I wasn't going to blog about How I Met Your Mother, but there have just been too many negative posts online about it, that I just can't help myself. Even though, in the whole grand scheme of things, it's just a TV show.
**SPOILER ALERT**
I am going to do this in points, because there is just no better way to do it.
1. TED HAS TO END UP WITH ROBIN EVENTUALLY
Even though a lot of fans were unhappy with the whole Tracy died deal and now Ted is going back to Robin deal, I was not, and I don't think any fan should be. (Of course, everyone has their opinion.) Ted and Robin's characters had something that was real, and that was undeniable.
Even, if it didn't work out on the first try....or the second.... I don't think those kind of feelings for someone ever go away. No matter how much you try to tell yourself that they do. Especially when neither of them really did anything terrible and unforgivable to each other. Really, the timing was just bad each time around. Timing is part of life for everyone.
If Ted had never ended up with Robin, I am sure there would have been several fans who said "But, they were meant to be!" You can't make everyone happy.
2. THE WRITERS PROBABLY ORIGINALLY PLANNED THE ENDING, BUT THEY DUG A HOLE
First of all, the fact that writer's can make a show based on how someone met the mother of their children, is pretty impressive.
I think originally the writers wanted Ted and Robin to be together, but they didn't know how they would get there and the mom needed to be someone different to keep it interesting. The blue french horn? Really? It HAD TO HAPPEN. But, there were lots of hints all through the show that Robin wasn't the mother. So, what can they do when they find out the show is going to end?
Try like heck to get the ending they wanted in the perfect time allotted.
3. EMOTIONAL STORY MEETS COMEDY
I think a lot of the reasons fans were disappointed with the ending, is those fans probably watch it 100 percent for the comedy. I watched it because I liked Ted. He was the good guy who always seemed to finish last.
The last episode was kind of funny, but mostly just emotional for the characters. So, if you expect comedy all the way though a season finale that has a lot of emotion packed into one, well you are going to be disappointed.
4. REAL LIFE = NOT A FAIRY TALE ENDING
Things happen in real life to the people we love EVERY DAY. That's why I think the ending was more realistic than if Ted and Tracy had lived a perfect life until the end of time.
The writers chose to write about their friends and the stupid things they did while living in New York. It was based around hanging out and having a good time, with a reoccurring love story. If it had ended all with roses for everyone, it wouldn't be anything like real life, which was the whole premise of the story from the beginning.
People get divorced and Barney getting married was way out of character for him. People don't just change overnight, no matter what we like to believe.
Of course, in real life Ted and Robin probably wouldn't have ended up together either, but what they hey? Let them have their unrealized dream come true. At least something happy came out of a sad ending.
Really it was the perfect ending for that show. It will go down on my list of the few shows that the ending wasn't ruined. Maybe you should start watching more TV shows all the way from beginning to end. Then maybe you will be little more grateful for what you have.
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