How he finally met the mother (Season 9)

Also, to those feeling let down by the Robin-Barney fizzle after the wedding buildup -- that's pretty much what divorce is in real life. Mad love, marriage, finding out the marriage didn't take.

 

"Kids, this is how I met your dead mother..."

"First I met your Aunt Robin..."

"Then I dated/banged 30+ women, including your Aunt Robin and then I met your dead mother..."

 

Absolutely false.

 

My bad on Breaking Bad but what I said about the others didn't really spoil anything. Still, I did fix the post above just to be sure.
Also, I did buy the final season of the Shield and you're welcome to borrow it whenever you'd like.
The point is it's not that tough to nail a finale and if you fail to, you've failed as a writer.

 

They are madly in love and get married, and three years later they realize they are fighting all the time and realize they aren't right for each other? That doesn't happen?

We will have to agree to disagree.

 

Did it say Fall 2005? Maybe it did. My bad.

 

Not with the five years of kvetching and hand-wringing and trials and tribulations that preceded it.

Even still, it's never as simple as "Hey, four best friends in the world, we got divorced without any of you knowing and without a trace of lingering resentment."

 

There was resentment, though. That much was obvious. Robin left the gang.

 

Obviously, it happens like that all the time...

It was just a little too "matter-of-fact" for me.

She values her job over her marriage, he just wants to bang her one more time before being set free...

For two characters who were presumed to be well-liked, they sure did bail quickly.

 

She left the gang more because she couldn't handle seeing Ted be happy with someone else.

Barney hitting on other women was almost an afterthought.

 

One of the scenes they probably cut was Robin pumping her fist as the mother flatlined.

 

I didn't take it that way. Cobie Smulders played that scene well, as she did the ones that followed. But at least to me it was clear Robin was not as OK with it as she said she was.