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.
It was so blatantly cruel and undid every positive that the show ever had going for it. There are actually a fair number of parallels with GOT in some ways, one of the biggest being that they filmed Ted’s kids back in like season two so they could have their reaction before growing up, and instead of realizing that the show would be utterly trashed by sticking to that, they stayed writing themselves into a corner just to use that specific ending. I can see D&D feeling similarly knowing that they have to get to a set list of points without it happening naturally.
Oh yeah, absolutely. Everyone had looooong gotten tired of the “will they/won’t they” with Ted and Robin, and as much as Barney was terrible (he is one of the main aspects that aged the worst), they helped each other to grow into better people in about as believable and meaningful a way that a sitcom can pull off. They also had the Mother be a complete mystery and non-entity for most of the run, so the fact that they CHOSE to flesh her out in great detail only to say, “Just kidding, she died and it was super painful and also I really want to get back with my toxic ex because she’s the real love of my life,” was the wooooorssssstttt.
Fuckin HIMYM. Went from a favorite show (yes I know it had its flaws) to one of my most hated pretty much over night haha
I feel like Dexter is maybe the very worst finale I've ever seen. Maybe I just loved HIMYM too much or I give it more of a pass because it's a sitcom, but it didn't bother me near as much as most people I guess. To me it still hit all the beats, didn't skip on anything and Ted and Robin made sense.
She was by far the best part of every episode she was in. She deserved so much better than what they wrote for her. Honestly, if they had just had her wise up and realize Ted was trash and went on to live a fabulous life somewhere else and THEN Ted went back to Robin, that would have been a million percent better. But what they did was so unbelievably dismissive to her as a person. Also Dexter was the king of all trash endings, but that one is much easier to ignore if you just pretend S4 is the true ending. It didn’t end with like some twist that undid everything before it, it was just awful on its own.