How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

I agree with the posts saying this was the right way for the show to end but the execution was extremely sloppy. Glossing over the mother dying was convenient because we know the kids know she's dead and been dead for awhile but as an audience we need more of a payoff than that and a little more respect for it. I felt all along that Ted and Robin had to end up together. Too much of the show was about them. And they didn't have the mother around long enough to sell me that she was ever anything more than his silver medal (though I really liked her). I just think they could have got there in a much cleaner way.

 

No.

 

No.

It's a nine-year waste of time.

 

As quickly as the mom dying was brushed aside, the Robin/Barney divorce was a slap in the face as well. They're together for multiple seasons and over and out in 20 seconds of screen time?

 

I hated the ending.

Was it realistic? No, it was overdramatic just for the sake of being overdramatic.

I hate that they treated a divorce as casually as they did. I hate that Ted and the mother didn't get married before the kid was born.

The show handled Marshall's father's death just about as well as any show possibly could. That was when I had checked out on the series and checked back in.

I'm roughly the same age as the characters. Watching the evolution of Barney, going from a player to meeting the woman who he would settle down with was sweet. Watching him de-evolve was painful.

The scene with the baby was good, but the scene before it where he's making cracks about hoping he's not the father was a bit much for me.

Sue me, I wanted a happy ending. I wanted the mother to walk in as he was talking to the kids. I wanted Robin and Barney to adopt or something like that...

Having him (presumably) wind up with Robin was even worse. He goes on about how he's going to love the mother for ever and ever and then he goes after Robin like that was what was supposed to happen all along...

Awful.

 

Agree 100 percent.

 

The awfully paced final season leading to a terribly shoehorned ending underscores the story of the show: Outside of some funny running gags, the actors were carrying the writing in a big way.

 

For a show that has a spinoff coming, this was the dumbest thing the producers could have done.

 

Drew Margary didn't watch the show, did watch the finale.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-bandwagoned-the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-which-s-1556056613?rev=1396364415

Edit: Sorry. My bad.

 

Magary

 

I watched again this morning on the elliptical and still hated it. It just felt so disjointed. I would have been OK with the mother dying if not as a plot device to get him to rationalize being with Aunt Robin.

You spend a whole year on the wedding and break them up right away?

Why didn't Ted and the mother get married despite having two kids -- as a plot device to get Robin to come to their wedding? The Ted we know would not have waited like that to get married.

I was numb to Barney redemption stories by this point. The baby thing was adorable, but we've seen it all before.

And a minor anal point -- the Supreme Court in New York is the trial court -- the judges are called justices, so he would not have been "Judge Fudge". The Court of Appeals is the highest court and you get appointed, not elected to serve on that court