How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

[kingkilla56]

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I don't know why everyone had the show ruined because she ended up passing away.

I admit that I hardly watch this show. Last time I saw episodes in any consistent stretch was with my roommate in college 3 years ago. But from reading the impressions the show hooked people in wanting to learn more about the mother. They finally introduced her and made you love her. So just as losing her would ruin Ted's life, or at least rock his world, maybe thats parallel to her death ruining the enjoyment for the fans?

I know if I invested this many years into the characters, specifically the mother in this instance, finding out she passed would most likely crush me. But its a new wound for people. Maybe they'll feel differently and move on/appreciate her impact over time.

But feeling empty, or kinda deflated seems like a appropriate response from the impressions in here.

The Robin thing does seem kinda weak to me. Idk about that angle. Feel like they wanted to give a consolation prize for ruining peoples dreams for the happy ending haha.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Again, this IS the happy ending for Ted. He's got his kids, and now the blessing of them to go after the woman he's been in love with his whole life. It was just terrible that it ended up that way because they repeatedly showed that it couldn't work. It just sucks that for some reason they couldn't just change the ending they recorded all those years ago, because it doesn't represent the show and what it has become as much as where everyone was at that time. They've all moved a long way since Season 2, and they just hit the shuffle button so that everyone could be in a place where that ending still made sense instead of changing it to fit where they had gone.

[Majingir]

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More parts of it doesn't make sense either.

For example:

Robin supposedly just abandoned the group for all those years in the finale, yet in past episodes, she was seen to be there all the time!

For example:
The exploding meatball sub....Robin was still there in the flashforward sequence.

During the episode when Robin was left alone with Marvin on the streets and every few years in the flash forward, she revealed more and more to Lily about what really happened(and it lead to Mike Tyson being in it). How would that be possible if Robin hadn't seen them in years?

Teds kids love Robin, but again....she was rarely even around(and Teds daughter just called her "bus lady" meaning she didn't know who Robin was for half her life despite having a picture of both of them with Robin which looked like it was probably made when they were in kindergarten....)

[TheNumber35]

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More parts of it doesn't make sense either.

For example:

Robin supposedly just abandoned the group for all those years in the finale, yet in past episodes, she was seen to be there all the time!

For example:
The exploding meatball sub....Robin was still there in the flashforward sequence.

During the episode when Robin was left alone with Marvin on the streets and every few years in the flash forward, she revealed more and more to Lily about what really happened(and it lead to Mike Tyson being in it). How would that be possible if Robin hadn't seen them in years?

Teds kids love Robin, but again....she was rarely even around(and Teds daughter just called her "bus lady" meaning she didn't know who Robin was for half her life despite having a picture of both of them with Robin which looked like it was probably made when they were in kindergarten....)

In order:

Barney had everyone convinced he was dying, I know they'd divorced and all...but that flash forward was 10 years from the episode (so 2020?) and Robin "left" the group in 2017? 3 years time to get over it and Barney was potentially dying, she came around for that.

Those flash forwards are spaced out over Marvin's life (different school milestones.) So it's incredibly possible that Robin was visiting Lily briefly and the two of them were catching up. Lily and everyone didn't say they never saw Robin, they said they very rarely saw her.

And Ted's kids...Ted's future kids love Robin. And the same logic that applied to Lily's situation applies here. I'll phrase it this way: I see one of my aunts maybe once or twice every couple years because she travels around a lot for her job and lives 9 hours away when she is at home. But I absolutely adore her, the times we have spent together are awesome. Same thing here: logically speaking, Ted's kids love Robin based on what time they have spent with her.

Robin wasn't portrayed as being around "all the time" in the flash forwards, she was shown being there in one moment in time, across years and years of their lives.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

This is being discussed more than 'Lost'.

[mgoblue]

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I don't think I'm as angry as I was last night....but I really did want Ted to get his perfect woman (which Tracy was)...bittersweet, but I can understand their motivation.

[BlueNGold]

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Wow, I'm really torn on how things ended. I really enjoyed the episode, but the ending just left me with an unsatisfied feeling and that's not what I want to be feeling at the conclusion of a show I've invested all this time in.

The route they decided to go doesn't make me upset or angry and it doesn't make me think it ruins everything (although Season 9 definitely suffers from the events of the finale), but again, I'm just left feeling a little unsatisfied because so much effort was made to squash Ted and Robin and show that they just don't work out as a couple. The way Tracy was literally perfect for Ted, it's the complete opposite for Robin, and we've been shown that many times over the entire course of the show. Then you throw in all the times Ted "got over" Robin, and just in this final season alone with the balloon metaphor and "I don't love you like that anymore" and it's like how were we supposed to feel happy about Ted going back to Robin?

Not only that but Ted even said to Robin in last week's episode regarding the possibility of him breaking up Barney and Robin's wedding, "If you ever think I would be a part of that then you don't know me at all, Robin." But yet a few years later it's okay to chase after your friend's ex-wife? I just...I don't know. Ted and Robin should not have ended up together when all was said and done. They shouldn't have killed off Tracy either. I can appreciate them having the balls to do these things but when you have a perfect ending, why throw that away just for the sake of surprise? I mean just watching that edited clip someone posted where the ending was at the train station pisses me off a little bit because that's as close to perfect as they could have gotten with the ending and it was pretty much how I always envisioned the show ending.

I'm still going to always go back and re-watch this show because regardless of the ending, it's still going to be one of my favorites. I just feel like they made some unnecessary mistakes. They so very nearly hit a home run but instead it curved just a little too much and went foul.

[Majingir]

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I find it abit strange how nobody from the show is really commenting on the finale that much. Little side comments here and there on twitter, but none of the cast or creators really talking about it much, wonder why?

I just realized something, some screenshots released before the finale didn't actually air in the finale...They had screenshots like the playbook 2 and stuff,but stuff like this DIDN'T make the finale...seems real strange:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkJdZeDIcAA9LTc.jpg

[BlueNGold]

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Another thing (I'm sure I'm going to have plenty of more thoughts throughout the day/week, lol)....

The past few seasons and most specifically the finale really make me dislike Robin. She never knows what the **** she wants until she absolutely can't have it. And then when she inevitably does get what she wants, she starts trying to find an out. This never changed with Barney or Ted and if you really think about the amount of times she broke both of their hearts, it makes you wonder why you care for her character at all.

I don't mean to say this in an angry way, but I feel like it would have been better for them to kill off Robin rather than Tracy because Robin was never going to get her perfect ending. Any time they tried to put her with anyone it was clear it was never going to work for one reason or another. Well actually, Don was probably the closest they came IMO, but that hardly lasted.

[Majingir]

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^Ironic thing about Don is that he broke up with Robin for basically same reason she broke up with Ted and divorced Barney.

Looking back at entire series. They could've finished it up after 7 seasons if this was type of ending they had.

[ehh]

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I find it abit strange how nobody from the show is really commenting on the finale that much. Little side comments here and there on twitter, but none of the cast or creators really talking about it much, wonder why?

Ted commented, didn't sound thrilled...

"I was let in on a big thing [in the] first season," Radnor recently told The Hollywood Reporter. "I thought they weren't going to do that, and then they said, 'No, we're still doing that.'"

I imagine most of the cast was not happy with the ending.

[ehh]

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Another thing (I'm sure I'm going to have plenty of more thoughts throughout the day/week, lol)....

The past few seasons and most specifically the finale really make me dislike Robin. She never knows what the **** she wants until she absolutely can't have it. And then when she inevitably does get what she wants, she starts trying to find an out. This never changed with Barney or Ted and if you really think about the amount of times she broke both of their hearts, it makes you wonder why you care for her character at all.

Yep, this is what I mentioned too. Robin isn't a likable of a character. She wants to be a career woman but every once in a while feels empty enough to settle into a "good enough" relationship where she still puts her priorities over her partner's. Then when her partner becomes too much of an impediment on her career and her priorities and the relationship dies. It's horrible.

I have seen friends stuck in the exact same situation that Ted was in with Robin. The guy likes the girl more than she likes him in return. They don't fit well enough together, their relationship fails even though he's great guy and treated her as well as a man can treat a woman. The girl always has second thoughts because he treated her well - not because she was blindly in love with him. He was kind, caring and committed - pretty much everything she wasn't in the relationship.

Post break-up Ted is a convenient, borderline friend-zone guy to Robin. She doesn't love him like the way you're supposed to love your spouse. He's there to tell her everything will be alright and to make her feel better when she's feeling down. When everything is fine she's on her own.

Meanwhile Ted has found, loved and lost the true love of his life. After all that time and effort and failed relationships he finally found the one. Now, after all that, he's going to go back to a crappy relationship with selfish Robin? Just DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!

I had no problem with all of the drama in the finale up until Ted & Robin's reunion. Robin & Barney getting divorced, Tracy dying (they could have made Tracy's death THE most traumatic scene in the history of sitcoms, I truly believe that. Yet they brushed passed it in :30 seconds), etc. That's life as others have said. But the last scene of Ted & Robin getting back together...that's not life. That's weird, awkward and IMO not believable.


While Scrubs was a happy ending, I feel the way that show ended was a flawless execution when trying to pull off something like this. Yes, it was JD's dreams of the future as opposed to flash-forwards in HIMYM but still, it was pulled off much better.

[SidVish]

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I don't understand how the writers thought that we are supposed to believe that Robin was Ted's soul mate all along. We know that doesn't work for a myriad of reasons so I don't understand how that's a happy ending for Ted.

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[SmashMan]

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I don't know what to think, mainly for reasons already stated. They spent nine years telling us that Ted and Robin wouldn't work - only to do that at the end. The rest of the episode was good, I thought.

Am I wrong in feeling like the mother ultimately didn't even matter?

[elTodd]

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I don't understand how the writers thought that we are supposed to believe that Robin was Ted's soul mate all along. We know that doesn't work for a myriad of reasons so I don't understand how that's a happy ending for Ted.

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Who ever said Robin was Ted's soulmate? I don't think they painted that picture at all. I thought they did a pretty good job of expressing that Tracy was Ted's soulmate.