re: HIMYM The Final Season

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He ends up being miserable at his next jot for several years.

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Lily is a piece of shite for doing the whole Italy garbage, Marshall is a moron for giving into her retarded demands.

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Ted tells his kids a story under the pretense that it is about their dead mother, but it's about how he always loved another woman. And the kids are cool with this.

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The problem was the long arse wedding season, most everyone thought it was dumb before it happened and it ended up being much worse because of the ending the chose to stick with after getting such a great mother.

The kids hear this quick story to them about how Ted really loved Robin back in the day after they already knew he loved her from seeing them together after their mother had died, so this was more about asking permission to go after Robin from his kids. The kids lost their mother when the oldest was around 8 or 9. So they were young and they have had time to move on. For us as the audience though, it was just so sloppily done in rushing the years inbetween and barely giving any of that to us, then throw on top a mother that was a fantastic actor and the chemistry her and Ted had, all that spark between Ted and Robin was killed with Tracy, the multiple "I'm over Robins," then the long arse wedding that made us hate Ted/Robin. Plus the constant barrage of forcing Robin/Barney on us was just too much and way too sloppy.

Thank god it's time for some GoT, I want to see some main characters get their heads cut off.

Are we supposed to believe that Marshall and Lily went to Italy for a year and kept an apartment in Manhattan on the side the entire time?

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Robin as the ending should have sailed after season 5 or 6. You cannot get me to believe that after 23 years, including possibly as many as 14 years of little to no contact, that Ted still loves Robin. If anything, he is still wrong in that he loves the idea of Robin. 

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Oh I agree. They have had this ending in their back pocket since season 2, when Ted and Robin were dating and were very good together.

The problem is they knew this was how they wanted it to end and, like you point out, spent the last 5 seasons subverting and cheapening that ending.

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They still could have saved it a bit by cutting the wedding down to a few episodes, then jumping to flashforwards. Show Robin supporting unavailable Ted, like he did for her, for years, through the birth of his children, dying wife, etc. Then have them come back to each other.

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Are we supposed to believe that Marshall and Lily went to Italy for a year and kept an apartment in Manhattan on the side the entire time?

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Didn't they already close escrow on it? Or am I making that up.

The wedding went on way too long to rush through 20 years to end up Ted & Robin

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Didn't they already close escrow on it? Or am I making that up.

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That was another apartment with the tilted floor. The apartment they had was the original apartment after Ted kept their name in the lease and signed it over to them after Robin left the apartment and he moved on from her for the 9992334 time.

I am sure the Captain had enough money to pay them to keep it. Italy was pretty much a year vacation, so they knew they were coming back. Plus, it's a TV show...

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Robin as the ending should have sailed after season 5 or 6. You cannot get me to believe that after 23 years, including possibly as many as 14 years of little to no contact, that Ted still loves Robin. If anything, he is still wrong in that he loves the idea of Robin.

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Definitely agree with that.

I'm not even mad that Ted ended up with Robin, since he was clearly infatuated with her for basically the entire run of the show. It's how they did it that sucks. I mean shite, this last season all took place over a weekend, so literally hours before the wedding, both Robin and Ted both realized (and subsequently let go...but apparently not really completely) that they still loved each other. And all that did was shite on Barney and Robin's marriage. So in that respect, I'm glad that marriage didn't last...because one of them wasn't 100% in on it (Robin). Who would've thought that after all of Barney's bullshite, he would be the one trying the hardest in a marriage? I don't hate Robin like most seem to, but that was shitty. And Ted still being completely consumed with Robin, to the point of still trying to do soulmate-type shite like finding her locket, HOURS before she married one of his best friends is just terrible.

And good call on Robin's hair...she looked absolutely terrible in that haircut. And I normally think she's pretty hot (unlike most, weirdly).

I forgot to touch on Marshall's shite job last night...all the more reason to hate Lilly. Italy was so, SO fricking stupid. I know why Marshall went to Italy (because he was completely emasculated in that relationship....which was his choice), but it was straight up the wrong decision.

As much as I know that life can get in the way, I agree that there's no way Ted waits five+ years to marry Tracy. Not a chance. That was stupid. Yes, I realize that he was content with finding "the one" (even though she wasn't really the one; at least not completely).


Also, we see Ted leaving the reception early. So why was Tracy at the train station? Shouldn't she still have been at the reception playing with the band? Was there some reason that she left early too that I missed? I started thinking about that last night and couldn't come up with why she and Ted were there at the same time. Surely Ted wasn't sitting there for hours, huh?

Farhampton is likely on the LIRR and speaking as a New Yorker now. Yes. Entirely plausible.

I don't know that I could have drawn up a better final episode.

I liked how they did a nod to some of the better episodes, i.e. The Playbook. I like that they dropped a lot of the jokes from the earlier season.

I hated when Barney and Robin got divorced, but statistically speaking, if there are three couples, at least one of them will get divorced. And I don't think it is a stretch to conclude that Barney and Robin's marriage wasn't meant to last.

Along with the statistical argument, Ted and the Mother not being married and having kids takes care of another statistic. It was weird seeing Ted not marry the Mother immediately, but I don't think it would have been reasonable if all three couples would have been married happily ever after.

I liked the way Ted and the Mother interacted. The scene with them under the umbrella was a great scene.

I like the way that Robin left while Ted and the Mother were married. It allowed Ted to be with the Mother without having to deal with his feelings for Robin.

I also like the flash-forward portions of the episodes. In a lot of sit coms they end the show and they don't show how the characters grew. In FRIENDS, they walk out the apartment and never showed how they interacted when everyone moved away. At least HIMYM showed what would happen in the real life. Friends move away or they find other things to do. I didn't expect the five of them to hang out at the bar every night for the next 25 years, and it was nice that they showed us that.

I was ok with the Barney having a kid story line. It wasn't the worst thing to happen, but I could have also enjoyed seeing him run plays on 21 year old girls well into his 60s.

I like how Ted and Robin ended up together. I think the 6 year difference between the death of the mother and him ending up with Robin was an appropriate length of time. I was a fan of them together for a long time, and then abandoned that fanship when they wanted different things. Now that Ted has the family and Robin isn't traveling, there is nothing to not like.

Overall, I'm glad the show is over and I feel like that was the best way it could have ended.

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Also, we see Ted leaving the reception early. So why was Tracy at the train station? Shouldn't she still have been at the reception playing with the band? Was there some reason that she left early too that I missed? I started thinking about that last night and couldn't come up with why she and Ted were there at the same time. Surely Ted wasn't sitting there for hours, huh?

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Ted was waiting at the train station and the train was 45 min late. thats how they ended up there at the same time