After a couple seasons where the show kind of went off the rails and wasn't very good, I wasn't invested in the show much, but the finale certainly seemed to make the last few seasons worse. I guess I was hoping some of all that would end up making sense that they were doing that, but it didn't.
How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)
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After a couple seasons where the show kind of went off the rails and wasn't very good, I wasn't invested in the show much, but the finale certainly seemed to make the last few seasons worse. I guess I was hoping some of all that would end up making sense that they were doing that, but it didn't. -
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What if this type of ending was intentional just to get more people talking lol? Generic ending wouldn't produce this type of lengthy conversations across social media and MANY other sites.
Either way,despite how I feel about the finale and purpose of the shows stories in general now....I still probably would say HIMYM is one of my fave real shows(meaning shows with real people,not cartoons like Simpsons and stuff). Been debating for months on if I liked HIMYM or Friends best, now I can easily say Friends was better.
Sucks to see it end(and the way it ended) but always gonna be fun in the future to remember the awesome moments on the show. I'll give it a few weeks/months to really process the finale and start thinking of it from a bigger picture type of way and less of a fan who wanted(and didn't want) specific endings to the show.Comment
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That's the weird thing. I have no idea how I feel about the ending yet. I'm very mixed. I just can't figure out what I think.
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Parts of the finale didn't get shown on tv but will on the dvd:
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Lily gives Marshall the $5(seeing how they don't know about Ted-Robin until 2030,I guess this will be a flash forward scene or something)
The pineapple!
There'll prob be more too. I wonder if it'll be like Seinfeld where they have alternate ending to the series(many people hated Seinfeld ending,even people from the show it seemed like lol). They even had reunion that essentially bashed the finale and had new moments with the cast to replace it.Comment
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Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)
Parts of the finale didn't get shown on tv but will on the dvd:
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Lily gives Marshall the $5(seeing how they don't know about Ted-Robin until 2030,I guess this will be a flash forward scene or something)
The pineapple!
There'll prob be more too. I wonder if it'll be like Seinfeld where they have alternate ending to the series(many people hated Seinfeld ending,even people from the show it seemed like lol). They even had reunion that essentially bashed the finale and had new moments with the cast to replace it.
SpoilerDidn't Marshall give Lily money when they were at McLaren's after Ted/Tracy's wedding? I thought that was him paying the bet?Comment
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SpoilerYa. But Marshall won the bet in the end(which they don't know about until 2030).
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SpoilerI guess I don't understand how some of you are coming to the conclusion that because Ted goes back for Robin that it somehow means that the mother didn't mean that much to him. I don't think he "settled" with her at all. She died. What's Ted supposed to do? Never have another relationship or remarry?Comment
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SpoilerI guess I don't understand how some of you are coming to the conclusion that because Ted goes back for Robin that it somehow means that the mother didn't mean that much to him. I don't think he "settled" with her at all. She died. What's Ted supposed to do? Never have another relationship or remarry?SpoilerIt's about how Ted is telling his kids a story about how he met his wife, yet most of the story revolved around his relationship with Robin and barely talked about his wife at all, then it just ends with Ted going back to Robin in the end. Not to mention that Robin at this point is the ex-wife of his best friend.....
Though he is in his 50s by this time, so it'd be more surprising for him to remarry than it would be for him not to, especially to someone he's been convincing himself for decades he no longer likes.
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SpoilerI'm disappointed because I ended up really liking the mother, much more than Robin.
Ted and Robin are a very poor version of Ross/Rachel and it feels like that was being forced upon us. Although Robin/Barney was very forced as well and never worked, so I'm glad they ended up not together.
The show went on too long and it showed in the finale. The last season was poorly written and poorly executed. Why spend an entire season on a wedding for 2 characters whom had a forced relationship and wasn't going to work? Then they introduce and show the mother, who is ridiculously likable and you kill her...terrible writing IMO.
Marshall had a good sendoff, possibly to Supreme Court but I don't feel like Lily had an ending at all.
The one positive note I can take from the finale is the evolution of Barney's character. His scene with his baby girl truly was legendary and he was the only one to have a legendary ending.Comment
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SpoilerIt's about how Ted is telling his kids a story about how he met his wife, yet most of the story revolved around his relationship with Robin and barely talked about his wife at all, then it just ends with Ted going back to Robin in the end. Not to mention that Robin at this point is the ex-wife of his best friend.....
Though he is in his 50s by this time, so it'd be more surprising for him to remarry than it would be for him not to, especially to someone he's been convincing himself for decades he no longer likes.
SpoilerBut his daughter even says that the whole point of the story was how he still has feelings for Robin. Which he all but acknowledges. I don't understand why it can't be just that?
As others have mentioned, the story is mainly about Ted and Robin. They played a major role in each others' lives.
Just because the title of the show is How I Met Your Mother, doesn't mean that has to be the main storyline, or even how it ends.Comment
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SpoilerYes it does.....Why call a show something like that if the show has next to nothing to do with it?
Like I said in the past,if the show just had another name that didn't directly state a specific storyline, entire series would be better. Like if the story was just Ted telling his kids about his life from 2005-2030 or something and never hinted about meeting the mother (and we never knew the mother was even part of the past story(like her roommate,her connection to the umbrella,st.patricks day stuff and so on) until final season) , the whole series would have way diff feelLast edited by Majingir; 04-01-2014, 01:15 AM.Comment
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How could the first 55 minutes of the finale be so good yet the last 5 be so bad?
I'm really, really disappointed they went this way.
Stylistically, I didn't care too much for the flash forwards only because I believe a lot of those things could have and should have had their own episode. Barney having a kid, the Mother being sick, etc. But it was still very, very good.
But, the ending. I just....why? I really, truly feel like it invalidates the entire 9th season, and the entire series overall for that matter. I feel very cheated. Ted completely acts out of character. The guy waits 7 years before getting married to the love of his life? This is the guy who goes gung ho for everything but they wait 7 years even though you know they knew the minute they were under the umbrella that they were meant for each other? Then she dies, and it's all like "okay I'm just gonna go back to the chick I used to love and the chick that my best friend was married to now. Where''s my phone?!" And at the urging of the kids? The kids were straight up rooting for him to go chase their Aunt Robin. It's just.....really weird. C'mon now.
I understand the argument that it's about Ted's happiness but the show was about fate. Literally the entire series was about fate leading up to meeting the Mother and that being it for him. I understand they wanted to show that life has different plans. But let's face it----we were sold a bill of goods. The goalposts were moved. They tried satisfying everyone. The reason the Season 8 finale (the last three minutes especially) was so good was that it felt like everything was culminating, like Barney and Robin's wedding weekend was the temporal junction point for their entire universe. And then we find out that three years later they got divorced? And a few years after that the woman he spent his entire life trying to find dies? And we didn't even get an explanation of what she had or more than just a small shot of her in a hospital bed?!
If you're going to go the "death" route, go the entire way. If you're gonna stick with the fate thing, give us the fate thing. Initials on the umbrella, running into each other, barely missing, laughing at stupid shellfish jokes, etc. Don't try to appease or give us different things all at once. Don't give us some BS finish where everything just "tidies up." But it doesn't really tidy up, does it? Didn't Ted and Robin break up because of the traveling/career and that she didn't want kids? Well, she's still traveling. And his best friend and her ended their marriage because of it. What's different now that Ted is gonna just chase her again?
Right now, the viewer doesn't even remember the Mother. We're gonna remember that the Mother died and that he ends up with Robin. We were made to fall in love with her just like Ted did and to have it stolen from us. Was it some elaborate lesson about how life sucks and we can't predict anything? Apparently so.
They could have had her pass away and he's just telling them the story, reliving his memories. Just like the line in the flash-forward scene about living in his stories. He'd be living in his stories because he misses her so much. That truly is one of the saddest things ever, and one of the things I noted. But why are the kids so flippant throughout the series when they know this is a serious thing and that their mother isn't there anymore? And I still could swear we heard her voice when Future Ted was telling stories in episodes from prior series.
I just.....I don't know. There was so much potential and so much of this episode was spectacular but the way it ended really just sucks the life out of all of it. Maybe I'm just a sap. You can go with a "happily ever after" story because we've learned heartbreak and disappointment time and time again throughout the series. We don't need a sad moment anymore. We need Ted to be with the one he was meant for. The ending we got is just transitioning to Ted and Robin after the show, as if that's his final destination. We were DONE with stepping stones. That was the entire point of the journey we were shown. I guess they just wanted to go with the "life never stops changing, you're always on your journey, things are always unexpected and changing" theme.
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SpoilerThat's exactly why I never tried believing the "mother is dead" theory. The kids flat out said "are we being punished" when Ted was gonna tell them a story about their (now dead) mother they never heard before.
She was never in a 2030 scene,but some people said there might have been times future Ted said something that sounded like he was talking as if the mother was still around(saying something like "you can ask your mother about this"),not sure if it's true,maybe some superfan one day will rewatch all those scenes and find outComment
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Reading the reactions of those that followed the show closely, I'm beginning to understand why y'all are upset. Sounds very unsatisfyingComment
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