How I met your mother ended 5 years ago today.The author defends the ending

[jemgirl90]

Five Years Later: Why How I Met Your Mother's Controversial Finale Was A Perfect Endinghttps://t.co/2VHeioGgRp pic.twitter.com/CFN03BF2gI
- Screen Rant (@screenrant) March 31, 2019
-The show how I met your mother ended 5 years ago today and the article details the controversial ending

Comments

[shangri__la]

I have never seen a finale retroactively ruin an entire show the way this one did.

States how the major twist was set into the show in the first season

THAT'S THE FREAKING PROBLEM, YOU HACK IT MADE NO LOGICAL SENSE AS THE SHOW WENT ON

[masterofmystery]

i don't know anyone who goes back and watches old episodes (a la friends, etc) because the finale tainted the show for them. it's unwatchable when you know how it ends

[katty_blake]

It really is. I can't believe I've wasted like a decade of my life watching that crap for THAT ending.

[mehtastic]

Exactly! And how can anyone invest on re-watching the show, when you know it ends in a clusterfuck?

And what's worse is that they managed to get a really good actress for the Mother. She had great chem with the Ted actor, their story was as cute as the show set up, and that was hard given the build-up. If they hadn't fucked up the ending for their season one plot ~twist, they would have been a lot more loved than they are now. But like someone else said, you can't just drop it in and re-watch parts of it like Friends, because you know every part of the show is bullshit, because of the ending.

[sparkfading]

This is what gets me - after like 9 years build up to the mother, there was a 99.9% chance of doing a casting for her that would actually do her justice, with the right chemistry and good acting and THEY ACTUALLY GOT IT RIGHT! To have actually cast her perfectly was a statistical improbability. To then go and completely FUCK IT UP after having the insane luck of casting makes it so much more disappointing!

[jemgirl90]

I had come to terms that I would not be satisfied with the mother because of the long hype. Then they actually got lucky with the perfect person for the role. Years before they said that the show may not end with meeting the mother and we could have a season of seeing them date. If only. Some fans were getting antsy because if at the youngest, the kids are 14/15 in 2030, then one has to have been born in 2016, she would have been pregnant, 2015, we would assume they knew each other a year , so at 2012 people were like where is she!!

[lozbabie]

That’s what disappointed me! Tracy was PERFECT. So, so perfect. I sobbed in her episode.

And all they had to do was stop the last 5 minutes. She could still die and it would have been a brilliant ending. But Robyn ruined t all

[judgmental]

Seriously. If they had just done the corny “happily ever after” from the beginning (and not a dvd alternative ending) everyone would’ve been pretty content with it. Its what we all wanted.