HIMYM - How I Met your Mother, series finale....

[Pikester]

I'm mad that they never explained where the pineapple came from.

 

[cabanafrau]

I'm mad that they never explained where the pineapple came from.

The DVD of this season is coming out this fall, complete with at least one unaired scene from the finale that supposedly answers at least one question. I'd guess that means the pineapple or the goat, I suspect pineapple.

 

[DopeyDame]

The DVD of this season is coming out this fall, complete with at least one unaired scene from the finale that supposedly answers at least one question. I'd guess that means the pineapple or the goat, I suspect pineapple.

Oh the goat!!!! Totally forgot about the goat. We need to know more about that.

I hate that Robin and Ted ended up together. I was OK with the rest - really not suprised with the Robin and barney divorce - neither of them seemed like the "weather the storm to death do us part" type people. Which makes Robin getting with Ted all the worse.
I'm also not clear how they got from Ted seeing Robin on a street corner briefly to pining away for her again. Blech.

 

[Andtototoo]

Oh the goat!!!! Totally forgot about the goat. We need to know more about that.

I hate that Robin and Ted ended up together. I was OK with the rest - really not suprised with the Robin and barney divorce - neither of them seemed like the "weather the storm to death do us part" type people. Which makes Robin getting with Ted all the worse.
I'm also not clear how they got from Ted seeing Robin on a street corner briefly to pining away for her again. Blech.

Ted and Robin were seeing each other -- the kids talked about every time Ted sees "Aunt Robin" it's clear that they care for each other, including at dinners. Plus over time in the narration, Ted has told the kids about "Aunt Robin". If Robin were not a semi-regular part of their lives, she wouldn't be called "Aunt."

 

[DopeyDame]

Ted and Robin were seeing each other -- the kids talked about every time Ted sees "Aunt Robin" it's clear that they care for each other, including at dinners. Plus over time in the narration, Ted has told the kids about "Aunt Robin". If Robin were not a semi-regular part of their lives, she wouldn't be called "Aunt."

But that was my question - it's clear the kids know her well and care for her enough to call her "aunt" and have strong feelings about her. But HOW. What changed between seeing her on the street when the daughter was little and the end of the show?
Maybe Robin was there for Ted when Tracy died. Maybe she took the kids on a world-wide tour with her. Maybe Robin quit her job at WWN and became Ted's live-in nanny and chef. Clearly something happened to bring them back together, but we just don't know what. Which irks me.

 

[cabanafrau]

But that was my question - it's clear the kids know her well and care for her enough to call her "aunt" and have strong feelings about her. But HOW. What changed between seeing her on the street when the daughter was little and the end of the show?
Maybe Robin was there for Ted when Tracy died. Maybe she took the kids on a world-wide tour with her. Maybe Robin quit her job at WWN and became Ted's live-in nanny and chef. Clearly something happened to bring them back together, but we just don't know what. Which irks me.

No excuse for them not to have crafted the final episode much more carefully. Done properly I think they could have convinced the audience to both invest in the mother and let her go, then accept Robin as endgame. They knew those points from the beginning & managed to completely botch the episode anyway.

As someone who watched the show for all these years, I feel the audience deserved to see Tracy as part of the group. The chemistry was great with all of them, although I can't remember her meeting Marshall? Maybe I'm just blanking on that. Yet when it came down to the end the only thing we got was her taking a picture of the gang (on her wedding day), or being background in the flashbacks with the group. I thought we were headed in the right direction when Lily told Marshall, no, this time it's different.

The final episode kind of was parallel to the series in a way. All these years we were supposedly watching how he met the mother and this season we finally started getting glimpses and scenes with her, leading up to her with Ted. He meets her, the relationship begins and, boom, she's gone. All season we led up to a marriage, it happened in moments and then, boom, it's over without the audience getting much more than a glimpse into what it was really like.

There were ways they could have stuck to their end point and satisfy their audience.

 

[MouseMomx2]

The chemistry was great with all of them, although I can't remember her meeting Marshall? Maybe I'm just blanking on that.

She offered him (and Marvin) a ride as he was walking toward Farhampton.

 

[cabanafrau]

She offered him (and Marvin) a ride as he was walking toward Farhampton.

You're right, I did blank on it. Their chemisty worked, too.

I wonder if part of the reasoning behind some of the episodes this year was the availability of the cast, or lack of. I think I did hear something about Jason Segel in particular working on something else.

 

[Disneychix]

My thoughts are that Robin wasn't the 'girl' that could save Barney from his ways, only his daughter could do that. That is why he went back to the old Barney after the divorce. I do admit I fnd that far-fetched but I can see the idea that his daughter was the only girl for him.

Also, not being with Robin until after the mother died allows Ted to have children of his own (Robin couldn't/didn't want kids) and still end up with (one of) the great loves of his life. I like Robin and Ted together.

I agree with many that I didn't like how the whole season was the wedding weekend and we get one hour crammed with 10-15 years of nonsense.

 

[blana]

Really didn't like the ending. Poor Tracey seemed shortchanged her whole life! Her first true love dies just before asking her to marry him. Ted holds out on marrying her for YEARS waiting for it to be perfect, which just smacked of him thinking something better (Robin?) was going to come along. Based on the age of the kids when they got married, they were only married a short time before she got sick. I felt so sorry for her that nothing in her life seemed to work out for the better.

 

[cabanafrau]

My thoughts are that Robin wasn't the 'girl' that could save Barney from his ways, only his daughter could do that. That is why he went back to the old Barney after the divorce. I do admit I fnd that far-fetched but I can see the idea that his daughter was the only girl for him.

Also, not being with Robin until after the mother died allows Ted to have children of his own (Robin couldn't/didn't want kids) and still end up with (one of) the great loves of his life. I like Robin and Ted together.

I agree with many that I didn't like how the whole season was the wedding weekend and we get one hour crammed with 10-15 years of nonsense.

That's exactly a lot of the criticism the show is getting, that the mother turned out to be the incubator to satisfy Ted's desire for children and a family, then she was seemingly shrugged off & Ted got to move on with his true love forever. There was a way they could have honored his love with Tracy more, then showed us why hearth and home Ted and world traveling career woman Robin was going to work at this stage of their lives when it never could last before. But then again, I guess we don't really know if it will or if this is just another go round on the merry go round, with new surprises and phases of life for everyone.

 

[Andtototoo]

Really didn't like the ending. Poor Tracey seemed shortchanged her whole life! Her first true love dies just before asking her to marry him. Ted holds out on marrying her for YEARS waiting for it to be perfect, which just smacked of him thinking something better (Robin?) was going to come along. Based on the age of the kids when they got married, they were only married a short time before she got sick. I felt so sorry for her that nothing in her life seemed to work out for the better.

Oh, I didn't think he was holding out of marrying her out of some notion of waiting for Robin. I think that a legal marriage was just not that important to them, as it is not to many people of their generation and in that environment. A lot of people like that believe that a personal commitment, living together and raising children is just as viable a commitment as a legal ceremony. Most of those people I know who are like that who DO get legally married either do it with a JP for legal/financial reasons or have a huge OTT wedding so they can have a huge OTT party, not as any demonstration of commitment. I also think that Ted, being a ridiculously over the top romantic, may have also felt that if he couldn't do the French castle with hot air balloon blow-the-bank wedding, that it wasn't worth it to do any other way and once Tracey was pregnant, they needed to use their money for their family. It was either go big or go home and once they needed to pay for a family, home it was.

I do think that Tracey had a somewhat sad life, but that's also realistic. People die young. Sad, but true.

 

[zoemurr]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...tml?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

If you wanted a predictable, happier, cleaner ending.. here it is. A fan "fixed" it.

 

[princesspiglet]

This was what I had always envisioned. This , IMHO, is the perfect series finale. I am just going to pretend this was the true series finale, and just ignore the creators' versions!

 

[DopeyDame]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...tml?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

If you wanted a predictable, happier, cleaner ending.. here it is. A fan "fixed" it.

I was just going to post this. So. Much. Better.
Not just predictable, happier, cleaner, but more in keepign with the real characters that have developed over the last few years.

 

[JanaDee]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...tml?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

If you wanted a predictable, happier, cleaner ending.. here it is. A fan "fixed" it.

That scene on the train platform was my favorite out of the whole show.

 

[anniemae]

I like that ending soooooooooo much better. Kudos to whoever put that together!

 

[Ephany]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...tml?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

If you wanted a predictable, happier, cleaner ending.. here it is. A fan "fixed" it.

So much better!

 

[disney4us2002]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...tml?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

If you wanted a predictable, happier, cleaner ending.. here it is. A fan "fixed" it.

PERFECT!!

Sad that a fan and not a paid professional was able to get it right!