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Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:52 am to TheDude
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Dam Guide, go back just a few episodes to when he is wasted drunk. He outright says that he was never happy.
That was all based on he was broken without Robin. Clearly that didn't work out so well. So now I am expected to believe it will work this time for a kid he will barely see? Just don't buy it. Seems like we are basing his life on the most euphoric moments of his life. Right before his wedding, right after his kid is born.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 11:55 am
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:55 am to Dam Guide
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That was all based on that he was broken without Robin
If he was perfectly happy sleeping around, then why would he feel that way?
He always felt broken, just look at the episodes with his dad, something is missing and he knows it. He thinks its robin but its not.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:57 am to Dam Guide
I'm just gonna go ahead and not argue with you about it. You seem like the type that will never change their opinion regardless of anything. We will just disagree on this.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 11:57 am to Baloo
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I do wish we had gotten a more proper goodbye for Tracy. I have no problem with her dying, and we know why the kids are okay with the Robin stories -- it's been six f'n years -- but Tracy did get short shrift. But we were prepared for it.
This. I have no problem with her dying. We were just cheated out of her character by them not recalling showing her.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:00 pm to wildtigercat93
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If he was perfectly happy sleeping around, then why would he feel that way?
He always felt broken, just look at the episodes with his dad, something is missing and he knows it. He thinks its robin but its not.
He was about to get married, I wouldn't expect him to say anything less.
People are always searching for what can make them happier, we never stop searching.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:01 pm to TheDude
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I'm just gonna go ahead and not argue with you about it. You seem like the type that will never change their opinion regardless of anything. We will just disagree on this.
That's fine, we can disagree on it. Do you have any plans to change your mind on your opinion? I don't see why it is necessary to include the rest of that when you don't seem to be at all open minded to mine as well.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:03 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
My problem with the show is that they just had to go for the twist. I view tv shows and movies as an escape from real life. Sure the characters will always have troubles, but I want to see them get their happy ending. Instead, more and more we get writers trying to surprise us, or be artsy, or be real life. Real life is full of unhappy endings. Why would I want to see the same thing as entertainment?
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:07 pm to TheDude
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. Real life is full of unhappy endings. Why would I want to see the same thing as entertainment?
Because you aren't complex..........A happy ending for TED did occur bro.....It was just filled with lifes road bumps.....you don't see it this way.......it's OK.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:14 pm to TheDude
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Real life is full of unhappy endings. Why would I want to see the same thing as entertainment?
If I'm watching something other than a sitcom, then I don't mind it. But HIMYM is nothing more than a sitcom with a little more depth than we're used to. I wasn't watching it hoping it would turn into The Notebook. I didn't need to HIMYM to teach me that life can be depressing and that everything doesn't end up with a nice shiny bow on top.
However, its not like they gave us an unhappy ending...they just gave us a really poorly excuted happy one.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:15 pm to L S Usetheforce
quote:Ahh, normal everyday life roadbumps, like your wife dying before 50, your best man getting a divorce because his wife cared more about her job then the marriage, and then you marrying that woman who completely screwed over your best man. Just normal everyday life
Because you aren't complex..........A happy ending for TED did occur bro.....It was just filled with lifes road bumps.....you don't see it this way.......it's OK.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:16 pm to Dam Guide
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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.
I agree with you here. The show should've ended before Barney and Robin got back together the second time. Heck, they really shouldn't have gotten together in the first place. Throwing that storyline into the series just made the dynamics between the three characters uncomfortable for the viewer. It forced them to have Robin chose the womanizing, selfish (when it comes to relationships), and immature person over the one that was the exact opposite of it (which made her character less than appealing). Then it forced Ted to be a wuss about the whole thing and have to endure Barney banging his one true love, while constantly pining over her (which made him character less than appealing). Then it forced Barney to trying and go against the nature that everyone thought was the funniest aspect of the character, try and become something he wasn't, only to revert back to his old nature (which made his character less than appealing).
The longest the show should've gone is the 7th season. Have Barney marry Quinn (much more believable that he'd marry a stripper), Robin getting an over seas news/reporter job, Marshall and Lily have their baby, and Ted gets back with Victoria who ends up being the mother. Then I believe the flash forward stuff of the finally wouldn't have been so bad.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:16 pm to L S Usetheforce
Don't know if this opinion has been posted,
I'm ok with Ted and Robin only if Ted has the same type of talk with the sky that the mother had before she moved on from her dead ex. That didn't happen and kills the last scene for me, but otherwise there were a lot of throwback moments in this last episode.
I'm ok with Ted and Robin only if Ted has the same type of talk with the sky that the mother had before she moved on from her dead ex. That didn't happen and kills the last scene for me, but otherwise there were a lot of throwback moments in this last episode.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:23 pm to L S Usetheforce
Ok, you just consider yourself COMPLEX then. I would just prefer complexity like that stay out of my sitcoms.
I'll be the first to admit that maybe I need to take a step back though. My life (other than being so whiney), has mirrored Ted's fairly closely and I'm probably taking it too personally.
I'll be the first to admit that maybe I need to take a step back though. My life (other than being so whiney), has mirrored Ted's fairly closely and I'm probably taking it too personally.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:26 pm to Bamatab
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Have Barney marry Quinn (much more believable that he'd marry a stripper),
I see this a lot like it's a given on this board, and I just don't buy it. Barney doesn't have any respect for strippers. He doesn't have any respect for women in general, but strippers especially. The only outlier, the only woman he really respected, was Robin, and that's why I bought them together. Case in point was that the conclusion of last week's episode when Barney/Robin tied the knot felt much more finale like than the actual finale.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:30 pm to FleurDeLonestar
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I'm ok with Ted and Robin only if Ted has the same type of talk with the sky that the mother had before she moved on from her dead ex
On one hand I agree but the whole Tracy illness/death was so rushed that it would've just emphasized the feeling even more that she was just a plot device for Ted to ultimately be with Robin. In order for that scene to really resonate like you'd want it to, we would have to been introduced to Tracy (and her death) long ago.
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.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:38 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:31 pm to FleurDeLonestar
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I'm ok with Ted and Robin only if Ted has the same type of talk with the sky that the mother had before she moved on from her dead ex. That didn't happen and kills the last scene for me, but otherwise there were a lot of throwback moments in this last episode.
That would've been a great, and necessary scene. I think HIMYM fumbled in the execution a bit, but I don't have any problem with their endgame. I think it works in every respect other than they needed a few more scenes with the mother. A parallel to her talk with her dead fiancee would've been perfect.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:34 pm to Baloo
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I think it works in every respect other than they needed a few more scenes with the mother.
They're saving it for the spin-off.
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:47 pm to FairhopeTider
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On one hand I agree but the whole Tracy illness/death was so rushed that it would've just emphasized the feeling even more that she was just a plot device for Ted to ultimately be with Robin. In order for that scene to really resonate like you'd want it to, we would have to been introduced to Tracy (and her death) long ago.
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.
Thats why I changed my opinion of wanting to see more mother this last season to we should of seen a lot less of the mother or maybe even none at all, so the audienced didn't get attached to her and there was seperation like the children had for the last 6 years. With this ending, I would of been ok with just an unknown/hidden face person dying and the train station scene with the same hidden face girl. Cristin was too much, too good. She damaged the Ted/Robin relationship and the finale.
This post was edited on 4/1/14 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 4/1/14 at 12:49 pm to LSUBoo
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They're saving it for the spin-off.
Spin-off has nothing to do with these characters
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