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

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  • DJ
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    • Apr 2003
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    #526
    Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

    Ehh, you hit it on the head when you compared this finale with Lost. Very disappointed in how this episode was put together and the ending, I'm just not buying it. You spend all this time in building up the reveal of the mother and then she winds up being a throw-away character in the grand scheme of things. Such a tease and ultimate waste of time. They should've called the show something else if they were going to go with the Ted-Robin ending, and revealed the mother several years ago and actually developed that storyline.

    You could still have her die, and imagine what a season-ender that would've been for her to succumb to an illness and then we're along with Ted on his journey to try and move forward in his life after looking so long for his true love and then losing her. That would've been a great story to tell.

    Instead, it was thrown away in 30 seconds.

    I'm not buying that crap with the kids, either. Felt really forced and they really wouldn't have any emotion to their dad telling the story about meeting their mother and how she passed away? Shoot, I still get emotional when my family tells stories about my grandparents passing away. I'm sure I'll be a bigger mess when my parents go.

    In the end I feel like the show went for shock value and talking points over solid storytelling.

    This ending also killed the replay value of this series for me. Granted, I was pretty much done after Season 7 anyway, but don't think I can go back and watch this knowing how it all ends.

    Friday Night Lights was one of the few shows to actually put together a solid ending. Writers/executives from other shows should watch that finale and take some notes.
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    • AshamanCarnage
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      • Jul 2006
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      #527
      Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

      I'm usually one of those people who just watches the show and doesn't try to analyze to much, but i have to admit I felt a little wronged by the finale.

      I never really liked Ted being obsessed with Robin, so when they showed him with the mother...I thought they were finally done with all of that. Then to just wrap up Ted and the Mothers whole life together in like 15 minutes, so he could get back with a Robin. Just ugh.

      I still enjoyed it overall, it just felt a little off.

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      • mgoblue
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        • Jul 2002
        • 25477

        #528
        Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

        Originally posted by TheMatrix31
        Why didn't the Mother cry during the flash-forward scene about being at your daughter's wedding?
        I would think that she'd come to terms with her mortality more than Ted has....
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        • ASB37
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          • Feb 2003
          • 2624

          #529
          Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

          Originally posted by Majingir
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          This is how the show should have ended, period end of sentence.

          The whole Robin/Ted thing, again? Really?!?! Give me a break, what a stupid way to end the show.

          Everything else was actually great and perfect, but the last 5 minutes of the show ruined it.

          Also, small lawyer pet peeve-- in NY, the highest state court is called the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court in NY is actually the trial level court. So Marshall saying he was running for State Supreme Court didn't really make any sense.
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          • BlueNGold
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            • Aug 2009
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            #530
            Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

            A little pricey (it is limited edition), but I thought this was a pretty awesome poster.

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            • mjavon
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              • Jul 2013
              • 1502

              #531
              Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

              I think to get the finale you have to consider who he's telling the story to. He's telling his kids "the story of how I met your mother" as a subtle way for him to gauge what they would think about him going after their Aunt Robin. The story really isn't about the mother at all, it was only presented that way because well, that's a much better way than telling your children "the story of my history with your Aunt Robin." As viewers, we feel like the grieving process never took place but, in reality the characters are six years removed from Tracy's death, so what good is it to dwell on it in the year 2030? They've already dealt with her death by then.
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              • BlueNGold
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                • Aug 2009
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                #532
                Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                Originally posted by Majingir
                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
                Josh Radnor on How I Met Your Mother finale

                I'm assuming this was that scene.

                You’ve lived in this character for so many years, do you think he thought about Robin when he was with “The Mother”?
                They cut a scene that Cobie [Smulders] and I shot between Ted and Robin. I thought it was a really important scene and I talked to Carter and Craig [Bays and Thomas, HIMYM's co-creators and co-showrunners] about it. I understand why they cut it, but I thought it laid in that Robin had been thinking about Ted all these years more than Ted had been thinking about Robin. But who knows?

                It’s weird to speculate on something that isn’t actually real. [Laughs.] It’s an imagined story, but you also have to wonder what happened in the six years after she died and what was that like for Ted. Obviously, he’s been mulling over his past and sifting through things. And there was that comment about Robin always coming over for dinner, so they’ve clearly reestablished a contact and a deep friendship.
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                • Bellsprout
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                  • Oct 2009
                  • 25652

                  #533
                  Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                  I brought up this interview back in the season 7 thread, I'll do it again because it's really interesting now.
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                  • Matty Aqua
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                    • Oct 2009
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                    #534
                    Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                    I personally felt the show lost it's humour factor at season 6...Teds relationship with Zoe was just draining and pointless and his relationship with Janette was just silly as she was a silly character, I also found Lily to be an annoying character by the end.

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                    • Majingir
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                      • Apr 2005
                      • 47621

                      #535
                      Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                      Originally posted by TheMatrix31
                      Side note: Man, they really made Robin look ugly with that haircut in the end scene.
                      To be fair...she was in her 50s at this point so obviously she'd be diff from the mid-late 20s Robin everyone is used to. S3-4 prob best though.


                      Look at people on this sites reaction to the possible "mother is dead" scenario years prior:
                      Crazy to think,if Jason Segal didn't even suggest this(not even he knew the ending at the time),would that ending have been discussed much(if at all) from that point until the finale?

                      September 2011: (first time it was ever mentioned on this site)
                      Originally posted by Dayman
                      If they did the first thing, where the mother's been dead the entire time, it would be ****ing nuts. I almost wish they'd do it.
                      Originally posted by chilli311
                      I'd be all for that!
                      Originally posted by Husker_OS
                      If it turns out she's dead, that would be an unreal twist.
                      Originally posted by TheMatrix31
                      That would be super sad.....but pretty unique.
                      Nobody here really even talked about the mother being dead theory at all for 2012. It was partially talked about in 2013(for season 8) but season 9 is really when people started bringing it up alot.

                      March 2013:
                      Originally posted by Majingir
                      But since Jason Segel basically wanted that ending too, would be crazy if it happened. That ending would completely change how I viewed HIMYM for all these years.
                      Last edited by Majingir; 04-01-2014, 11:09 PM.

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                      • ThePPL
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                        • Jun 2008
                        • 1030

                        #536
                        Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                        Originally posted by Mo
                        First, yes Victoria not Veronica. Im stupid

                        I still say they screwed up, but whatever not that big of deal.


                        Also Sepinwall writes that they filmed the kids at the end of season 2.




                        Hella spoilers, dont click if you havent seen the episode yet
                        Great article about the series finale. It's more of a retrospective than a review. I felt like it kind of got lost in the shuffle, so I'm bringing it up again.

                        I haven't really been paying attention to this show since the end of season 6, so it was great to see the cast bond with each other one last time. I enjoyed the finale for the most part. I really liked how those corny lines Barney used on a girl can be such a fitting promise he made to his baby girl.

                        The ending left my mouth opened feeling disappointed. I know 6 years had gone by since the mother died, so naturally it would be okay for the kids to tell their dad to find love again, but it just felt like minutes ago she was alive and living this great life with Ted. I felt like the producers kind of played me. Throughout this episode and the one before that, I got this impression that Ted did not have any romantic feelings for Robin and was head over heels with Tracy, so it felt like such a curve ball for us to go from a scene where Ted introduces himself to Tracy and sparks fly between them, then move to the next scene where the kids say their dad is totally in love with Aunt Robin.

                        They really could have ended the show with the training going by and then the screen fades to black, where Ted says, "And that kids, is how I met your mother."

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                        • Majingir
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                          • Apr 2005
                          • 47621

                          #537
                          Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                          As much fun as it's been making fun of what the series finale has done to the show, don't think many people have really looked back on the show in general and talked about the good things on it.....

                          So what were peoples fave moment(s)/line(s) from the main characters?
                          For me: (I'm probably forgetting obvious things)

                          Barney
                          Line(s): (the pilot,when it showed flashbacks to moments he said ___ suit up and legendary)
                          Moment: When he was on Price is Right and won everything so easily(and stopped in the middle of the game to show Bob Barker pictures of Barneys childhood)

                          Marshall
                          Line: NOT GOOD ENOUGH! (and his Lawyered moments)
                          Moment: When he was singing everything he did

                          Lily
                          Line: You SonOfABeach
                          Moment:Not so much a moment,but everytime she or marshall said something(usually relating to their marriage to prove a point to everyone) and then they'd high five

                          Robin
                          Line: Explaining anything using Canadian terms. And for her and Ted...the "Major _____" or "General ___" and stuff lol.
                          Moment: When she went all Canadian on everyone and tried fighting Lily

                          Ted
                          Line: Any of the lines where he tried being smart(EncyclopEdia....RenAIssance fair)
                          Moment: When he was rapping and thought he was good,but turned out he was real bad

                          Mother
                          Line: "Plus, you muttered a few words out loud. I heard "lonely" and "unicorn", which actually gave me a great idea for a children's book, so...thank you"
                          Moment: When she owned Barney at the drugstore in their first meeting

                          One of funniest overall was the intervention on interventions.
                          Last edited by Majingir; 04-01-2014, 11:36 PM.

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                          • Hockeynut99
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                            • Jan 2013
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                            #538
                            Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                            I like the ending. They are finally together.

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                            • Majingir
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                              • Apr 2005
                              • 47621

                              #539
                              Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                              13.3M watched series finale(series high). Top 60 most watched series finale of all time(top 15 since 2000) 18th most of all CBS shows(4th since 2000). Right around King of Queens amount of viewers for finale.
                              Last edited by Majingir; 04-02-2014, 01:22 AM.

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                              • mjavon
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                                • Jul 2013
                                • 1502

                                #540
                                Re: How I Met Your Mother: Season 9 (The Final Season)

                                I liked it. It ended how it started, and I think there's something cool about that. I think one reason so many people are disappointed is that there was never really a mourning period for Tracy. But you have to consider that this is a story Ted is telling to his kids - they don't need to be told about how devastating the loss of their mother was, they lived it. In that regard, it makes sense that they never went into any kind of mourning or funeral scene for Tracy.
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