There was a quote from one of the directors about how an exec came up to him and told him he represented the “perv part of the audience” and told him to go for full frontal nudity and stuff. I have no idea if that was specifically Benioff, but that gross bro viewpoint was 100% a part of the creation to some degree. Also I could have happily gone my entire life without finding out who his father is. It really explained more than anything else I have ever read about the show.
A coworker told me they hated the ending and want 8 years of their life back. I don't understand how an ending you don't like can ruin the rest of the show for you. Although I haven't watched How I Met Your Mother since they fucked that ending up so maybe they're on to something.
If a bad final episode can ruin an entire long show, then it probably wasn't a good show to begin with.
HIMYM really did ruin the entire show in retrospect. It also happened to age horrifically almost immediately after it ended, so it would not have had a long legacy anyway, but that ending made it sooooo much worse.
That's one hell of a clickbait headline haha. He says nothing of the ending as we're thinking of it. While it may happen very differently, I think it's more likely than not that we are looking at, at minimum, Dany dying. Jon not taking the throne is also very possible now at this point.
His quote is literally "yes and no" and goes into explaining that the ending can't be completely the same due to having so many more characters.
The mom he finally gets together with dies and Ted ends up with Robin, the off/on character for the entire show. Not how I saw it ending up, but I think it's a hell of a lot better then this rush job of an ending we got with GoT. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can remember seeing the early promos for HIMYM and just thinking it was one of those shows that would get the axe almost immediately. Not that I didn't like the actors, but I thought it was a really clunky and bad name for a show.
I guess. This show literally had a whole season were characters, plot points were wasted and rushed and HIMYM had him meet the mom, have kids and had their life together....then she dies and years later he ends up with someone else. Not too bad.... but even if it was, it's still 1 episode of a sitcom as apposed to the last season of a drama.
They spent the entire final season on two things. The first was showing the Mother for the first time as an actual character and getting the audience to know her, understand her, and love her. The second was on Barney and Robin’s wedding (literally the entire season takes place over the weekend leading up to it.) They had spent YEARS showing why Barney and Robin were meant for each other and how Ted was holding his life back by carrying a torch for Robin. It was not even a planned season, but they managed to make it happen for more money so it all felt super thin and poorly done anyway. BUT, the last episode reveals that Barney and Robin got divorced soon after we leave them, Barney went back to being a womanizing monster who only gets humanized by having a child, the Mother died horrifically from a long term illness, and Ted has been telling this entire decade-long story “about their mother” just so his kids can give him permission to go get with “Aunt Robin”, which he does.
Woof. Were people emotionally invested in these characters...?? Sitcoms are not usually my thing. I don't think I've ever watched one all the way through to completion.