The Ending of How I Met Your Mother: 10 Years Later
Summary
TLDR《我是如何遇见你的母亲》自结束以来已经十年，这部深受喜爱的电视剧集以其独特的叙事风格和对成年生活的深刻描绘而闻名。然而，其系列结局却引起了极大的争议，许多粉丝对结局感到失望。视频回顾了这部剧的历程，探讨了结局为何未能满足观众的期待，并对比了原版结局与创作者后来提供的替代结局，引发观众对这部剧集及其结局的再次思考。
Takeaways
- 📺 《我是如何遇见你的母亲》(How I Met Your Mother)自结束以来已经过去了整整十年，这部剧集自开播近20年前开始播出。
- 🎉 该剧在其播出期间成为了一个文化现象，即使没有观看的人也无法逃避它的影响，它无处不在。
- 😔 尽管该剧在第一季到第八季期间备受好评，但其系列终结篇却引起了极大的争议，被认为是最糟糕的电视终结之一。
- 🤔 即使十年过去了，人们对于这部剧集的终结篇依然有着深刻的记忆，许多人选择不再提及它，仿佛是一种网络的默契。
- 🧐 重新审视这部剧集的终结篇，人们发现尽管有些细节已经遗忘，但重新观看后，许多观众的感受并没有太大改变。
- 💔 终结篇的问题在于，它违背了剧集一直以来的叙事和角色发展，让人感觉像是对观众的背叛。
- 😕 角色的发展和故事线在终结篇中被忽视，特别是泰德和罗宾的关系在剧集后期已经得到了圆满的结束，但终结篇却重新点燃了这段感情。
- 😠 巴尼的角色在终结篇中被彻底破坏，他从一个经历了成长和变化的角色又回到了原来的花花公子形象。
- 👪 剧集的真正结局是在DVD发行的第九季中附带的另一个结局，这个结局更加直接，仅仅在泰德和特蕾西第一次见面的场景后结束。
- 🎉 这个替代结局被粉丝们认为是更好的版本，因为它更加忠实于剧集的整体叙事和角色发展。
- 😞 即使十年后，人们仍然对《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的终结篇感到失望，认为它是电视史上最糟糕的终结之一。
Q & A
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》自首播以来已经过去多少年了？
-自《老爸老妈的浪漫史》首播以来已经过去了大约20年。
为什么《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的结局在互联网上引起了巨大的争议？
-《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的结局因为在2014年播出时，观众对Ted和Robin的重聚以及母亲角色的死亡感到愤怒和失望，这导致了互联网上的激烈讨论和批评。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的最终季是如何安排的？
-《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的最终季共有24集，全部发生在Robin和Barney的婚礼周末期间。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》中，Ted的孩子们对他的故事有何反应？
-Ted的孩子们在听到整个故事后，对Ted与母亲Tracy的爱情故事表示感动，并对Ted在母亲去世后仍想与Robin重燃旧情表示理解。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的创作者在剧集结束后对结局做了哪些改动？
-剧集结束后，创作者在DVD版本中提供了一个替代结局，删除了关于母亲死亡和Ted与Robin重聚的情节，而是专注于Ted与Tracy的初次相遇和家庭的温馨。
为什么《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的最终季被观众认为令人失望？
-最终季被认为令人失望，因为它与前几季相比，剧情拖沓，角色发展感觉不连贯，特别是Marshall的角色在一半的季中与其他角色分开，整体氛围和动态感觉不同。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的结局为什么被认为是对观众的背叛？
-结局被认为是对观众的背叛，因为它在最后几分钟内突然改变了故事的方向，使得Ted和Robin的爱情故事再次成为焦点，这与剧集后期的发展和角色的成长轨迹不符。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》中，Barney的角色在最终季有哪些变化？
-在最终季中，Barney的角色经历了离婚，并在剧集结束时回到了他早期的花花公子生活方式，这使得他之前的角色发展和成长被抹去。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的最终季是如何揭示母亲身份的？
-最终季通过一系列围绕婚礼的事件，逐步揭示了母亲的身份，最终在季末揭示了母亲的名字是Tracy McConnell，由演员Cristin Milioti扮演。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的替代结局是如何结束的？
-替代结局在Ted和Tracy的第一次对话后结束，没有提及母亲的死亡，也没有Ted与孩子们的场景，仅仅聚焦于Ted和Tracy的相遇，以及Ted对孩子们讲述的他的爱情故事。
《老爸老妈的浪漫史》的最终季中，观众对哪些角色的变化感到不满？
-观众对Robin和Barney的角色变化感到不满，因为Robin似乎放弃了她的职业抱负，而Barney则放弃了他的情感成长，回到了他早期的花花公子形象。
Outlines
📺 回顾《我是如何遇见你的母亲》十年
该段落回顾了《我是如何遇见你的母亲》(How I Met Your Mother)自结束以来的十年。作者表达了对这部剧集的喜爱，并提到了它在流行文化中的地位。尽管剧集的最终季和结局在网上引起了广泛的不满，作者还是决定重新审视这部剧集，特别是其结局，看看十年后的今天，人们对此有何不同的看法。
🏙️ 《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的故事简介
这一部分详细介绍了《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的剧情和角色。剧集讲述了Ted Mosby和他的朋友们在纽约的生活，以及Ted如何遇见他孩子们的母亲的故事。剧集以Ted向孩子们讲述自己生活故事的形式展开，涵盖了他们的爱情、职业和日常生活等各个方面。作者强调了剧集如何通过时间跳跃的叙事手法，创造了独特的艺术身份和观众互动。
🎉 对《我是如何遇见你的母亲》结局的期待与现实
在这一部分中，作者讨论了观众对《我是如何遇见你的母亲》结局的期待，以及实际播出的结局如何引起了巨大的争议。作者提到了网上关于母亲身份的众多猜测，以及当母亲的真实身份被揭露时，观众的反应。作者还提到了剧集的最终季如何被批评为拖沓和令人失望，以及结局如何在全球范围内引起了强烈的反响。
💔 剧集结局的争议与分析
作者深入分析了《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的结局，指出了结局中的问题所在。尽管作者承认剧集的某些部分，如Ted遇见母亲的场景，执行得很好，但整体上，结局给人带来了不满和背叛感。作者认为，结局的问题在于它违背了剧集多年来塑造的角色和故事线，特别是Ted和Robin的关系，以及Barney的性格发展。
🎭 角色发展与结局的矛盾
这一部分进一步探讨了结局中角色发展的问题。作者指出，结局中Robin和Barney的性格转变与他们之前的发展轨迹不符，给人感觉像是角色被破坏了。作者解释说，Robin的职业抱负和独立性格被结局所否定，而Barney则被带回了他早期的花花公子形象，这与他在剧中所经历的成长和变化相矛盾。
🔄 剧集结局的替代版本
作者提到了《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的创作者在DVD发行的最终季中包含了一个替代结局。这个结局去除了关于母亲去世和Ted与Robin重聚的情节，而是专注于Ted和Tracy的初次相遇，以及Ted对孩子们讲述的爱情故事。作者认为这个替代结局更加直接、情感丰富，且没有原结局的复杂和混乱，因此被粉丝们认为是更好的结局。
🎶 结局的反思与个人看法
在这最后一部分，作者反思了《我是如何遇见你的母亲》的结局，表达了即使十年后，这个结局仍然是电视史上最糟糕的之一。作者认为，剧集的结局没有处理好角色的发展和故事线，使得整个第九季显得乏味和冗余。作者还提到了关于Barney角色的演员更换的趣闻，并再次强调了自己对Ted和Robin重聚结局的不满。
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Keywords
💡How I Met Your Mother
💡系列终结
💡文化现象
💡角色发展
💡剧情反转
💡观众反应
💡时间跳跃
💡情感投入
💡角色背叛
💡替代结局
💡情感高潮
Highlights
《我是如何遇见你的母亲》(How I Met Your Mother)自结束以来已经过去了整整十年。
该剧自开播以来就广受欢迎，被认为是一部定义了“热门剧集”的剧集。
尽管你不一定在看这部剧，但你无法逃避它，它无处不在。
该剧的结局在互联网上引起了巨大的争议，被广泛认为是最糟糕的电视剧结局之一。
尽管《权力的游戏》、《德克斯特》和《美少女的谎言》等剧集的结局都很差，但人们可能并不真正记得《我是如何遇见你的母亲》结局时的愤怒有多强烈。
十年后，人们仍然避免讨论这部剧的结局，似乎互联网上有一个不成文的规则，就是集体选择忘记它。
《我是如何遇见你的母亲》是一部关于生活、成长、爱情和友谊的剧集，通过一群朋友的经历展现了成人现实的喜怒哀乐。
该剧使用了非常巧妙的时间跳跃叙事手法，这是其艺术身份的重要组成部分。
《我是如何遇见你的母亲》被视为《老友记》的继任者，因为它在《老友记》结束播出后不久就开始播出。
第九季的剧情发展和角色动态感觉不同，部分原因是演员Jason Segel在最后一季中的表现。
剧集的结局揭示了“母亲”的身份，这是互联网上多年来热议和猜测的焦点。
剧集的结局在观众中引起了极大的不满，因为它感觉像是对观众的背叛，尤其是在剧集的大部分时间里，Ted和Robin的故事已经不再是主线。
剧集的结局试图重聚Ted和Robin，但这与他们角色的发展和观众的期望不符。
Barney Stinson的角色发展在结局中被完全抹去，他回到了最初的季节中的花花公子形象。
剧集的替代结局被粉丝认为是更好的版本，因为它更加直接，并且在Ted和Tracy的第一次对话后结束。
即使十年后，这部剧的结局仍然被认为是电视史上最糟糕的结局之一。
整个第九季都围绕着Robin和Barney的婚礼，但在他们结婚的那一刻，我们立即得知他们在三年后离婚了。
剧集的结局让人感觉像是对观众的一记巨大的中指，因为它在九年的剧集播出后，以一种让观众感到被背叛的方式结束。
剧集的结局让Ted与Tracy的爱情故事显得空洞，破坏了Robin所代表的一切，以及Barney多年来的角色发展。
剧集的结局被认为是一系列糟糕决策的典范，因为它在最后一季中没有为结局做任何铺垫。
Transcripts
but if you know you
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know but if you know you
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know it's crazy to think that it's been
an entire decade since the end of How I
Met Your Mother 10 years to conclude a
show that started almost 20 years ago it
honestly doesn't feel like it's been
that long time really does fly or I'm
just getting old I don't know man I was
a big fan of How I Met Your Mother when
I was a teenager as were a lot of people
it was a hit show by every definition of
the term the hype around this series was
no joke from its very first season to
its last How I Met Your Mother had pop
culture in a choke hold even if you
weren't watching it you just could not
Escape it it was everywhere as we all
know though this show
kind of dropped the ball they kind of
messed up at the end if you go around
the internet and encounter any top 10
list of the worst series finales of all
time I'm willing to bet that every
single one of them will mention the
series finale of How I Met Your Mother
very few shows have managed to rival the
absolute Scandal caused by that finale
it was kind of crazy and I can say as
someone who was watching the show week
to week for years experiencing the
ending along with the rest of the world
was just wild like we all love to talk
about bad TV endings like Game of
Thrones Dexter or Pretty Little Liars
which are all terrible don't get me
wrong but I don't think people truly
remember just how loud the anger was
when How I Met Your Mother ended cuz at
the time it did in 2014 we had never
really seen something like that happen
but now it's been a decade and I haven't
taken a look at the show's final season
in years and while How I Met Your Mother
has remained extremely relevant online
over the years I feel like most people
avoid talking about the ending it's kind
of an unspoken rule of the internet we
just collectively chose to forget about
it so recently I started getting really
curious to see how the ending of the
show has aged like I started to wonder
how I would feel about the ending now
with a completely different lens I mean
who knows maybe it wasn't as bad as we
thought it was back then maybe the
outrage wasn't entirely Justified or
maybe it was maybe in retrospect we were
too hard on it I don't know it picked my
curiosity 10 years is a long enough time
and that was starting to take over my
brain so I finally decided to sit down
and rewatch the ending of the show it
had been a pretty long time so there are
a lot of details I didn't remember
clearly which made it very interesting
to re explore so today friends we're
going to take a look back at how I met
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so for the uninitiated How I Met Your
Mother is the story of Ted Mosby a young
and ambitious architect living in New
York City with his two best friends from
college and newly engaged couple
Marshall and Lily the story is actually
told from the perspective of Ted 25
years in the future the show is framed
around the scenario of him sitting his
future children down to tell them the
story of how he met their mother and so
he narrates the story of his life and
experiences tracing all the major and
minor events that led him to meeting the
love of his life throughout an entire
decade we witnessed the craziest stories
Ted lived alongside Marshall and Lily
but also with his strange friend Barney
a methodical and unethical womanizer who
leads him to meet Robin a Canadian
journalist who drastically changes the
course of Ted's life on the surface How
I Met Your Mother is sort of framed as a
serialized romantic comedy but the
reality is this is a show about life
we're following a group of friends as
they experience life the joys the
Sorrows the extraordinary and the
mundane the realities of being an adult
we see them fall in love we see them
heartbroken we watch them as they are
faced with the fear of starting a new
job having issues when getting a new
apartment being nervous on a first date
struggling with your career path the
pain of losing a parent the difficulties
of becoming a parent the Epic highs and
lows of high school football nope wrong
show it's a huge Melting Pot of
relatable human experiences through the
lens of a charismatic group of friends
you can't help but get attached to it's
not Reinventing the Wheel by any means
but How I Met Your Mother truly managed
to tell its story in an incredibly
Charming way that made it very unique
the show shapes its storytelling and
even its sense of humor through an
extremely clever use of time jumps which
which is a massive part of its artistic
identity the episodes are almost never
taking place in a linear timeline
instead they build tension twists and
comedic timing by constantly jumping
back and forth in different points in
time this unusual storytelling model is
not only ambitious but also allows for
the writers to get creative with how the
stories play out and it also paves the
way for a good amount of recurring gags
that in time became iconic inside jokes
for audiences true story how Met Your
Mother was a massive pop culture
phenomenon often referred to as the
successor of friends mainly because it
started airing in 2005 just about a year
after friends ended its 10-year run
leaving television and audiences with a
gigantic void to fill with a new super
popular sitcom about fun attractive
white 20s something it was perfect
timing and the show became an internet
darling that led to legend wait for it
Dairy meme and an insane amount of fan
theories about various plot points in
the show namely the very secretive and
highly anticipated reveal of the
mother's identity for eight seasons we
watch the friend group go through life
in a lot of different ways some of which
became massive plot points pertaining to
the title of the show Ted falls in love
with Robin they have an intense romance
but they don't work out eventually Robin
falls in love with someone else so does
Ted despite lingering feelings he gets
engaged he is then left at the altar he
falls in love again years and years of
failed romances occur as he relentlessly
looks for his one true love the mother
we were all waiting to meet Robin
eventually finds her true love in Barney
while Marshall and Lily get married
become parents and build a life as
adequately as they can audiences were in
love with these characters they were
incredibly invested in this story the
show was written in a very engaging way
with great twist and genuinely
jaw-dropping Cliffhangers and with all
of the little Mysteries making the show
talk there was a lot of Buzz and
excitement about its eventual ending all
was well the world was
happy and then came the final season
season 9 of How I Met Your Mother is
really weird and bad it's it's weird and
bad the season has a grand total of 24
episodes and takes place over one
weekend 24 episodes of TV that take
place in three days it is probably the
biggest stretching of time ever put on
television and it's just a weird
decision the season does have its
moments here and there but
overall from the first couple of
episodes you can just tell that
something about the show feels off the
vibe is different it's odd it doesn't
hit the same the dynamic between the
characters also feels a bit different
which is probably not held by the fact
that Marshall is not even with the rest
of the gang for half of the season it's
something that always felt weird to me
but recently I found out that Jason
seagull who played Marshall was
apparently very unhappy on the show
during its last few years and he
allegedly intended to leave the show
after season 8 he was not supposed to
come back for the final season but after
long discussions with CBS the production
managed to convince him to come back to
the show for the final season although
in a somewhat reduced role that would
allow him to focus on other projects and
not have as hectic of a shooting
schedule that and they probably offered
him a fuckload of money too so yeah uh
if you've ever wondered why season 9
makes this really weird decision to have
Marshall separated from the rest of the
cast as he goes on a weird side quest to
get to the wedding uh that's why but
anyways like I said the entirety of
season 9 all 24 episodes of it take
place during the weekend of Robin and
Barney's wedding at that point through
various storylines that happened
throughout the seasons we already knew
that this wedding is where Ted was going
to meet the mother so naturally the
writers used this entire season to build
up to that moment again a very strange
decision timeline wise but it is what it
is this is also the season that is all
about the mother and that is where all
of the fan theories about the show's
ending came to a head like I said
earlier the internet was obsessing over
the identity of the mother and over the
years got really crazy some fans firmly
believe that the mother was a character
we already knew and others were
convinced the mother had yet to be
introduced and was going to be played by
a super famous actress in a big surprise
reveal and everyone was theorizing about
who was going to be playing her Michelle
tractenberg was a huge rumor that last
it for years a lot of fans were
convinced she was going to appear in the
show as the mother Jessica Alba was
another name that floated for a very
long time I even remember a Facebook
group that was heavily supporting the
theory that the mother was going to be
played by Angelina Jolie like it was a
wild time on the internet then at some
point rumors started to emerge that
Rachel Bilson of the OC Fame was going
to appear on the show something that
apparently had been secretly in the
works for a very long time and fans were
convinced she was going to play the
mother Rachel Bilson eventually did
appear in the show but it was a red
hering because she was eventually
revealed to be not the mother but the
mother's roommate who briefly dated Ted
years before he met the mother some
people were also convinced the mother
was going to be Victoria one of Ted's
most important love interests in the
entire show she was a fan favorite and
no she did not end up being the mother
but it was later confirmed by the
creators that Victoria was actually
their backup plan to wrap up the show
with nolu sens in case it was cancelled
before they could end it the way they
wanted so the fans were half right with
this one these were just a few theories
among many of them but ultimately every
theory about the mother's identity ended
up being wrong and it turns out that the
writers had secretly told us that a very
a very long time ago more specifically
in episode 9 of season 1 it's the first
Thanksgiving episode of the show and it
ends with Ted Barney and Robin finding
themselves in a strip club Ted is
approached by one of the strippers who
introduces herself as Ember before
switching up and revealing to him her
real name Tracy and once we hear her
name this happens I'm Amber I'm Ted
actually I'm Tracy still Tad and that
kids is the true story of How I Met Your
Mother what I'm kidding that's how the
episode ends and what seemed like a
random joke at the end of an episode was
actually a gigantic piece of the puzzle
given to us by the writers but pretty
much everybody missed it on their first
watch me included it's by far the
biggest clue they ever gave us the kids
reaction to Ted meeting this stripper is
there because the kids recogniz I their
mother's name the show actually reveals
to us in season 1 that the mother's name
is Tracy therefore any theory that
didn't involve a woman named Tracy was
going to be automatically wrong and yes
as we now know from the end of the show
the mother's name was Tracy McConnell
and she wasn't played by Angelina Jolie
she was played by Kristen Mady who was
relatively unknown at the time she was
officially introduced in the final scene
of the season 8 finale and then appeared
regularly in season 9 as this mysterious
woman who meets Ted's friends in
different situations around the wedding
long story short the final season is
messy and after season 8 having already
been criticized for being largely
uneventful there was a lot of scrutiny
over how season 9 was going to play out
and for most of its run it was sort of
confusing and disappointing and it just
felt like it dragged for way too long
and audience could feel that as they
waited for the answers to all of their
questions 9 years is a long time to be
invested into a show and its story so
despite the season feeling tired there
was still a global sense of enthusiasm
about the upcoming
finale so how does it end how does the
show conclude well that's a pretty
well-known story but let's go over it
quickly the series finale of How I Met
Your Mother does fulfill the promise of
the title although it does it in a very
very clumsy way after a lot of
convoluted time hopping that shows
different points in the lives of the
main characters between the years 2014
and 2030 including Ted's wedding we
finally get to see the moment Ted met
the mother and for all the criticism I
have of the finale and of season 9 as a
whole I got to be honest the actual
scene where Ted and the mother meet is
really good it's so sweet it's a very
cheesy but Charming sequin that truly
delivers on the promise of this meeting
being so incredibly memorable to Ted
you're Cindy's ex- roommate right yeah
and you are the professor econ 305 Eon
305 I don't
teach oh no yeah excuse me I'm going to
jump onto the tracks now no no no no
don't it's so cute like on paper that
scene is perfectly executed there's
absolutely nothing wrong with
it the problem is what came right before
the scene and what came right after
right before the show cuts the scene of
the first meeting TED talks about what
Tracy means to him how getting to
experience life by her side was the
greatest gift he was ever given and how
he cherished every moment with
her even after she got sick yeah that's
when the show revealed that the mother
was hit with an unidentified disease
that brought on some dark times after
that we go back into time and you get to
see the scene where they first meet
closing the loop of the show and
catching us up to 2030 with future Ted
telling the story to his children we
finally get to see them react to the
entire tale their father told them and
it is in this scene that they officially
confirmed to the audience that the
mother is dead she was dead this whole
time she got sick at some point with
some disease and she passed away off
screen sometime in the year 2024 and
basically the whole point of this very
long story is that 6 years after Tracy's
death Ted wants to ask for his
children's blessing because it turns out
that he is still in love with Robin and
he wants to try and give their
relationship another
chance that's it that's it that's it
that is the end of How I Met Your Mother
that is how the show concludes now it's
been 10 years I just re-watched the
ending with a completely new lens and no
matter how I try to look at it it just
doesn't work it's like itchy it gives me
the same icky feeling of dissatisfaction
and irritation that it gave me and
millions of people 10 years ago every
time I watch this finale it feels like
I'm being Bamboozled but not in the
right way it's like a bad trick it's not
impressive The Twist comes out of
nowhere and feels weirdly out of place
and the reason for that is simple and
believe it or not it's not because of
the show's bad writing it's actually
because of the show's good writing let
me explain the reason why the series
finale of How I Met Your Mother doesn't
work is simply because unfortunately for
itself How I Met Your Mother did a
fantastic job at ending Ted and Robin's
Romance Rance it's as stupid as that a
very well-written resolution to their
romantic relationship is the reason why
the ending feels like a betrayal the
conclusion feels jarring and out of left
field because it doesn't feel faithful
to the story that was being told and as
a result it's a story that serves as a
fantastic vehicle for character
assassination basically the ending of
the show had been determined back in
2006 the reason why they had to lock it
in so early is because they needed to
shoot the part of the ending that
involved Ted's children they had to
shoot it then because they didn't want
to take the risk to have the show run
for too long say for example nine
seasons and have to shoot the ending
with the kids that would no longer look
like kids so basically since 2006 the
writers had an ending prepared that they
were unable to change and David Henry
and lindsy fona who played the kids had
to keep the secret of the ending for
almost a decade but the thing thing is
shooting it in 2006 was like signing a
contract this was now the only outcome
the show could have no matter what no
matter what road they took along the way
the Finish Line would have to be that
the mother died and that this was really
all about Robin and the fundamental
issue with that is simply that by the
time How I Met Your Mother actually
reached its end 8 years later in 2014
the ident
of the show had completely changed this
was no longer the story of Ted and Robin
it hadn't been in a really long time we
had been past that point for years this
was no longer the story of Ted and Robin
therefore this was no longer the story
that this ending was designed for and
that is why it made people so angry
after all this time after all of this
the show confirms in its last couple of
minutes that yes indeed this entire
series was about the love story of Ted
and Robin even though by this point
these two characters had not been
romantically involved for the majority
of the show and like I said
unfortunately for itself the show did
too good of a job at making people okay
with that there are several episodes at
different points of the show that are
dedicated to wrapping Ted and Robin's
romance up with a perfect little bow and
solidifying to the audience that they
didn't work out that they are now best
friends that Robin is going to be with
Barney and it makes perfect sense they
did an incredible job at concluding Ted
and Robin's romance and leaving it
behind and it's not something they tried
to like move away from episode 17 of
season 9 has one final storyline
dedicated to this very purpose again the
episode takes place on the morning of
Robin and Barney's wedding and Ted tells
Robin he still has feelings for her
which by the way is a real dick move Ted
is a petty [ __ ] a [ __ ] terrible
friend and a selfish [ __ ] but that's
another conversation in this episode the
show hammers in once again that Ted's
feelings are not reciprocated Robin
moved on years ago and this final look
at their romantic story ends with this
symbolic shot of Ted finally letting
Robin go this was the show's ultimate
reiteration of the reality that Ted and
Robin did not work together something
the show had been drilling into the
audience's heads for several seasons and
again audiences accepted this the show
made it make sense it wrapped it up
perfectly Ted and Robin did not make
sense together Ted had a very specific
vision of what he wanted out of love and
out of life and absolutely nothing about
that Vision was Robin Ted wanted to find
a wife have children settle down and
live in a beautiful home and carry the
perfect sedentary family lifestyle he
had always pictured for himself Robin
wanted to travel the world and pursue
her professional Endeavors she did not
want to have children ever and
eventually found out she was unable to
have children anyway and said Sing Down
living a quiet family life in a Suburban
home is the opposite of what she
pictures her ideal future to be those
positions were absolute Ted was always
going to pursue his family lifestyle
vision and he was not willing to budge
on that and Robin was always going to
put her career first and she was not
willing to budge on that the show made
it very clear Ted and Robin were not
compatible Ted had a hard time accepting
it but Robin had accepted it years ago
and she moved on and fell in love with
someone else this was no longer their
story it hadn't been since the end of
season 2 so when the show suddenly pulls
a 180 essentially negating the entire
story it's been telling for the last 7
years people rightfully felt betrayed
especially because some of their
favorite characters got ruined as a
result in the two-part finale Robin
suddenly switches up on everything she
believes in and tells Lily that Ted is
the man she probably should have ended
up with and she even expresses that it
hurts to watch him be with his perfect
wife and the mother of his beautiful
children essentially saying that she
regrets letting him go and would want to
be in Tracy's place and I'm
sorry that is a fundamental betrayal of
Robin's character it's quite literally
spitting in her face it goes against
everything she stands for like you have
to understand Robin is a career driven
individual whose personal goals are very
much anchored in her achievements her
work is everything to her since day one
her career always comes first through
all of her romantic plot lines from Ted
to random guys and even Barney the show
has always made it very clear that at
the end of the day Robin will always
choose her ambition she will always
choose her career it will always be her
number one priority that is what defines
her as a woman and she will never allow
even her deepest romantic relationships
to stand in the way of that hell the
show cowardly tells you in the finale
that she and Barney divorced a couple
years after their wedding because her
work was taking too much space and it
made them very unhappy in their marriage
but she had no intention of slowing down
I I'm sorry but Robin suddenly flicking
a switch and saying she regrets all of
that and wish she had ended up with Ted
and lived the life he wanted is
character assassination this is taking a
character that had a very coherent
characterization and Arc throughout the
entire show and throwing her off a cliff
at the last second it makes no sense and
the same can be said for Barney saying
Barney Stinson was ruined by the finale
is like the biggest understatement in
the world they essentially took what was
a long and very meticulously crafted
character Arc and completely butchered
it at the finish line and in a matter of
minutes too essentially over the seasons
Barney comes to understand through his
relationship with Robin and Quinn that
his womanizer lifestyle is not
fulfilling because see he did all these
things because he felt empty insecure
unloved and lonely it's established on
numerous occasions that due to his
father leaving him as a baby and not
ever being fully sure of who his father
even was and due to an exgirlfriend who
broke his heart in a very abrupt way
Barney's life is basically being
controlled by his fear of Abandonment
everything he is as a person all of the
very obnoxious toxicity he identifies
himself self with has stemmed from
people he genuinely loved leaving him or
neglecting him the way he dresses the
way he carries himself his need to sleep
with as many women as he can it's a
smoke screen it's a facade and I feel
like that's something a lot of people
don't get about him from Men Who
venerate his Antics like the ones of a
God to people who complain about how the
show glorifies his behavior they are all
missing the point here Barney is not
cool he's hilarious and memorable but
he's not cool he's pathetic that's
always been the point of his character
he's pathetic he's a lonely emotionally
closed off insecure boy with daddy
issues who thinks tricking women into
liking him for a period of time short
enough that he doesn't have time to get
attached to them will somehow protect
him from being abandoned again his
entire facade as this Suave dude in a
perfect suit is a direct result of his
abandonment issues Everyone is always
telling him how lame he is he's always
tricking women by doing these crazy
things because he can't actually get a
woman to like him if he's being himself
and every time characters like Ted or
Marshall follow him in his weird
escapades it's when they are mentally
and emotionally at their lowest they
have to go down to his level because
he's pathetic that's always been the
point of Barney his Arc has always been
about him growing out of this coping
mechanism of a facad that anyone who has
taken a second to care about him can see
right through but because he gets laid a
whole bunch a lot of men watching this
show completely missed the point of the
character and think he's like the
ultimate Chad and like an inspiration or
whatever completely oblivious to the
fact that what the show is getting at is
that Barney might get laate a lot but he
still feels empty and insecure his
lifestyle is not helping it is only
feeding his insecurities the show
doesn't glorify his behavior everyone
around Barney only ever tells him he's
disgusting and creepy and the show sets
a very long path to lead Barney himself
to realize it too it's only when he
falls in love with someone who convinces
him he can be loved for who he is deep
down insecurities and all that he
understands he was wrong this whole time
it's actually a pretty incredible
character Arc he gets to have a very
slow but impactful evolution the man
Barney is in season 9 is very far
removed from the man he was in season 1
he's still eccentric and bougie as hell
but he's a way more respectable man than
before he has grown significantly he
learned to to love someone and he
learned to be loved and leted go of his
obsessive need to hide any form of
weakness of vulnerability he allows
himself to open up to be vulnerable and
in Robin he finds someone who truly
accepts him for who he is and he learns
to give into that and then the finale
decides that nope we're going to bring
Barney back to one and we find out that
after his divorce with Robin he
learned nothing he just goes back to
being the obnoxious womanizer with no
moral compass who gets a kick out of
manipulating women and literally does
not live for any other reason than to
find the next woman he's going to get to
bang they just erase all of his
character development and bring him back
to the pathetic creep he was in season 1
it's literally character assassination
by time travel [ __ ] his Arc [ __ ] his
growth nothing that happened to him in
the last decade mattered he has learned
nothing the finale completely ruined him
and the fact that all of that all of
that came with the audience being made
to fall in love with Tracy the mother
only for the show to go into the finale
like oh yeah the mother the mother um
sure yeah uh she's dead she's dead um
she doesn't really met her anyway this
is this is not about her this was never
about
her like yeah obviously people are going
to be angry it's ending the show after 9
years with a giant middle finger to the
audience you made the show evolve into
something completely different from its
early days and then tried to pull an
ending expecting people to have the same
feelings about Ted and Robin as they did
back in season 2 when you decided what
the ending was going to be that's a
stupid decision now as you probably know
even if you've never watched the show
the ending of How I Met Your Mother
created an absolute pop culture [ __ ]
storm when it aired it was an insane
thing to witness the internet was in
flam some actors had to do interviews to
defend the ending the Press was [ __ ]
blasting the show it was it was really
bad and understandably so coming at the
end of a season that was largely
considered disappointing the series
finale was immediately perceived as an
insulting final bow and to this this day
it is still considered to be one of the
worst TV finales of all time and this
colossal backlash against the show got
so loud and so heavy that a decision was
made by the creators a few months after
the finale aired the final season of How
I Met Your Mother was released on DVD
and in it the creators of the show
included an alternate ending now I'm
sure we've all heard about it I'm sure
we've all seen it the ending is
essentially a re-edit of the one that
aired on television it was reworked to
completely erase every part of the
finale that talked about the mother
being dead and it completely wiped out
any scene that touched on Ted and Robin
including the flash forward with Ted's
kids instead the alternate ending
focuses on the love between all the
characters then reminisces on Ted's
ridiculously eventful love life as he
talks to his kids about how all the
hardships he faced through the years
were worth it because they led him to
their mother it was a long road you
might even say it was really really
really really long but difficult nah it
was life then we get the amazing scene
where Ted meets Tracy that one is left
unchanged and as the emotion crescendos
we hear Ted say the final words of the
series and that kids is How I Met Your
Mother and that's it that's how it ends
this alternate ending takes a way more
literal approach and literally ends
right after Ted and Tracy's very first
conversation which makes so much sense
it hits all the emotional beats and it
overall just makes the conclusion less
messy and more coherent for the
characters the alternate ending is now
largely considered by fans to be the
superior one and most people are still
lowkey upset that it's technically not
the Canon ending and revisiting this 10
years later yeah I can't help but agree
even after all this time the ending of
How I Met Your Mother just doesn't work
no matter how I try to look at it it
doesn't work it's really an unfortunate
display of a show that was trapped by
its own conclusion and didn't know how
to get there after having involved past
it there are some decisions here that I
will just never understand if you knew
the ending was going to reunite Ted and
Robin then why make the entirety of the
final season
about Robin and Barney's wedding why put
so much effort into wrapping Ted and
Robin's romance up with a perfect little
bow why was there no setup for that door
still being open if you knew this whole
time that this was going to be the end
game why did you keep running in the
opposite direction until the very last
episode I just I don't think I'll ever
understand Ed it's like they
categorically refused to commit to the
ending until they literally had no
choice and in approaching it that way
they ruined everything it makes Ted's
love story with Tracy ring kind of
hollow it completely destroys everything
Robin has ever stood for and it
completely erases all of the character
development Barney was awarded over
years and worst of all it makes the
entire story of the show past season 2
kind of useless so yeah 10 years later
this is still one of the worst finales
on television I do think it deserves its
spot on that Podium how I met your
mother's Cannon ending is really bad and
really frustrating and revisiting it
only makes me understand audiences even
more for how pissed off they were about
it it was just a fantastically executed
series of bad decisions and deciding to
stick to this ending while doing zero
groundwork to build up to it in the
final season H what were you thinking to
this day the fact that all of season 9
is about Robin and Barney's wedding and
that the second they finally get married
we are immediately told that they just
divorced 3 years later is mindblowing to
me I don't know in what world the
writers thought this was going to work
out killing of the mother making Robin
the end game everything about this
finale just feels so wrong even after
all this time I enjoy rewatching the
show here and there but the last couple
of times I re-watched the whole series I
stopped at the end of season 8 not that
it's a satisfying ending but it always
kind of pains me to watch this show undo
everything it accomplished and destroy
everything that made people so attached
to it and season 9 is also just really
boring and redundant
ah anyway did you know that Sheldon from
The Big Bang Theory almost played the
role of Barney wait for it
Bazinga no well now you do and you will
never be able to get that image out of
your head you're welcome okay bye
unpopular opinion I like that Ted got
back with
Robin you are sorely mistaken what in
the [ __ ] is wrong with y'all no they
were never good together they were like
middle on when they're dating before
they like really stop and think about
the fact that like Robin doesn't want
kids and that's all Ted wants so there's
literally two seasons worth of their
story where the point of it is they
don't work yeah they it's literally just
driving home to the audience to
themselves that no matter how hard Ted
tries they don't work Robin doesn't want
it to work she's like no it's not you
yeah to just have it be like actually
that's maybe kind of what I wanted the
whole time kids are
teenagers
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