from Ted. Because it wasn't ever about the wedding.
Generally, over masculating things is a result of suppressed homosexual tendencies. So, congrats on your coming out. I'm very happy for you that you can just be yourself now.
I definitely didn't like that Ted ends up with Robin. That was just lazy writing, IMO, allowing the writers to hedge their bets. They could have easily just not killed off Tracy, which would have been much better.
Like Lily said when Ted called Tracy at McLaren's: this was different. Some might say that Robin settled for Ted, but I think it's the other way around. We saw the Ted/Robin movie practically 1000 times, and he never felt/acted the way he did when it came to Tracy. He wanted to, but it was never the right fit and he couldn't just manufacture that feeling. He ends up settling for that because it's the next best thing after Tracy dies.
I was alright with Barney and Robin getting a divorce. The wedding served its purpose; it introduced Ted to Tracy and finally forced him to let Robin go for good. Seriously, Ted giving the locket to Barney and then calmly refusing Robin's pleas to run away with her were two of the series' biggest highlights, IMO. He wasn't just barely hanging on and saying no because it was the right thing to do; he truly didn't have those feelings for her anymore. To basically throw that great, pivotal moment by the wayside is nothing more than a cop-out.
Like Lily said when Ted called Tracy at McLaren's: this was different. Some might say that Robin settled for Ted, but I think it's the other way around. We saw the Ted/Robin movie practically 1000 times, and he never felt/acted the way he did when it came to Tracy. He wanted to, but it was never the right fit and he couldn't just manufacture that feeling. He ends up settling for that because it's the next best thing after Tracy dies.
I was alright with Barney and Robin getting a divorce. The wedding served its purpose; it introduced Ted to Tracy and finally forced him to let Robin go for good. Seriously, Ted giving the locket to Barney and then calmly refusing Robin's pleas to run away with her were two of the series' biggest highlights, IMO. He wasn't just barely hanging on and saying no because it was the right thing to do; he truly didn't have those feelings for her anymore. To basically throw that great, pivotal moment by the wayside is nothing more than a cop-out.
