HIMYM Season Finale **Spoilers**

[TheCowboy]

Any HIMYM fans in here? Great episode last night, but I didn't like how it ended. All the questions in the show were answered, but the answers are questionable...

Robin turned into the "bad guy" of the group, and Ted ends up with her? Come on bro.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I wouldn't say she turned into the bad guy and Ted ended up with her. If you look at it in another way, Robin became the outcast of the group because she lost her "connections" to the group. When her and Ted ended up together, it showed that the group is back in action. That's how I saw it.

 

[TheCowboy]

I wouldn't say she turned into the bad guy and Ted ended up with her. If you look at it in another way, Robin became the outcast of the group because she lost her "connections" to the group. When her and Ted ended up together, it showed that the group is back in action. That's how I saw it.

I'm confused about Barney's story. They didn't reveal who girl #31 was. Is this what is going to be revealed in How I Met Your Father?

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I'm confused about Barney's story. They didn't reveal who girl #31 was. Is this what is going to be revealed in How I Met Your Father?

Haha. Maybe.

 

[TheCowboy]

Haha. Maybe.

Lol I was serious. Theres really a show coming out called that and it's made by the same writers as HIMYM.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Lol I was serious. Theres really a show coming out called that and it's made by the same writers as HIMYM.

I just googled it. I've never heard of any of the cast members. HIMYM had a few established stars. Reminds me of That 80's Show.

 

[DanteEXT]

I like the finale a lot, and was pissed at the same time. I read the speculation the last few weeks about the possible fate of the mother. I hoped that wouldn't be the case but it was.

 

[Kevinicus]

I just googled it. I've never heard of any of the cast members. HIMYM had a few established stars. Reminds me of That 80's Show.

I am familiar with most of the cast, especially the lead.

 

[Nova]

I think people would've been more accepting of the finale if the series had not run 9 seasons.

Robin and Ted were pretty much done at the end of season 2. So it's really weird to see the writers have them end up together when the majority of the show audiences were rooting for Barney and Robin.

I think that's the problem you face if your show is more successful than you initially plan but you already have the ending mapped out. The show runs longer, characters evolve, better storylines emerge, but you're still stuck with the same ending that no longer fits.

If the show had only run 4 or 5 seasons, and there was either no robin-barney dynamic or a very small dynamic, it would've worked and everyone would be blown away.

 

[Nova]

I wouldn't say she turned into the bad guy and Ted ended up with her. If you look at it in another way, Robin became the outcast of the group because she lost her "connections" to the group. When her and Ted ended up together, it showed that the group is back in action. That's how I saw it.

That's a nice way to think of it.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I could see where someone would be disappointed in the finale. The basis of the show wasn't about the mother. The mother ends up passing away. Barney and Robin end up divorced. So on and so forth.

But I was happy with it. It mirrors real life. Divorces. Death. People falling in love, waver and then reconnect many years later. And I could see kids in that situation doing exactly what they told their father (Ted) to do... reconnect with Robin because he cared for her. Ted didn't cheat on the mother of his children to pursue Robin. He stayed away until others said it was OK for him to go on with his life. I thought that was very powerful.

I was satisfied with the ending.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I think people would've been more accepting of the finale if the series had not run 9 seasons.

Robin and Ted were pretty much done at the end of season 2. So it's really weird to see the writers have them end up together when the majority of the show audiences were rooting for Barney and Robin.

I think that's the problem you face if your show is more successful than you initially plan but you already have the ending mapped out. The show runs longer, characters evolve, better storylines emerge, but you're still stuck with the same ending that no longer fits.

If the show had only run 4 or 5 seasons, and there was either no robin-barney dynamic or a very small dynamic, it would've worked and everyone would be blown away.

I think you have a point.

The creators of the show planned this type of ending very early in the history of the show, i.e. Robin and Ted reconnecting many years later.

So yeah, they had a lot of space to be filled since it did go so many seasons.

 

[DanteEXT]

I think you have a point.

The creators of the show planned this type of ending very early in the history of the show, i.e. Robin and Ted reconnecting many years later.

So yeah, they had a lot of space to be filled since it did go so many seasons.

It probably should have ended after 7 all wrapped up. Like most shows they kept pushing the envelop with gags and premises. I still enjoyed it to the end. Just think they could have trimmed it. But CBS was making money so you know they didn't want it to end.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

It probably should have ended after 7 all wrapped up. Like most shows they kept pushing the envelop with gags and premises. I still enjoyed it to the end. Just think they could have trimmed it. But CBS was making money so you know they didn't want it to end.

Yep, anything that makes $$$.

Anywho, my wife was saying she read in the "TV Guide" that the scene at the end with him at the desk and the older kids was filmed way back near the beginning of the show.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Yep, anything that makes $$$.

Anywho, my wife was saying she read in the "TV Guide" that the scene at the end with him at the desk and the older kids was filmed way back near the beginning of the show.

Probably because that girl is much older now. She was in the Kick *** movies (excuse my french) a few years ago and she was older then than she was last night.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

I think you have a point.

The creators of the show planned this type of ending very early in the history of the show, i.e. Robin and Ted reconnecting many years later.

So yeah, they had a lot of space to be filled since it did go so many seasons.

I don't have a problem with him getting back with Robin. If you see what I wrote earlier, I think it was good to have the gang get back together. Obviously Robin had grown distant from the gang and getting with Ted probably made the entire gang reunite.

But I did have a problem with one thing in the finale. The whole episode focused on how this girl (Ted's wife) was special and different from all the other girls Ted fell for in the previous 9 seasons. The show did that nicely. We saw that Ted really loved her. But her death was so rushed that it seemed like he got over her very quickly when he was wanting to get back with Robin. It also made it seem like the kids didn't really care about their mom.

I know that's not true, but when it goes from her death to Ted smiling over Robin in a matter of seconds with no transition, it makes it seem that way. You know what I mean? That's the only thing I didn't like about the ending.

 

[Future]

I think people would've been more accepting of the finale if the series had not run 9 seasons.

Robin and Ted were pretty much done at the end of season 2. So it's really weird to see the writers have them end up together when the majority of the show audiences were rooting for Barney and Robin.

I think that's the problem you face if your show is more successful than you initially plan but you already have the ending mapped out. The show runs longer, characters evolve, better storylines emerge, but you're still stuck with the same ending that no longer fits.

If the show had only run 4 or 5 seasons, and there was either no robin-barney dynamic or a very small dynamic, it would've worked and everyone would be blown away.

Agreed...essentially, its a really long story about Ted asking his kids if its OK to hook up with his best friend's ex wife....

My biggest gripe with the finale is that its not a story about meeting the kids' mother as the title suggests. Instead, the mother becomes just another character in Ted's love life, and its a story about how he and Robin end up together. Kind of a stupid decision by the writers, if you ask me.

 

[Nova]

Agreed...essentially, its a really long story about Ted asking his kids if its OK to hook up with his best friend's ex wife....

My biggest gripe with the finale is that its not a story about meeting the kids' mother as the title suggests. Instead, the mother becomes just another character in Ted's love life, and its a story about how he and Robin end up together. Kind of a stupid decision by the writers, if you ask me.

That too. And all in all, the finale still would've worked if they just had ended it with Ted meeting the mother at the train station.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Agreed...essentially, its a really long story about Ted asking his kids if its OK to hook up with his best friend's ex wife....

My biggest gripe with the finale is that its not a story about meeting the kids' mother as the title suggests. Instead, the mother becomes just another character in Ted's love life, and its a story about how he and Robin end up together. Kind of a stupid decision by the writers, if you ask me.

Keep in mind the writers decided this course way, way back.

The prime focus of the show was never about meeting the mother.

If you took the title of the show too literally, then yeah I could see where you might not be happy with the ending.

But around season 3, you could tell that this whole thing wasn't about the mother... she was just a subplot.

 

[Future]

Keep in mind the writers decided this course way, way back.

The prime focus of the show was never about meeting the mother.

If you took the title of the show too literally, then yeah I could see where you might not be happy with the ending.

But around season 3, you could tell that this whole thing wasn't about the mother... she was just a subplot.

That's basically when the show turned for the worse and I lost all interest in it lol

If that's not the overall goal of the show, than what makes HIMYM different from, say, Friends. It becomes the exact same show, more or less.

I think the writers just got too cute with it...an Aha moment to end the show with who the mother actually is might be the easiest way out, but that's because its the right way out. It wraps it up rather than opening all these stupid doors about Robin/Ted and what happens to Barney (who they butchered in the last episode btw. He went from 40's lothario to loving father in like 2 minutes).