HIMYM spoilers

jdluvr06 · April 2014

Since I can't be happy about the mother and Ted's love story I'm going to settle for this.

lmcooper86 · April 2014

I started crying when the mother was sick…I didn't want to believe that she would be dead and that just sealed the deal. BF made the argument that we hardly saw the mother, but I invested NINE seasons waiting for Ted to find her and then they killed her off! ARG.

Not happy about the Ted-Robin ending. That legitimately pissed me off.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

@Jdluvr06 Okay, that's true. Fi and I call each other "Marshall and Lily" all the time, although a lot of the similarities cross gender lines.

I go to the same law school as Marshall and I will be a corporate lawyer.

My secret/not so secret ambition is to one day be a judge.

I was a teacher before law school.

Fi and I have been together since we were teenagers.

We high five and fist bump each other.

Fi wants three kids and was vindicated when kid #3 came along in the finale (I want two).

We always do dorky couple Halloween costumes.

Fi comes from a huge, loud family that eats a lot of unhealthy food.

Everyone in Fi's family has a whole bunch of kids.

We are that obnoxious cute couple and we've been together so long (11 years) you know we'll be this obnoxious when we're old, too.

HaileyDancingbear · April 2014

I got over even slightly wanting Ted and Robin to be together ages ago. I was really rooting for her and Barney to work out, so the divorce part killed me! So friggin depressing!

And the mother dying also pissed me off- they spent SO MUCH TIME pounding it into our heads again and again why Ted and Robin just DON'T WORK, and so much time showing that the mother was AWESOME and a perfect match for him, and just such a great character (Seriously I wanted to see more of her on the show too, I really liked her!) then just were like "Nah" and killed her off???? They were perfect, you assholes.

KittyKaty20 · April 2014

I was pretty irritated by this Finale!

1. I was totally over Ted & Robin.

2. Why did the weekend of Robin & Barney's Wedding take the entire season, only to have them last 3 years? WTF?

3. Marshall & Lily felt under-served to me, even though we had seen what their wrap-ups were.

4. I DID like that Barney said that "you are my whole life, everything I have is yours, you are the love of my life" line to his daughter. Even though she came from out of nowhere. And that baby was a damn good actor.

5. Why did they kill the mother? So pissed!

What SHOULD have happened is this:

1. Ted & The Mother live happily ever after.

2. Robin & Barney re-connect after the birth of his daughter, fall in love again, and Robin adopts the baby. (They could have killed off THAT mother character and no complaints from me.)

3. Bob Saget shows up on-screen. Because he's Bob Saget.

Jells2dot0 · April 2014

After having heard the comment about "missing your daughter's wedding" in a previous episode, I kept hoping for the best. So, when we slowly found out that Ted and The Mother were never married and then Ted re-proposed, I got excited. Then, we see them all at McLaren's without The Mother. Perhaps it was The Mother's mother who died and The Mother would burst in, announce her mother's death, and postpone the wedding yet again. We'd then find out that Ted was telling this story to his kids just prior to Ted and The Mother finally getting married and having their wedding.

Yep- I spun that whole story up in my head only to have it come crashing down.

arrippa · April 2014

I have it watched it when it started but gave it up a few years back. When I heard this was the last season, I came back for it. Worst decision. Just when the mom was starting to grow on me, they kill her off. I did like the yellow umbrella scene although, I would never buy Ted waiting five years to marry the mother after she had the kids. He always wanted to get married. That was his ultimate goal in life. It just rang false for me.

I was a Robin and Ted shipper back in the day, but even I rolled my eyes at the end. The blue french horn is back? Really?

I did smile when they showed the cast in the credits from season one. They all looked so young!

On a funnier note, did anyone see the HIMYM season 9 promo that's floating around Youtube? It has the kids (what they look like now) reacting to the fact that they have been on the couch for eight years. If I wasn'[t at work, I would look for it.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

@moemacWed30594 I just looked up that promo video and OK, it was pretty funny. Hilarious that they didn't get the "wrap it up" memo until the very last hour of the show when they tried to awkwardly cram 20 years of story into the end.

jenna8984 · April 2014

I love the show just when I happened to catch reruns of it. I never watched it regularly- so I missed the last two seasons. Until I saw these comments, I had no idea that the mom was in previous episodes and they make you fall in love with her. I thought that was her only one episode lol.

When Barney said 31 got pregnant I yelled out "Be Robin!!" hahah that would have been a much better ending. FI and I were cracking up when Barney said they were going to be at the bar til 2am and Ted said 9:45- FI and I always make sure we're home in bed by 9:45 (and we don't even have kids LOL)

Peaseblossom55 · April 2014

I was kind of disappointed in the ending too. I didn't really watch the last season or so but I tuned in to the finale. I was upset they killed off the mother and that Ted and Robin got together in the end. I was upset about the Barney and Robin divorce too. I was really hoping when Barney said 31 got pregnant that it was Robin, I cried when Barney made that speech to his daughter. I feel like more often than not I'm upset with how shows end, especially when they run for a long time.

sarahufl · April 2014

HIMYM is one of my favorite shows but that finale left a lot to be desired. While I didn't HATE it, I didn't think they did it justice.

I loved the mother and I just hate that they killed her off like that.

NYCBruin · April 2014

The ending just made me dislike Ted even more. And I wasn't a fan to begin with. The mother seemed awesome and I hated that she wasn't a bigger part of the show.

HisGirlFriday13 · April 2014

I've only ever seen a few episodes of the show, but I know the general story line.

Maybe it's because I'm not a die-hard fan, but the ending seemed, to me, at least, to be exactly what they were building for.

I wasn't at all surprised the mother died and Ted and Robin ended up together (but I did miss the entire Barney-Robin story line).

I also didn't understand the series finale of 'Friends,' but I also didn't watch that show.

I should really stop watching the series finales of shows I don't regularly watch.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

HisGirlFriday13 said:

I've only ever seen a few episodes of the show, but I know the general story line.

Maybe it's because I'm not a die-hard fan, but the ending seemed, to me, at least, to be exactly what they were building for.

I wasn't at all surprised the mother died and Ted and Robin ended up together (but I did miss the entire Barney-Robin story line).

I also didn't understand the series finale of 'Friends,' but I also didn't watch that show.

I should really stop watching the series finales of shows I don't regularly watch.

The bolded explains perfectly why it made sense to you but not to me and other fans of the show. The ending was written during the first season (it had to be, because they filmed it while the kids were still young). It made sense at that time. But the whole middle story line was all about Robin and Barney, becoming a couple and developing their characters. Then because the writers were still so tied to this ending they wrote 9 years ago, they twisted the whole show around to make it fit.

Robin and Barney's character development was totally erased. Robin goes back to putting her career above all personal relationships, and Barney goes back to womanizing. To have them divorced five minutes after wedding, when we spent the whole last four seasons building up to their wedding, was just a huge "F you" from the writers. I liked the Mother and was sad she died (and what short shrift to her character, too!), but it's really the Robin/Barney divorce and complete backwards progress of their characters that grinds my gears.

emmaaa · April 2014

I've watched HIMYM all along and cried the entire finale. I am so angry at how it ended!

1. Barney and Robin should have ended up together. And if they didn't, I was hoping they would reconnect after the birth of his daughter.

2. I disliked Robin from the beginning and never wanted her and Ted to end up together.

3. I can't believe they killed the mother off after all of that build up. She was perfect for Ted and that's what the show was leading up to.

4. I love Marshall and Lily and I feel like they were supposed to represent true love throughout the whole show. As long as they never got divorced I would have been okay with the show.

5. I get way too attached to series and the characters and too emotional when it's over.

ETF: spelling because apparently my fingers go too fast

GoldenPenguin · April 2014

I've watched it from the beginning, and thought the ending was PERFECT. I realize I'm totally in the minority in this, but it's ALWAYS been Ted & Robin.

The only thing that upset me was how the WHOLE SEASON was Barney & Robin's wedding & they were divorced like 10 minutes into the finale. They could have used this season much better than they did.

jenna8984 · April 2014

@jcbride2014 Maybe this is a dumb question because I watched reruns and not religiously but I don't get where you say they taped the ending in the first season because the kids were young. I understand them on the couch, and they aren't supposed to get older becuase he's hypothetically telling the story in a day? The girl looks about 20 years old to me- you think she would look that drastically different a few years later? I feel like I basically look the same as I did 8 years ago. Oh well...that is a shame if they had the whole thing planned for years like that and forced it to make that ending work.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

jenna8984 said:

@jcbride2014 Maybe this is a dumb question because I watched reruns and not religiously but I don't get where you say they taped the ending in the first season because the kids were young. I understand them on the couch, and they aren't supposed to get older becuase he's hypothetically telling the story in a day? The girl looks about 20 years old to me- you think she would look that drastically different a few years later? I feel like I basically look the same as I did 8 years ago. Oh well...that is a shame if they had the whole thing planned for years like that and forced it to make that ending work.

@jenna8984 The creators have said they taped the last scene very early in the show, and if you look up the kids now, they actually look VERY different. They even did a funny promo with the "kids" as they are today, like, "We've been on this couch for 9 fuckin' years!"

ElcaB · April 2014

Summary:

"So you guys have a family history of cancer and now I am off to bang your aunt who hates kids."

AlexisA01 · April 2014

I am just disappointed in the finale. I'm on tumblr and the fans are so angry and outraged by the ending.

HaileyDancingbear · April 2014

Not to mention, how the fuck are Ted and Robin going to work out? Hey, know how Ted has two kids that he (Most likely) doesn't want to uproot constantly? Let's hook him up with that chick who DOES NOT WANT KIDS EVER (Or she would have adopted) and TRAVELS CONSTANTLY. And we know she won't stop traveling because all of that character development she went through with Barney just got completely scrapped, and she will absolutely put her career ahead of love.

Also, poor Lily. She has another kid and all of her friends leave her, the end. Way to let such an awesome character just fizzle out.

Ted and the Mother were a better match than Robin and Ted ever were. Barney and Robin made a pretty great match too. I was really hoping Robin and Barney would re-connect over that kid and raise it together, that would have been better than "Oh the mother died and he's back with Robin," Which was predicted repeatedly, and was the LEAST CREATIVE fan theory out there!

To those who haven't seen the entire story line- imagine watching this AMAZING movie, this character grows and changes so much, and so many awesome things happen, then the ending is "Oh I was just dreaming, none of it ever happened, oh well, back to high school." THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS.

JCbride2015 · April 2014

HaileyDancingbear said:

Not to mention, how the fuck are Ted and Robin going to work out? Hey, know how Ted has two kids that he (Most likely) doesn't want to uproot constantly? Let's hook him up with that chick who DOES NOT WANT KIDS EVER (Or she would have adopted) and TRAVELS CONSTANTLY. And we know she won't stop traveling because all of that character development she went through with Barney just got completely scrapped, and she will absolutely put her career ahead of love.

Also, poor Lily. She has another kid and all of her friends leave her, the end. Way to let such an awesome character just fizzle out.

Ted and the Mother were a better match than Robin and Ted ever were. Barney and Robin made a pretty great match too. I was really hoping Robin and Barney would re-connect over that kid and raise it together, that would have been better than "Oh the mother died and he's back with Robin," Which was predicted repeatedly, and was the LEAST CREATIVE fan theory out there!

To those who haven't seen the entire story line- imagine watching this AMAZING movie, this character grows and changes so much, and so many awesome things happen, then the ending is "Oh I was just dreaming, none of it ever happened, oh well, back to high school." THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS.

ALL OF THIS. I think the series really ended in my mind at Barney and Robin's proposal. I like the Marshall and Lily storyline in the last season, but everything else was filler and then just completely fucking disappointing.

HaileyDancingbear · April 2014

Yeah, I've decided that in my mind, the finale for HIMYM (Much like most of Matt Smith's run in Doctor Who) never happened. I agree the last season was a lot of filler, but at LEAST they crammed those fillers full of jokes and funny moments- I can tolerate filler when it makes me laugh. But the finale just depressed me.

phira · April 2014

NOOOO I HATED THE ENDING!!

I feel like they had such an amazing thing going. They had everything set up SO well. And then BAM just kidding! And the kids were all COME ON DAD WE LOVE AUNT ROBIN!

YOUR MOTHER IS DEAD THIS IS YOUR AUNT WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU.

jdluvr06 · April 2014

NOOOO I HATED THE ENDING!!

I feel like they had such an amazing thing going. They had everything set up SO well. And then BAM just kidding! And the kids were all COME ON DAD WE LOVE AUNT ROBIN!

YOUR MOTHER IS DEAD THIS IS YOUR AUNT WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU.

That actually didn't bother me. For the audience it was fresh that the mother was dead but for the kids she had been dead for six years. So it is natural that they would encourage their dad to start moving on.

LadyMillil · April 2014

I loved Ted and the mother meeting, but I hated that she died and Ted ended up with Robin. After spending so long watching Ted look for the mother, and all the times they were so close to meeting, it sucks that they get so little time together.

thisismynickname2 · April 2014

Finally watched it. Used the sensory deprivator 5000 to avoid spoilers.

Ultimately I'm fine with the ending. Ted and Tracey were obviously soul mates. He got his soul mate, and after six years, he gets his first love too. I'm going to speculate that Robin got her dream job and is now able to give herself to Ted like never before. Let me dream, OK?

Huge crocodile tears when Barney met his daughter!

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