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re: HIMYM The Final Season
Posted on 4/1/14 at 10:55 am to Baloo
Posted on 4/1/14 at 10:55 am to Baloo
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Because the show repeatedly showed us he wasn't.
Thats what you took away from his character. He enjoyed being himself from my PoV. He had his problems just like the rest of us, but this was him and this is who he wanted to be. We don't know if it would of worked with Robin if she hadn't of traveled, they might have found another breaking point for him to go back to himself. Barney accepted who he was after Robin failed, he wanted the group to do it as well.
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Posted on 4/1/14 at 10:58 am to White Shadeaux
quote:my problem? what is your problem? what you said was fricking stupid
The frick is your problem?
Basically what i have aganst the crowd that wants more from Ted and tracey is..... That isnt what the story was about. The story was about how he met her and everything leading up to that point. and somewhere during the story he realized that he could be happy again going after a previous love interest. He wanted kids, thats the main reason he and robin didnt work out.... He has them now and it can work out.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 11:03 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 10:59 am to CarRamrod
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Anyway, at the end of the episode, it turns out that Little Sarah Silverman—the mother—DIES. That's right. She fricking dies of cancer or something. They don't even have time to give her a diagnosis because time is so tight. I feel like I'm watching a 60-minute promo for the proper, four-hour finale of this show. We just hurtle straight into PURE DEATH. Jesus. I waited nine years for this (well, not ME, but someone out there did) and you went and killed the bitch off? That's cold. That's pure evil.
Kinda agree here.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:01 am to Srbtiger06
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Kinda agree here.
Definitely agree.
Although, in hindsight, the writers were never shy about fricking with peoples emotions for little to no reason.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:03 am to MrTwoBits
Why We Deserved More From The HIMYM Finale
This pretty much summed it up for me. Basically it wasn't necessarily the conclusions in the finale, it was the how they were setup and fleshed out. Basically, if the writers knew that was going to be the ending from the start, then they did a piss poor way of building up to it. And it touches on the point that if the mother had to die, then the death should've been revealed long ago.
This pretty much summed it up for me. Basically it wasn't necessarily the conclusions in the finale, it was the how they were setup and fleshed out. Basically, if the writers knew that was going to be the ending from the start, then they did a piss poor way of building up to it. And it touches on the point that if the mother had to die, then the death should've been revealed long ago.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:06 am to FairhopeTider
quote:the 45 day speech was a huge foreshadow. Did i come out and say thats what was going to happen? No, but it did put the idea in my head.
then the death should've been revealed long ago.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:08 am to FairhopeTider
I skimmed through the last few pages and just saw a lot of whining about how they ended the story.
But this was never really a story of "how I met your mother". This was really a story that he was conveying to his kids so they would give him permission to have a relationship with Robin. We were all duped into believing the payoff was when he would meet the mother. It was just a misdirection to his kids and us.
But this was never really a story of "how I met your mother". This was really a story that he was conveying to his kids so they would give him permission to have a relationship with Robin. We were all duped into believing the payoff was when he would meet the mother. It was just a misdirection to his kids and us.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:12 am to htownjeep
quote:Which isnt clever or witty in my opinion. Slight of hand gimmicks like this wont last the test of time, they never do
It was just a misdirection to his kids and us.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:12 am to htownjeep
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But this was never really a story of "how I met your mother". This was really a story that he was conveying to his kids so they would give him permission to have a relationship with Robin. We were all duped into believing the payoff was when he would meet the mother. It was just a misdirection to his kids and us.
I think most of us really have no problem with ending the show that way, it was just the poor execution to get there because they extended the show far beyond necessary to tell that story and by extending it that far it added some other wrinkles that made that ending not as good as it would of been a season and a half ago.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:13 am to lsupride87
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Slight of hand gimmicks like this wont last the test of time, they never do
I don't think that people are going to rewatch this series as much as they may otherwise have with a different ending.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:18 am to lsupride87
quote:huh?
Slight of hand gimmicks like this wont last the test of time, they never do
IMO i feel the story started off with Ted thinking im going to tell you how i met your mother, but as he got deeper and deeper he began to realized he could find love again with robin, and turned into trying to explain how great they were together and how it doesnt make him love their mother any less.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 11:20 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:20 am to CarRamrod
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the 45 day speech was a huge foreshadow. Did i come out and say thats what was going to happen? No, but it did put the idea in my head.
It was and it obviously triggered the thought inside plenty of people's heads because that idea had been out there for awhile. I just didn't think they could pull off that revelation in the final episode so I just discounted that theory because it would be a depressing way to end such a fun show. But they damn sure did it....but its less depressing because it was just glossed over and the Robin ending completely overshadowed it. Ted, the biggest romantic on TV, loses his soulmate in mere seconds after 9 years of trying to find her. There was more screentime dedicated to the cockamouse than the biggest tragedy in Ted's life....but that's ok since we are now being told that his relationship with the mother was never the point of the show.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 11:21 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:21 am to Dam Guide
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Thats what you took away from his character. He enjoyed being himself from my PoV
What show are you watching?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:24 am to ProjectP2294
quote:I will still watch some reruns, but it honestly does make it less enjoyable for me.
I don't think that people are going to rewatch this series as much as they may otherwise have with a different ending.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:26 am to CarRamrod
quote:I disagree. If Ted had found a woman after the Mom dies that he had never met before, i would agree. But to say you are in love with a woman you dated and were obsessed with before meeting your dead wife, changes everything. It 100% makes the Mother a consolation prize in my opinion
how it doesnt make him love their mother any less.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 11:29 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:28 am to wildtigercat93
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What show are you watching?
I could ask the same of you. If you want him to be redeemed and subscribe to your idea of happiness though, go for it, you have no more shows to tell you otherwise.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:38 am to Dam Guide
I thought it was pretty obvious that the Mother was going to die. They basically did all they could to reveal it without saying "and that's how my wife died."
I agree wholeheartedly with the Grantland review:
HIMYM was a show about 6 friends with big dreams who kept failing. Every season ended on usually a sour note with a bit of positive
-Season 1 (Marshall and Lily splitting/Ted and Robin together)
-Season 2 (Ted and Robin splitting/Marshall and Lily wedding)
-Season 3 (Barney bus wreck)
etc.
The amount of job loss/job turnover is incredible for these people. Off the top of my head: Lily had over 10 jobs, Marshall worked at 4 different law firms/corp., Robin had at least 2-3 networks, Ted worked for 1/2 firms, by himself, then professor, then back to regular job, etc.
These people never really achieved any of their dreams, and when they seemingly did, it was coupled with agonizing failure/breakups/heartache.
Finale still not great imo.
I agree wholeheartedly with the Grantland review:
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Look at the dreams and goals of the characters as set out in the first few episodes of HIMYM: Ted wants to get together with Robin and have kids. Robin wants to have a massively successful career in journalism. Barney (the incomparable Neil Patrick Harris) wants to bang as many chicks as he can without getting attached. Marshall (secret weapon Jason Segel) wants to become an environmental lawyer and save the earth. His eventual wife, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), wants to become an artist. Then the series — those first four seasons in particular — takes its time picking apart and destroying these dreams, or just depicting the way that, as you get older, the things you really wanted at 27 start to feel like things you were never meant to attain anyway.
HIMYM was a show about 6 friends with big dreams who kept failing. Every season ended on usually a sour note with a bit of positive
-Season 1 (Marshall and Lily splitting/Ted and Robin together)
-Season 2 (Ted and Robin splitting/Marshall and Lily wedding)
-Season 3 (Barney bus wreck)
etc.
The amount of job loss/job turnover is incredible for these people. Off the top of my head: Lily had over 10 jobs, Marshall worked at 4 different law firms/corp., Robin had at least 2-3 networks, Ted worked for 1/2 firms, by himself, then professor, then back to regular job, etc.
These people never really achieved any of their dreams, and when they seemingly did, it was coupled with agonizing failure/breakups/heartache.
Finale still not great imo.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:38 am to Dam Guide
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it was just the poor execution to get there because they extended the show far beyond necessary to tell that story and by extending it that far it added some other wrinkles that made that ending not as good as it would of been a season and a half ago.
I totally agree. There are a lot of things that bug me about the show in general, but it's ok for a few laughs and accept it for what it is.
One of the biggest things that I've never liked are how he's telling details of things in his story to the kids that he would not know. But, it's a TV show and you have to give it some room in that regard or it would be very boring.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:38 am to lsupride87
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I will still watch some reruns, but it honestly does make it less enjoyable for me
Absolutely....especially knowing all of the time they wasted with the BS filler episodes.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:42 am to htownjeep
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One of the biggest things that I've never liked are how he's telling details of things in his story to the kids that he would not know.
With the amount of time they spent at the bar talking to each other and relating their own damn stories, he probably would know a lot of inside info he normally wouldn't have known.
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