Gotta say though the scene with Barney and the super young girl had me ballin' that's some deep ish right there.
I liked this show. Watched it regularly with my wife since the first episode. I feel sadder about that passing than I do about the show itself. I was very disappointed in the final season...but I thought the final episode was pretty good. Not spectacular...but good. I'll miss the characters.
This is the best article I've seen on the wretched series finale. Alan Sepinwall has written a piece that looks at, logistically speaking, how this all went so painfully wrong, and how bad decisions made literally years ago locked the writers into bad decisions they then stubbornly stuck with: http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...ur-mother-last-forever-how-they-conned-us-all
I didnt watch the last three episodes because I realized bad of a show this was , I might go ahead and finish up the series but I was getting way too damn cliche for me (how they were gonna meet) that i didn't even want to know how the two would meet.
I think it's awesome that you're bringing in exhibits to argue how your subjective opinion on a TV show is correct.
I was too, mostly because I wanted more of the mother, and hated 20 episodes being devoted to 2-3 days. Of course, in reality it was the most important in his whole story because it was ultimately how he actually met their mother. Overall, it was a good show, and it was nice to see them come full circle, but sad about what happened to the mother.
Not at all. I am merely sharing my total dislike for series finale. That article does explain how the creators sort of trapped themselves which I passed along as interesting. It's not as if I wanted to persuade folks to my point of view or anything as I can see how someone can be OK with the ending. As for myself, I was simply astonished at how the show's creators managed to totally misread their audience and completely swung and missed on what should have been a gimme home run. And where did Bob Sagett fit in anyway???
I'm pretty much at a point where if someone asks what I think about something, I should just say "whatever Hillboy says, I'm the opposite". I'm much more lenient with shows once I've loved them. I have emotional connections with these characters and to me, that's what makes a good show. At that point, they're like family to me and nearly anything they do will be alright with me. It's why The Simpsons is still on my DVR. I recognize the last couple seasons haven't been great, but I still watched and laughed and didn't feel the need to try to **** on it if others were enjoying it as well. That's just how I roll when it comes to subjective opinions. I guess I should've figured how it would've ended, but I hate that his wife died. I can't imagine a world without my wife, so any show where that happens bothers me.
Marshall pays up to Lilly for the Robin bet in the finale. They should have included a flash forward to Lilly paying it back since Marshall was right.
Someone might have already mentioned this, but the creators of the show are planning an unrelated spinoff How I Met Your Dad. The one episode that stuck with me is when Robin realizes she can't have kids. Kinda fell off the wagon watching it.
It's not just him. I think a lot of people have the same sentiments. People saw how good Ted was with the mother, and the audience had more of an attachment to her than I think the creators anticipated. Plus, the audience saw how Ted and Robin were toxic for each other, and how Barney and Robin seemed like a good match. Thus, a large number of viewers thought that Ted was supposed to end up with Tracy and Robin with Barney. I see both sides of the arguments and understand the direction the creators wanted to go. And I'm neither TeamRobin or TeamTracy. I just wish they could have fleshed out more of Tracy and Barney with Robin's marriage. The mother was a good character, and I thought she deserved more story.
Cool. Thanks! Guess they wanted to end it with the Blue French Horn (which was good), just would have liked the bet to end up as the last scene right before the credits that they typically did.
Like a lot of fans, I grew tired of Robin. If he was going to end up with anybody else, it should have been Victoria.
now i will do the possimpible and watch it from start to finish before game of thrones premiers. Self five. wish me luck.
Not a fan of that ending. The entire show was Ted hopelessly searching for "the one" and manages to find her in the last season only to see her die in the last episode. You can't make Ted have a relationship that on the surface appears far superior to any relationship he had with Robin and then decide to end that and put him back with Robin again. I think the intention was to finally get Ted back with Robin but it happened in such a ridiculous manner (plus the ending commentary with the kids also felt rather heartless) that you can't help but feel disappointed. I get where they were going with the whole thing but it took such an awkward role and because the whole thing is a narrative, the writers are stuck reconciling all kinds of different historical events from years ago. More or less makes it impossible to have a clean ending but I think this ending was worse than it had to be.
