I wasn't even born when this show started but I discovered it at 16 and I instantly fell in love with it have never loved any show this much and the ending just hurt me and I felt sad after it I thought there was something that was definitely just missing
Personally I don't dislike the ending itself, I dislike the execution. Mother dying? Sad, but sometimes that's life, and it makes sense that Ted would be telling the story in such detail and remembering her as being so perfect. Robin and Barney divorcing? They were fun to watch, but honestly toxic and brought out the worst in each other in my opinion, so that's fine too. Ted ending up with Robin? Their main obstacle was them wanting drastically different things in life, but at that point they had both each gotten those things, so it works. Barney relapsing after the divorce? That's in character for him. Him getting a daughter? Perfect way to make him truly grow up. But like Cobie said, it was all done _so_ quickly. It gave you no time to process anything. We barely got to see Ted and Tracy together, we didn't get to see Barney and Robin growing apart, or Ted and Robin growing close again, or Barney growing again and becoming a good father, etc. If we would've actually seen that stuff, I really think it would've worked so much better. I mean, 17 years passed for these characters, but for the viewers it was only a few minutes, which is particularly bad when put in comparison to the amount of time that had been spent in the buildup of Barney and Robin or Ted and Tracy. Cobie said it was because they were afraid of a leak, which if true is such a bad reason to screw up your ending, especially considering the rest of the season covers a single weekend. They had the amount of episodes to do it right. Anyway, sorry this comment got so long lol.
Over the years I've come to terms with the ending and this is basically my take as well. I understand what they were going for and have to applaud them for trying something risky like that, but it just wasn't executed properly. This is the first time I've heard of them being afraid of being a leak, and I'm sure there were lots of other small contributing factors why we got the ending we did. But honestly for all its faults, there were so many amazing moments throughout the show that I can't say that I'm willing to toss away the whole show or that it isn't worth watching just because I know how it ends. It's still an amazing journey. Besides, there's an alternate ending out there that I can always pretend is my headcanon lol.
Barney had matured greatly by the end they were not toxic at all but a better match for Robin. They completed each other and the chemistry between both actors just work better.
She hit the nail on the head. The show was made to be experienced as one big story, it's similar to Arrested Development or Community in the way that it was ahead of its time the way it told a story made for binging in an age where that wasn't how you watched TV.
I think most people were shocked that Ted and Robin ended up together. I didn't think Barney and Robin made a great match, but they made a lot more sense than Robin and Ted.
Yeah Ted and Robin seems like a horrible idea, especially since he learned to (supposedly) let her go and come to peace with that so that he could find something better for himself, only to still be hung up on her..ugh. Although it did seem like the whole point of a couple seasons was Barney learning to love another person and want married life (was kind of a weird arch for him imo but it happened that way in the show)
The only thing that came between Ted and Robin was Ted wanting kids and Robin both not being able to have kids and not wanting to have kids because of her career aspirations. Once Ted already has kids and isnt looking for that from Robin anymore, they 100% made more sense than Barney and Robin. Though to be fair, both Ted and Robin and Barney and Robin had great chemistry as couples.. I think this is kind of the point of the show - that even when love doesn’t fit into the standard progression of an idealized relationship escalator it can still be both valid and beautiful and a positive thing for everyone involved
Nothing about HIMYM screamed happy ending, Marshals dad dying, Robin can’t have kids, Lily leaving marshal, loving someone who doesn’t love you back, etc. they portrayed life, and for that, great ending.
@@snowman9642 All the examples you gave weren't the ending, so they were never about "screaming happy *ending* ". All those moments were about showing the highs and lows in a sitcom HIMYM had highs and lows, like all other shows. Friends also showed a lot of sad moments, like Chandler realising he'll die alone, Ross cheating on Rachel, when Monica and Chandler couldn't have kids, etc. The show literally opened with Ross getting cheated on and divorced. But they still had a happy ending. You can take other sitcoms as examples too. The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, etc all of them had happy and sad scenes, doesn't mean they didn't "scream happy ending" It's pretty obvious for all shows to have highs and lows, just as its also obvious that it needs to end on a high. They're sitcoms, not reality shows where they have to show how messy and unpredictable real life is. All that being said, i have made my peace with direction the ending went to, but not the execution (like Cobie said, it was extremely rushed). In contrast, the alternate ending was much more paced and felt like the closing scene
The problem is that they spent 9 years building up how perfect the mother was for Ted and how terrible Ted and Robin were together (and then Robin married one of Ted's best friends!). And then at the end, he goes, "So, yeah, now that your mom is dead, I can finally go after the woman I always really wanted - Aunt Robin."
I enjoyed the final. Cause it shows you that life is not perfect. Not everyone has a perfect ending.but that does not mean you shudnt move on in life. Life is short so make the best of it.
The alternate ending wasn't all perfect either. Robin and Barney still divorce, divorce is more common irl than partner death is. But they still give hope that maybe they'll reconcile or get back together, maybe they won't. But it's hope and that's better than nothing. Plus the show already has so much realism already, but it's always followed by how the characters got through it as better people. Neither ending shows that, but I'd rather the alternate ending as Ted finally get his happily ever after with the mother of his children (what he's been longing for forever and loses hope every passing year) than that. He doesn't go back on the show lessons: "You can't cling to the past" and "If you love something, let it go". Which btw is why Ted didn't go to Chicago. He originally wanted to go as it might be awkward hanging out after the wedding. Then he realised through Lily that he loved NY, made peace with Barney and let go of Robin for real so that when he met and fell in love with Tracy, he had no reason to leave.
The show should have been called "How I Met Your Aunt" not "How I Met Your Mother" Tracy was just a sidekick and many are just disappointing with what the screenwriters did to her. "This is a story about how you're in love with Aunt Robin and thinking about asking her out and wondering if we’re okay with it,” Penny Mosby bluntly stated to her dad Ted in the final moments of How I Met Your Mother. From the moment he spotted her across the bar in 2005, Ted’s story has always been about Robin. In the series finale, we learn that Ted tells this story to his kids Penny and Luke to keep the memory of their six years-departed mother alive. Ted’s eldest Penny catches on that her dad’s story has revolved around his love for their Aunt Robin. The show ends with Penny and her brother Luke encouraging their dad to chase Robin, as he delivers a blue French horn to her door one last time. That’s right, the mother really has been dead all along. As a nine-year viewer of the show, this is hard for me to come to terms with; it’s the theory I’ve feared most. I’ve rooted for Ted from the beginning. For every woman that broke Ted’s heart over the years, I took solace in the fact that Ted’s perfect woman was waiting for him. *So, once the truth finally came out, I felt a little cheated.* Nine years of hearing Future Ted talk up the mother of his children and then taking her away from us the minute we get to know her seemed downright cruel. The Mother has died, but Ted and the kids have had six years to come to terms with this. We, the audience, may have had only two minutes… The end was extremely rushed and many are frustrated/upset that Tracy didn't get the respect and consideration she deserves.
I was 15 when the HIMYM debuted. I watched the show episode by episode as it aired from probably around season 2 until the conclusion. HIMYM was with me as I finished High School and went to college and even as i finished at university and entered the world of being a single 20-something. I am literally rewatching it right now and it is the 2nd or 3rd time I have rewatched it since the show ended. To this day, it might be my favorite sitcom - truly hilarious with an enormous amount of heart!! Personally, I thought the ending was PERFECT!! I think there is a very vocal group of people who never really understood what the story was about who bashed the way the final season ended, but as Cobie says in the clip, it was very clear from season 1 that the story was about Ted and Robin finding their way back to one another. Having the story end this way was cohesive and had the entire series have a through line that just wouldnt have been there if the writers had taken it in a different direction and just done a fan service ending where Barney and Robin stay together and Ted and Tracy ride off into the sunset. The whole point of the series is that it squares with how life IS messy and real stories are rarely linear. They acknowledge that it does happen but also they it is the exception and not the rule by how they handle Marshall and Lily (which I also thought they did a wonderful job with). HIMYM is a story about how “love is the best thing we do” and how even when it’s messy or when people dont want exactly the same things and need to learn to compromise or if doesnt precisely make sense on paper, there is still value in giving and receiving love and showing up for the people who matter to you. anyway, I think the finale has some very vocal detractors (who I personally think don’t really get the show) but these days I always try to show up and voice my support for both the series as a whole and it’s ending! HIMYM is an all time great sitcom and one of my absolute favorites ❤ Legend-wait for it-DARY!!
I don’t think it’s fair to say that the people who bashed the ending didn’t understand what the overall story was. The majority opinion among the people who didn’t like it is that it was rushed and sloppy. In a final season that spent 22 of its last 24 episodes centred around Barney and Robin’s wedding, and key episodes focused on Tracy, it felt wasteful and unearned to end the story how they did in the span of the last 2 episodes.
The show should have been called "How I Met Your Aunt" not "How I Met Your Mother" Tracy was just a sidekick and many are just disappointing with what the screenwriters did to her. "This is a story about how you're in love with Aunt Robin and thinking about asking her out and wondering if we’re okay with it,” Penny Mosby bluntly stated to her dad Ted in the final moments of How I Met Your Mother. From the moment he spotted her across the bar in 2005, Ted’s story has always been about Robin. In the series finale, we learn that Ted tells this story to his kids Penny and Luke to keep the memory of their six years-departed mother alive. Ted’s eldest Penny catches on that her dad’s story has revolved around his love for their Aunt Robin. The show ends with Penny and her brother Luke encouraging their dad to chase Robin, as he delivers a blue French horn to her door one last time. That’s right, the mother really has been dead all along. As a nine-year viewer of the show, this is hard for me to come to terms with; it’s the theory I’ve feared most. I’ve rooted for Ted from the beginning. For every woman that broke Ted’s heart over the years, I took solace in the fact that Ted’s perfect woman was waiting for him. *So, once the truth finally came out, I felt a little cheated.* Nine years of hearing Future Ted talk up the mother of his children and then taking her away from us the minute we get to know her seemed downright cruel. The Mother has died, but Ted and the kids have had six years to come to terms with this. We, the audience, may have had only two minutes… The end was extremely rushed and many are frustrated/upset that Tracy didn't get the respect and consideration she deserves.
@@mickaellandry9726 First of all, shows don’t have to telegraph their stories in the title. 🤷🏼♂️ Despite the title, Tracy was just a side character. She was introduced in the finale of the 8th season of a 9 season show! That said, I would argue that the way Ted talks about her throughout and the way we feel in the moments we do get with Tracy does amount to giving her the respect and consideration she deserves, though. Particularly the episode where Ted is left alone int he bar and talks about what he would have done if he’d known about Tracy 45 days before he met her is a great example of that. You’re absolutely right to feel cheated to not get more time with Tracy and to feel frustrated that she was taken away so soon and that we/Ted didn’t get to spend more time with her. I would argue that WAS the writers intent because that’s how it feels to have someone you plan to spend forever with die young. It was taking the audience on an emotional journey and it was REALLY well executed in that the lack of time with Tracy puts us as viewers in a position that we feel what Ted feels when his time with her is cut short by tragically losing her. I feel like people who are upset with where the story ended up are missing the whole point of the show being that love is rarely as linear and uncomplicated as it is in Hollywood movies and part of the risk of opening your heart to love is that you expose yourself to heartbreak and loss. Life sometimes surprises you and while sometimes those can be positive surprises, they aren’t always good news, yet we have to do the best we can to love, keep close and look out for the people who matter to us. Perhaps Ted finally getting his “perfect” woman only to have her ripped away is a commentary by the writing team about how we could all stand to be less attached to storybook outcomes and in stead focus on making the most of the time we have with the people who are special to us and appreciating deep meaningful connections even when they don’t fit into a traditional template or follow the typical relationship escalator. Regardless of the fact that she couldn’t have children with him (and also had a conflicting path and wasn’t sure she even wanted to before recieving her tragic news earlier in the run of the show), Robin was/is/has been another pretty much ideal match for Ted in a ton of ways. In real life, love is messy and complicated and not-always-linear, yet it’s still valid and valuable and beautiful - both Ted’s love for Tracy and his love for Robin. As someone who has loved someone who passed away wayyyyyyy before her time, this show really squared with those themes and feelings of love and loss and finding the strength to try to be vulnerable again after being hurt in a way that your typical Hollywood love stories just don’t. The grief, the regrets, the anger that such a thing could happen, the frustration at how difficult it can be to open up and take the leap only to have your heart ripped out when things take an unexpected turn, sometimes against the will of all involved and outside of anyone’s control. These themes are present in Tracy’s story as well with her losing her partner and then coming back from that to give things a real chance with Ted. It’s a deep and emotionally complex set of themes that aren’t all sunshine and rainbows, but I think a lot of viewers who are upset they had to go through that are missing the point that that’s how it feels to lose someone who is your whole world. THAT is the point of the show.. it’s a story about coming through tragedy and darkness and still finding hope and vulnerability again to open up to happiness, which I think is a totally valid and beautiful message.
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Agreed. When I rewatch the show nowadays binging style, just as Cobie says, it makes perfect sense for HIMYM to spend whole that time for such an ending.
On first watch, the ending is kind of confusing. However, after re-watching it with the ending in mind I found new perspectives on the show and it made a lot of sense. I’ve got some opinions on certain decisions they made, but I still like it. The story was never about the mother, Ted had his happy life with her even though it wasn’t as long as he wanted. The mother in this story was a Red Herring. The story is about the trails and tribulations Ted faced with Robin in his past that makes it complicated for him falling for her again after all the time that’s passed, especially with his kids in mind.
For me, it's just rushed not ridiculous. I really wish I could see more episodes about all of them growing up and having a new life. At least half of the season instead of making Barney & Robin's wedding for almost the whole season, but then they end up divorced lol
The problem with how it was structured was we spent an entire season on one weekend, then the finale spans 15 years. Ted’s kids’ reactions seem like they don’t give a shit about their dead mom because we just found out she was dead 2 minutes beforehand (despite the foreshadowing), but in canon she’s been dead for 6 years and they’ve healed from it. It’s just emotional whiplash for the viewers and makes it feel like the mother was being thrown aside and that Tracy was just a plot device to get Ted back to Robin
@@JoybuzzerX your comment makes absolutely no sense Barney and Robin were married and travelling the world because of Robin's career when Ted met Tracy. How was he supposed to "leave the wife for her" when she was married and halfway across the world from him? And he already had a kid (Penny) by the time everyone got to know about B&R's breakup. You think Ted is not a simp because he didn't leave his girlfriend and baby daughter for her? What kind of logic is that? *Just because Ted and Tracy were perfect for each other and meant to be, doesn't mean that Ted didn't simp for Robin* The guy literally hosted 3 parties in 3 nights just to be able to see her. He got shot down repeatedly, even after surprised her with a blue instrument band dozens of rose bouquets at her own house. He finally had to resort to try and make it rain just for her to yes to him He even used Robin's vulnerability at times to his advantage. Don broke up with Robin and she goes to Ted, so what do they do? Almost kiss till Robin sees that Ted is blonde. Robin tells Ted that Kevin took back the ring and broke up, and what did ted do? He told Robin he loved her and kissed her.
@@justarandomguy4844 Besides the cut scene, we see Ted talking to Robin after the divorce while with Tracy. So he could've left Tracy. Ted is a romantic who makes big gestures. Robin realizes that when talking to a doctor about him. Falling in love with someone doesn't mean simp, and if you stop living them, were you ever really in love with them?
I loved the ending. That doesn't mean I think it was perfect. The montage rushed things. I wish they did a couple more episodes to extend that out and I think it would've played out better.
The finale it self is ok. The idea, is that this is life and happy endings can be ruined is okay. You just dont make a whole season about Wedding between Barney and Robin, so you can separate them in the last episode and then rush a lot of things in 2 episodes. Have you heard about pacing? And yea, Victoria was right. Ted loves Robin and if not Mother, he would chase her even then
I wonder if that was the intended outcome from the beginning, or just the one that worked out because they hadn't come up with a better alternative over 9 seasons? As far as liking the end: I don't know if it was the rushed montage, but it left me personally feeling a bit boondoggled. Like, I was invested for so long, but not allowed to savor it when it came. Just kind of strange.
All the people complaining about it did not pay attention to what was actually going on in the characters. Cobie is very right: If you watch it all together (and don't just dismiss seasons 1-3) this was the only ending that actually made sense. There are too many foreshadowing moments and hints that part of Robin and Ted NEVER stopped loving each other.
it also foreshadows that life doesn't plan on having a romantic happy ever after with the soulmate of your life either. I appreciate the finale more now that I have had family who passed on very young and had enough life to see others who lost a spouse early on. Finding love again doesn't mean that they didn't love their spouse.
I watched the sitcom all together, and the original ending really sucks. Never mind if the wife died, but Ted returning again to his obsession of the past?. That's what I find terrible. The alternate ending is definitely better. Or this ending it's better: th-cam.com/video/hHYg6Q7HIaQ/w-d-xo.html
I didn't get that at all. It felt more like they shoe-horned in a moment every season to prepare us for the already planned ending. For example, Ted telling Robin he loved her after she broke up with Kevin was so jarring and out of nowhere. Same as the locket storyline, having the flashback of Robin getting drunk when Ted is marrying Stella, the long terms bet between Marshall and Lily. Again, feels like lazy story telling to me. I can practically see the board in the writers room titled "sprinkles of Ted and Robin romance to remind audience that they are a thing"
the only problem with the finale is it was all squeezed in few minutes, we needed to see episodes about each of these topics: robin and barney's wedding, meeting the mother, life of the main couple their wedding kids etc and funeral, kids learning the story and ted starts to date robin again. And after robin, barney shouldn't have got back to the old times like finding chick every night, thats obviously not barney anymore and no 31st's kid ofc.
It is absolutely correct to say that it makes sense that they would end up together... if you ignore all the parts that contradict that. I just finished binging the show on Netflix (all 9 seasons in a couple weeks) and boy howdy was I a strong advocate of Robin and Ted for the majority of the run time. But, by the time Ted confessed his love to Robin after her breakup with Kevin, I was about done with it (as in I was still onboard, but I just couldn't hang in there for that much longer). When Robin rejected Ted, we go through an arc of Ted accepting rejection and moving on. The first big scene about Ted moving on was when he revoked the deal to get married to Robin if they were both single at 40. While that scene doesn't resolve Ted's feelings, it sets in stone how Robin feels, meaning that Ted (and the audience) need to move on. Later, Robin gets engaged to Barney, which only further solidifies that Ted (and the audience) need to move on. Of course, there was always a chance that Ted would break up the wedding, until the episode where he finally let's go of Robin. I don't remember which episode it is, but its the one with Robin and Ted sitting at the beach while looking for a very drunken Barney. During this scene, Ted literally lets go of Robin and let's her float into the atmosphere, paralleling the time where he let go of a balloon (albeit by accident) that was his best friend as a 7 year old). This scene is the moment where Ted accepts that he isn't going to end up with Robin, and finally moves on. And, having this closure, he opens himself up more to other opportunities and ultimately decides not to leave New York (which he wanted to do to avoid the awkwardness of his true love being married to his best friend. So yeah, I can see why it makes sense that Ted and Robin would end up together, but there are a few really big plot points that mark out the reasons that they absolutely shouldn't have wound up together. Plus, the pacing of the last couple episodes was wild. I mean, Ted finally wind up with "the one," but then it is announced that she is dead and before the audience has time to accept this truth (and move on) Ted is all over Robin again. Thematically, it makes sense, since Ted has had 6 years to mourn, but the audience has well under less than a minute to reconcile with this twist and accept the ending. It's just too much to process that quickly.
I have no problem Ted getting back to Robin at the end, if that is the writers' vision But it was rather weird, that we spent 1 whole season building up to Barney changing, but to immediately changed him back to his normal self in 10 mins at the end
I like the ending because it was different from all the millions of “ happily ever after” endings we already have, to introduce death in a season finale is bold very bold, but very real, which is something I always enjoyed about this show.
I enjoyed HIMYM from start to finish. I wish we had more stories with Tracy because she was a lovely character and had great chemistry with Ted, but I thought the ending was logical and satisfying.
I watch it from beginning to end when it aired, and i loved the finale, because, there were episodes that it was implied that the mother was dead, so there was q point when I thought “this is not about the mother at all, this is about Ted and Robin”. I thought because it always came back to them, if Ted and Robin were just a phase they wouldn’t bring it up that much in a series over all seasons (yes, on all 9 seasons they always came back to Ted and Robin in one way or another).
It's not that I hated Ted and Robin getting together but we got far too less of Ted and Tracy. She was THE mother. There had to be more of her and the life with Ted.
The show wasn't called "my life dating your mother".. They where never going to go far beyond when they met.. Be glad we got to see some of the major highlights of their relationship
@@mullaoslo by that logic, the show also wasn't called "getting my kids' approval to bang their aunt Robin", but we still had that ending. Why do the kids say that Ted told the whole story to show much he loved Robin. Was the series named "i love your aunt robin"? Also, by your logic, the show is named "How i met your mother" so why didn't the show end on that scene, of Ted meeting Tracy at the station? Why does it go on for a few minutes and end the same way S1E1 ended, with Ted outside Robin's house holding a blue french horn? We had a lot of snippets of the future like Marshal's Supreme Court race, Barney having a kid, Lily and Marshal being pregnant for the third time, Ted restarting his architectural firm, Ted and Tracy being pregnant with Luke (their second kid). So adding a few scenes of Ted and Tracy's dating life doesn't need a title change. It also wouldn't have changed anything but give a lot of closure to the show and the fans
I think the last season should have been structured differently so part of the season is the wedding but the rest would have been the finale events spread out over multiple episodes so it felt more organic. It was insanely rushed timeline wise and on that day, Ted and Robin didn't make sense and fans loved Tracy and barely got to see her and Ted together. I get what she says about they didn't want stuff to leak but it just wasn't a well structured episode or even season. I think from where they were on the date it was airing, they should have gone with the alternate ending. That made more sense with how everything was teed up till that point.
The ending wasn’t really true to the character arcs and made everything we've been told meaningless. We were told for years that they don't work, he finally lets her go and it makes sense. Then randomly at the end that's all totally pointless. Then Barney who has an amazing arc, is completely ripped apart. Just writers not adapting to a changing environment. So so bad. Great show minus the ending.
It’s not the ending itself in that it wasn’t realistic it was that Ted and Robin did not want the same things. Their takes on life are so different and it was made obvious from season one and as the series went on their differences made them even more not right for each other. So it wasn’t that opposites can’t be together it’s fundamental principles on life and what they deem as important were so different that realistically they were never going to work at all. She really did have more in common or aligned with Barney and that’s why it was so infuriating to watch at the end.
Barney is the greatest creepy stalker in TV history Also Robin and Barney were the worst couple ever 🤮 So yeah glad they got divorced Robin actually wanted to run away with Ted in her wedding day so that really showed who was the better man 😂😂
@@vootvoot9180 not arguing who the better man is, but your reasoning is completely wrong. Stella ran off with Tony, so does that mean he's a better man that Ted? This is the same Tony who later on breaks up with Stella because of his conversation with Ted. So of course not, he's not better than Ted Barney and Robin weren't a great couple, but Ted and Robin were also horrible and this is shown multiple times throughout the series
Ted wasn’t a creepy stalker in the end.. sounds like you need to rewatch the Dobbler/Dahmer episode. Robin was feeling it, so Ted is definitely Dobbler
No one that was watching the show at the time that it was running thought the mom was gonna make it. I remember spending time in forums where we discussed how the mom had to die. We weren't expecting Robin, because as she said we were all pro Barney and Robin. But as she said with a rewatch of the show as a whole you can pick out just how many times they let us know indirectly that the mom was going to pass.
I love the ending. It was amazing. I watch the show twice a year, all the way through. The last 2 eps are the best of the series, if you watch them in order and get the premise. ❤
As a new watcher (gotta love Netflix) I kinda thought all along the final catharsis was going to be Ted and Robin finding their way back together. It can be explained by simple mellowing of views over time on both their parts. I honestly think this could have end at season 5 with the sea ond half of that season being dedicated to them finding their way back together. It was certainly a rushed finalefor sure, but I can find more problems with the early season ove-arch not aligning with this, you know the standard writer technique of over-playing a relationships struggling for the sake of sexual tension holding the interest when other storyline is poor, than just the last episode errors.
It was a Perfect For me I probably watched How I Met Your Mother so many times.... Ted received is dreams he bought the house and had kids . ...So did Robin she became a great TV broadcaster she was also a great Reporter ... The Ending of the show was great to me
I didn’t mind the ending/series finale the first go-around watching it. I had quibbles with how they structured the last season. But after just finishing the second go-around, I didn’t mind the last season’s structure. Was it messy and at times, sad? Yes. But as I’ve aged with the show, I’ve come to realize just how much the show reflects our lives and that we have to accept the blessings as they come. It’s a lesson I’ve re-learned over and over and I didn’t mind Ted’s kids reminding him of that lesson… For those kids would be wise beyond their years after the death of their dearly departed mother, who’s now making the Penguin’s life hell over in Gotham. Haha. 🤣
I liked the series finale quite a bit. But, I binged it, so I think my experience was a bit different than the people who watched it over the 9 years because, for me the first season was 4-5 months back instead of almost a decade.
Love the show. Last season/episodes of shows are usually not as good as the rest of the show. I thought HIMYM could have gone on longer and I didn't want it to end but I was ok with how the show ended.
The inherent problem is that the showrunners essentially said, "No tapbacks". In S1E1, she's revealed as Aunt Robin, and so it gets written off. This creates a problem because of how long the show ended up running. This was 10 *years* of time where we saw every iteration of Ted and Robin, and it just always ended badly. They weren't good as a couple. As friends, yes, as a couple no. It wasn't like they got together once in the show, it was literally multiple times. Then we get the whole thing in the final season of Ted letting Robin go, fully moving past it, only for it to then get reversed. At the same time, We spent an entire season on Barney and Robin's wedding for it to be blown up within five minutes. It wasn't just the one part, but the whole of it. Long-running shows have to be able to pivot over time. Yeah, Breaking Bad ended on a down note, but it was always heading that way, and it wasn't on the air that long. Here, it was 10 years, with longer seasons than current day. We had so much time with everyone, and the ending was a leftover from S1E1, which was really a very different set of characters by that point. The mother dying was pulled WAY too quickly, and while we see reactions from the kids, it's never them reacting like kids whose Mom died, even after he JUST finished telling them about her death within the story. Like, seriously? And the third issue: This meant that NONE of the "mothers" mattered along the way. Not Victoria, not Claire, and not even the mother ultimately. The entire crux of the show was centered around this, and to get all the way to the end, again, after 10 years of investment to find that out, it ruined it for a lot of people.
Ok so a couple of things, Robin in one episode narrated a day of hers and she was speaking to her kids where she referred to Barnie as their "father". But we learn later that Robin can't have kids, so i assume she and Barnie adopted kids. But in the ending it was never shown that this happened as her and Barnie separated ways. Does that mean that after her and Ted get together in the ending, do they just end up breaking up again? and then Robin and Barnie adopt children and keep the child that Barnie already has?
having a plan from the begining doesn't mean you should follow up on it. even if they shot the kids doing that kind of reaction in the first season, they could have just nor used it and just shot a whole new one. nothing about the end made any sense. no storyline made sense at the end whatsoever. the whole show was amazing and is still one of my favourite shows of all time. but the last season ruined all the great work they had done throughout the previous 8 seasons. i don't care of it was foreshadowed or not, because foreshadowing only works if you build the story towards what you foreshadowed which they did not on the show. they had the best couple which was Barney and Robin and then gave the best chemistry between Ted and Tracey the mom just the rip it off because they foreshadowed something else. the entirety of the last season doesn't make any sense because it was all about Robin and Barney overcoming their fears and finally getting married, but again they ripped that off with one scene in the last episode.
No robin and barney were so meant for each other . Also even of you forget the stupid ending which was completely unnecessary because after spending ome full season and 2 alpha dogs like robin n barney geling n so in sync , ted was always desperate to get robin like everytime barney doses off ted jumps at robin, the carousel thing barney was spending time with robin’s dad yet he came as robin called but ted raced there and put barney in a bad position, went for the locket, tried to desperately go after rohin n no of times n even when universe sent him the live of life the show writers unnecessarily killing tracy he couldnt keep quiet he had to go after her again for the infinith time . And the way they handled barneys exit so bad . Showing mean things infront of robin at finale as barney gave everything up for her and that made her say that she shouldve ended up with ted , and making some random chick pregnant and not even mentioning the childs mother 31 . Barney deserved better ending . Barney n robin deserved a better ending. Unnecessary blue horn finale so cringy after having two raising 2 kids . I mean robins work nature should have least bothered barney as he cares less ahout his work as he is the richest one among the five .best show if all time with the shittiest endings of all time
The show was perfectly fine, and the ending… not what is “ideal” to tie things in a nice little bow, but that’s the point…life is messy, the good, the bad, the serendipitous, the things we have to fall back on when bad things happen, the choices we make for ourselves daily lead us to very different places. And having dealt with a lot of family death myself, seeing how others handle grief in many different ways, how they cope, what their soft place was to start a new growth, maybe from their past, maybe something or someone new. This show is true to life. It’s not all about “happy endings” sometimes there’s the happy ending that does end, as with every thing… there is an end. And in a show all about choices,fate, true love and what one does when life gives you what it gives everyone…. The ending makes perfect sense. He did have his fairy tale, he did find her, but life happens and while it was great and wonderful for him and her for obviously yrs enough to have their kids, life did what it does… that’s reality…. And in reality he needs to move on, in some way, as his nature he doesn’t fair well alone. So what would others want vs what makes the most sense in that situation….. again it’s about life and life is messy, it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s both fair and unfair from situation to situation, always has been always will be, it’s complicated and is usually not cookie cutter neat little bows. It’s about how we get through even when we’ve lost our win. I wouldn’t want this show any other way then the way it is.
If you actually watched the entire series, Ted and Robin was the only thing that made sense. Relationships are intended to defy logic, atleast in this case.
I watched it beginning to end and I still believe Tracy deserves better and it doesn't make sense Robin-Barney gave up on each other and Ted went to Robin at the end.
I also think the haters are a very loud minority. Mostly young people who don't understand that you don't just move on and be done with the loves of your life. I hope they grow up, realize that Robin and Barney were NOT a good match (and downright toxic for each other), and give the show another watch.
Noo it was bad, I watched this show when it was airing the ending was so bad.. the whole last season focusing on Robin and Barney wedding just for them to get divorce 😢😢
The only thing that wasn’t in alignment about Ted and Robin was that he wanted kids and she didn’t and then couldnt have kids. Once Ted had kids, Robin and Ted were free to be the great match they always were outside of that one major misalignment.. MAJOR MISALIGNMENT 🫡
@@brandonsamuelshort9776 the last season would have been about Ted & Tracy not Barney & Robin… why put us through all this crap only to kill her off & go back to day one after we’ve realized Ted & Robin dont work
@@brandonsamuelshort9776 Marshal creates a scenario where Lilly dies of a rare illness and then he waits the appropriate amount of years to cheat on Lilly, when he wants to fantasize about other women in his mind That's the ending of the show 😂 "Fantasize about whomever you want just don't kill me off" Lilly said this But the writers actually killed the title character off Barney and Robin and Ted and the Mother is the ending of the show.. everything else is bullshit
The series went out of its way to practically club the audience over the head with the fact that Robin and Ted didn't belong together. They dedicated an entire season to Barney and Robin's wedding, yet another episode centered around Ted moving on from Robin in season 9; which by that point not only felt redundant, in light of the finale was pretty much pointless. And seeing how myopic season 9's story was, they go and yadda-yadda the next several years; with Barney and Robin breaking up - making season 9 pointless; and then the mother dies of ambiguous illness and the show spends all of a minute before having Ted move on. _And if that wasn't bad enough,_ about 9 or 10 months after the finale aired, I had the flu and was up at urgent care getting an IV for dehydration; and they gave me a remote to watch something while I laid there. Literally the only thing on that I remotely interested in watching was a How I Met Your Mother rerun. I figured, what the hell; let's give it another chance. I didn't recognize the episode right away. It turned out to be season 5. And then the B plot came back to me. The only way that Marshal can fantasize about another woman is to first picture _Lily dying of an ambiguous, undisclosed illness and then Marshal waiting "a reasonable amount of time" before envisioning the woman he wanted to fantasize about came back into his life._ I was gobsmacked. Like, are you f-ing kidding me? Carter and Craig have said they recorded reaction shots and the ending with the kids in season 2, when they realized they were going to noticeably age before the series got done. So they knew the direction they wanted the series to go in in season 2. They didn't remotely steering the plot in that direction and had to rush the conclusion. But then it turns out about half way through the series run, they decide to ripoff their own ending and not only make it the B-plot for Marshall, the other characters mock Marshall for something so convoluted. And then they still used that ending... Dumb ending. Just as importantly, a writer may have one ending in mind when they start a story, but a good writer recognizes when the story has veered them away from that conclusion and they don't try to still make it fit. They pivot to a conclusion that makes sense for where the story has ended up.
My gf has rewatched this show multiple times. I personally like some episodes but hate it overall because of how they dragging this nonsense out over the whole series only to kill the mother and him end up with Robin anyways.
I don't understand why people hated the ending. Sure it was about how Ted met the mother but if you actually watched the show the whole thing was about how Ted was sprung by Robin.
I'm sorry, the arc just isn't there. Ted & Robin were never gonna work. There are countless examples of Ted loving the romantican role while Robin mocks him, calling him cheesy. They're just different people
It’s not that I didn’t like Ted and Robin ending up together they way they execution of it was horrendous the entire last season was about robbin and Barney getting married only to have them divorce almost right after the entire last season out side of the mother side of it felt pointless
People who dislike the ending but blame it on Ted getting back with Robin making Tracy seem like a stepping stone failed to see the through line of the series. By the time Ted told the stories, he was in his 50s, Tracy has passed away for 6 years, and his kids are teenagers. Ted and Robin have always had chemistry, and like Robin said, once you have chemistry you need only one thing, timing. Admittedly Ted and Tracy also could have better timing, although Tracy might not have been ready if they met any earlier, but Ted and Tracy are obviously perfect together. There were happily together for 10 years, and raised two beautiful kids together. Ted and Robin had terrible timing prior to the finale. Ted wanted kids and Robin wanted a successful career. They also made a pact that if they were alone by the time they are old, they'd be there for one another. By the time both of them were 50, Ted's youngest would leave the house in 4 years, and Robin became the successful field reporter and is now probably an executive. The timing is finally right, and at this stage of their lives it's less about imagining what their lives will be like down the road, and just be there for one another. That's when their timing is finally right. I wish they could have spread out the information more through out season 9 to get that point across better, so I get the argument that it was executed poorly, but I get the sense that people are more angry that Barney and Robin didn't end up in a relationship that lasts, and just vent out their frustrations on Ted of Robin. The show is saying there isn't something that's just meant to be. The closest couple that embodied that fantasy is Ted and Tracy, and that's why Tracy is Ted's true soulmate. There's nothing wrong with having two best friends being there for one another late in their lives though. In fact, it's well written and true to life.
they wrote themself into a corner. You can't say she isnt the mom 2-3 episodes in then go OMG perfect girl. They are great together..... then ever bring someone else. She could have been Taylor Swift who cured cancer, helped end the Israel Palestine conflict, make vegan food paste that taste like pizza or the best steak dinner..... nothing that girl could do. Feel bad for the actress but Robin Sparkles was too good for him
The worst finale of any series. My wife and I would probably still be watching it and reruns 10 times over if it wasn't for that horrible painful ending to a comedy. It's when riders get big he goes and think they know better than the audience and want to act cool and be better than their writing friends.... This was a big fail. That's why it's not getting the big bucks on streaming like Seinfeld and the office etc
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Everybody drink! She said "but uhm" 😂😂😂
Exactly my thoughts 😂😂
Me scrolling down to see this comment at the top the same moment as she is saying it lol
that´s the general idea
@@stupled General idea *saluting*
I wasn't even born when this show started but I discovered it at 16 and I instantly fell in love with it have never loved any show this much and the ending just hurt me and I felt sad after it I thought there was something that was definitely just missing
That’s the ending to every comedy show man
Personally I don't dislike the ending itself, I dislike the execution. Mother dying? Sad, but sometimes that's life, and it makes sense that Ted would be telling the story in such detail and remembering her as being so perfect. Robin and Barney divorcing? They were fun to watch, but honestly toxic and brought out the worst in each other in my opinion, so that's fine too. Ted ending up with Robin? Their main obstacle was them wanting drastically different things in life, but at that point they had both each gotten those things, so it works. Barney relapsing after the divorce? That's in character for him. Him getting a daughter? Perfect way to make him truly grow up.
But like Cobie said, it was all done _so_ quickly. It gave you no time to process anything. We barely got to see Ted and Tracy together, we didn't get to see Barney and Robin growing apart, or Ted and Robin growing close again, or Barney growing again and becoming a good father, etc. If we would've actually seen that stuff, I really think it would've worked so much better. I mean, 17 years passed for these characters, but for the viewers it was only a few minutes, which is particularly bad when put in comparison to the amount of time that had been spent in the buildup of Barney and Robin or Ted and Tracy. Cobie said it was because they were afraid of a leak, which if true is such a bad reason to screw up your ending, especially considering the rest of the season covers a single weekend. They had the amount of episodes to do it right.
Anyway, sorry this comment got so long lol.
Over the years I've come to terms with the ending and this is basically my take as well. I understand what they were going for and have to applaud them for trying something risky like that, but it just wasn't executed properly. This is the first time I've heard of them being afraid of being a leak, and I'm sure there were lots of other small contributing factors why we got the ending we did. But honestly for all its faults, there were so many amazing moments throughout the show that I can't say that I'm willing to toss away the whole show or that it isn't worth watching just because I know how it ends. It's still an amazing journey. Besides, there's an alternate ending out there that I can always pretend is my headcanon lol.
My thoughts exactly.
Your comment is the best comment ever
Barney had matured greatly by the end they were not toxic at all but a better match for Robin. They completed each other and the chemistry between both actors just work better.
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She hit the nail on the head. The show was made to be experienced as one big story, it's similar to Arrested Development or Community in the way that it was ahead of its time the way it told a story made for binging in an age where that wasn't how you watched TV.
I think most people were shocked that Ted and Robin ended up together. I didn't think Barney and Robin made a great match, but they made a lot more sense than Robin and Ted.
Yeah Ted and Robin seems like a horrible idea, especially since he learned to (supposedly) let her go and come to peace with that so that he could find something better for himself, only to still be hung up on her..ugh. Although it did seem like the whole point of a couple seasons was Barney learning to love another person and want married life (was kind of a weird arch for him imo but it happened that way in the show)
The only thing that came between Ted and Robin was Ted wanting kids and Robin both not being able to have kids and not wanting to have kids because of her career aspirations. Once Ted already has kids and isnt looking for that from Robin anymore, they 100% made more sense than Barney and Robin. Though to be fair, both Ted and Robin and Barney and Robin had great chemistry as couples.. I think this is kind of the point of the show - that even when love doesn’t fit into the standard progression of an idealized relationship escalator it can still be both valid and beautiful and a positive thing for everyone involved
The finale was bad because they spent a full season on Barney & Robin getting married.
Cobie smulders : but em, : who else know that episode 😅😊
She is not wearing makeup! "God you are beautiful" pop star from the 90s which was the 80s in Canada lol. Slap bet
Sure we like the final
The alternative one , of course
Alternative one is trash
Keep crying about Barney and Robin 🤮💩🤢
Nothing about HIMYM screamed happy ending, Marshals dad dying, Robin can’t have kids, Lily leaving marshal, loving someone who doesn’t love you back, etc. they portrayed life, and for that, great ending.
@@snowman9642 All the examples you gave weren't the ending, so they were never about "screaming happy *ending* ". All those moments were about showing the highs and lows in a sitcom
HIMYM had highs and lows, like all other shows. Friends also showed a lot of sad moments, like Chandler realising he'll die alone, Ross cheating on Rachel, when Monica and Chandler couldn't have kids, etc. The show literally opened with Ross getting cheated on and divorced. But they still had a happy ending.
You can take other sitcoms as examples too. The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, etc all of them had happy and sad scenes, doesn't mean they didn't "scream happy ending"
It's pretty obvious for all shows to have highs and lows, just as its also obvious that it needs to end on a high. They're sitcoms, not reality shows where they have to show how messy and unpredictable real life is.
All that being said, i have made my peace with direction the ending went to, but not the execution (like Cobie said, it was extremely rushed). In contrast, the alternate ending was much more paced and felt like the closing scene
The problem is that they spent 9 years building up how perfect the mother was for Ted and how terrible Ted and Robin were together (and then Robin married one of Ted's best friends!).
And then at the end, he goes, "So, yeah, now that your mom is dead, I can finally go after the woman I always really wanted - Aunt Robin."
Lol so true and annoying
And they did too good of a job at making The Mother absolutely perfect, to the point where everyone fell in love with her immediately.
I enjoyed the final. Cause it shows you that life is not perfect. Not everyone has a perfect ending.but that does not mean you shudnt move on in life. Life is short so make the best of it.
The alternate ending wasn't all perfect either. Robin and Barney still divorce, divorce is more common irl than partner death is. But they still give hope that maybe they'll reconcile or get back together, maybe they won't. But it's hope and that's better than nothing.
Plus the show already has so much realism already, but it's always followed by how the characters got through it as better people. Neither ending shows that, but I'd rather the alternate ending as Ted finally get his happily ever after with the mother of his children (what he's been longing for forever and loses hope every passing year) than that. He doesn't go back on the show lessons: "You can't cling to the past" and "If you love something, let it go". Which btw is why Ted didn't go to Chicago. He originally wanted to go as it might be awkward hanging out after the wedding. Then he realised through Lily that he loved NY, made peace with Barney and let go of Robin for real so that when he met and fell in love with Tracy, he had no reason to leave.
The show should have been called "How I Met Your Aunt" not "How I Met Your Mother"
Tracy was just a sidekick and many are just disappointing with what the screenwriters did to her.
"This is a story about how you're in love with Aunt Robin and thinking about asking her out and wondering if we’re okay with it,” Penny Mosby bluntly stated to her dad Ted in the final moments of How I Met Your Mother.
From the moment he spotted her across the bar in 2005, Ted’s story has always been about Robin. In the series finale, we learn that Ted tells this story to his kids Penny and Luke to keep the memory of their six years-departed mother alive. Ted’s eldest Penny catches on that her dad’s story has revolved around his love for their Aunt Robin. The show ends with Penny and her brother Luke encouraging their dad to chase Robin, as he delivers a blue French horn to her door one last time.
That’s right, the mother really has been dead all along. As a nine-year viewer of the show, this is hard for me to come to terms with; it’s the theory I’ve feared most. I’ve rooted for Ted from the beginning. For every woman that broke Ted’s heart over the years, I took solace in the fact that Ted’s perfect woman was waiting for him.
*So, once the truth finally came out, I felt a little cheated.* Nine years of hearing Future Ted talk up the mother of his children and then taking her away from us the minute we get to know her seemed downright cruel.
The Mother has died, but Ted and the kids have had six years to come to terms with this. We, the audience, may have had only two minutes…
The end was extremely rushed and many are frustrated/upset that Tracy didn't get the respect and consideration she deserves.
2:55 She said it!
But um
Shot time! 🎉
I was 15 when the HIMYM debuted. I watched the show episode by episode as it aired from probably around season 2 until the conclusion. HIMYM was with me as I finished High School and went to college and even as i finished at university and entered the world of being a single 20-something. I am literally rewatching it right now and it is the 2nd or 3rd time I have rewatched it since the show ended. To this day, it might be my favorite sitcom - truly hilarious with an enormous amount of heart!! Personally, I thought the ending was PERFECT!!
I think there is a very vocal group of people who never really understood what the story was about who bashed the way the final season ended, but as Cobie says in the clip, it was very clear from season 1 that the story was about Ted and Robin finding their way back to one another. Having the story end this way was cohesive and had the entire series have a through line that just wouldnt have been there if the writers had taken it in a different direction and just done a fan service ending where Barney and Robin stay together and Ted and Tracy ride off into the sunset. The whole point of the series is that it squares with how life IS messy and real stories are rarely linear. They acknowledge that it does happen but also they it is the exception and not the rule by how they handle Marshall and Lily (which I also thought they did a wonderful job with). HIMYM is a story about how “love is the best thing we do” and how even when it’s messy or when people dont want exactly the same things and need to learn to compromise or if doesnt precisely make sense on paper, there is still value in giving and receiving love and showing up for the people who matter to you. anyway, I think the finale has some very vocal detractors (who I personally think don’t really get the show) but these days I always try to show up and voice my support for both the series as a whole and it’s ending! HIMYM is an all time great sitcom and one of my absolute favorites ❤ Legend-wait for it-DARY!!
I don’t think it’s fair to say that the people who bashed the ending didn’t understand what the overall story was. The majority opinion among the people who didn’t like it is that it was rushed and sloppy. In a final season that spent 22 of its last 24 episodes centred around Barney and Robin’s wedding, and key episodes focused on Tracy, it felt wasteful and unearned to end the story how they did in the span of the last 2 episodes.
The show should have been called "How I Met Your Aunt" not "How I Met Your Mother"
Tracy was just a sidekick and many are just disappointing with what the screenwriters did to her.
"This is a story about how you're in love with Aunt Robin and thinking about asking her out and wondering if we’re okay with it,” Penny Mosby bluntly stated to her dad Ted in the final moments of How I Met Your Mother.
From the moment he spotted her across the bar in 2005, Ted’s story has always been about Robin. In the series finale, we learn that Ted tells this story to his kids Penny and Luke to keep the memory of their six years-departed mother alive. Ted’s eldest Penny catches on that her dad’s story has revolved around his love for their Aunt Robin. The show ends with Penny and her brother Luke encouraging their dad to chase Robin, as he delivers a blue French horn to her door one last time.
That’s right, the mother really has been dead all along. As a nine-year viewer of the show, this is hard for me to come to terms with; it’s the theory I’ve feared most. I’ve rooted for Ted from the beginning. For every woman that broke Ted’s heart over the years, I took solace in the fact that Ted’s perfect woman was waiting for him.
*So, once the truth finally came out, I felt a little cheated.* Nine years of hearing Future Ted talk up the mother of his children and then taking her away from us the minute we get to know her seemed downright cruel.
The Mother has died, but Ted and the kids have had six years to come to terms with this. We, the audience, may have had only two minutes…
The end was extremely rushed and many are frustrated/upset that Tracy didn't get the respect and consideration she deserves.
@@mickaellandry9726
First of all, shows don’t have to telegraph their stories in the title. 🤷🏼♂️
Despite the title, Tracy was just a side character. She was introduced in the finale of the 8th season of a 9 season show! That said, I would argue that the way Ted talks about her throughout and the way we feel in the moments we do get with Tracy does amount to giving her the respect and consideration she deserves, though. Particularly the episode where Ted is left alone int he bar and talks about what he would have done if he’d known about Tracy 45 days before he met her is a great example of that.
You’re absolutely right to feel cheated to not get more time with Tracy and to feel frustrated that she was taken away so soon and that we/Ted didn’t get to spend more time with her. I would argue that WAS the writers intent because that’s how it feels to have someone you plan to spend forever with die young. It was taking the audience on an emotional journey and it was REALLY well executed in that the lack of time with Tracy puts us as viewers in a position that we feel what Ted feels when his time with her is cut short by tragically losing her.
I feel like people who are upset with where the story ended up are missing the whole point of the show being that love is rarely as linear and uncomplicated as it is in Hollywood movies and part of the risk of opening your heart to love is that you expose yourself to heartbreak and loss. Life sometimes surprises you and while sometimes those can be positive surprises, they aren’t always good news, yet we have to do the best we can to love, keep close and look out for the people who matter to us.
Perhaps Ted finally getting his “perfect” woman only to have her ripped away is a commentary by the writing team about how we could all stand to be less attached to storybook outcomes and in stead focus on making the most of the time we have with the people who are special to us and appreciating deep meaningful connections even when they don’t fit into a traditional template or follow the typical relationship escalator. Regardless of the fact that she couldn’t have children with him (and also had a conflicting path and wasn’t sure she even wanted to before recieving her tragic news earlier in the run of the show), Robin was/is/has been another pretty much ideal match for Ted in a ton of ways. In real life, love is messy and complicated and not-always-linear, yet it’s still valid and valuable and beautiful - both Ted’s love for Tracy and his love for Robin.
As someone who has loved someone who passed away wayyyyyyy before her time, this show really squared with those themes and feelings of love and loss and finding the strength to try to be vulnerable again after being hurt in a way that your typical Hollywood love stories just don’t. The grief, the regrets, the anger that such a thing could happen, the frustration at how difficult it can be to open up and take the leap only to have your heart ripped out when things take an unexpected turn, sometimes against the will of all involved and outside of anyone’s control. These themes are present in Tracy’s story as well with her losing her partner and then coming back from that to give things a real chance with Ted. It’s a deep and emotionally complex set of themes that aren’t all sunshine and rainbows, but I think a lot of viewers who are upset they had to go through that are missing the point that that’s how it feels to lose someone who is your whole world. THAT is the point of the show.. it’s a story about coming through tragedy and darkness and still finding hope and vulnerability again to open up to happiness, which I think is a totally valid and beautiful message.
Agreed. When I rewatch the show nowadays binging style, just as Cobie says, it makes perfect sense for HIMYM to spend whole that time for such an ending.
On first watch, the ending is kind of confusing. However, after re-watching it with the ending in mind I found new perspectives on the show and it made a lot of sense. I’ve got some opinions on certain decisions they made, but I still like it. The story was never about the mother, Ted had his happy life with her even though it wasn’t as long as he wanted. The mother in this story was a Red Herring. The story is about the trails and tribulations Ted faced with Robin in his past that makes it complicated for him falling for her again after all the time that’s passed, especially with his kids in mind.
I love How I met your mother but the ending was ridiculous and rushed
It couldn’t have been rushed the whole thing was foreshadowed they took their time with it
@niragirajacques8943 Tracey's death was well foreshadowed in season 9, the eventual reunion of Ted and Robyn was clumsy and lazy imo
Exactly
For me, it's just rushed not ridiculous. I really wish I could see more episodes about all of them growing up and having a new life. At least half of the season instead of making Barney & Robin's wedding for almost the whole season, but then they end up divorced lol
The problem with how it was structured was we spent an entire season on one weekend, then the finale spans 15 years. Ted’s kids’ reactions seem like they don’t give a shit about their dead mom because we just found out she was dead 2 minutes beforehand (despite the foreshadowing), but in canon she’s been dead for 6 years and they’ve healed from it. It’s just emotional whiplash for the viewers and makes it feel like the mother was being thrown aside and that Tracy was just a plot device to get Ted back to Robin
Ted was the biggest simp in sitcom history. Bro dated this girl for a year and still carried the torch for her 24 years, 2 kids and a dead wife later.
He was the worst loser of all times.
Simp would've left the wife for her. He didn't.
@@JoybuzzerX your comment makes absolutely no sense
Barney and Robin were married and travelling the world because of Robin's career when Ted met Tracy. How was he supposed to "leave the wife for her" when she was married and halfway across the world from him?
And he already had a kid (Penny) by the time everyone got to know about B&R's breakup. You think Ted is not a simp because he didn't leave his girlfriend and baby daughter for her? What kind of logic is that?
*Just because Ted and Tracy were perfect for each other and meant to be, doesn't mean that Ted didn't simp for Robin* The guy literally hosted 3 parties in 3 nights just to be able to see her. He got shot down repeatedly, even after surprised her with a blue instrument band dozens of rose bouquets at her own house. He finally had to resort to try and make it rain just for her to yes to him
He even used Robin's vulnerability at times to his advantage. Don broke up with Robin and she goes to Ted, so what do they do? Almost kiss till Robin sees that Ted is blonde.
Robin tells Ted that Kevin took back the ring and broke up, and what did ted do? He told Robin he loved her and kissed her.
Ted Mosby is one of the kindest and most magnificent fictional characters ever written. Most optimistic also. Always looking at the positive.
@@justarandomguy4844 Besides the cut scene, we see Ted talking to Robin after the divorce while with Tracy. So he could've left Tracy.
Ted is a romantic who makes big gestures. Robin realizes that when talking to a doctor about him.
Falling in love with someone doesn't mean simp, and if you stop living them, were you ever really in love with them?
I loved the ending. That doesn't mean I think it was perfect. The montage rushed things. I wish they did a couple more episodes to extend that out and I think it would've played out better.
I want HIMYM REUNION!!!
We won't get it. they think the finale is good haha
Only if it picks up from the alternate ending.
@@qui-gonrick7002 the alternate ending is worthless. it's great but meaningless
#teambarney
People who don’t like the ending don’t get the show
@@AlexCrean Well, that would be most people.
The finale it self is ok. The idea, is that this is life and happy endings can be ruined is okay.
You just dont make a whole season about Wedding between Barney and Robin, so you can separate them in the last episode and then rush a lot of things in 2 episodes.
Have you heard about pacing?
And yea, Victoria was right. Ted loves Robin and if not Mother, he would chase her even then
I wonder if that was the intended outcome from the beginning, or just the one that worked out because they hadn't come up with a better alternative over 9 seasons? As far as liking the end: I don't know if it was the rushed montage, but it left me personally feeling a bit boondoggled. Like, I was invested for so long, but not allowed to savor it when it came. Just kind of strange.
I always thought that Ted would end up with Robin.
All the people complaining about it did not pay attention to what was actually going on in the characters. Cobie is very right: If you watch it all together (and don't just dismiss seasons 1-3) this was the only ending that actually made sense. There are too many foreshadowing moments and hints that part of Robin and Ted NEVER stopped loving each other.
it also foreshadows that life doesn't plan on having a romantic happy ever after with the soulmate of your life either. I appreciate the finale more now that I have had family who passed on very young and had enough life to see others who lost a spouse early on. Finding love again doesn't mean that they didn't love their spouse.
I watched the sitcom all together, and the original ending really sucks. Never mind if the wife died, but Ted returning again to his obsession of the past?. That's what I find terrible.
The alternate ending is definitely better.
Or this ending it's better: th-cam.com/video/hHYg6Q7HIaQ/w-d-xo.html
I didn't get that at all. It felt more like they shoe-horned in a moment every season to prepare us for the already planned ending. For example, Ted telling Robin he loved her after she broke up with Kevin was so jarring and out of nowhere. Same as the locket storyline, having the flashback of Robin getting drunk when Ted is marrying Stella, the long terms bet between Marshall and Lily. Again, feels like lazy story telling to me. I can practically see the board in the writers room titled "sprinkles of Ted and Robin romance to remind audience that they are a thing"
the only problem with the finale is it was all squeezed in few minutes, we needed to see episodes about each of these topics: robin and barney's wedding, meeting the mother, life of the main couple their wedding kids etc and funeral, kids learning the story and ted starts to date robin again. And after robin, barney shouldn't have got back to the old times like finding chick every night, thats obviously not barney anymore and no 31st's kid ofc.
It is absolutely correct to say that it makes sense that they would end up together... if you ignore all the parts that contradict that.
I just finished binging the show on Netflix (all 9 seasons in a couple weeks) and boy howdy was I a strong advocate of Robin and Ted for the majority of the run time. But, by the time Ted confessed his love to Robin after her breakup with Kevin, I was about done with it (as in I was still onboard, but I just couldn't hang in there for that much longer).
When Robin rejected Ted, we go through an arc of Ted accepting rejection and moving on. The first big scene about Ted moving on was when he revoked the deal to get married to Robin if they were both single at 40. While that scene doesn't resolve Ted's feelings, it sets in stone how Robin feels, meaning that Ted (and the audience) need to move on.
Later, Robin gets engaged to Barney, which only further solidifies that Ted (and the audience) need to move on. Of course, there was always a chance that Ted would break up the wedding, until the episode where he finally let's go of Robin.
I don't remember which episode it is, but its the one with Robin and Ted sitting at the beach while looking for a very drunken Barney. During this scene, Ted literally lets go of Robin and let's her float into the atmosphere, paralleling the time where he let go of a balloon (albeit by accident) that was his best friend as a 7 year old). This scene is the moment where Ted accepts that he isn't going to end up with Robin, and finally moves on. And, having this closure, he opens himself up more to other opportunities and ultimately decides not to leave New York (which he wanted to do to avoid the awkwardness of his true love being married to his best friend.
So yeah, I can see why it makes sense that Ted and Robin would end up together, but there are a few really big plot points that mark out the reasons that they absolutely shouldn't have wound up together.
Plus, the pacing of the last couple episodes was wild. I mean, Ted finally wind up with "the one," but then it is announced that she is dead and before the audience has time to accept this truth (and move on) Ted is all over Robin again. Thematically, it makes sense, since Ted has had 6 years to mourn, but the audience has well under less than a minute to reconcile with this twist and accept the ending. It's just too much to process that quickly.
I have no problem Ted getting back to Robin at the end, if that is the writers' vision
But it was rather weird, that we spent 1 whole season building up to Barney changing, but to immediately changed him back to his normal self in 10 mins at the end
I like the ending because it was different from all the millions of “ happily ever after” endings we already have, to introduce death in a season finale is bold very bold, but very real, which is something I always enjoyed about this show.
The ending was perfect, ted and robin together were perfect for each other since the beginning and im glad the haters dont get their ending.
I enjoyed HIMYM from start to finish. I wish we had more stories with Tracy because she was a lovely character and had great chemistry with Ted, but I thought the ending was logical and satisfying.
Great conversation. Rare.
I watch it from beginning to end when it aired, and i loved the finale, because, there were episodes that it was implied that the mother was dead, so there was q point when I thought “this is not about the mother at all, this is about Ted and Robin”. I thought because it always came back to them, if Ted and Robin were just a phase they wouldn’t bring it up that much in a series over all seasons (yes, on all 9 seasons they always came back to Ted and Robin in one way or another).
It's not that I hated Ted and Robin getting together but we got far too less of Ted and Tracy.
She was THE mother. There had to be more of her and the life with Ted.
The show wasn't called "my life dating your mother".. They where never going to go far beyond when they met.. Be glad we got to see some of the major highlights of their relationship
Ted and Robin were always supposed to end up together they were like Ross and Rachel
@@mullaoslo by that logic, the show also wasn't called "getting my kids' approval to bang their aunt Robin", but we still had that ending.
Why do the kids say that Ted told the whole story to show much he loved Robin. Was the series named "i love your aunt robin"?
Also, by your logic, the show is named "How i met your mother" so why didn't the show end on that scene, of Ted meeting Tracy at the station? Why does it go on for a few minutes and end the same way S1E1 ended, with Ted outside Robin's house holding a blue french horn?
We had a lot of snippets of the future like Marshal's Supreme Court race, Barney having a kid, Lily and Marshal being pregnant for the third time, Ted restarting his architectural firm, Ted and Tracy being pregnant with Luke (their second kid).
So adding a few scenes of Ted and Tracy's dating life doesn't need a title change. It also wouldn't have changed anything but give a lot of closure to the show and the fans
I think the last season should have been structured differently so part of the season is the wedding but the rest would have been the finale events spread out over multiple episodes so it felt more organic. It was insanely rushed timeline wise and on that day, Ted and Robin didn't make sense and fans loved Tracy and barely got to see her and Ted together. I get what she says about they didn't want stuff to leak but it just wasn't a well structured episode or even season. I think from where they were on the date it was airing, they should have gone with the alternate ending. That made more sense with how everything was teed up till that point.
The ending wasn’t really true to the character arcs and made everything we've been told meaningless. We were told for years that they don't work, he finally lets her go and it makes sense. Then randomly at the end that's all totally pointless. Then Barney who has an amazing arc, is completely ripped apart. Just writers not adapting to a changing environment. So so bad. Great show minus the ending.
It’s not the ending itself in that it wasn’t realistic it was that Ted and Robin did not want the same things. Their takes on life are so different and it was made obvious from season one and as the series went on their differences made them even more not right for each other. So it wasn’t that opposites can’t be together it’s fundamental principles on life and what they deem as important were so different that realistically they were never going to work at all. She really did have more in common or aligned with Barney and that’s why it was so infuriating to watch at the end.
The finale was very bad, robin and barney should have never been separated, ted shouldn't haven regressed to a creepy stalker in thr end
Creepy stalker???
Do you have truma or something?
Barney is the greatest creepy stalker in TV history
Also Robin and Barney were the worst couple ever 🤮
So yeah glad they got divorced
Robin actually wanted to run away with Ted in her wedding day so that really showed who was the better man 😂😂
@@vootvoot9180 not arguing who the better man is, but your reasoning is completely wrong.
Stella ran off with Tony, so does that mean he's a better man that Ted? This is the same Tony who later on breaks up with Stella because of his conversation with Ted. So of course not, he's not better than Ted
Barney and Robin weren't a great couple, but Ted and Robin were also horrible and this is shown multiple times throughout the series
Ted wasn’t a creepy stalker in the end.. sounds like you need to rewatch the Dobbler/Dahmer episode. Robin was feeling it, so Ted is definitely Dobbler
Terrible take
No one that was watching the show at the time that it was running thought the mom was gonna make it. I remember spending time in forums where we discussed how the mom had to die. We weren't expecting Robin, because as she said we were all pro Barney and Robin. But as she said with a rewatch of the show as a whole you can pick out just how many times they let us know indirectly that the mom was going to pass.
I love the ending. It was amazing. I watch the show twice a year, all the way through. The last 2 eps are the best of the series, if you watch them in order and get the premise. ❤
As a new watcher (gotta love Netflix) I kinda thought all along the final catharsis was going to be Ted and Robin finding their way back together. It can be explained by simple mellowing of views over time on both their parts. I honestly think this could have end at season 5 with the sea ond half of that season being dedicated to them finding their way back together. It was certainly a rushed finalefor sure, but I can find more problems with the early season ove-arch not aligning with this, you know the standard writer technique of over-playing a relationships struggling for the sake of sexual tension holding the interest when other storyline is poor, than just the last episode errors.
It was a Perfect For me I probably watched How I Met Your Mother so many times.... Ted received is dreams he bought the house and had kids . ...So did Robin she became a great TV broadcaster she was also a great Reporter ... The Ending of the show was great to me
I didn’t mind the ending/series finale the first go-around watching it. I had quibbles with how they structured the last season. But after just finishing the second go-around, I didn’t mind the last season’s structure. Was it messy and at times, sad? Yes. But as I’ve aged with the show, I’ve come to realize just how much the show reflects our lives and that we have to accept the blessings as they come. It’s a lesson I’ve re-learned over and over and I didn’t mind Ted’s kids reminding him of that lesson… For those kids would be wise beyond their years after the death of their dearly departed mother, who’s now making the Penguin’s life hell over in Gotham. Haha. 🤣
She’s a good interviewer
2:55 Bottoms Up guys!!
I liked the series finale quite a bit.
But, I binged it, so I think my experience was a bit different than the people who watched it over the 9 years because, for me the first season was 4-5 months back instead of almost a decade.
The ending was perfect! Like real life stuff happens !
Love the show. Last season/episodes of shows are usually not as good as the rest of the show. I thought HIMYM could have gone on longer and I didn't want it to end but I was ok with how the show ended.
It is so wild that the actors who played the 2 young kids knew the ending the whole entire time.
That's just 🤯
The inherent problem is that the showrunners essentially said, "No tapbacks". In S1E1, she's revealed as Aunt Robin, and so it gets written off. This creates a problem because of how long the show ended up running. This was 10 *years* of time where we saw every iteration of Ted and Robin, and it just always ended badly. They weren't good as a couple. As friends, yes, as a couple no. It wasn't like they got together once in the show, it was literally multiple times. Then we get the whole thing in the final season of Ted letting Robin go, fully moving past it, only for it to then get reversed. At the same time, We spent an entire season on Barney and Robin's wedding for it to be blown up within five minutes. It wasn't just the one part, but the whole of it. Long-running shows have to be able to pivot over time. Yeah, Breaking Bad ended on a down note, but it was always heading that way, and it wasn't on the air that long. Here, it was 10 years, with longer seasons than current day. We had so much time with everyone, and the ending was a leftover from S1E1, which was really a very different set of characters by that point.
The mother dying was pulled WAY too quickly, and while we see reactions from the kids, it's never them reacting like kids whose Mom died, even after he JUST finished telling them about her death within the story. Like, seriously?
And the third issue: This meant that NONE of the "mothers" mattered along the way. Not Victoria, not Claire, and not even the mother ultimately. The entire crux of the show was centered around this, and to get all the way to the end, again, after 10 years of investment to find that out, it ruined it for a lot of people.
Ok so a couple of things, Robin in one episode narrated a day of hers and she was speaking to her kids where she referred to Barnie as their "father". But we learn later that Robin can't have kids, so i assume she and Barnie adopted kids. But in the ending it was never shown that this happened as her and Barnie separated ways.
Does that mean that after her and Ted get together in the ending, do they just end up breaking up again? and then Robin and Barnie adopt children and keep the child that Barnie already has?
in the end of that episode she explains that the kids were fake, she was just imagining what it would’ve been like
The kids in that episode were a story device. It was established in the episode that they didn’t exist
The kids in that episode were fake
Barney and Robin are never gonna end up together
Ted will always be with Robin ❤
having a plan from the begining doesn't mean you should follow up on it. even if they shot the kids doing that kind of reaction in the first season, they could have just nor used it and just shot a whole new one. nothing about the end made any sense. no storyline made sense at the end whatsoever. the whole show was amazing and is still one of my favourite shows of all time. but the last season ruined all the great work they had done throughout the previous 8 seasons.
i don't care of it was foreshadowed or not, because foreshadowing only works if you build the story towards what you foreshadowed which they did not on the show. they had the best couple which was Barney and Robin and then gave the best chemistry between Ted and Tracey the mom just the rip it off because they foreshadowed something else. the entirety of the last season doesn't make any sense because it was all about Robin and Barney overcoming their fears and finally getting married, but again they ripped that off with one scene in the last episode.
Shot a new one? The kids were 9 years older by then.
No robin and barney were so meant for each other . Also even of you forget the stupid ending which was completely unnecessary because after spending ome full season and 2 alpha dogs like robin n barney geling n so in sync , ted was always desperate to get robin like everytime barney doses off ted jumps at robin, the carousel thing barney was spending time with robin’s dad yet he came as robin called but ted raced there and put barney in a bad position, went for the locket, tried to desperately go after rohin n no of times n even when universe sent him the live of life the show writers unnecessarily killing tracy he couldnt keep quiet he had to go after her again for the infinith time . And the way they handled barneys exit so bad . Showing mean things infront of robin at finale as barney gave everything up for her and that made her say that she shouldve ended up with ted , and making some random chick pregnant and not even mentioning the childs mother 31 . Barney deserved better ending . Barney n robin deserved a better ending. Unnecessary blue horn finale so cringy after having two raising 2 kids . I mean robins work nature should have least bothered barney as he cares less ahout his work as he is the richest one among the five .best show if all time with the shittiest endings of all time
salty ted hater🤣
Cry harder
Barney and Robin were the worst couple ever 🤮🤮
Glad Ted got Robin at the end ❤
I personally loved the finale…. The story was always about ted and robin and how he never let go..
I like the ending - it made sense to me. 👌🏻
The show was perfectly fine, and the ending… not what is “ideal” to tie things in a nice little bow, but that’s the point…life is messy, the good, the bad, the serendipitous, the things we have to fall back on when bad things happen, the choices we make for ourselves daily lead us to very different places. And having dealt with a lot of family death myself, seeing how others handle grief in many different ways, how they cope, what their soft place was to start a new growth, maybe from their past, maybe something or someone new. This show is true to life. It’s not all about “happy endings” sometimes there’s the happy ending that does end, as with every thing… there is an end. And in a show all about choices,fate, true love and what one does when life gives you what it gives everyone…. The ending makes perfect sense. He did have his fairy tale, he did find her, but life happens and while it was great and wonderful for him and her for obviously yrs enough to have their kids, life did what it does… that’s reality…. And in reality he needs to move on, in some way, as his nature he doesn’t fair well alone. So what would others want vs what makes the most sense in that situation….. again it’s about life and life is messy, it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s both fair and unfair from situation to situation, always has been always will be, it’s complicated and is usually not cookie cutter neat little bows. It’s about how we get through even when we’ve lost our win. I wouldn’t want this show any other way then the way it is.
If you actually watched the entire series, Ted and Robin was the only thing that made sense. Relationships are intended to defy logic, atleast in this case.
I love me a twist ending so I loved the finale !
She’s so preety
she is the most beautiful
There are so many people who like the finale, I included.
You are weird
Correction : me, included
@@shreeyasethi1490classic shmosby
There are also so many people who love nonsense
I have a feeling there's an overlap in this one
@@boazlichtman4323I'm not going to do it now but I could have given you VERY long explanation of why I love the ending..
I watched it beginning to end and I still believe Tracy deserves better and it doesn't make sense Robin-Barney gave up on each other and Ted went to Robin at the end.
I didn't like the end at the time but it has sort of grown on me after the years.
I also think the haters are a very loud minority. Mostly young people who don't understand that you don't just move on and be done with the loves of your life. I hope they grow up, realize that Robin and Barney were NOT a good match (and downright toxic for each other), and give the show another watch.
in my experience, HIMYM haters are extremely loud in general, not just about the ending.
the mayority are the fans who hated the finale tbh
Wow. A wise oldass
You may be right, but Ted and Robyn were not a good match either.
Noo it was bad, I watched this show when it was airing the ending was so bad.. the whole last season focusing on Robin and Barney wedding just for them to get divorce 😢😢
Ending was satisfying for me
Barney got what he deserved
Ted was meant to be with Robin
But was Robin meant to be with Ted? Don't think so
@@reeegs90
Yes they were meant to be
Just the time wasn't right.
And at the end it was the good time
The only thing that wasn’t in alignment about Ted and Robin was that he wanted kids and she didn’t and then couldnt have kids. Once Ted had kids, Robin and Ted were free to be the great match they always were outside of that one major misalignment.. MAJOR MISALIGNMENT 🫡
@@AlexCreanyeah timing was a bitch
Loved the show. Putting Barney and Robin together was the worst decision in TV history
This show went on a few years too long and ended badly. I tried rewatchint some of it ane it's pretty flat. Very much a relic of its time
She's soooo beautiful ❤
Robin sparkles made the show.. seriously
The ending was ridiculousy horrible
How would you have ended it, genius script-writer?
@@brandonsamuelshort9776 the last season would have been about Ted & Tracy not Barney & Robin… why put us through all this crap only to kill her off & go back to day one after we’ve realized Ted & Robin dont work
@@brandonsamuelshort9776 Marshal creates a scenario where Lilly dies of a rare illness and then he waits the appropriate amount of years to cheat on Lilly, when he wants to fantasize about other women in his mind
That's the ending of the show 😂
"Fantasize about whomever you want just don't kill me off" Lilly said this
But the writers actually killed the title character off
Barney and Robin and Ted and the Mother is the ending of the show.. everything else is bullshit
Legendary show with legendary ending
And yes I was glad when Barney and Robin got divorce 🤣🤣
I don’t understand what about the ending people didn’t like? The show is called “How I Met Your Mother” so idk why Ted meeting Tracy was a bad ending.
The ending was the reason I never re watched the show
The series went out of its way to practically club the audience over the head with the fact that Robin and Ted didn't belong together. They dedicated an entire season to Barney and Robin's wedding, yet another episode centered around Ted moving on from Robin in season 9; which by that point not only felt redundant, in light of the finale was pretty much pointless.
And seeing how myopic season 9's story was, they go and yadda-yadda the next several years; with Barney and Robin breaking up - making season 9 pointless; and then the mother dies of ambiguous illness and the show spends all of a minute before having Ted move on.
_And if that wasn't bad enough,_ about 9 or 10 months after the finale aired, I had the flu and was up at urgent care getting an IV for dehydration; and they gave me a remote to watch something while I laid there. Literally the only thing on that I remotely interested in watching was a How I Met Your Mother rerun. I figured, what the hell; let's give it another chance.
I didn't recognize the episode right away. It turned out to be season 5. And then the B plot came back to me. The only way that Marshal can fantasize about another woman is to first picture _Lily dying of an ambiguous, undisclosed illness and then Marshal waiting "a reasonable amount of time" before envisioning the woman he wanted to fantasize about came back into his life._
I was gobsmacked. Like, are you f-ing kidding me? Carter and Craig have said they recorded reaction shots and the ending with the kids in season 2, when they realized they were going to noticeably age before the series got done. So they knew the direction they wanted the series to go in in season 2. They didn't remotely steering the plot in that direction and had to rush the conclusion. But then it turns out about half way through the series run, they decide to ripoff their own ending and not only make it the B-plot for Marshall, the other characters mock Marshall for something so convoluted.
And then they still used that ending... Dumb ending.
Just as importantly, a writer may have one ending in mind when they start a story, but a good writer recognizes when the story has veered them away from that conclusion and they don't try to still make it fit. They pivot to a conclusion that makes sense for where the story has ended up.
I agree, If you watched straight from Season 1 to Season 9 without skipping, the ending makes sense.
My gf has rewatched this show multiple times. I personally like some episodes but hate it overall because of how they dragging this nonsense out over the whole series only to kill the mother and him end up with Robin anyways.
but umm. Drink up 😉🍻
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I don't understand why people hated the ending. Sure it was about how Ted met the mother but if you actually watched the show the whole thing was about how Ted was sprung by Robin.
Him: I loved the ending of HIMYM.
Me: Lies, Lies, Lies!
I'm sorry, the arc just isn't there. Ted & Robin were never gonna work. There are countless examples of Ted loving the romantican role while Robin mocks him, calling him cheesy. They're just different people
Aint no way you loved that ending
They wanted to not be like Friends and ended up being like Friends
Wonderful interview with Tron
Sure 9 years is enough for the main show ... but give them a spin-off will all that content laid out in those final montage's.
It’s not that I didn’t like Ted and Robin ending up together they way they execution of it was horrendous the entire last season was about robbin and Barney getting married only to have them divorce almost right after the entire last season out side of the mother side of it felt pointless
I just want to hear her scream patrice!!!! No one asked you patrice,!
What the hell happened? She hit the wall bad... she used to be so hot in that show, 15 years ago!
The ending would have been great if there was no relationship between Barney and Robin. This relationship kinda spoiled the ending. It became weird.
Kinda true
People moved on from Robin & Ted. Unfortunately the series didn’t, and that’s why the ending sucks.
Robyn and Barney was perfect together ❤
Ew no they weren’t 🤮🤢
She seems cool as fuck. And obviously she’s a smoke (still)
People who dislike the ending but blame it on Ted getting back with Robin making Tracy seem like a stepping stone failed to see the through line of the series. By the time Ted told the stories, he was in his 50s, Tracy has passed away for 6 years, and his kids are teenagers. Ted and Robin have always had chemistry, and like Robin said, once you have chemistry you need only one thing, timing. Admittedly Ted and Tracy also could have better timing, although Tracy might not have been ready if they met any earlier, but Ted and Tracy are obviously perfect together. There were happily together for 10 years, and raised two beautiful kids together.
Ted and Robin had terrible timing prior to the finale. Ted wanted kids and Robin wanted a successful career. They also made a pact that if they were alone by the time they are old, they'd be there for one another. By the time both of them were 50, Ted's youngest would leave the house in 4 years, and Robin became the successful field reporter and is now probably an executive. The timing is finally right, and at this stage of their lives it's less about imagining what their lives will be like down the road, and just be there for one another. That's when their timing is finally right.
I wish they could have spread out the information more through out season 9 to get that point across better, so I get the argument that it was executed poorly, but I get the sense that people are more angry that Barney and Robin didn't end up in a relationship that lasts, and just vent out their frustrations on Ted of Robin. The show is saying there isn't something that's just meant to be. The closest couple that embodied that fantasy is Ted and Tracy, and that's why Tracy is Ted's true soulmate. There's nothing wrong with having two best friends being there for one another late in their lives though. In fact, it's well written and true to life.
We found the one guy who liked the finale
they wrote themself into a corner. You can't say she isnt the mom 2-3 episodes in then go OMG perfect girl. They are great together..... then ever bring someone else. She could have been Taylor Swift who cured cancer, helped end the Israel Palestine conflict, make vegan food paste that taste like pizza or the best steak dinner..... nothing that girl could do. Feel bad for the actress but Robin Sparkles was too good for him
The worst finale of any series. My wife and I would probably still be watching it and reruns 10 times over if it wasn't for that horrible painful ending to a comedy. It's when riders get big he goes and think they know better than the audience and want to act cool and be better than their writing friends.... This was a big fail. That's why it's not getting the big bucks on streaming like Seinfeld and the office etc
The whole final season was one big episode starting season 9 episode 2. And it was horrendous. They ruined the show with that season
Dude why is she soooo hot
I loved the ending❤
Is that Jory
the ending doesn't matter. the show is not about who with whom ends up. It's about unconditional friendship.
No offense to let's go to the mall, but I feel like I would be whispering PS I Love You... 🤣🤣
nobody like the ending because its sad, its too real for folks lol
I didn't care for the ending at all. Cobie is cool, but seemed a little condescending here. I just can't watch the show after the lousy ending.
the ending makes sense especially if you watch those extra blooper scenes with ted and robin getting brunch
That ending sucked.