HIMYM - I think it's time...

[Skyesthelimit1212]

That I let my heart feel again.

I miss Lily and Marshall and I could use a little more Barney in my life. I can always ignore Robin right???

Ted keep the couch free, i feel like watching Star Wars.

[steph196]

I miss them too. I felt like they were my friends, even though that sounds totally strange.

[mbcdefg]

I'm so pissed at that halfassed ending that I can't watch reruns anymore.

I still like Jason Segel, and NPH is so charming in real life that I can overlook Barney being a total dirtbag. But, Josh Radnor, I hate your face.

[Skyesthelimit1212]

Oct 11, 2014 11:07:58 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I'm so pissed at that halfassed ending that I can't watch reruns anymore.

I still like Jason Segel, and NPH is so charming in real life that I can overlook Barney being a total dirtbag. But, Josh Radnor, I hate your face.

I heard about the ending before i watched the eps, so to this day I still haven't watched it.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 11, 2014 12:04:35 GMT -5 Skyesthelimit1212 said:

Oct 11, 2014 11:07:58 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I'm so pissed at that halfassed ending that I can't watch reruns anymore.

I still like Jason Segel, and NPH is so charming in real life that I can overlook Barney being a total dirtbag. But, Josh Radnor, I hate your face.

I heard about the ending before i watched the eps, so to this day I still haven't watched it.

The ending would have made sense if it had immediately followed season 2 or 3.

[Skyesthelimit1212]

Oct 11, 2014 12:11:06 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Oct 11, 2014 12:04:35 GMT -5 Skyesthelimit1212 said:

I heard about the ending before i watched the eps, so to this day I still haven't watched it.

The ending would have made sense if it had immediately followed season 2 or 3.

It sucks that they killed the wife, but i wish they would have at least put him back with the baker chick. I srsly you killed the wife and then divorced Robin and Barney. It's too much.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 11, 2014 12:21:47 GMT -5 Skyesthelimit1212 said:

Oct 11, 2014 12:11:06 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

The ending would have made sense if it had immediately followed season 2 or 3.

It sucks that they killed the wife, but i wish they would have at least put him back with the baker chick. I srsly you killed the wife and then divorced Robin and Barney. It's too much.

I didn't like that they had multiple flashbacks/flash forwards/whatever of Ted wearing a wedding ring when his kids were babies, and then in the finale they completely ignored that to say that he didn't marry The Mother until the kids were about 5.

It was like the creators just decided that they were going forward with the ending they'd conceived before the show started, even if what the show had been through in the last few seasons couldn't reasonably accommodate that ending.

[Skyesthelimit1212]

Oct 11, 2014 13:00:36 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

Oct 11, 2014 12:21:47 GMT -5 Skyesthelimit1212 said:

It sucks that they killed the wife, but i wish they would have at least put him back with the baker chick. I srsly you killed the wife and then divorced Robin and Barney. It's too much.

I didn't like that they had multiple flashbacks/flash forwards/whatever of Ted wearing a wedding ring when his kids were babies, and then in the finale they completely ignored that to say that he didn't marry The Mother until the kids were about 5.

It was like the creators just decided that they were going forward with the ending they'd conceived before the show started, even if what the show had been through in the last few seasons couldn't reasonably accommodate that ending.

I think they admitted that. They said something like in the 2nd season they had intended Ted and Robin to end up together regardless.

[mbcdefg]

Oct 11, 2014 13:45:38 GMT -5 Skyesthelimit1212 said:

Oct 11, 2014 13:00:36 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

I didn't like that they had multiple flashbacks/flash forwards/whatever of Ted wearing a wedding ring when his kids were babies, and then in the finale they completely ignored that to say that he didn't marry The Mother until the kids were about 5.

It was like the creators just decided that they were going forward with the ending they'd conceived before the show started, even if what the show had been through in the last few seasons couldn't reasonably accommodate that ending.

I think they admitted that. They said something like in the 2nd season they had intended Ted and Robin to end up together regardless.

I heard the same thing. But in that case they should've ended several years ago, or taken more care with the scripts for the last season or two.

It pisses me off that they kept saying, "We're going to 9 seasons because we have more of the story to tell" ... then not only did the last couple seasons' worth of stories suck a big fat one, but in the end they just didn't matter anyway because all of the groundwork and hints they had laid got completely shoved to the side in the finale.

It was totally for the money. They completely jerked their fans around and pretended to be these deep artistic souls who had a poignant and meaningful story to tell. Instead they slapped some complete bullshit together, did whatever the hell they wanted to for the end even though it didn't fit into the storyline in the slightest, and then they walked away from a flaming train wreck while counting their cash.

In case you can't tell, I'm really angry at the ending, lol.

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I still don't buy that Robin would ever have married Barney. That seemed out of character for both of them. I don't believe that Barney would have committed to anyone, or that Robin would have taken that risk with someone like him.

It also felt cruel to me when they killed off the mother. All that build-up for 9 years, only to kill her within a few episodes? It was cheap!

[Skyesthelimit1212]

@stargazer, Idk, I think they might have if they "reached at certain age." But at the point in the show, NO.

I 150% agree with you about the mother. Srly, they built her up so much and they made her seems so awesome, the perfect fit for Ted, the house, the kids, the dumb jokes. I pictured her on the porch, and then they go and kill her. F.Off writer's of HIMYM!

Now I'm not so sure I want to start watching it again. LOL

[mbcdefg]

I don't even care so much that they killed The Mother off (well, I mean, it was crappy and lazy, but I get why it was "necessary" for the storyline) ...

I hated that they brought her in during the last season just to kill some time, and then her death was pretty much an afterthought in the last two minutes of the finale. And they never explained why she was so wonderful and perfect for Ted, and why he just magically forgot about Robin once The Mother came along. He was supposedly deeply in love with Robin on the morning of Robin's wedding and then *poof* this mystery woman just cured him of it? It was just, "Oh, I saw a pretty girl at a wedding playing bass and she likes the same shitty stuff that I like, we're A Perfect Fit." Didn't Robin also love the same movies/etc. as Ted on their very first date?

And then we were supposed to believe that lovey-dovey Ted would spend all that time searching for the perfect woman to marry, and then he finally finds her and proposes to her (after proposing to two or three other "perfect women" first, lol), and then they postpone the wedding for five years because they have kids? Really? He was A-OK with not marrying her even after two kids with her simply because they just never got around to their perfect French villa wedding? I mean, there's nothing wrong with that scenario at all, but it just NOT fit the character at all. And plus he made all those romantic gestures for Robin and Victoria and a bunch of other random girls he dated, and all The Mother got was having to wait around five years for a complete afterthought Thursday afternoon wedding ceremony, in an ill-fitting thrift store dress, just to show up at the bar to take a photo of his friends who were their only wedding guests.

And like I said before, Ted wore a wedding ring in a bunch of 2015-2020 flash-forwards (or flashbacks, whatever - example, when he took baby Penny to watch Star Wars with the guys) before the finale, and then all of a sudden in the finale we were supposed to completely ignore that fact. They also had flash-forwards to Ted getting married in a church with a tuxedo and groomsmen, and then changed that for the civil wedding in the finale. NOTHING WRONG with a real-life wedding like that, but I don't get why they dropped all these hints and teasers throughout a nine-year series just to completely ignore them in the finale.

I get that the creators had an ideal finale in mind from the very beginning, and that they didn't want to give away the ending even to their writers, but the series just felt like the complete opposite of the finale. It didn't fit - it was shoehorned in so that the creators didn't have to compromise on their ideal finale. Everything up to that point felt like a complete and total waste of time.