HIMYM (spoilers)

ababymaybe · April 2014

I thought the finale was a depressing piece of crap! While I never liked Barney and robin together, I am annoyed that they waste an entire season on their wedding only to have them divorce. But I was still ok with things (even liking the Barney as dad thing) up until the last ten minutes when they killed off the mother. Wtf? IMO, it was clear all along that Robin and Ted were intrinsically incompatible so the ending was just bizarre.

Cormelbaby · April 2014

HATED it!! So not the way I thought it should end. The divorce was stupid and killing off the mom was sad. Robin and Ted tried multiple times to get together, but it never worked out so why now?? Ugh, just really dissappointed on how it ended

vterp · April 2014

Totally agree with both of you, very disappointed and a crap finale.

They spent all of last season building up Robin and Barney being together, they spend this entire season on their wedding, only to have them divorce. Then after dragging out the (doomed) wedding weekend, they proceed to cram 17 years into roughly 30 minutes. It was a terrible way to tell the story and the ending irritated me to no end. Ted's "great love story" is that he settled for someone who could give him the kids he wanted and when she was out of the picture, he went after Robin again. Lame.

monkeybutt61612 · April 2014

Ted's great love was the mother, but she died. I think he only went after robin because he misses being with someone.

Lena122 · April 2014

I wish they had spent less of the season on the wedding and more on what came after. Cramming it all into the last half hour really sucked. I also wish that Barney and Robin would have just called off the wedding if they were going to divorce anyway.

sugarland726 · April 2014

Boy you guys are harsh. I wasn't jumping for joy with the finale, but I liked it a lot more than you did. To address a few points:

Robin and Ted are incompatible. Not necessarily true. They were incompatible on the front of children. She didn't want to have kids and couldn't. By the time of the finale, Ted isn't looking to have a baby. He's looking for someone to share his life with. So that situation resolved itself.

Robin and Ted tried multiple times to get together, but it never worked out so why now?? See above.

Ted's "great love story" is that he settled for someone who could give him the kids he wanted... I don't see how anyone can think he was settling when he got together with Tracy. Especially when you watch any of the flash forwards this season. Tracy and Ted were meant to be together. Just because she died doesn't mean she is not the love of his life or he was only using her for children.

...and when she was out of the picture, he went after Robin again. Tracy died 6 years before the last scene with Robin. 6 years! That is not "as soon as she was out of the picture" and he clearly was unsure about doing it at all.

I think he only went after Robin because he misses being with someone. Tracy told him that he needed to move on in those flash forwards a few weeks ago (the episode where they realized they told each other all of their stories). She told him not to be the guy who lives in stories and to get back out there and keep living. So he is starting to get out there again after grieving for his wife for years.

I wish they had spent less of the season on the wedding and more on what came after. Agreed, except with the group fracturing, I found it sad and hard to watch. I don't know that I really wanted more of that.

I also wish that Barney and Robin would have just called off the wedding if they were going to divorce anyway. They obviously didn't know they were going to divorce 3 years later. Does anyone?

vterp · April 2014

While Ted waited 6 years after Tracy died, it still felt really cheap. It leaves a sense that even though he was with the mother, Robin must have still been in the back of his mind the whole time.
Had Ted and Robin had this ONE thing in common, he never would have been with the mother at all. He got that missing piece from the mother. When she was no longer a factor, he went back to where he wanted to be.
I could have even lived with the "twist" that he was telling the story because the mother had died, had he not ended up back with Robin. I would have been more satisfied with Ted being content that he loved hard and he lost, but damn was it good to have loved like that. His whole history with Robin made him ending back up with her after the mother died just feel....icky.
That's my take on it, I get how people could see it differently. I also hated Carrie ending up with Big at the end of SATC. These stories where the "doomed loved" turns into a fairy tale ending just don't sit right with me. Sometimes people aren't right together, no matter how badly either of the parties want it to work. Maybe I'm a cynic, but these "magical endings" just make me roll my eyes instead of feeling all warm and fuzzy.
Sorry if the formatting is weird, I tried to quote and screwed it up and couldn't figure out how to fix it.

Lena122 · April 2014

sugarland726 said:
I also wish that Barney and Robin would have just called off the wedding if they were going to divorce anyway. They obviously didn't know they were going to divorce 3 years later. Does anyone?

I meant that the writers should have just not had them get married if it was going to be for such a short time. They even wrote in Robin's doubts but they had them go through with it anyway. Just seems like a waste to spend the whole season on the wedding, include all of those doubts, and then have them divorce 3 years later.

Jen4033 · April 2014

I agree with @Sugarland726 's points.

I was also not impressed, but I can say I would have liked it better if Barney & Robin stayed together & Ted's wife didn't die. They all seemed happy in the end with how things worked out, but I would have liked it still the other way.

valigrl21 · April 2014

Great points @Sugarland726! A few thoughts of mine to add in -

I actually liked the whole last season, including last night's episode.

I loved Ted with Tracy, they were perfect for each other. So sad she died, but I really liked how he talked about making every day count with her. Shouldn't we all be doing more of that - making memories with the people we love dearly?

I never felt like Barney was really ready to settle down with Robin. But how could anyone not get teary-eyed when he held his daughter for the first time? After that, I believed he "changed his ways".

MissMeegs · April 2014

valigrl21 said:
I never felt like Barney was really ready to settle down with Robin. But how could anyone not get teary-eyed when he held his daughter for the first time? After that, I believed he "changed his ways".

I would have teared up over his tearful speech to his new baby, if she hadn't been the result of his disgusting quest to have 31 sleazy one-night-stands in 31 days. And if he hadn't pulled the old "misogynistic scumbag has daughter, realizes women are human beings" trick--which of course he expressed by carping at the girls in the bar about their wardrobe and drinking habits as if it was any of his business. Everything about Barney's arc was maddening.

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