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Well that's that. Another of the shows I watch has died.

I find it quite surprising that to end the show they have Ted's destiny women die, Robyn and Barney divorce with Barney becoming a single dad of some whore's kid and then Ted hooking up with his second choice Robyn.
Never mind. There's very few TV shows that have a decent ending that weren't already written with the ending in mind from the very beginning (although did the kids actually age at all, perhaps it was pre-planned?).
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Well I think the ending sucked (I am been polite) so it fitted in nicely with the final season :( Very very disappointing. I didn't like the direction it took at all and now wish I stopped watching after season 8. Season 9 didn't ruin the show but it gave it a damn good go.
 
It was a bit of a strange ending this.

It was a bit of a rollercoaster with most people having an idea of how it may end but not knowing how it would get there, but then the ending seemed a bit rushed. They spent a whole season on the days before Barney's and Robyn's wedding only for them to get divorced within the first ten minutes of the pre-finale.

I suppose everything was somewhat fitting though. Robyn was always Ted's first choice as was Ted the mother's second choice, after her fiancee died. Barney always wanted to be a father which he got. Robyn never really wanted to raise kids and she ended up not having to. Marshall and Lilly had the three kids they wanted, and Marshall the career he wanted in the end. It wasn't a particularly happy ending but a fitting one I suppose. Everyone got what they always wanted.
 
I just don't get how they ended up here. 9 Seasons to plan this and what do we get? 22 episodes based a wedding that's destroyed 5 minutes in the second to last episode, a full season revolving around Barney finally maturing and then pull the the rug out from under him, 3 seasons where the over arching plot was "Ted and Robin don't work together" and this is what they pull? The way the last 5 minutes went down I was expecting Future Ted to pull of his mask to reveal he was Hitler.


And before anyone starts with that "the scenes with the kids were filmed during season 2 so this was always the plan" stuff that I keep seeing crop up on other forums, yes, fine, this is what they had in mind. I don't object to the basic outcome, I object to the crappy way it was implemented, just because they filmed it doesn't mean they had to use it, instead of shoehorning things around this framing device that became antiquated because you got renewed 6 more times after you filmed it, write a better conclusion. They really needed to cut the arcs this season in half, do everything up to what became the last 2 episodes in the first half of the season (because god knows there was enough filler) and use the second half to decompress this ending so there might actually be an emotional connection to it rather than a sense of "WTF?"
 
Like I've said for a while, it's pretty terrible when you think carefully.
Think how they handled Victoria?

And Barney changed when he was marrying the stripper, only to change drastically quite quick and they break up.
And that's also not the first time Barney was getting serious with someone, remember when he and Robin had that fling?
 
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Isn't there also some problems with the mothers writing?
We're pretty much told she didn't do boyfriends after the loss of her first choice.

But there's an episode where the mother has a boyfriend, as ted says that if he could something again, he'd have gone to the house or something to spend more time etc etc with the mother (Which makes sense with her dying, but then it takes away from the ending tbh)

Also can't do a "How I met your dad" since she's dead.
And also makes no sense, it'd just be her moping for years and then some weird things that tie in with ted we already know :p.

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I actually liked the ending.. I think it was all summed up by the daughter when she said something along the lines, "It was supposed to be about how you met mom, but she was hardly in the story and it was really about how you loved Aunt Robin and should be with her and mom would understand" Basically saying that in him telling the kids about how he met their mother was him trying to find justification in getting together with Robin and wanting their understanding/blessing.

It was a different ending but I liked it and didn't feel short changed at all. Then again I felt the same way about Lost.

I also loved how Barney became 100% dedicated to his daughter from, ironically, a one night stand... At the end of a "Perfect" Month.. :D
 
Ending was poor. It did cover all the fronts, nobody walked away upset, but it was just meh. And it makes the idea of "How I Met Your Father" spin off quite redundant, we know how it ends, for bitter and sweet, following another thread potentially for another 9 years just to end up in the same place is a little much to expect from the audience.

I was quite impressed by the footage of "kids" (which now would be 10 years older than at the start) clearly prepared especially for the ending. That's a long arc to maintain.
 
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I was quite impressed by the footage of "kids" (which now would be 10 years older than at the start) clearly prepared especially for the ending. That's a long arc to maintain.
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But they didn't maintain the arc. They proved Robyn and Ted couldn't be together, then put them together. They spent an entire season building up to a pointless wedding which ended in 2 minutes of dialogue. We wait 9 seasons for 'How I met Your Mother' and we barely even see her. Essentially what they should have done was just ended the series at season 8, then use the credits to tell us who did what.
 
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But they didn't maintain the arc.
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In my book, season 9 was dragging its feet so much and was so hard to watch, it drenched any sympathy for how it ended from me, the only thing I was impressed by was the fact they pre-shoot the ending (with "call aunt Robin" storyline) with original "kids" actors 9 years ago. Maintaing that story arc and probably keeping it secret from crowd of revolving "episodic" show writers made the ending and last season so messy, but props to creators for sticking to their guns and almost decade old pre-made idea. I agree though, if they knew how it ends, spending so long on proving why Robin can't be with Ted then pairing them anyway was kind of pointless.
 
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I agree with many others that the finale was disappointing. This article pretty much sums up all my thoughts on it - definitely worth reading.

It seems like the speculation on How I Met Your Dad could be right.. With Barney being the dad and 'number 31' (notice how they didn't say her name) being the main character telling the story of how she met Barney.
 
I think at the moment I am still just sad that the last 8/9 years have come to an end, just like when Friends did, having a night of the week to just watch something familiar. I'm not 100% decided on how it all ended but I think the last 2 episodes were rushed and just had to be that way due to the kids parts being filmed in the first season.
 
I spent the whole week thinking it finished with Lily in a whale costume, until I came into this thread.

I was thinking"what the hell was that? Surely he had to end up with Robin". I didn't know it was a two-parter.

It was the only way it could have ended properly.

Series 9 as a whole however, was a bit poor by comparison.
 
No idea why I still watch this, it's dreadful. How can the actors can say some of these lines and not want to die inside! So much cringe.
 
My feelings on the matter:

I liked the ending, even though it was a bit rushed. I felt overall the show had more growth and emotive storylines than Friends.
Season 9 actually was way funnier for me than 7 and 8.
I got a bit welled up a few times.

Possibly because I fall within the shows target demographic, spending my 20s and early 30s with the characters, I felt that kind of connection in terms of where I am with my life, how things are changing, some friends drifting away, etc.

A fitting end to my favourite sitcom of my adulthood. (I don't count Community, Modern Family, etc as sitcoms).

I also watched the pilot for Friends With Better Lives. Not amazing, but still leagues above dross like 2 Broke Girls and Mom.
 
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