re: Anyone else still mad about the way How I Met Your Mother ended?

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a show about post college people.

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Yes, it was called "Friends." And to avoid having EVERYONE say "oh, this is just a Friends replacement," they came up with this hook and kept going back to it to keep everyone watching.

If they had used that ending after 5-6 seasons, I would have been OK, but many of us who stuck with it for the entire 9 seasons mostly did so to find out who the damn mother was. Then they ran the Ted/Robin thing into the ground until we were over them as a couple, made the mother completely awesome, and then killed the mother to send Ted back to Robin AGAIN.

The non-mother centric episodes could be watchable again, but the ones that advance the Mom plot are just awful now.