HIMYM (spoilers!)

Re: HIMYM (spoilers!)

• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  Nooooo no no no no no no nooooo

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  OMG OMG OMG OMG.

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  Hahahaha.
  
  The mother died. Heart broken.
  
  Ted and Robin ended up together. True love.

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  Robin and Barney got divorced, btw

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  Watch it anyway

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  He hadn't asked her out yet. The entire story was to get their kids ok to ask her out. The mom died 6 years earlier. Which still breaks my heart.
  
  Still weird. Although my cousins wife's dad married her aunt (his brother passed away and then he married his wife). Also weird though. Lol

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• jwildin member

  April 2014

  Totally called barney and robin getting together. It is the only way they could reciprocate killing the mother. Barney talking to his baby made me teary eyed!

  
  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  Ted and robin?
  
  And I know! Cute tiny little baby!!

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Wally3 member

  April 2014

  I feel cheating it was over a season long of Barney and robin getting married. Longest tv wedding ever and then their marriage last 15 minutes. Not even a quarter of an episode. Though I hated them as a couple.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• AMT1107 member

  April 2014

  I didn't think it lived up to the hype.  It was sad the mother died but I'm glad it was her and not a main character.  I didn't like her, she annoyed the crap out of me from the time they introduced her.

  

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• BabyCarryingVessel member

  April 2014

  I loved it. I knew as soon as B and R said they were getting a divorce that Ted would end up with Robin. If you think about it, Robin didn't want/couldn't have children and that was the dealbreaker for Ted, even though Robin was perfect for him in every other way. I think that Robin wasn't right for Ted at that time, but it eventually worked out. They probably knew all along that they would end up together! Loved it!!!

   

  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  I was a little disappointed. I feel like they spent so much time on those wedding episodes and then shoved too much into the last episode almost as if the show was suddenly cancelled and they had to get it all in at once.
  
  I expected the mother dying to be much sadder but they really didn't get into it. I'm almost glad they didn't though, because I didn't feel like being sad. I do think him and robin kind of belonged together but I can't say I'm happy the mom died and they ended up together.

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• jwildin member

  April 2014

  Yea sorry, I meant Ted and Robin.  I don't mind them getting together but it does seem like a cop out.  Robin was kind of a B to Ted this whole time.  I almost feel like she doesn't deserve to be with him.  I am totally bummed the mother died.
  
  Barney with his daughter is def. the best part of the episode. 
  
  I am not as sad about the mother dying as I thought I would be.  I was more torn up about the episode where they knew all of each others stories and they hinted that she was sick!  I am still totally sad the show is over.  I will total miss Jason Segal every week!
  

  
  
  

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• stephcarter member

  April 2014

  "Number 31" apparently he had a "perfect month" but knocked up the girl he hooked up with on the 31st.

  
  

  
  

  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• wesleycrusher member

  April 2014

  I thought it was terrible. truly terrible.  I just spent the last month re-watching the first 8 seasons, too.  "How I met your stepmother" Like the mom was just a plot point to get Ted to have kids that Robin couldn't. Is Robin going to give up her job?  She travels the world and isn't there for her friends, but all the sudden she'll give that up to be with Ted and his kids??

  
  

  I think the writers wrote the ending never thinking the show would go on as long as it did.  If the show had ended after 4 or 5 seasons, it would have made way more sense.  But instead the show went on to long and the Robin/Ted thing started to get old and I was over it.

  
  

  They spent so much time crafting Barney and Robin together- and I liked them together- with an entire season watching Robin and Barney get married for them to say "lol j/k!" what??

  
  

  The ending was sad- and not even in an emotional sad way, but like I genuinely feel sorry for them way.   No one seemed happy. None of them seemed like friends anymore.  And I get that people grow up and grow apart, but it was less than an hour of view time for them to take a cleaver to the friendship I've spent years watching.  And to say it's realistic- the show has NEVER been realistic. 

  
  

  I told DH if I die and he ever spends that long telling my kids a story of his ex-girlfriend he'd like to bang, instead of stories about me, then I will come back and haunt his ass so hard.

  
  

  It just sucked. 

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• Ziegeficker member

  April 2014 edited April 2014

  mbm1983 said:

  Its over. I dont like ted and robin together. But it's not a horrible pairing. And now the gang will be together again. Really sad the mother died. Loved her. Except her name. Barney talking to his baby girl was the best part. Hands down.

  I agree with all of this...especially the Barney/baby bit.  Maybe it's become I'm pregnant and emotional about that sort of thing.
  
  And Tracy is an awful name for that woman.
  
  I have no feelings either way about the Ted/Robin pairing.  Meh.  I'm actually kind of glad the theory about the mother dying turned out to be right -- Even though it's sad, it makes the whole story-telling nonsense make a little sense and does add a bit of sentimentality to an otherwise kinda corny show.  Not that I like people dying or anything...I too was surprised they didn't make that more of a cornerstone of the final episode...but if you think about it, you wouldn't need to spend a lot of time discussing that with two people who went through that event right alongside you six years after the fact.
  
  I also agree with @awesomesauce123 that if my husband ever sat down to tell my kids how we met after my passing and spent hours rambling on about some other woman, I'd be so pissed...from the grave.
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• Sillygirl85 member

  April 2014

  That just sucked.
  

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• BabyCarryingVessel member

  April 2014

  Come on guys!  I can see how Robin seems off-putting, but her "tough girl" outer shell is just a front. Robin had a rocky relationship with her dad and a non-existent relationship with her mom. I'm not a huge fan of her either, but on the inside she probably wanted to be loved by someone like Ted, who would go to the ends of the earth for her... I really liked Tracy and Ted together, but it had been six years and it was time for T to be happy again!

   

  

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• wesleycrusher member

  April 2014

  ok, now that I've had time to reflect I don't think the plot itself was horrible.  While it's certainly not what I would do, I think the pacing and execution were so horrible that it overshadowed everything.  They never should have made the last season about Barney and Robin's wedding.  Maybe the first few episodes, but then everything in the finale should have had it's own episode.  

  
  

  Just an awful, awful execution.

  
  

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