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BuckeyeNation27 said:
It wasn't really well written in the final season. They had the same problem as The Walking Dead.....they slowed the timing down to a halt. I think the last season spanned like 3 days in real time until the finale. There's only so many noteworthy stories I can actually believe happened in that time span.

I thought for as terrible as that show has gotten, it wasn't that bad of a finale.
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Agreed. This season was absolutely horrendous and the finale was far from predictable to me. The mother dying early was an interesting twist considering she had lost her original fiance earlier. And I was perpetually pissed how little time the mother got considering it was the last season, but then you find out it is actually because of the long road on how Ted actually ends up with Robyn, which I think everybody wanted all along and nobody thought was coming since they presumably ruled it out early on. Even still, the scene with Ted and the mother under the umbrella was well done I think and charming in it's own right. I was a little too shocked to react at first but I thought it was a good finale. Definitely not the exact picturesque finish that everyone was anticipating but I am glad because I thought that was what was being built up.

As for this final season as a whole? I don't think it could have been worse. Stretching the whole season out of the wedding was awful and they essentially tied nothing together until the last two episodes. They decide to have half the season be Marshall and some black woman we have never met traveling the country...why introduce her (and her utterly uninteresting story line and bad acting) in the last season when all we really want is resolution for the main characters? To wit, they try to make the whole Lilly-Marshall fighting over Rome vs. being a judge into something of epic proportions...didn't hold my interest in the slightest and was a lame married couple argument, nothing more or less. Then you have the whole Barney-Robyn angle of frequently going into doubt, then committing forever, and having it fall apart instantly. Finally, the episode where Marshall rhymes to Marvin the whole episode was terrible. The worst part of all of this is that I might have let some of that slide if the season was actually funny. I did not find one episode to be funny at all and it was the most embarrassingly forced humor I have ever seen. I almost quit watching despite my investment in the first 8 seasons and just wait to watch the last episode.

Anyways, I hated the final season, liked the finale, and loved the series.
 
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RB07OSU said:
Agreed. This season was absolutely horrendous and the finale was far from predictable to me. The mother dying early was an interesting twist considering she had lost her original fiance earlier. And I was perpetually pissed how little time the mother got considering it was the last season, but then you find out it is actually because of the long road on how Ted actually ends up with Robyn, which I think everybody wanted all along and nobody thought was coming since they presumably ruled it out early on. Even still, the scene with Ted and the mother under the umbrella was well done I think and charming in it's own right. I was a little too shocked to react at first but I thought it was a good finale. Definitely not the exact picturesque finish that everyone was anticipating but I am glad because I thought that was what was being built up.

As for this final season as a whole? I don't think it could have been worse. Stretching the whole season out of the wedding was awful and they essentially tied nothing together until the last two episodes. They decide to have half the season be Marshall and some black woman we have never met traveling the country...why introduce her (and her utterly uninteresting story line and bad acting) in the last season when all we really want is resolution for the main characters? To wit, they try to make the whole Lilly-Marshall fighting over Rome vs. being a judge into something of epic proportions...didn't hold my interest in the slightest and was a lame married couple argument, nothing more or less. Then you have the whole Barney-Robyn angle of frequently going into doubt, then committing forever, and having it fall apart instantly. Finally, the episode where Marshall rhymes to Marvin the whole episode was terrible. The worst part of all of this is that I might have let some of that slide if the season was actually funny. I did not find one episode to be funny at all and it was the most embarrassingly forced humor I have ever seen. I almost quit watching despite my investment in the first 8 seasons and just wait to watch the last episode.

Anyways, I hated the final season, liked the finale, and loved the series.
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wut..it was one of the most predictable finales. Toward the end of last season and throughout this season they made it pretty clear the mom was dead by the time Ted was telling the story, and you knew Robin and Barney weren't lasting. I was praying they wouldn't end up together by the end, but yep, that steaming pile was right there.

I could live with them killing off the mother, but it was severely downplayed. For 9 years we were left wondering who this women is, and in one season they make it her out to be the perfect women for him, only to kill her off in 5 seconds, and at the end kids are like, GO FUCK AUNT ROBIN NOW
 
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Bucknut24 said:
wut..it was one of the most predictable finales. Toward the end of last season and throughout this season they made it pretty clear the mom was dead by the time Ted was telling the story, and you knew Robin and Barney weren't lasting. I was praying they wouldn't end up together by the end, but yep, that steaming pile was right there.

I could live with them killing off the mother, but it was severely downplayed. For 9 years we were left wondering who this women is, and in one season they make it her out to be the perfect women for him, only to kill her off in 5 seconds, and at the end kids are like, GO FUCK AUNT ROBIN NOW
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I'm not sure I ever caught any drift that the mom was dead when he was telling the story? Which parts did you get that vibe? Honest question. Barney and Robyn not lasting was fairly expected, but I moreso meant Ted ending up with Robyn was not what I expected at that point. But I completely agree that the way they just rushed through all of that after 9 seasons was absurd, especially the fact that the wedding should not have taken more than 2 episodes max. I guess I was satisfied with the finale just because by Monday night, I already counted the entire season a complete waste and knew it would be rushed. And to be honest, I think we all knew that about 4-5 episodes in the season.
 
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As far as finales go, this one sucks. I'm just not angry about it.

And it sucked for a variety of reasons. Jumping ahead in time by 16 years during a one-hour episode was stupid and lacked ANY sort of depth. It's even worse when it caps off an entire season dragged out over 3 days leading up to what ultimately turned out to be a farce of a marriage.

Several times throughout the series they teased the mother angle. The umbrella. The roommate. The class. Everything was building to that moment in the rain at the train station (which was a beautiful scene by the way). And then she's just dead. Nice life Tracy Mosby. Nice story for the kids Ted. And here comes good ole Robin to bookend the marriage.

I wanted to see Barney end up with Robin... because it made sense. I wanted to see Ted find the woman of his dreams, marry her, and have two annoying kids... because that's what the series was all about. Just seemed like forcefed horseshit in the end.

But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy a majority of the series or that I can't continue to enjoy it in syndication. I hated the Seinfeld finale too and I moved on from it.
 
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OH10 said:
I can't get that upset over an ending to a comedy series. I tended to view each episode for its individual value as opposed to something more than that. I agree with much of the complaints though; just don't think it's worth getting worked up over.
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I think this works for a show like Seinfeld but it's much more difficult for HIMYM, where there are multiple flashbacks, flashforwards, and plot lines nested within one another. It really contained its own mythology.
 
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To answer everything (I enjoy this actually enlightening conversation, my roommate just mindlessly defends all of it):

1) Definitely did not see the mother dying...Ted Mosby is a sap that was hopelessly in love with love and I took him wanting extra time as being a hopeless romantic. The fact that you caught that @Bucknut24 was remarkably perceptive but I have to say I think it was unexpected for the vast majority. I thought one of the mothers didn't show up for the wedding or that one of the mothers had passed away before the Ted/Tracy wedding. Now that I realize that, it makes me even sadder about the whole scenario.

2) @OH10 Agreed with everything except for Barney and Robyn making sense. Even as big of a non-romantic and anti-marriage proponent as Robyn was, there is no way she finds eternal solace in the man she saw play 200+ girls into manipulative sex. I thought the whole angle was forced from the beginning and maybe that is a tiny part of why I hated the wedding. For me, I would have been more convinced Barney was destined for a stripper, the only other individual that could be his counterpart from a clandestine behavior perspective. But yes, the whole buildup to the mother was absolutely robbed by S8 and S9. Even if she was to die and Ted ends up with Robyn, that narrative becomes worthless by rushing the mother out the door.

3) @Bucky32 Agreed to a certain extent. Absolutely easier to take Seinfeld for each individual episode versus HIMYM with the reoccurring themes and story archs. It was a comedy but it had a real driven purpose to it. However, I will be able to go back and enjoy each episode for what it is...however, there will be that grain of salt knowing how it ends. But the part I absolutely agree with is that the scene under the umbrella is how it should have ended. Absolutely an incredible scene that would have been the perfect ending if set up properly.
 
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RB07OSU said:
To answer everything (I enjoy this actually enlightening conversation, my roommate just mindlessly defends all of it):

2) @OH10 Agreed with everything except for Barney and Robyn making sense. Even as big of a non-romantic and anti-marriage proponent as Robyn was, there is no way she finds eternal solace in the man she saw play 200+ girls into manipulative sex. I thought the whole angle was forced from the beginning and maybe that is a tiny part of why I hated the wedding. For me, I would have been more convinced Barney was destined for a stripper, the only other individual that could be his counterpart from a clandestine behavior perspective. But yes, the whole buildup to the mother was absolutely robbed by S8 and S9. Even if she was to die and Ted ends up with Robyn, that narrative becomes worthless by rushing the mother out the door.
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I felt they made sense for 2 reasons: 1) Robin was very much like a stereotypical guy. Sex is sex. Love is a myth. Married to the job. And, of course, sports. She seemed like the only woman who could accept Barney for who he was; and 2) The entire last couple of seasons contained a Barney moral evolution. He had a prior long relationship with Robin that was uncharacteristically serious for him. He followed that up with Nora and Quinn. He seemed to be growing as a person, more open to commitment and settling down. Then... all of a sudden... divorce... back to the pre-relationship Barney on steroids (the perfect month?). Then... all of a sudden again... he has a daughter and does a 180. All in the span of about 45 minutes. The writers ruined everything they had accomplished with Barney over the course of the series.

I can understand why Ted desired Robin. He's into nostalgia and romance. He is very much the stereotypical female. Sex without love is a myth. But there's no way someone like Robin would desire a man like Ted. He's too needy. She could only settle down with a more independent spirit like Barney. And that's why all of the twists and turns of the finale were so non-sensical.
 
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I'm pretty much on board with what everyone else has said about HIMYM. This season was just bad in comparison to its previous seasons (which I have enjoyed from Day 1). It's still one of my all time favorite TV series but I just didn't find this season funny or well written. As others have said they crammed an entire season into 3 days real time basically and tore it all down in 2 mins at the end. I'm perfectly okay with how it played out where the mother eventually dies and Ted ends up with Robin but instead of this entire season focusing on a wedding that turns out to be a divorce in 3 years why not focus more on the mother and Ted so that when she does in fact die we have some sort of emotional connection to her? Then you can do a fast forward years down the road where Ted ends up with Robin (Some of you commented on how unbelievable it was that the kids were telling him to bang Robin right away but remember - this is six years after their mother has passed away). They crammed 20 years into 1 hour for a show that's been on for 9 years. I will say that the Umbrella scene was very well done, and they could have ended it there and I would have been good with it. As for it being too predictable, i'm okay with that also. I don't need every series finale to have some huge twist or surprise ending. A lot of viewers got what they wanted in the end, I just don't think it played out as well as they would have liked.
 
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