Season Finale of How I Met Your Mother

npandit · Post by **npandit** » 02 Apr 2014, 14:14

Anyone that watches this show...what did you guys think?

Was it poetic? Artistic? Completely Frustrating?

maggier25 · Post by **maggier25** » 02 Apr 2014, 14:58

I missed it, was it good like everybody has said?

npandit · Post by **npandit** » 02 Apr 2014, 16:07

Hehe--there have been some mixed reviews. I was prepared for the ending, because someone suggested it as a theory, but when I saw it I was quite surprised. (I expected it to be worse than it was.)

Winter · Post by **Winter** » 02 May 2014, 15:16

I haven't seen it yet, but I heard about it. What the hell was that?! I hope this alternate DVD ending they have been talking about will make up for it.

npandit · Post by **npandit** » 03 May 2014, 02:45

Winter, I know! After nine years of jerking us around, I was really surprised. My husband prepared me for the ending (I was told it would make me 'angry' lol), but for goodness sake--!

On the one hand, it does seem to have an 'artistic' value to it, and make sense as to why so much of the story line was focused on Ted/Robin, but on the other hand, there weren't enough clues for us to 'play along and guess', and so it feels like while we were supposed to be going in one direction, the writers threw a curve ball just for the sake of a 'surprise' ending.

I hope the alternate DVD ending is good as well.

Winter · Post by **Winter** » 03 May 2014, 12:57

My husband warned me about it, too! That's funny.
To me it was all wrong. It's true that they always emphasized the relationship between Ted and Robin, but part of that was how wrong they were for each other, not wanting the same things (plus, she never really seemed that into him). I was a big fan of the Barney/Robin duo, too, so I was doubly bummed out. I'll have to watch it at some point, but I'm glad I already know what happened. I would have been even more mad if I were to watch it without knowing!
Oh well. It was still an awesome show!

npandit · Post by **npandit** » 04 May 2014, 04:26

Lol--Agreed!

Lhall22 · Post by **Lhall22** » 04 May 2014, 16:45

I had mixed feelings about it. Didn't hate it, saw some of it coming, which was fine but i dunno, I didn't love it. it had some flaws for sure.

npandit · Post by **npandit** » 06 May 2014, 05:50

Lhall, were you indifferent to the outcome overall?

For most of the last two seasons, I lost interest in the characters, because I really felt they weren't 'growing' and the jokes started to get repetitive and boring.

But I was invested (at least a little) in the final story arc, and I though I can understand why they did it (to come full circle) it seemed like they just ended up jerking around the audience.