They've the planned the ending since the beginning right? So I feel like somewhere inbetween with all the extra episodes they filmed the story and direction of the series changed unintentionally. If you imagine it just being the first couple of seasons and a theoretical wedding season the ending works quite well.
You know that thing that everyone said there was no way they'd be stupid enough to do that?
They did it.
i.e 'SHE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME'
holy fuck
really?
Not only that, but they had the kids practically beg Ted to go hook up with Robin.
wait what the fuck
okay someone give me a real explanation of what happens
assume I have not seen the last two seasons
This entire season was building up to Robin and Barney's wedding, which happened at the end of the last episode. Somewhere around the first commercial break they announce Robin and Barney are now divorced and Barney reverts to his womanizing ways.
Most of the episode is various flash forwards from then until 2030 when the story is being told to the kids. Marshall gets his judgeship, he and Lilly have a third kid, Barney (in his 40s) accidentally gets an unidentified girl pregnant and has a complete personality change when holding his baby daughter, and Ted doesn't actually marry the Mother until over 5 years after they met, well after both kids are born.
We also learn that the Mother's name is Tracey, as a reference back to when Ted trolled the kids by telling them that the stripper named Tracey was their mother.
Then suddenly "She got sick" while showing her in a hospital bed. And that's it for her, they never say anything beyond that and cut to Future Ted with the kids. No funeral or anything. The kids smile and happily tell him that mom has been gone for six years and that the story was totally about Aunt Robin and that they love Aunt Robin so they need to hook up.
So it ends with Future Ted standing outside Robin's window holding up the blue french horn.
Dexter is still worse.
HOLY FUCK
FUCK YOU CARTER BAYS AND CRAIG THOMAS
ARE
YOU
KIDDING
ME
Working towards this April fools day episode for a decade
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You know that thing that everyone said there was no way they'd be stupid enough to do that?
They did it.
i.e 'SHE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME'
holy fuck
really?
Not only that, but they had the kids practically beg Ted to go hook up with Robin.
wait what the fuck
okay someone give me a real explanation of what happens
assume I have not seen the last two seasons
This entire season was building up to Robin and Barney's wedding, which happened at the end of the last episode. Somewhere around the first commercial break they announce Robin and Barney are now divorced and Barney reverts to his womanizing ways.
Most of the episode is various flash forwards from then until 2030 when the story is being told to the kids. Marshall gets his judgeship, he and Lilly have a third kid, Barney (in his 40s) accidentally gets an unidentified girl pregnant and has a complete personality change when holding his baby daughter, and Ted doesn't actually marry the Mother until over 5 years after they met, well after both kids are born.
We also learn that the Mother's name is Tracey, as a reference back to when Ted trolled the kids by telling them that the stripper named Tracey was their mother.
Then suddenly "She got sick" while showing her in a hospital bed. And that's it for her, they never say anything beyond that and cut to Future Ted with the kids. No funeral or anything. The kids smile and happily tell him that mom has been gone for six years and that the story was totally about Aunt Robin and that they love Aunt Robin so they need to hook up.
So it ends with Future Ted standing outside Robin's window holding up the blue french horn.
Dexter is still worse.
HOLY FUCK
FUCK YOU CARTER BAYS AND CRAIG THOMAS
ARE
YOU
KIDDING
ME
Working towards this April fools day episode for a decade
If this was actually their plan, I would have greater respect for no showrunner alive
Based on the overall quality of the last season, however
probably not.
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THEY DID IT! THOSE SONS OF BITCHES ACTUALLY DID IT!
Why oh why did this finale happen?
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So after all this, the show was basically about a dad telling a weird story about all the drinking, law breaking and screwing around he's done, in a weird attempt to get his kids to endorse him screwing their "aunt"
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It's actually incredible.
barf
baaaaaaaaarrrrrffffffffff
I don't know how in the world you fuck it up that badly
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Working towards this April fools day episode for a decade
L...Liam Neeson?
Why I fear the ocean.
I was never that into HIMYM
But this is reminding me of the Dead Like Me movie
It sounds like I chose wisely
If this was actually their plan, I would have greater respect for no showrunner alive
Based on the overall quality of the last season, however
probably not.
Why oh why did this finale happen?
Is Space Jam a verb now?
Also, can he give the ability to write satisfying finales back in time for Justified and Mad Men?
Why I fear the ocean.
They're outside of the window, Justified and Mad Men both end next year
30 Rock was also just outside the window
Every show ending between now and this September will have a bad finale
He sucked up all the satisfaction and nobody else can use any until then
I did not like that ending.
Doesn't ruin the first four seasons, or the other bright spots, or my love of the cast. Sort of... taints the show's heart some.
But I just did not like that ending.
I probably won't watch Alyson Hannigan's new CBS sitcom
I'll at least give HIMYD a try out of morbid curiosity/loyalty
I really hope Josh Radnor gets more work outside of his indie movies, I like him a lot
And can NPH be in the MCU now?
Total déjà vu
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I'm having that same feeling of being incredibly bummed out, like I was with the Mass Effect 3 ending
And like with that ending, I would've been perfectly happy with something solid and predictable, instead of coming out of left field
As it is, I'm just fascinated by how unbelievably badly they screwed it up
Also NPH can be Ant man now.
The world is safe
...why would NPH be Ant-Man
Paul Rudd is Ant-Man
"You go, dad!"
I'm pretty sure that's actually the case (because the kids would noticeably age between then and now).
e: Season 2 based on the Hitfix article
Sepinwall has a few theories about how that ties into the finale
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