re: Had never watched “How I Met Your Mother” until recently.

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The problem of the ending was that they had always shown the kids from the very start and they looked identical to Robin and Ted. So instead of going with the obvious, they tried to subvert expectations by slipping in the “real“ mother , who had similar features to Robin.

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The problem is they had this ending planned all along for him to eventually go after Robin again for the show ending. The show outlived this ending by having her marry Barney and they needed to change it. It completely destroyed the growth of Barney and Ted having that stupid episode where Robin floats away like a balloon that I have failed trying to erase from my memory how cringy that was to watch. Writers just wanted their ending too much and didn’t care that the ending was now garbage because of the choices they made through the years.