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How I Met Your Mother (7 Viewers)

I thought the finale was one of the better shows this season, I can't believe I watched it for 9 years, and like the references that only those who watched it from the beginning would get.

 
Wasn't the worst but still pretty bad because of the predictability of the whole thing.

They made a huge mistake not putting the mother into the show earlier and building her character up and not making Ted look so bad in the process.

Really good series overall though with a bad last season so I will overlook it for the most part.

 
It was the right ending to the show they produced. Perhaps they shouldn't have written the show the way they did...but it was the right ending.

Weird they didn't get married for all those years though, not sure what the point of delaying the wedding was other than to have Robin re-enter the picture again...

 
You know what....I liked it.

If you'd told me that's where it was going beforehand, I'd have thought it'd be terrible. I've been #####ing about the Robin thing all year.

But it worked for me.

Robin and Barney of course would've gotten divorced. Sometimes people get sick and don't get better. In this scenario, of course Robin and Ted end up together.

The problem wasn't the ending. It was the Ted/Robin fatigue that occurred from extending this series 3 seasons too long.

You make this the end of, say, Season 6, and I don't think everyone would hate it so much.

 
I'm not quite sure what I think of it right now.. I wish we could have gotten more of the mother.. The kids part at the end being shot in season one was painfully obvious. It was almost like they were talking to Ted via Webcam. I don't understand being that madly in love and not getting married for 7 years. I do get the ending with the dogs, window and blue French horn, but I don't like how they got there.

 
The way they dismissed years of robin/Barney build up in minutes was terrible. Bad but probably not in the conversation for worst finales ever.

 
The Barney character pre-Robin relationship was so great it is a shame they ruined it for nothing. If it stopped the show from going down the 'Friends Rachel-Ross' on off again end up together finale then fine but screwing with that character to just end up in that same spot is terrible.

 
pollardsvision said:
You know what....I liked it.

If you'd told me that's where it was going beforehand, I'd have thought it'd be terrible. I've been #####ing about the Robin thing all year.

But it worked for me.

Robin and Barney of course would've gotten divorced. Sometimes people get sick and don't get better. In this scenario, of course Robin and Ted end up together.

The problem wasn't the ending. It was the Ted/Robin fatigue that occurred from extending this series 3 seasons too long.

You make this the end of, say, Season 6, and I don't think everyone would hate it so much.
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I think this was spot on for me, too.

 
Jeremy said:
MattFancy said:
Chase Stuart said:
So I assume in the finale we'll have one more "wait should Robin and Ted be together" moment because we haven't quite beaten that horse to death yet?
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I really thought we were done with those when that weird episode of Robin floating away happened about a month ago. Guess they needed to go to the well one more time. Other than that, was a pretty solid episode. Will be interesting to see how they wrap it all up next week.
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The last 2 seasons they've been pounding on the theme of how much more Ted understands and cares about Robin's feelings than Barney. Ted understands her and is always coming through for her while Barney is not. Then I think of that episode where Marshall and Lily have that "long term bet" of whether or not Ted and Robin end up together. At the end of that one Lily (who bets they will NOT end up together) says "pay up", and Marshall smiles and says "not yet". So no, I don't think they're done.

Here's my theory...Ted marries The Mother, but she does get sick and dies. Robin and Barney get divorced, because let's face it, Barney will be a terrible husband.

In 2030, Ted and Robin are both ready to move with each other, which Ted is about to reveal to the kids (we know at this point she's only "aunt Robin").

I don't want them to end up together, but I have a feeling that somehow they will. I feel like they've been foreshadowing it forever. :oldunsure:
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:bowtie: and :wall:

 
Jeremy said:
Jeremy said:
MattFancy said:
Chase Stuart said:
So I assume in the finale we'll have one more "wait should Robin and Ted be together" moment because we haven't quite beaten that horse to death yet?
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I really thought we were done with those when that weird episode of Robin floating away happened about a month ago. Guess they needed to go to the well one more time. Other than that, was a pretty solid episode. Will be interesting to see how they wrap it all up next week.
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The last 2 seasons they've been pounding on the theme of how much more Ted understands and cares about Robin's feelings than Barney. Ted understands her and is always coming through for her while Barney is not. Then I think of that episode where Marshall and Lily have that "long term bet" of whether or not Ted and Robin end up together. At the end of that one Lily (who bets they will NOT end up together) says "pay up", and Marshall smiles and says "not yet". So no, I don't think they're done.

Here's my theory...Ted marries The Mother, but she does get sick and dies. Robin and Barney get divorced, because let's face it, Barney will be a terrible husband.

In 2030, Ted and Robin are both ready to move with each other, which Ted is about to reveal to the kids (we know at this point she's only "aunt Robin").

I don't want them to end up together, but I have a feeling that somehow they will. I feel like they've been foreshadowing it forever. :oldunsure:
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Kudos.

Spot on.

 
Every bit of that was painful to watch except the part where Barney meets his daughter. I think it's actually going to ruin the re-runs for me.

 
Jeremy said:
Jeremy said:
MattFancy said:
Chase Stuart said:
So I assume in the finale we'll have one more "wait should Robin and Ted be together" moment because we haven't quite beaten that horse to death yet?
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I really thought we were done with those when that weird episode of Robin floating away happened about a month ago. Guess they needed to go to the well one more time. Other than that, was a pretty solid episode. Will be interesting to see how they wrap it all up next week.
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The last 2 seasons they've been pounding on the theme of how much more Ted understands and cares about Robin's feelings than Barney. Ted understands her and is always coming through for her while Barney is not. Then I think of that episode where Marshall and Lily have that "long term bet" of whether or not Ted and Robin end up together. At the end of that one Lily (who bets they will NOT end up together) says "pay up", and Marshall smiles and says "not yet". So no, I don't think they're done.

Here's my theory...Ted marries The Mother, but she does get sick and dies. Robin and Barney get divorced, because let's face it, Barney will be a terrible husband.

In 2030, Ted and Robin are both ready to move with each other, which Ted is about to reveal to the kids (we know at this point she's only "aunt Robin").

I don't want them to end up together, but I have a feeling that somehow they will. I feel like they've been foreshadowing it forever. :oldunsure:
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:bowtie: and :wall:
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We all complained about the lack of the Mother this season, and now it makes sense. At least where they were coming from.

They could/ve/shoul'dve done some things differently, but they had a plan and everything just went on too long. Kind of like Walter White.

As Sepinwall said, they were screwed when the fans completely fell in love with the Mother, and they had this planned.

 
I've only watched only about 70 percent of the show and I was good with this ending. It justifies all the ted/Robin stuff they shoved down our throat.

Ending spoke to me in a way as I have seen my life evolve from party guy who didn't want to get married to married and now with child.. . But sometimeI really miss those old times and wish they could be recaptured.

It sucks to see the gang break up and drift.

 
This finale was the first time I've ever watched this show. I've flipped by and caught a few minutes of it maybe 5 times but never felt like I HAD to watch this show. I got the gist of it and knew Doogie's character was funny, but that was it. I actually assumed Jason Segal and American Pie girl were the main characters and it was about him telling his kids about how he met her.

It was really interesting to only watch the finale of a show that was on for 9 years. Also interesting to read this thread for the first time just now, especially the first couple pages about everyone predicting how the story would eventually end. I'm honestly not sure if I'm mad for never watching it before or happy that I didn't waste 9 years waiting for the conclusion of this.

 
Gadzooks said:
This finale was the first time I've ever watched this show. I've flipped by and caught a few minutes of it maybe 5 times but never felt like I HAD to watch this show. I got the gist of it and knew Doogie's character was funny, but that was it. I actually assumed Jason Segal and American Pie girl were the main characters and it was about him telling his kids about how he met her.

It was really interesting to only watch the finale of a show that was on for 9 years. Also interesting to read this thread for the first time just now, especially the first couple pages about everyone predicting how the story would eventually end. I'm honestly not sure if I'm mad for never watching it before or happy that I didn't waste 9 years waiting for the conclusion of this.
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People predicted the story based on a couple lines...and rumors they read from somewhere else.

 
I'm satisfied with the finale. It wasn't the greatest finale of all time, but it was great for this particular show. It wrapped things up in a way that didn't make the viewer feel manipulated.

 
scoobygang said:
Tiger Fan said:
What Robin as female Barney bit?
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Robin has consistently been written to show to have a lot of the same peculiarities as Barney. She's commitment-phobic. She's charmingly narcissistic. She enjoys traditionally masculine activities. In Season One, they explicitly reference it when she subs for Ted by going on a "Bro's night out" with Barney. In that case, she's a better Ted than Ted. She suits up. She smokes cigars. She has way too much fun at LaserTag. And when they ended that episode with Barney erroneously assuming they were going to have sex, you could easily argue that the writers were just exploiting that for a one time gag.But the character similarities have been played up several times since then, not the least of which last night. Think of all the things Barney is supposedly concerned about for Ted. That he's going to lose his freedom and independence. Now watch last nights show and see who was ACTUALLY blanching about these things in reality. It was Robin. She wanted to smoke. She wanted her stuff the way she liked it. She wanted to watch John Woo movies. Barney would have had a better time convincing Robin the move would ruin her life. Because Robin, uniquely among the other characters, is like Barney.I think they've hit that note too often to be a coincidence.
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Nice call.

 
I think he's saying Walter White went on too long with his plan and that the plan didn't end well, not the show. Regardless, that has little to do with the issue at hand. I feel like watching this finale gave me AIDS.

 
I don't know 100% for sure, but pretty confident they shot multiple versions of the kids for the ending back in season 2. They weren't 100% locked into this version of the ending, which is what Sepinwall's thesis is pretty much based on. Maybe they decided a while ago that this is the one they wanted to use and spent the last few years getting there, but, there were other options available to them.

 
I thought it was a nearly perfect ending for this series. The callbacks, the friends drifting, the sentimental stuff were all predictable yet done well. As soon as Barney and Robin mentioned the divorce we all knew where it was going. From a logical standpoint I get the hate for Ted and Robin ending up together and the Mother having such a brief role. This show was never about logic though, it was about the up and down emotional journey of life post-college and pre-family/responsibility/routine/etc.

Barney and his daughter and the umbrella scene were :thumbup: :thumbup:

 
Meh...it was pretty much what we thought it was going to be.

They definitely shot more than one ending with the kids...that thing was pieced together horribly.

But...thankfully it's over...this last season dragged on for so long...I'm not terribly unhappy with the ending...

 
Logical conclusion but crappy conclusion.

Given that the whole telling of the story starts off with Ted telling his kids about Robin, it kinda had to end there.

Wouldn't have minded it so much if we had at least gotten to know the mother more. If they had ended last season with Ted meeting the mother, and spent this season as the courtship, I think it would've worked better.

On a side note, I did notice a big timeline issue. Back when Marvin and Lilly had Marvin, there was an episode where Ted was his nanny, and he ended up taking him to see Santa Claus which pissed Lilly off to no end. At the end of the episode, they fast forward to the future where Ted is dropping off his kid (infant/toddler range) with Lilly and Marshall to babysit so he and then unseen wife can go out for the night. Thing is, when he dropped the kid off with Lilly and Marshall, it was at a house (one that had been used in many L/M flash forwards) but according to last night, they would've still bee in the apartment at that time.

 
villa said:
I liked it, can see where it was what they had in mind all along
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Clearly had to be the planned ending all along, or at least one option among the planned endings. The real life kids were the same age in this last episode as they were 8 years ago.

 
It was weird how Ted's voice changed from sounding like Bob Saget to his own. It was a really good show for a long time. Started going downhill the season they had the captain and Ted trying to save the building.

 
belljr said:
zamboni said:
villa said:
I liked it, can see where it was what they had in mind all along
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Clearly had to be the planned ending all along, or at least one option among the planned endings. The real life kids were the same age in this last episode as they were 8 years ago.
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i read the cake girl was their mom out if the show got canceled
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:yes: Which brings up something else. Why did Mom get credited at the end? Stella, Buttercup, James, Stripper, Ranjit and Kumar all had more air time than her.

 
Thought it was pretty good but not amazing. Personally, I think making the entire season about the wedding was silly when you have them get divorced 10 minutes into the finale. (although it was the right result, as Barney was never meant to be married). "Playbook 2: electric bangaloo" cracked me up (I'm Jim Nacho....)

It was really predictable (especially once the divorce was announced) but whatever. I did think it was very out of character for Ted to wait so long to marry the mother.

 
TLEF316 said:
It was really predictable (especially once the divorce was announced) but whatever. I did think it was very out of character for Ted to wait so long to marry the mother.
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I think the writers threw a few things in there - like Ted living in sin for many years, Robin removing herself from the group for some time, etc. - to avoid complete predictability.

 
NREC34 said:
It was weird how Ted's voice changed from sounding like Bob Saget to his own. It was a really good show for a long time. Started going downhill the season they had the captain and Ted trying to save the building.
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I thought the exact same thing...I was hoping ted's mouth would move and we'd hear bob sagets voice

I watched the entire series over the last few weeks, I probably would have hated the show if I had spent 9 years watching it. Binge watching makes the robin/ted stuff a lot more tolerable IMO.

 
Mjolnirs said:
playin4beer said:
I do get the ending with the dogs, window and blue French horn, but I don't like how they got there.
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Think I started watching after season 3 and missed plenty of details in the ones I watched. Could you explain this on for me?
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The French horn was something he stole from a restaurant right after he started dating Robin I think but as for the dogs I'm lost on that as well.

 
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