How I Met Your Mother Season 9: The Final Season

[jwinfield]

 

[jwinfield]

Man fukk THAT shyt. They had 9 years to do Ted & Robin if they wanted. fukk Ted & Robin

I for one HATE Robin. Look at how many of Ted & Barney's relationships she's ruined over the years

Barney could've been happily married to norma dime piece ass but Nooooooo Robin had to fukk that up too

 

[jwinfield]

If the show ended with the two of them under the umbrella after the "TM" exchange

Even if the mother died, and this turned out to be the story of how he met her, cool. It's what Jason Siegel said he wanted to happen, although in his theory, she would've died before the kids got to know her, so this would've been their introduction to her.

My problem is that this entire show was about how Ted ended up with Robin. Something they went back and forth with too many times over the 9 years, and just did an episode in which Ted let Robin go, all for Ted to describe the moment he met the mother, her getting sic, and the kids telling him to go smash Aunt Robin within 90 seconds.

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

she died

great final 2 eps let down by a poor season

cant believe ive been watching this for 9 years

did they really have to go back with robin though

Barney could've been happily married to norma dime piece ass but Nooooooo Robin had to fukk that up too

Nora was always my favourite, beautiful and barney could of settled down but no they make him cheat with robin

Her accent aswell , fukk the writers

 

[JerseyBoy23]

I liked it but didn't love it. It's funny how polarizing it is though. Some people either love this finale or hate it.

 

[duncanthetall]

Lmao. So this whole time Ted was pretty much scheming and trying to get at Robin again

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

Ted is the worst simp on television in recent memory. Dude wasted like 15 years of his life trying to figure out his he wanted Robin. He let his homie smash and everything but didnt say a word cuz he wanted Robin to be happy ....Ted's had plenty of times to Robin but it took his wife's death to realize he still wants Robin. Ted is a terrible Human being and even less of a man

well damn
yeah ted will go down as one of tv's greatest simps, with him being tied with urkle, and forrest gump
- he's going to go settle for robin after her uterus is all dried up and she' has nothing going on. Plus you know she's going to get bored after a couple of months, and will prob go running back to barney

ted will be like, go ahead, have your fun, i'll still be waiting here for you

(actually somebody need to make this an official simp smiley)

 

[JerseyBoy23]

The outrage to this finale is solely CBS's fault to be honest. If the series ended last year like the creators always planned we wouldn't have had to endure a 56 hour weekend and then skip 17 years.

I believe it would've just ended at the platform with Ted meeting the girl had the season ended last year.

 

[jwinfield]

Lmao. So this whole time Ted was pretty much scheming and trying to get at Robin again

If the show ended with the son going, "If you wanna smash Aunt Robin, go head, I saw some pictures from when she was young and I'd smash, but don't sit me down telling me you're gonna tell my about how you met my dead mom, then go on about failed three ways, all these other women you fukked, all these wacky adventures, then spend the past hours bringing up memories of my mom, how she was perfect and how she got sick, just for us to give you permission to fukk.

I'm crying and shyt now because I'm thinking about mama's funeral, how she lost her hair during chemo, and how painful Mother's Day is now, but you sitting there with the

I'm going to Uncle Barney's place

Then I'd be cool with it

- he's going to go settle for robin after her uterus is all dried up and she' has nothing going on.

Robin found out like 2-3 seasons ago that she couldn't have kids

 

[threattonature]

I liked it but didn't love it. It's funny how polarizing it is though. Some people either love this finale or hate it.

Every message board I've been on it's been pretty universally hated outside of the people that had been predicting that the story was all about Robin. Even some of them hate it.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Every message board I've been on it's been pretty universally hated outside of the people that had been predicting that the story was all about Robin. Even some of them hate it.

Hmm maybe your right right. My TL and the hashtag on Twitter showed a lot of negative reactions to the ending but I did see some positive. I do think either way that the negative ones are being more vocal than those who were positive about it.

 

[JohnL]

shyt was hot trash, I can't believe I wasted so much time watching this garbage. The worse thing about this is that the writers had this ending planned from the beginning according to what I've read. The execution was terrible.

 

[jwinfield]

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...-mother-last-forever-how-they-conned-us-all/2

Because this was horrible. This ignored everything that had happened between Ted and Robin, between Robin and Barney, between Ted and Barney and, especially, between Ted Evelyn Mosby and Tracy McConnell, all because once upon a time, this is what Bays and Thomas wanted to do.

They had plenty of opportunity over the years to course correct. They could have at some point accepted that the Robin/Barney coupling made Future Ted/Future Robin not only moot, but annoying. They could have introduced the Mother sooner and just made her a part of the gang — and every single moment this season in which Milioti was allowed to interact with the regulars (either in Farhampton or in the flashforwards) suggested that they could have pulled it off, easily. Hell, even at this late hour, they could have recognized what they had in Milioti and accepted that that old bit of footage with Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie would remain unseen forever (or, at worst, be a special feature to lure people into buying the complete series box set), and that the fans would get over not seeing the kids react to the end of this endless story.

If "HIMYM" hadn't been as great as it was in its early days, or as great as it could even be from time to time more recently, I wouldn't care this much. I wouldn't be as angry as I am. But there kept being moments in this final season, and throughout this final episode, that reminded me of what the show is capable of, and it only filled me with more despair that we were clearly heading towards the ending I feared was coming ever since "Vesuvius" aired. How, I wondered, could the same two men who wrote that great scene where Barney met his daughter for the first time be so tin-eared in this other area? How could the same writers who absolutely, 100% nailed the moment when Ted and Tracy finally meet on the train platform not realize that they had already undermined it by spending so much of the finale on the dissolution of Robin's marriage and her leftover feelings for Ted? How could they not see the happy, satisfying ending that was staring them right in the face, and instead do... this?

I can imagine Bays and Thomas back in 2005 or 2006 trying to figure a way out of the narrative straightjacket they created for themselves in the pilot, and maybe even doing a High Infinity upon coming up with this solution. I can even imagine that moment being so euphoric that it blinded them to a lot of what was happening on the show over the remaining 7 or 8 years. Back then, maybe it was a great plan. Back then, when I was talking to them at the press tour party, if one of them had asked me to turn off the tape recorder and promised me off the record that Ted and Robin would somehow end up together, I'd have been feeling some euphoria of my own. But stories change. Characters change. Shows change. And plans have to change to accommodate that.

This plan didn't. So instead of a bumpy final few years being redeemed by a finale that at least resulted in our hero winding up with a woman we all liked, and who seemed a perfect match for him, we have a finale that turns the title and narrative framework of the show into a case of Bays and Thomas following the letter of the law rather than the spirit. They and Future Ted promised us that we'd be getting the story of how Ted met the kids' mother, but all along she was just meant to be a distraction from the real story — like the kind of misdirection Barney uses in his magic tricks.

And the problem is that at a certain point the misdirection became vastly more entertaining than the illusion it was designed to facilitate, and as a result we just wind up feeling tricked, and annoyed, and wondering why we went along with all of it, when we should have known from the very first episode — from the Aunt Robin joke that got us into this gigantic mess — that this was a show that would not hesitate to make us feel tricked. And once upon a time, when we and "HIMYM" were younger, that was fun, but at a certain point, like the idea of Barney Stinson still having a Playbook in his 40s, it's just sad.

 

[mannyrs13]

Haven't read any posts since earlier but just finished watching. Let's just say my facial expression went from to . That was a shocker. Glad it's over.

 

[kash10003]

props to the mom dying but jesus christ at that robin shyt