How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

F**k that ending. F**k it right in the god damn ass with a broken glass-tipped French Blue Horn.
Worst finale I've seen since Lost and while I'll probably grow to be OK with it, I am steaming mad right now.
That was a total and complete cop out and a monumental waste of time. If that's what the creators envisioned all along, then they should never work in television ever again.
I would have been sad but OK eventually with the mother dying and the last scene of the show being them under the umbrella. In fact, as far as I'm concerned, that was the ending of the show.
But for Ted to end up with Robin? Seriously?
Like seriously?
After we watched NINE F**KING SEASONS of them not working out because they were two different people?
Seriously. F**k that.

 

Then you've missed every post in this thread from me. The ending was never my main concern.

This ending sufficed. It made a lot of sense. I'll miss the journey.

I'll miss this show more than any other to leave me that I watched as it aired.

 

I'm with you, Jay. I liked it.

The Mother dying, they had written it to the point that they were going to have to come up with an odd explanation on what they meant with 45 days and Ted crying about what mother wouldn't be at her daughter's wedding and all that. In the context of the show, that was the real outcome.

As for getting back with Robin, that is actually not an uncommon thing for older people in that situation. And to Rick's point that they don't make sense as a couple, that was Ted's speech at Robin's wedding that love doesn't make sense.

And I really loved their commentary on "the gang" being unable to stay together. Feeling that a lot over the last few years as we've gone from seeing folks almost every night to seeing them every couple of years.

 

I like this.

It was messy. I was kinda bummed. He should have had more than a decade with his soulmate.

But life isn't perfect for any of us. And if you want, you can see this as a happy ending. It very well could have been.

Sniff.

 

I might have been OK with this ending (might have been) if this was the story of Ted telling his kids about their mother on his wedding day to Robin. Then the message would have been "Kids, I loved your mother more than life itself and though it's been years and I've moved on, on this very important day, I need you to know that your mother still means the world to me."
Instead, as many people on Twitter have said, this ending turns the show from "How I Met Your Mother," to "How I want you to be OK with me f**king your Aunt Robin."
So, so awful.

 

Only one other thought, really: Tracy was a wonderful, wonderful character, and whoever said we didn't develop emotional ties to her should speak for himself.

 

Oh, for sure. She was the right one.

 

Sepinwall weighs in and, as always, nails it.

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/series-finale-review-how-i-met-your-mother-last-forever-how-they-conned-us-all

 

Another thing: Barney's "Daddy's home" comment, in the context of his actually being a dad, and given how he's used it before, was creepy as fuck. It ruined the only poignant moment of the episode.

Fuck this show.

 

She was. But still not around enough for it to be a gut punch when she died. (Or maybe the foreshadowing lessened the blow.)

 

I wasn't as heavily invested in the series as most of you, having caught episodes intermittently over the years.
However I did watch the finale and sort of liked it.
* Robin's speech to Lily about why she couldn't hang out as part of the gang anymore was great.
* The moment Barney looked into his daughter's eyes and realized what fatherhood was all about was touching.
* The teenage kids calling bullshit on Ted's story, saying he still has the hots for "Aunt Robin" was typical teenager talk and sort of the point of the series - spending nine years telling the story of how he met the mother, but only the last season (or few episodes) actually focus on the mother. Plus they did what typical teenage kids do and told dad to go for it and be happy with someone they liked and that he obviously has feelings for.
* At the end you could tell that Robin was tired of living alone and Ted coming back to her was what she needed and Ted realizing that he could reignite an old flame made for a happy ending.

 

"How I Drank and Banged A Lot, Met a Nice Woman Who Shit Out My Two Kids And Then Died, and I Banged Robin Because I Was Old and Horny." #HIDABALMANWWSOMTKATDAIBRBIWOAH