How I Met Your Mother

[LumRanmaYasha]

Your posts reflect my own personal sentiments exactly.  I don't mind that the mother died or Barney and Robin divorced, but it was the how, why, and aftermath that bothers me so much. And Ted and Robin being together still doesn't make sense since nothing has changed to help make their relationship work this time. Plus, fixating the entire season on Barney and Robin's wedding, while leaving 16 years of the characters' lives to be seen in just one hour of episodes, was a terrible direction. The season should have been split half on the wedding, half on everything that happened here. That way they could've built up, and made the stuff that happened here work a little better and more naturally, though the ultimate ending of Ted and Robin being together still needs serious revision, imo.  I think there were a lot of good ideas here, but this was a really poorly executed finale, and it ended up damaging and portraying Ted, Robin, and Barney's characters in a quite dislikable light, which annoys and saddens me.

A final episode where Ted sits with Tracy on her deathbed, says his goodbyes, and then gets to see the gang before Ted finishes his story would have made for a better ending in my mind.

Now that's an ending I can get behind.

[Dr. Insomniac]

The tears to this finale never end.

[Daxdiv]

I'm giving this thing a month before all the rage dies down to a reasonable level, and by reasonable.... I mean it's mostly the diehard fans that won't let it go.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Turns out there's an alternate ending to the series that will be included in the 9th season dvd set. It's just a different editing of the footage we saw in the episode, but apparently it's more of a "happy ending." Well, I doubt it'll solve every problem I had with the finale, but it gets rid of that whole Ted-Robin get together stuff, then I'd probably like it better than the current one. We'll have to see when the set hits the shelves.

[Avaitor]

The ending is the very worst thing about the finale, IMO, so I'd be okay with the alternate depending on how it goes.

[Avaitor]

This is a pretty interesting theory.

I'm still deciding whether or not I should give this show a chance. I'll probably end up watching the pilot at least.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Wow. It'd be crazy if that actually turns out to be true.

I also will probably check out the pilot. I'll decide whether or not I'll watch the series based on how much I like it. 

[Avaitor]

And apparently, they did plan a scene for Tracy's funeral, but that was cut out for being "too heart-wrenching".

Well I don't know about you, but if she had to die, I would have liked to have seen that.

[Daikun]

CBS rejects pilot for a spinoff.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Well, they're free to shop it around to other networks it seems, so it might still get made. I'd rather it never does, though. Just don't see it turning out well.

[Avaitor]

There's always Netflix, too. The show does pretty well on there.

But really, Thomas and Bays should just accept that sometimes they don't know what's right for their project and change things if that's what needs to be done. There had to be people telling them that the show's endgame was terrible.

[Avaitor]

Even though I'm still sore about the finale



I couldn't say no to finishing the collection. Although I won't get to watching any of season 9 again for a while. Because I'm actually watching the show from the very beginning again, at a pretty slow pace. I honestly made this blog so I could work on my writing style, so these reviews are for myself more than anyone, but it's been nice going over every single thing about the show again and reflecting on what does and doesn't work. I won't bother updating you guys on the reviews, but I'll keep on going as much as I can.

[LumRanmaYasha]

I started reading your blog a week or so ago but I keep forgetting to comment on your blog posts. I've been enjoying your write-ups so far, and think you've been pretty spot-on for most of the episodes. I feel the series was really finding it's footing early on in the first season and doesn't really start hitting a groove until the middle of it, imo. But the gradual evolution of the show is still interesting to see in those early episodes, and you've touched on some good aspects on that front. Keep up the good work!

[Avaitor]

Now that I hit this point in my reviews, here's a fun fact I just learned- around 2011, the producers of the show made a poll where they determined which of Ted's exes the fans preferred. Victoria won over Robin.

If that doesn't tell you how little people were holding out on them making it back together, I don't know what does.

[Avaitor]

Also, if anyone cares, my top 10 episodes would likely look like this

10- Arrivederci, Fiero
9- The Time Travelers
8- Last Words
7- Drumroll, Please
6- Natural History
5- Symphony of Illumination
4- Slap Bet
3- Intervention
2- How Your Mother Met Me
1- The Final Page