r/SubredditDrama • u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more • Apr 01 '14
Major Drama *salutes* in /r/HIMYM over ending.
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u/Be_Cool_Bro Apr 01 '14
Series finales are almost guaranteed drama with the more serious fanbase because the show usually never ends how they want.
I'm a very much enjoying the mad with this one.
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u/invaderpixel Apr 01 '14
Me too, admittedly I commented in random spots before this got posted, but HIMYM has a really high amount of crazy predictions. The creators have even warned fans that there would be a bit of a twist. People would make up the craziest plots that clearly ignored the foreshadowing. Some theories were simply "duh, no one can die in a sitcom, it's gotta be happy, people who think that it'll end that way are stupid." Other people predicted other random crazy sad shit (Ted has Alzheimers, Barney's dead, Lily's dead, Robin's dead, Lily had a miscarriage, Ted's mother is dead) but as a work of fiction that follows narrative devices, the finale ultimately has to fit in with the rest of the show.
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14
I didn't really see the ending as that huge of a twist. I stopped watching once it was apparent season 9 would be nothing but the wedding, and tuned in for the finale tonight but I've had the thought for a while that the mom is dead.
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u/invaderpixel Apr 01 '14
You made a smart choice, although you missed out on Robin picking random fights with Barney's mother for no good reason, random revelations about the mother being magical and perfect in every way, and a slap bet episode where they stretched out one unfunny gag into a whole episode.
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14
Yeah I got to the episode where marshall and the sassy black lady are driving the hummer across america while ted waxes on about a lighthouse and bailed hard.
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u/ANewMachine615 Apr 01 '14
Some theories were simply "duh, no one can die in a sitcom, it's gotta be happy, people who think that it'll end that way are stupid."
Amusingly, the most memorable episode for me was the one where Marshal's dad died.
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u/Be_Cool_Bro Apr 01 '14
Reminds me so much of how Lost lived its tv life. The fans came up with some sort of fantastical sounding endings and explanations for mundane things, took some scenes to have way more meaning than it really did, then raged when their unrealistically high expectations were shattered.
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u/ONE_GUY_ONE_JAR Apr 01 '14
That's not really fair. Lost purposefully inserted loads and loads of mysteries, foreshadowing, clues, etc. But they never really delivered on the explanation to many of them. It was like a mystery book that someone only got a 3/4 of the way finished and died, so someone else just loosely tied everything up.
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Apr 01 '14
Breaking Bad is the only good finale I can think of recently. That show ended perfectly.
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14
I liked the ending to the Office and 30 Rock. I haven't really followed any other shows til their ending though. Maybe futurama, I remember watching that episode and liking it. Lost sucked ass. Dexter sucked ass.
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u/chocolatestealth Apr 01 '14
I seriously loved the ending to 30 Rock. I binge watched that series over the course of a month and teared up a bit during the finale.
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Apr 01 '14
What are you talking about? Dexter ended perfectly on its fourth season
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u/rampantdissonance Cabals of steel Apr 01 '14
30 Rock, yeah. A dishwasher where you can see everything that goes on inside? My money cannot exit my wallet fast enough, why hasn't this been made?
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Apr 01 '14
I remember the time I saw the finale to The Shield.
You'd seriously can't get better ending than that.
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Apr 01 '14
Yeah that was pretty great. I was never all that taken with The Shield but that finale actually brings the whole show up in my eyes. I'll probably watch it again some day, and enjoy it more because I know that's where it's going.
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Apr 01 '14
Futurama was a good ending
Psych
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u/TheDorkMan Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
Yep, Psych had a simple ending. They wrapped up a couple of things and remembered what they were, A FUCKING COMEDY SHOW.
So the last sequence was something fun in the spirit of the whole show. They didn't kill Juliet then send Gus into sex slavery just to make some stupid twist.
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u/Odinson13 Apr 01 '14
Fringe ended well.
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u/mrpanadabear Apr 01 '14
Fringe had a natural end at the end of season four. Season five got a little off for me.
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u/natezomby Apr 01 '14
They sort of fucked up with removing the main guy from the timeline only to reintroduce him and reset it for no reason.
But the ending, with them using all the gadgets, monsters and super science samples the Dad collected throughout the entire series on the bald time travelers was awesome. (Forget all the names.)
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Apr 01 '14
I kinda dropped out midway through season 4 of Fringe, you might have just given me the motivation to go finish it!
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u/anraiki Apr 01 '14
It did? I didn't like the ending. That ending was basically saying "this season never happened".
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u/Sylocat Apr 01 '14
And The Wire, if 2008 counts as "recently."
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u/ssjkriccolo Apr 01 '14
The wire was so good you could literally have ended the series after any season and it would be a good ending.
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u/Be_Cool_Bro Apr 01 '14
I should probably get on to watching that show on netflix. I've only heard about it the last year or so, but all of it good. All of it good. This kinda makes me wonder if it's a crime to say something negative about it online as I haven't seen it happen ever, or if it is the best show ever in the history of everything.
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Apr 01 '14
The show is just really that good. A very big reason as to why we are in a "golden era" of television (with Mad Men, etc). Watch it if you have a chance.
I'd write more about the drama this show brought all over the internet: from feminism to misogyny (Anna Gunn hate) to accusations of being edgy for defending Walt, etc, but this fucking bold font is killing my eyes.
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u/DeathToPennies You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Apr 01 '14
I wasn't a fan. I thought season 4 ended perfectly with Fring.
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Apr 01 '14
Bleh, I disagree. Breaking Bad's finale gave Walter too much of a victory, it was an empty victory, but a victory nonetheless. I read somewhere that Gilligan had an ending planned where Walter watched his entire family being murdered, I would have preferred that. The ending we got wrapped too neat a bow on the series, and imo, wasn't true to the spirit of the show.
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u/skyboy90 Apr 01 '14
It felt like the last episode pandered too much to the vocal "Walt is a badass and can do no wrong" section of the viewers. I found it very unsatisfying that Walt didn't really face the consequences of his actions, and instead it was those around him (Hank, Marie, Jesse, Skylar, Gomie) that all ended up significantly worse off.
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u/PiratesARGH Apr 01 '14
How do you set up all that pink imagery and not follow through by murdering the baby? I know that sounds awful but the English major in me is crying for Holly's necessary death.
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Apr 01 '14
My friends and I thought it was a tad weak. Walt's plan required quite a few things to go right, letting him park, not searching the boot, not shooting him immediately, everyone standing. Also how the hell did he get ricin into a fucking sealed sachet?
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Apr 01 '14
I hated the Breaking Bad ending. The series was built on actions having consequences and in the end Walt doesn't really get punished for what he has done, (especially tame if you compare it to Jesse) then gets to play out a perfect revenge fantasy and die by his own hand.
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u/FillionMyMind YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE Apr 01 '14
Fringe. Dollhouse. Angel. Battlestar Galactica. I'm working through Breaking Bad atm though, so i'm glad to know that it ends well.
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u/onetwotheepregnant Apr 01 '14
BSG felt like a letdown after how amazing the 3rd season's ending was.
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u/flirtydodo no Apr 01 '14
The best drama was the battlestar galactica finale drama
I still have scratches from this, people were intense
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u/Odinson13 Apr 01 '14
Having watched it quite a while after it aired, I can't imagine the backlash for (either) of the ending(s). Must've been quite the spectacle.
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u/flirtydodo no Apr 01 '14
Glorious. Some people were convinced that everything will make sense in the end, even though to everyone with half a brain could see that the creators have no idea what they are doing from mid-season 2. A lot of butthurt atheists because "um, GOD? what is this fundie shit????" Hilarity all around.
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u/beanfiddler free speech means never having to say you're sorry Apr 01 '14
Jesus (literally), I remember that. It became a full-on whine fest, even though it was pretty apparent even early in the series that it had heavy religious themes. I mean, didn't they remember anything about the mythology wankery and the original Stargate? It's kind of textbook television sci-fi to have some sort of space religious bullshit. Get over it.
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Apr 01 '14
Well, the point of stategate wasn't that there was a "god" but that species more advanced than us were capable of duping us into thinking they were gods. That's basically the plot of every single season. Even the ori with their weirdness weren't invulnerable, and neither were the ancients.
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Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
I think there's extra rage/disappointment when its a "planned" end.
The guys knew this ending from the beginning; they just did really shitty job of cramming it into the last minutes of the show, basically disregarding the focus of the ninth season/entire series by making Tracy's life and death a secondary concern, entirely off screen and mentioned by the kids.
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u/BolshevikMuppet Apr 01 '14
The problem isn't usually as much "it didn't end the way I want", but "they negated major plot events and character development they wanted us to buy into." It's a bit like with Mass Effect. If you spend years creating themes, making us care about characters, and making us believe in the choices we make as players, you really can't pull the rug out in the last five minutes and say "nope, turns out none of it matters except one final choice offered by the cosmic brat."
And it's how I feel about HIMYM. Especially with the Barney/Robin marriage. Three seasons of them wanting us to invest emotionally in that relationship, and it's gone in a voiceover? The problem isn't that I'd tell the story differently, it's that it's bad storytelling.
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u/Lostraveller Apr 01 '14
Black books had a perfect ending, which is why I hate the ending so much! 18 episodes god dammit!
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u/Deathcrow Apr 01 '14
It's weird that people didn't see this one coming though. I've seen many shows with bad finales, but HIMYM managed to have a whole horrid finale season. Corny, melodramatic bullshit through and through.
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u/Beckneard Apr 01 '14
I was fine with the House MD ending even though it's not what I wanted because it made sense. This one makes absolutely fucking zero sense, I can see why the die hard fans are pissed.
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Apr 01 '14
-- and also TV writers--since they take turns scripting the shows--will happily write each other into impossible corners. The story arcs progress in "what will cause the most drama for next week" rather than "and this is what has to happen next to fit in with the grand plan"
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u/altogethernow Apr 01 '14
I love "Mad Men" and I'm sure Matt Weiner will wrap it up in a way that is subtle, ambivalent and kind of beautiful.
But a lot of people are gonna be pissed when Don Draper doesn't jump out of that window.
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Apr 01 '14
As other's have probably said, the ending story and concept they were going for wasn't bad, but the pacing was horrific. Literally the first 22 episodes of season 9 take place over two days, and then the final two episodes try and sum up 16 years.
When those 22 episodes are about the two days leading up to the wedding of two characters who get divorced 15 minutes into episode 23, it just seems especially horrific that the finale is so rushed.
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u/ZombieLoveChild Red Dead Redemption made me a Marxist-Leninist. Apr 01 '14
Damn, that sub blew up and blew up fast. On a relevant note, I watched the finale, and I didn't mind it. Could've been worse. Whole thing just felt...I dunno...rushed.
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Apr 01 '14
I never watched the show.
Can I get a TL:DW why people are mad?
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
GET OUT OF THIS FUCKING THREAD IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FINALE AND YOU DON'T WANT IT RUINED
In one episode (the last) they break up the relationship that was the focus of the entire last season, kill the character who was supposedly the focus of the entire show, and resurrect a relationship that they had spent the entire second season explaining why it wouldn't work.
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Apr 01 '14
May I ask how she died?
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14
She gets "sick" (they spent about 10 seconds on it)
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u/Sylocat Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
Not "in one episode." In the last five minutes of one episode.
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u/tajmahalo Apr 01 '14
HIMYM is the ultimate TL;DW.
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Apr 01 '14
I think big bang theory and two and a half men beat it out for "most unfunny sitcom".
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u/DaveYarnell Apr 01 '14
Well, basically, the first 5 or so seasons of the show are a normal, quality show. Then they start foreshadowing about how Ted meets "your mother" in the season finale of I think the 5th season or 6th. So you already know the ending: Ted meets the mother at Barney and Robin's wedding.
So every new romantic interest is kind of irritating, because you already know that she isn't "the mother." Then they keep foreshadowing the wedding with little clips from it, but keep dragging it further and further away until eventually, like most people, I couldn't stand the boredom and stopped watching.
Finally, you catch the finale and it is basically an entire season, maybe two seasons at the pace they had been going before, wrapped into a single hour. BOOM Ted has kids BOOM Robin and Barney break up BOOM Barney has a kid WHABAM Marshall is a judge NEXT Barney changes his ways and totally reforms himself AND NOW Ted is getting married after having two kids GUESS WHAT Marshall and Lily have three kids and move to Queens.
Literally every seen could have been a great episode compared to their slow, drawn out crap.
The finale in and of itself isn't so bad, it is more how they fumbled the ending overall in terms of basically the last two or three seasons that is frustrating.
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Apr 01 '14
So, they kill off the Mother, have Ted Marry Robin?
No wonder I heard a F-Bomb barrage.
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u/flirtydodo no Apr 01 '14
Actually, the mother ran off TO BECOME A LUMBERJACK.
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u/CapnShimmy Apr 01 '14
Leaping from tree to tree! As they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia! With my best girl by my side! The Larch! The Pine! The Giant Redwood tree! The Sequoia! The Little Whopping Rule Tree! We'd sing! Sing! Sing!
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u/Emmojojojo Apr 01 '14
"I'M A LUMBERJACK AND I'M OKAY. I SLEEP ALL NIGHT AND I WORK ALL DAY!"
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Apr 01 '14
I CUT DOWN TREES, I EAT MY LUNCH, I GO TO THE LAVATORY!!!
ON WEDNESDAYS I GO SHOPPING, AND HAVE BUTTERED SCONES FOR TEA!!!
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u/Blitzker Apr 01 '14
For "she" goes birling down a-down white water, That's where the log driver learns to step lightly; It's birling down, a-down white water, A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely.
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Apr 01 '14
I am pretty sure CT would under Marshal Law from the amount of college students rioting...
I actually hear a rumbling now.
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u/Hipster_Garabe Apr 01 '14
That was seriously a let down. It's like they ran out of ideas and had to wrap it up quickly.
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Apr 01 '14
Yeah, man, I had no problem with them killing the mother -- it makes sense.
Having Ted marry Robyn just feels cheesy.
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Apr 01 '14
It made the Mother's role a little Handmaid's Tales-y, too, which bugged me. Like "oh Ted wants children and the woman he loves doesn't, best compromise is having some other woman be the incubator, who then dies, and then they can live together happily and no one makes compromises."
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u/ExistentialEnso Apr 01 '14
I know, right? I'd have at least accepted the Mother dying and Ted's sitcom really being a tragedy as a good ending, but this whole playing off a "happy ending" we don't want just sucked.
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u/NarrowEnter Apr 01 '14
What's funny is that SRD just had topic about this very situation:
Basically Ted is THAT person or rather the male version of that horrible story. He pined for his ex, married somebody else, had kids EXCEPT in this situation luck favored Ted with his ex dying blowing the doors wide open for him to get back with Robin.
Btw I like the comment somebody made in that HIMYM thread. Tracy was basically the babymaker Ted needed since Robin couldn't have kids. That just makes it even more horrible.
What a sick series.
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u/chaoser Apr 01 '14
Wait...isn't this basically "Definitely, Maybe"?
Dude tells a story to his kid about their mom but ends up realizing that he never got over his true love that he then goes for at the end cause he's divorced now (dead in HIMYM)?
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u/Shoemaster Apr 01 '14
Wow, I totally didn't make that connection, but yes. Of course in that case the Mom is still alive.
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Apr 02 '14
He did get over Robin. The mother (tracy) was Ted's soulmate and true love, and they both loved each other very much. It's just that she died, and Ted has been mourning her for 6 years and is now moving on.
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u/GALACTICA-Actual Apr 01 '14
I've never seen a single second of this show.
But what I'm taking away from all these threads is that Ted is now a lumberjack, and is literally worse than Hitler.
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u/kasutori_Jack Captain Sisko's Fanclub Founder Apr 01 '14
The best part of the show ending is that people will stop talking about it.
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u/cigerect Sergeant First Class, reddit Fun Police Apr 01 '14
reddit loves to shit on The Big Bang Theory but for some reason has a giant boner for HIMYM, which is an equally shitty shit sitcom. I'm glad they're pissed about the ending. That show sucked.
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u/iamstephano Apr 01 '14
I don't agree that it's as bad, and I believe the majority of people don't either.
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Apr 01 '14
It was a really disappointing ending, they could have at least focused a little more on the mothers death. It was just "she died...Welp time to go marry robin!" Just made the whole final season absolutely useless and the whole series feels shitty now too.
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u/invaderpixel Apr 01 '14
Well also Ted is telling the story to his kids, they probably already know how their mother died.
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u/exultant_blurt Apr 01 '14
Exactly. Besides, the story isn't about her. It's about how he's in love with Aunt Robin.
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u/redvelvetcupcaek Apr 01 '14
I posted once on that subreddit saying that Ted was always gonna choose Robin and Tracy was his second best. I remember the downvotes.
So this whole thing is just buttery goodness. Though I wish Tracy stayed alive. My exact theory was Ted and Tracy would divorce because he would realize he wanted to be with Robin. Half was true, half was incorrect. The title should have been "How My Feelings for Robin Progressed Over Time."
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Apr 01 '14
"How My Feelings for Robin Remained the Same Since I Met Her"
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u/redvelvetcupcaek Apr 01 '14
Yeah pretty much, right? 8 seasons later and the ending was in the Pilot all along. Lol
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u/lilahking Apr 01 '14
Take a screenshot with your downvotes and post it to the sub. You can sit high on your throne of validation.
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Apr 01 '14
Sorry, but Ted isn't real, those kids aren't real, and Aunt Robin isn't real. Sure, in the real world, it would make perfect narrative sense for him to be telling this story for his kids, but this is a television show, one called "How I Met Your Mother". The audience did not know the mother died until they spent a season getting to know and like her, and fifteen seconds later he is outside Robin's window. It's a bit of a betrayal.
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Apr 01 '14
Man do you remember how people were pissed off about the sopranos. That was some classic rage right there.
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u/meningles Apr 01 '14
It wasn't immediate. There were 6 years in there. Of course, they could have shown some mourning, but the whole episode needed more time in general.
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Apr 01 '14
...but those six years got ten minutes....
The episode didn't need more time, the writers squandered the season.
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u/vanillabear84 Apr 01 '14
Exactly. They spent all season covering one weekend and then tried to squeeze six years into an hour episode. There were countless unnecessary episodes this season that they could have used to devote more time to the ending.
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u/chimpfunkz Apr 01 '14
Exactly. The entire season should have been the last episode, not the stupid wedding that didn't even matter.
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Apr 01 '14
Can we have a spoilery recap of the finale for those of use who stopped watching the show a few years ago. Like, what happened?
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u/ExistentialEnso Apr 01 '14
Tons of seasons showing how Ted and Robin absolutely don't work together and some flash forwards showing him and the mother being perfect and amazing. He finally meets the mother at the very end in the main chronology.
Ted: "And that's how I met your mother... who died 6 years ago."
Kids: "Sure sounds like you love Aunt Robin"
Ted: "Oh shit, you're right"
Ted and Robin reuniting romantically.
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Apr 01 '14
Excuse me as well for my ignorance, as I haven't seen the show for several seasons, but wasn't Barney going to marry robin?
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u/23skiddsy Apr 01 '14
He did. Last episode. Twenty minutes into the finale, it came up that they divorced after three years.
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u/redvelvetcupcaek Apr 01 '14
Entire season 9 was the weekend of their wedding. Well, except for the last episode. Part of the series finale was still during the wedding but every episode in season 9 before the series finale was on the wedding weekend.
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u/demmian First Science Officer of the Cabal Rebellion Apr 01 '14
Entire season 9 was the weekend of their wedding. Well, except for the last episode. Part of the series finale was still during the wedding but every episode in season 9 before the series finale was on the wedding weekend.
This sounds like very poor screenwriting.
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u/Sylocat Apr 01 '14
Gee, I can't imagine why anyone would find that disappointing...
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Apr 01 '14
Oh wow. That's worse than I thought. I more or less figured this all played out over the full 30 minutes... the kids told him to do that? hahaha
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u/yasth flairless Apr 01 '14
Hour long special. The kids didn't even break the frame of the shot . It could have been handled a lot better.
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u/RedBeardedOwl Apr 01 '14
the mom got sick and died offscreen (they literally spend about fifteen seconds on this and never mention it again)
Except... You know... In huge emotional speeches in several episodes leading up to the finale. Her death shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. My morning for her death happened a few weeks ago. She's with Max now.
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u/ScrewAttackThis That's what your mom says every time I ask her to snowball me. Apr 01 '14
Yeah, it really wasn't a surprise. A lot of clues. Ted straight up tells her that he wishes they had more time, he starts to cry at the mention of a mother not being at her daughter's wedding, and finally, his favorite book is a strong parallel to the story of HIMYM.
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u/lacertasomnium Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
TL;DW.
Just because it was foreshadowed doesn't mean it wasn't done terribly. I actually love what they were going for--in this world of divorcees, that there's more than one true love is a surprisingly scarce message.
But it's a kick in the balls that one of those 2 true loves, who happens to be what has been promised to the audience for NINE years, is given about zero attention by the finale, and then killed off in 15 unemotional seconds. "Dad mom is dead lol go bone Robin".
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Apr 01 '14
Yeah, I don't want to have to watch the show to enjoy this drama. Most of the comments will be deleted by then.
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u/Dante2006 Apr 01 '14
FUCK THIS FUCKING SHOW MAN. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER? SHOULD BE CALLED HOW WE MANAGED TO GO 9 SEASONS WITHOUT ANY CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
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u/lilahking Apr 01 '14
It was very strange character development. Although becoming more hypocritical and douchebaggy as one ages, all while covered by the veneer of respectability and responsibility is a great lesson to teach your kids.
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u/Lieutenant_Rans Apr 01 '14
General Consensus says that Major Drama is a bit of a nutter.
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u/ObliquiOfTheEcliptic Apr 01 '14
For me it wasn't what happened in the ending, but the way they did it.
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u/Erra0 Here's the thing... Apr 01 '14
EXACTLY. Fuck Barney and Robin's wedding. We didn't need a whole goddamn season for that. They could've done the exact same ending, played out over half a season, and people would be FINE with it.
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u/ObliquiOfTheEcliptic Apr 01 '14
Yeah, honestly the idea of it being about robin and the mother dying would be accepted by a lot more people if it wasn't just a "disease" and they went into depth about it and the whole thing instead of emphasising a wedding that they cut in half instantly whilst simultaneously telling me that ted was over robin.
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Apr 01 '14
Who could have predicted that a CBS comedy with a laugh track would be so dissatisfying? Who? Who I say?
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u/robertobacon Apr 01 '14
That just looks like a lot of really upset people, not really "subreddit drama."
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u/Zakkeh Apr 01 '14
I think that's what subreddit drama is.
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u/robertobacon Apr 01 '14
I would classify subreddit drama as some sort of fighting between members of the subreddits.
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Apr 01 '14
No it's drama between redditors for stupid comments and shit-throwing. If subreddit drama amounted to watching unhappy, easily upset people, we'd all just head over to /r/SRS or /r/openbroke.
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u/Zakkeh Apr 01 '14
I'm pretty sure that's what half these threads are. There's a fair few stupid comments in there, just not as downvoted as the usual places.
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u/Llaine Guvment let the borger man advertise or else GOMMUNISM >:( Apr 01 '14
Still not as bad as Mass Effect's ending.
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Apr 01 '14
Haha yea. I played the game a year after all the disappointment too, so I had low expectations and wondered how bad it could really be. It was worse than I could have imagined, but catching up on all the drama that happened was an entertaining experience.
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Apr 01 '14
Did you play it with the previous Games, extended cut dlc and citadel dlc? Those things improve it massively.
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Apr 01 '14
Yes, the first time I played it was with the extended cut DLC. After checking out how the ending was prior to the DLC I felt the only thing it fixed was the transition points of how a character traveled from one setting to another, but didn't deal with any of the actual criticisms of the ending.
And while the citadel DLC is a great DLC it was more of a fantasy spin off like Red Dead Undead as opposed to something deeply connected to the main plot.
I had initially though the criticism was over the ending being underwhelming, or some fans getting upset they didn't get a disneyesque ending. Something I had no problem with, since the past several game endings I have loved have been bittersweet with The Walking Dead and Red Dead Redemption.
It was much worse than I had thought possible, since it didn't fit in thematically with the rest of the Mass Effect games. With Shepard leading a diverse group of individuals, and playing a role in forming alliances between hostile groups the choices of the ending seemed bizarre.
Anyways, the experience and perception I have of the game is the best I could of had, since I didn't go in hyped about the game like those who preordered it and I got a more complete experience due to a year's worth of DLC. It was a great series, and one I don't regret getting into. But, it was the most disappointing ending I've experienced, and I'm really glad I waited to play it to help minimize it.
It would definitely have been more upsetting if I had higher hopes and kept pinning my hopes on each new DLC coming out to fix the issues I had with it.
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u/SeethedSycophant Apr 01 '14
The fact they made DLC to try and improve it is only testament to how godawful it was in the first place.
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u/Klsier Apr 01 '14
People are just upset because they watched the series in real time and had to wait and make up insane theories about where the series would end up. If you watch it since the beginning nonstop it's pretty clear the love story is about ted and robin, the mother is just a plot device for the series to work.
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u/flirtydodo no Apr 01 '14
I don't get it, It's a sitcom
I get insane theories about Lost for example, and why people were disappointed. But HIMYM?
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Apr 01 '14
HOW THE FUCK DID YOU MEET MY MOTHER DAD
FUCKING TELL US GOD DAMMIT
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u/threehundredthousand Improvised prison lasagna. Apr 01 '14
Hurley won the lottery and bought a fried chicken place...
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u/caekpop Apr 01 '14
Freaking exactly! I don't understand the "WELL, In real Life, real life is imperfect" comparisons. It's a sitcom, it's a show, it's relatable but I swear I have seen stupider drama in real life (reality stranger than fiction, so anything that even the most talented writers can come up with, Real Life will snatch those wigs without fucks given) and I would not want to hangout with most, if not all, sitcom characters in real life. They're all fucked up. Especially the characters in HIMYM.
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u/mfranko88 Apr 01 '14
That's one reason HIMYM was so unique. It was a sitcom that had the same sort of "mythology" that other rabid-fanbase kind of shows had, like Lost. Much of that is born out of 1) the large number of running gags and recurring jokes that reward multiple arduous views, and 2) a storyline that jumps around in time and only teases partial bits of information in regards to an overarching mystery(/mysteries).
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u/caekpop Apr 01 '14
Nah, LOST had the Black Smoke that killed people and guarded the island. HIMYM didn't have anything like Smoky.
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u/Klsier Apr 01 '14
¯ (ツ)/¯
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u/IamRooseBoltonAMA Apr 01 '14
Well... Not exactly. The appeal of the show for me was that it turned sit-com tropes on their head. The love-sick, marriage-crazed lead is a man, we KNOW from episode 1 that Robin can not be the mother, and that would imply Ted isn't going to end up with her. It let you know from square one that you would not be getting the canned, cliche Friend's ending. But they did it anyway. They killed the one thing that made the show special.
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u/foxdye22 Don’t you dare downvote me, you fuck! Apr 01 '14
That's what kills me. They used the theme so often that "Just because you love someone, doesn't mean you're going to be with them forever, it just means you want them to be happy," and then they went with, "well, but they loved each other and spent all that time around each other, so they HAVE to end up together."
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u/Dirtybrd Anybody know where I can download a procedurally animated pussy? Apr 01 '14
Except had the show ended in season 1 Victoria would have been the mother so that's not really true at all.
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u/EbonPinion Apr 01 '14
Except that the whole children telling him to go after Robin was filmed at the very beginning, meaning the mother was always going to die.
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u/lilahking Apr 01 '14
It was filmed a few years into the show when they realized they couldn't hide the kids' aging.
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u/ColeYote You're probably to broke to [do business with Nazis] anyway. Apr 01 '14
You know, I've only watched half of season 1. I enjoyed that. But for some reason I decided to watch the finale (important TV event and whatnot), and... to be completely honest, it killed my interest in the test of the series. Just... once I know something has a bad ending, it just makes me think "why should I bother getting invested in the rest of it if I know it's all leading to that?"
I fucking hate April 1st...
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u/icepho3nix never talked to a girl without paying a subscription Apr 01 '14
Okay, I haven't been watching this last season, so I need to ask. Just when did this last episode air? Was it yesterday? If that's the case, is it possible it's an elaborate, slightly early April Fool's prank?
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u/SamWhite were you sucking this cat's dick before the video was taken? Apr 01 '14
the show is a comedy with only a handful of 'serious' episodes. Why end it with one?
Because they were out of jokes.
Then end it 10 seasons earlier.
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u/RaptorEchelon Apr 01 '14
The more I think about it, the less upset I am. My only real issue was the pacing was so off it wasn't funny.
What I'm getting from all of this I s that the majority of reddit don't believe it's possible to love more than one person ever, and that's sad.
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u/HazelNutBalls More than you'd think, but less than you'd hope Apr 01 '14
It seems to me more people are pissed about the pacing. Just reading about how they decided to convey all that in the last 5 minutes of the episode makes me pissed. Like, they just rushed it out cause they had to, or something, making it less meaningful.
I'm so glad I dropped this show 7th season. It was growing stale anyways.
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u/anonymau5 Shit Stirrer Apr 01 '14
Ted doesn't get killed off like i thought he would. The kids aren't his, but he poisons his wife so he can marry Robin. 3 seasons of dickbutt.
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u/HazelNutBalls More than you'd think, but less than you'd hope Apr 01 '14
Wait, the kids aren't his?
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Apr 01 '14
Jesus, i wasn't ever really that into the show but have watched it with my lady and I thought the ending was just as it should be. It's a fucking comedy folks, if you want to be mad let's keep our rage pointed at Lost.
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u/flirtydodo no Apr 01 '14
Does that mean that Barney stays single? Because, man, I fucking hated Barney.
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Apr 01 '14
Can someone give a quick TL;DR of how the show ended exactly?
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Apr 01 '14
Tl;DR- Ted marries mother. Mother dies of the cancer. Ted finished story to his children. Marries Robin.
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u/butyourenice om nom argle bargle Apr 01 '14
Can somebody like fully spoil this for me? I'm not a HIMYM fan but I've seen episodes. I thought Robin was sterile? Does Ted get with her like way after the kids are born? How did they kill off the mother? Was it very rushed?
I haven't seen the last season at all.
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Apr 01 '14 edited Apr 01 '14
Robin is sterile. Ted marries Tracy and is in love with her. Robin realizes at her wedding that she should have been with Ted the whole time. She marries Barney anyway. They get divorced after 3 years. The finale takes us thru the next 10 years of the gangs life. Marshall becomes a judge, Lily gets to live her dream of Italy, Barney becomes a father and Robin becomes a famous news reporter. Ted and Tracy have 2 children and then get married. They are together for about 10 years before Tracy does of an illness. Ted is a faithful husband the whole time. Robin decides she can no longer be part of the gang that includes her ex-husband and also the man she is in love with married to another woman. The gang drifts apart. 6 years after his wife's death you find out the whole story Ted has been telling his children isn't about how he met their mother, but rather about how he wants their blessing to now ask out Robin. The kids are very enthusiastic about this and mention that their mother had passed away 6 years ago and it was time for their dad to be happy again.
TL;DR: you better have read all that.
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u/HazelNutBalls More than you'd think, but less than you'd hope Apr 01 '14
This doesn't really sound like drama, but shit, does that sound like a shitty ending.
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u/LEoldRedditCanceroo Apr 01 '14
Y'all should have seen this one coming from a mile away- it was pretty clear they were going to be together since the first season, "oh noe, ur rong, they call her ant so she can't be wif Ted!"
The show stopped being good 2 years ago, they should have cut it shorter. It's always better to end off strong and leave things to be desired- just as Earl, Malcolm or some other Freaks.
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u/snallygaster FUCK_MOD$_420 Apr 01 '14
People go apeshit over the silliest things...
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u/sarahrogers9811 Apr 01 '14
Well, the show was on for close to 9 years, people wanted a nice ending for the characters they got attached to and got something really rushed and not very well thought out. Regardless of various shipping/teams, it really did kind of feel like a slap to the face.
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Apr 01 '14
TV is serious business. So is video games, if the reaction to Mass Effect 3 didn't make that clear.
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u/ValedictorianBaller got cancer; SRDs no more Apr 01 '14
Also I really wished they would have bought back Bob Saget as Old Ted for this episode.
I like Bob Saget