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

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  • Burns11
    Greatness Has Arrived
    • Mar 2007
    • 7406

    #451
    Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

    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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    • Majingir
      Moderator
      • Apr 2005
      • 47621

      #452
      Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

      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.

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      • WWF80sKid
        All Star
        • Nov 2008
        • 7095

        #453
        Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

        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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        • Majingir
          Moderator
          • Apr 2005
          • 47621

          #454
          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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          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.

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          • Jr.
            Playgirl Coverboy
            • Feb 2003
            • 19171

            #455
            Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

            Originally posted by Majingir
            Parts of the finale didn't get shown on tv but will on the dvd:

            Spoiler


            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.
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            • Majingir
              Moderator
              • Apr 2005
              • 47621

              #456
              Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

              Originally posted by Jr.
              DVD/TV question
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              • elTodd
                Little Big Puig
                • Feb 2004
                • 1333

                #457
                Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

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                • Jr.
                  Playgirl Coverboy
                  • Feb 2003
                  • 19171

                  #458
                  Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                  Originally posted by Majingir
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                  Ah I see what you mean. I misread
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                  • Majingir
                    Moderator
                    • Apr 2005
                    • 47621

                    #459
                    Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                    Originally posted by elTodd
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                    Last edited by Majingir; 04-01-2014, 12:45 AM.

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                    • cima
                      Hall Of Fame
                      • Sep 2004
                      • 13478

                      #460
                      Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

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                      • elTodd
                        Little Big Puig
                        • Feb 2004
                        • 1333

                        #461
                        Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                        Originally posted by Majingir
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                        • Majingir
                          Moderator
                          • Apr 2005
                          • 47621

                          #462
                          Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                          Originally posted by elTodd
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                          Last edited by Majingir; 04-01-2014, 01:15 AM.

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                          • TheMatrix31
                            RF
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 52920

                            #463
                            Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                            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.

                            *sigh*
                            Last edited by TheMatrix31; 04-01-2014, 01:19 AM.

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                            • Majingir
                              Moderator
                              • Apr 2005
                              • 47621

                              #464
                              Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                              Originally posted by TheMatrix31
                              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.
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                              • Jr.
                                Playgirl Coverboy
                                • Feb 2003
                                • 19171

                                #465
                                Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                                Reading the reactions of those that followed the show closely, I'm beginning to understand why y'all are upset. Sounds very unsatisfying
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