HIMYM Thread

[Osito]

The first five seasons were good, but the last two have been terrible.

I assumed that the final season, even though it had been so bad, would at least provide a nice, sweet finale, but it managed to ruin that too.

I actually liked the short exchange between Ted and the mother the first time they met, but the rest was terrible. I didn't buy the Barney/Robin relationship to begin with, but it was worse to see the marriage fall apart in ten minutes, after having been subjected to a whole season dedicated to the wedding with so much filler, and then having the finale feeling very rushed. As said by others, there were sweet ideas in there, but the execution was terrible. If the wedding had been last season, or at least limited to the start of this one, more interesting ideas could have been explored, and the season could have been a lot better.

Finishing a show like that just ruins it and ensures that people won't go back to it. Many other long-running comedies where the quality really dropped off at the end have at least provided a fitting finale, and will be remembered fondly. Take Friends, Scrubs (season 9? I have no idea what you're talking about) and Futurama for example. Similarly to HIMYM, they should have been a couple of seasons shorter and got increasingly poor in later seasons, but the finales were really well done, so I'd have no problems returning to the show at all. This on the other hand, has killed any interest I had in returning to previous seasons or following the creators' work, which, when you're launching a spin-off of the show soon, is a terrible way to go.

Speaking of the spin-off, I thought this was meant to launch it in some way? I, like most of you I suppose have no interest in it at all, so at least it was nice that it wasn't shoehorned into the ending yesterday.

[Skippy]

Spoilers yo!

[SEP]

Tried to be "Friends". Failed.

[Osito]

Spoilers yo!

Fixed.

[Foxhound]

Right, actually, I didn't hate it. Given the wave of hate I saw it received I was expecting Mum Effect 3, but it wasn't that bad. ME3's ending was gooseberry fool because it didn't work as an ending to the story.

This actually did. Taking the whole 9 seasons as one, actually the resolution worked. The problem was the execution.

If that resolution was spread out over a season or even 2, it would have worked and been actually quite interesting. It just begs the question why the hell was that stupid strawberry floating wedding dragged out over a whole season. It just baffles me. Why did they sacrifice all the stuff they must have known was what everyone actually wanted to see in favour of that thing where Barney took BritAnNick to a strip club in order to attend a wedding that ends in divorce ten minutes in.

Imagine if, instead of the worst season of filler, Barney and Robin got married at the end of last season and Ted met the mother then. Then, this season did a 'One Day' and each episode caught up with everyone every six months or so. Rather than everything taking ten minutes, we actually see everything. The divorce, the baby, the romance, the wedding, the illness, the death, everything. Everything actually progresses and we see all the stuff we've been building up to.

This was such a wasted season.

Although at first glance, I prefer this idea, I'm not sure it would have worked either.

We'd get to halfway through the season and have met the Mother, seen the kids born and the marriage. Surely any logical show ends there? If not, it's a big give away to the end- even bigger than the non too subtle hints they were dropping. The biggest problems are the death and Ted & Robin. With those two factors, I can't conceive of a way that people would be happy.
All I wanted from this was some heart warming moments with Ted and the mother, but we didn't even get enough of that, aside from a couple of flashforwards in earlier episodes and the 'meeting' in this one. Although I've really enjoyed Cristin Milioti's turn on this show, I have no feelings for their relationship, and for me, that's the biggest thing I can't forgive about this season. Meet at the end of last season, then one season of courting followed by a proposal, then flashforward to the wedding and the kids would have suited me. If she dies and Ted hooks up with Robin after the show has ended, fine, but that's not what the show was about. Or should have been about anyway.

[Skippy]

He should have met the mother at the end of the penultimate season and the finale should have ended with the birth of their child, the moment where she becomes an actual mother. Simple

[Jamo3103]

I enjoyed the first 4 seasons a lot and having re-watched them lately they stand up really well as a sitcom. Season 5 was still pretty good but since then the episode quality has been massively variable and the story has really dragged.

This season feels like a waste - the wedding dragged on forever and the mother ended up feeling like an afterthought. The events of Series 6/7 should have been combined to a more concise Season 6. Then Season 7 we could have actually go to know the mother and it could have actually ended with the birth of their children.

What happened in the finale would have maybe made a nice epilogue episode somewhere further down the line but as a season finale it was simply trying to squeeze too much into one episode which ultimately undermined a lot of whats happened in previous seasons.

It wasn't that bad, but for a show that started off so well the last two seasons have been a real disappointment.

[Adam Pollard]

That was amazing. I loved it.

[BID0]

Just powered through and finished watching season 9...

I don't even know how to describe that. I guess Ian Malcolm could sum up how that ended, quickly and elegantly, something which HIMYM should have done itself years ago.




The one good thing to come from this is that Cobie Smulders can show up in S.H.I.E.L.D. more often now, that's assuming it gets a second run anyway

[Foxhound]

Someone fixed it (spoilers):

[Memento Mori]

That is a lot better.

[Ario]

There's a petition to rewrite the ending

http://www.change.org/petitions/cbs-rew ... mym-ending



Personally, I didn't mind the way it ended, I just wish they hadn't dragged the wedding out for so long and instead spent more time on the events of this episode

[zXe]

Can they redo the lost and dexter ending as well?

[Venom]

Watched it last night. Wow it was a disappointment! A lot of good comments have been written. Sometimes the fans' love an ending, sometimes they hate an ending, but as long as it is true and makes sense with what has gone before then it will be accepted but this was a cheat.

There was two much time switching which makes it difficult for viewers to get emotionally involved with a storyline, instead of watching gooseberry fool play out the narration tells us. Nine years of build up, it would have been lovely to have a couple of episodes (or even just one) where we get to see Ted and Mother interact - a payoff for the audience who have watched for so long. If we got this, her dying would have been accepted as a bitter-sweet ending. Instead we see them meet and some shots of them older as a couple so it is all very superficial.

On her wedding day Robin told Ted they should be getting married, his main reason for saying no was because he is a decent guy but it meant that he was still in love with her and only found mother was because Robin couldn't make her mind up. It makes redundant all her relationship episodes with Barney. If it was the case that Robin was engaged to a non-star of the show then maybe the audience would be rooting for her to get together with Ted, but she was with Barney so the audience were rooting for this. The penultimate scene of Ted and his kids where they explain it as 'mom is hardly in it' this is about you and Aunt Robin. That's fine if they give the viewers a clue over the 9 seasons, but it was called How I met your Mother.

After watching it I had to wash the bitter taste from my mouth so I put on the blu-ray of my favourite US sitcom and watched a couple of episodes with my girlfriend. I like comedies that are funny!

[Nook29]

I've just finished watching it and I'm torn between thinking it was really bad, or really good. I feel like the final episode should have been the final season, but obviously significantly expanded. The final season didn't need to cover the wedding in the way that it did, particularly when the marriage doesn't last beyond three years.

Overall it just felt rushed and badly thought out. A shame.

[Monkey Man]

I hear creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas also contemplated an alternate ending, which will be included in HIMYM‘s upcoming DVD set. I hear the alternate ending does not involve additional footage but rather a different editing of the episode.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/how-i-m ... ale-happy/

[Fade]

He should have met the mother at the end of the penultimate season and the finale should have ended with the birth of their child, the moment where she becomes an actual mother. Simple

The name of the show makes no strawberry floating sense to me. Only one season is actually about meeting the mother. So why the strawberry float is the show called that?

[Memento Mori]

I hear creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas also contemplated an alternate ending, which will be included in HIMYM‘s upcoming DVD set. I hear the alternate ending does not involve additional footage but rather a different editing of the episode.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/how-i-m ... ale-happy/

So that's why they got Youtube to delete that guy's edited version of the ending.

[Memento Mori]

[Pedro]

Finally watched the finale - hated it. The whole round up and throwing away of Barney as a character was terrible. Ted was pretty shitty throughout the show but the ending and the whole lusting after your best friends girl just makes him hate worthy.