tivo that shit! i have a season pass. wonder what's gonna go down. i think stella will say "no" and it will send ted into a spiral!
Did anyone catch the finale? Spoiler I have to say that it wasn't any good. It totally wasted the whole character development of Barney and Ted (especially the whole proposal that Barney cooked up for Robin), and it went with the safe and easy ending. So not only did Barney and Robin divorce after 3 years, but Ted and the mother take 7 years to marry and then are only married for a short time before she dies. If they met in 13, and married in 2020 and the "story" takes place in 2030 and she died "6 years" before that, they were only married for 4 years. And then the whole time he's telling the story, we're lead to believe that his kids totally want him to marry/go after Aunt Robin? It pretty much the 9 years of watching it pointless, and introducing the mom (the whole premise of the show) not needed.
really? Then why spend a whole season on the wedding, only to have it be a non factor like 20 minutes into the episode? Why introduce the mother if she's really not that important to the story arc? the last season should've been barney and robins wedding for a bit of it, and the rest should've been how Ted met their mother, and on the last scene of the series, have him say "and that's how i met your mother".. Some of the back story they had "Ted" tell his kids makes no sense now. And then to spend a whole episode on her back story? Why do it if you're just going to kill her off in the end? There wasn't enough emotional attachment to her to make it worth it. Why have all the build up and character development of Barney, if you're just going to have him return to being a womanizer? Barneys character became like able, in the sense that there was an emotional connection made (ie, his father issue). It's not like Ted and Robin were Ross and Rachel (I'm almost at the point where I need to turn in my man card). It was an unneeded swerve.
The ending sucked! SUCKED! The name of the show was How I Met Your Mother, not How I Met Your Stepmother. They spent 8 episodes on that wedding and then 20mins into the next episode, oops, wedding over, we're getting divorced. The good news is it looks like we're getting Robots vs Wrestlers at the Moda Center in 2019! (The Moda Center was shown in the final episode.)
they also used the RG in the episode where Ted and Marshal get stoned and wandered around the concourse looking for nachos/restroom.
I think in this latest season, they also used PDX for the airport of some other city, maybe Minnesota or Cleveland, can't remember which. Made me wonder if one of the writers or something was from Portland, and was just throwing in little things like that just because. Hated the ending. Agree with the above few. Why spend so much time on a sham wedding. Didn't need a whole season dedicated to it. Meh.
I agree. I think the show was realistic in the fact that there really isn't that storybook happy ending you're looking for. In each of the character's lives, we see struggles and roadblocks and losses of friendships which are really just a part of life. Not everything is happy happy and ends the way you want it. You just have to live life and make adjustments as it comes along.
People complain when things are predictable and formulaic, but then when a show goes a completely different direction than expectations, that's not satisfactory either. I actually think the daughter's response made the content of the entire series make sense, given the title of the show. I give the writers credit for creativity, and I felt satisfied by the conclusion. By the way, does any long-running series ever finish in a manner considered acceptable by it's fans? Why would this be any different?
Breaking Bad and The Wire both had incredible endings. It's what makes them the two greatest TV shows of all time.
the RG is actually one of the stock shots they use on TV shows.. seen it multiple King of Queens episodes and on other various shows... I thought the ending was mediocre... didn't upset me but I didn't think it was anything special. My fiancee however was pissed, lol.
Whole final season was weak ... kinda felt like the writers got lazy. As mentioned above, they spent way too long on the wedding ... to have them get divorced three years later was just salt on the wounds. I would have liked more airtime with Ted, the mother, and the gang during the final season. I'd also like to know how she got sick. Really one of the least emotional final seasons I can remember. On the bright side, the first eight seasons were excellent and re-run frequently.
