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re: HIMYM The Final Season
Posted on 4/3/14 at 7:55 am to Freauxzen
Posted on 4/3/14 at 7:55 am to Freauxzen
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Wasted opportunities. As a whole the show is great, but man the last season was a let down and the final episode didn't really fix that.
On the one hand I guess they had this (intentional) problem of the mother not being in a story that was essentially about her, and the Robin angle does fill that hole and makes it a lot less creepy than the premise of a guy telling his kids about his dating life initially seems. On the other hand, the theme of the story all along has been how I met your mother and I just would have preferred the story to have been about the happy ending of Ted and Tracy.
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 8:13 am to TigerinATL
I think we're all overlooking the biggest question mark of this whole thing, which is...
the commercial during the finale that proclaimed some movie that I can't recall as "the best animated film since Frozen"
I mean COME ON.
the commercial during the finale that proclaimed some movie that I can't recall as "the best animated film since Frozen"
I mean COME ON.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 10:23 am to FairhopeTider
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However, the basic premise of HIMYM was how Ted's journey led to him meeting his one true soulmate. There was a constant theme throughout the show of everything building to that moment....and then it was just glossed over.
Except real life doesn't work that way. This show demonstrated that perfectly.
I think the worst part about the finale is that it totally fricked up Barney's character.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 10:31 am to Moustache
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the basic premise of HIMYM was how Ted's journey led to him meeting his one true soulmate. There was a constant theme throughout the show of everything building to that moment....and then it was just glossed over
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Except real life doesn't work that way.
The show botched it. Fact is that Ted found his soulmate, got married, had kids, were together for roughly 10 years, then she passed. Losing someone too soon is "real life", sure. The point the other guy made in the quote that I agree with is that we've been waiting 9 years to know about the mother, then in the last episode they basically hit the fast forward button through her and Ted's entire life together. That's BS. Their relationship WAS glossed over. That has nothing to do with "real life", it's bad storytelling.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 10:52 am to MrTwoBits
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the commercial during the finale that proclaimed some movie that I can't recall as "the best animated film since Frozen"
I noticed that too, it was Rio 2.
"The best animated movie in the last 3 months!"
Posted on 4/3/14 at 10:57 am to Moustache
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I think the worst part about the finale is that it totally fricked up Barney's character.
It certainly changed him. But fricked him up? Some would argue that it finally got him on track.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 11:01 am to Moustache
quote:Real life? Dating your ex girlfriend after your wife dies who happened to be married to your best man and divorced him because she wasnt willing to give it a chance due to being selfish about her job. Yeh, that's real life. They tried to hard to be "real" at the end, and it made it ridiculous
real life
Posted on 4/3/14 at 11:16 am to htownjeep
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It certainly changed him. But fricked him up? Some would argue that it finally got him on track.
Making Robin infertile so she'd still be waiting for Ted also messed Barney up. She wasn't able to provide the one thing he needed to settle down. Barney knocks up Robin and you have 3 happy couples and one creepy dad telling his kids about all his past conquests.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 11:19 am to GoCrazyAuburn
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There is just no way for Ted to have a smooth, seemless transition from his soulmate to Robin...which is why the writers should've ditched that idea long ago.
i don't view robin as ted's soulmate. tracy was the obvious soulmate.
ted and robin worked though despite the differences. and the writers suggest with the ending that they will work again.
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I would have had a scene where te is talking with Lily and Marshall, and they give him the whole six year speech, not the kids. Then he has the sky conversation, then goes to see Robin. Then they cut bak to him at the train station, do the TM scene, and then cut to a huge montage of all the close encounters they had. That's how I met your mother. Done
i agree, i think that would've pissed off less people. in addition, the best thing about that episode was the umbrella scene.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 11:20 am
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:24 pm to TDTGodfather
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I would have had a scene where te is talking with Lily and Marshall, and they give him the whole six year speech, not the kids. Then he has the sky conversation, then goes to see Robin. Then they cut bak to him at the train station, do the TM scene, and then cut to a huge montage of all the close encounters they had. That's how I met your mother. Done
It all comes back to poor execution. The basic storyline could of worked and could of made a lot more people happy. It was just so poorly done that it was confusing and cheapened the storylines they were forcing on you to where they were unnecessary and irritating to the audience.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:24 pm to TDTGodfather
With the way they ended the show, no way could you say that Tracy was his soulmate. Just another time Ted fell hard and fast for a girl. They got knocked and he eventually gave in to getting married. Then he goes back to robin? They made it feel like the mom was just another stepping stone fling
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:26 pm to TigerinATL
quote:Okay, that's it.
Making Robin infertile so she'd still be waiting for Ted also messed Barney up.
I quit watching a couple of years ago. Can someone give me a synopsis of what happened in the finale? Who is the mother? Why is everyone so pissed about the finale?
Ted is a sociopath. Anything short of him being shot through the head would have been disappointing.
ETA: Okay, I just read 2 reviews. Wow. So Robin divorces Barney and gets back with Ted, who, because he's a wormy, fickle little toad, probably breaks up with her the following week, and then gets back together with her, and so on in a repeating, systematic life of torture with Ted still unable to fill the void within him, where a soul would normally be.
This post was edited on 4/3/14 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:55 pm to TDTGodfather
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I would have had a scene where te is talking with Lily and Marshall, and they give him the whole six year speech, not the kids. Then he has the sky conversation, then goes to see Robin. Then they cut bak to him at the train station, do the TM scene, and then cut to a huge montage of all the close encounters they had. That's how I met your mother
Damn I got goosebumps, with a good song set behind the montage that would have been perfect.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:56 pm to More beer please
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With the way they ended the show, no way could you say that Tracy was his soulmate. Just another time Ted fell hard and fast for a girl. They got knocked and he eventually gave in to getting married. Then he goes back to robin? They made it feel like the mom was just another stepping stone fling
We will have to agree to disagree. Lily straight up said that "this was different" when she saw Ted talking on the phone to Tracy after they first met. I took that statement to mean that although Ted does fall hard at the beginning of every relationship this one was going to stick because Tracy was the soulmate.
On a side note, F Robin. She is more selfish than Lilly.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 12:57 pm to MrTwoBits
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I would have had a scene where te is talking with Lily and Marshall, and they give him the whole six year speech, not the kids. Then he has the sky conversation, then goes to see Robin. Then they cut bak to him at the train station, do the TM scene, and then cut to a huge montage of all the close encounters they had. That's how I met your mother
Damn I got goosebumps, with a good song set behind the montage that would have been perfect.
This.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:04 pm to MrTwoBits
Yep. Hell, if they used the song/tune that they used after Ted made it rain, and went to go see Robin, that would have been perfect.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:06 pm to MSTiger33
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We will have to agree to disagree. Lily straight up said that "this was different" when she saw Ted talking on the phone to Tracy after they first met. I took that statement to mean that although Ted does fall hard at the beginning of every relationship this one was going to stick because Tracy was the soulmate.
I agree, but they also kind of laughed in the face of their relationship. The way the handled them having two kids and just not getting married and all that, really put a damper on that relationship. I mean, they talk up how perfect she was and what not, then are just like, well they got too busy to get married. Oh well, they'll be fine.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:07 pm to lsupride87
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Lost
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Never watched it, but i would say by what i heard about it the finale is about on par with this one
Just.....no.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:08 pm to CocomoLSU
Definitely not. The Lost finale was great. All who say otherwise are dead to me
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:11 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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Definitely not. The Lost finale was great. All who say otherwise are dead to me
RIP MSTiger33
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