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Alan Sepinwall's review where he rips into it
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I just saw it, and I'm not totally sure how I feel about. The final episode was actually done pretty interestingly, as we jumped year by year into the future and while there were some funny bits, it was mostly about the characters. I liked it, even though it ends with Ted asking out Robin, but didn't love it.
But all the rumors the last few weeks came to pass.
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We're all so smart yet all so stupid. We figured out the mother-dies play that was not so cleverly disguised, then we fell for the season-long wedding that was merely subterfuge to make us believe that Robin and Barney were forever. That setup is up to completely ignore the fact that for eight seasons this show was "How I Met Your Aunt Robin," so that they could pull the rug out from under us at the end.
I binged on the entire series the last few weeks, listening for clues and tips to the reveal. I was actually quite surprised in retrospect how little conversation or tips about the mother were really in the show until the last few seasons. My initial thought was that the mother dying would undermine the "rewatchability" of the show. It really doesn't hurt it that much, given that they pretty much completely undermine the relationship between Ted and the mother. It's not like Ted and the mother were meant for each other -- the love of her life was her first husband that died, and the love of Ted's life was Robin. So he got to shack up with her for a few years, get the kids he wanted, the end up with Robin. The fact they didn't get married for so long diminished the relationship. We've been sold all along on Ted and the mother being some great romance. It wasn't it was just a romance. It wasn't the worst finale or worst season of all time, but it's definitely low marks. C- at best. Last edited by kcchief19 : 03-31-2014 at 10:08 PM. |
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I don't think that at all. I think what it was saying is that there isn't just "the one". You can have more than one person who is that person for you. Obviously he was in love with the Mother and she loved him and they had an absolutely fantastic wedding and life, but she got sick and died. Arguably a better "the one" for Ted than Robin, and Robin is the "also-ran" who gets a second chance.
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If all of the shows leading up to this hadn't pointed to Robin enough for viewers, it seemed like the wedding pretty much laid it out for everybody.
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Basically they could name the show
"How I met someone that means nothing in this story." Not only did they trivialize her importance to the story but also her impact on all of the characters' lives. |
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lol, I like that second one.
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More simply: How I Met Your Birth Mother.
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I feel like this is exactly what I deserved. This was a show that had a *great* first 3 seasons, some of the funniest TV I can remember, and then it got lazy, and it got bad, and it stopped staying true to its characters, and it got worse, and it put its characters into dumb places and relationships, and it made me actively hate most of them by having them become simply bad people. And I kept watching. This is a show that for the past 5 years has replaced good writing and good storytelling with gimmicks, failing to pay off flash forwards, or half-assing them so they ended up disappointing and trying to make points that they didn't earn.
What else should I have possibly expected from the series finale? Basically everything I just said crammed into an hour of unearned, disingenuous conclusions for a bunch of characters that I used to love, really wish I could like, but don't, and haven't in a very long time. Maybe this will finally cure me of my inability to let shows go. |
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I'm good with the ending. Enjoyed it thoroughly and felt real and different.
Not surprised the usual complainers are, well, complaining about the ending. I give it a B+ |
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The ending wouldn't have been bad if they didn't spend the whole final season at a weekend wedding that turned out to be pointless. Or spent years building up Robin-Barney to end it in 30 seconds. Why did Barney have a kid at the end? Just for a couple obvious jokes in the finale? Everything about the final season was terrible and the ending was stupid.
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I like it.
I'm not one to overanalyze shows, but to me the finale was a coming of age and wonderfully done. It was about people growing up and changing, and how when you are in your 20s you think those times will always last and they don't. |
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Yeah I liked that moment in a vacuum (just despised everything that has happened with Barney over the last 3'ish seasons to get there... not exactly orth it). There were lots of moments in the finale that I liked. Ted and the mother's actual meeting was done really, really well I think. That was a great scene and that individual scene was a wonderful payoff to the whole thing. I also really liked Barney spotting the mother on stage and trying to play "Haaaave you met Ted?" one last time. I liked most of the scenes with the mother that didn't involve Robin/Barney's divorce. So in a 42 minute series finale I liked a solid 7 minutes of it. |
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I liked it. I didn't expect much...yes it made me sad that the mother died but that's life. Was it corny that he showed up at Robin's window with the French Horn, sure. I thought it was touching that the kids gave him their blessing to move on. It's like he was holding on to his wife's memory and fought the fact that he still had feelings for Robin, but held back out of respect for Tracy, but when the kids said what he was thinking, it was ok to let go of the past and live for the future.
Like someone else said...it's about the journey. Everything in life doesn't work out perfect, you hit road blocks, friends fall out of the group, they come back in, they have babies... Was it a little silly at times, yes, but what made me relate to this show was that it touched on real life situations and kept them light. In a stupid way I felt similar to Ted when the show started...late 20s and not married watching all my friends get married and have kids while I just swam (upstream) to keep up. Okay, I've rambled enough. Last edited by Dr. Sak : 04-01-2014 at 11:19 AM. |
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Maybe I just watched the show differently than most. For me it was never about finding out who the mother is. Sure it was a fun side note, but the show is and always was about 5 friends and their journey. I think the show did a masterful job of encapsulating real life through these characters on a level most of us can relate to. Was it always funny or great TV, no, but rarely is something 9 seasons in, same as a bands follow up albums are never as good as their first release.
They are 5 people journeying through their twenties. The show took us on that journey. Marriages, having kids, losing parents, break ups, job changes, and ultimately the adult decisions that come with growing up and moving on, and how you never think you will when you are a twentysomething. The final 20 minutes where they passed through the years and grew up, moved away, and moved on were spectacular in my opinion, and for me really captured what the show was about. For me the mother was a small part and it was never about her. |
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The greatest thing is that I'm sure the creators absolutely do not give a F what anyone thinks now that they have Eff You money and wipe their asses with 100 dollar bills.
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He said episodes get F's and there a ton of D's. Maybe the season grade would be a D? But since they do ep ratings, they didn't do a season wide rating. Anyways, Crisis doesn't get episode ratings on AV Club, the first season got a C+.
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Ted and Tracy are awesome, even with only a handful of moments together. Ted and Robin are not awesome, even with 9 seasons. That's the essence of why the finale doesn't work at all.
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They spent literally years showing us how bad Ted and Robin were for each other, that their relationship bordered on toxic, that everything about Ted's feelings for Robin were extremely unhealthy. They showed us this so frequently that it got annoying whenever it came up again. It was an extremely effective way to get the audience to get completely over any lingering idea that Ted/Robin should ever be together that may have been lingering from season 1, and made it easier to embrace the mother coming into the picture into the final season. They did this having already filmed the ending, knowing the entire time what the endgame was. *head explodes* |
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And I would counter with the fact that the Ted telling the story isn't the same Ted in the story. Tracy helped him to grow and not be the douchy Ted he was in the story. He was so changed by this person that he was content not to even officially tie the knot until 5 years and 2 children in. She made him let go of his silly ideas - well perhaps his daughter did (Ted was planning castle wedding until Tracy got preggers).
Ted is different, Robin is different. Doesn't mean they'll be happily ever after, but they are very different due to what life has given them. And it allows Ted to finally do what Tracy told him to - stop living in his stories and move forward. I don't know how much they showed how bad Ted & Robin were for each other, but when they were dating they wanted different things in life. And then it was a case of bad timing on both sides.
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I still think it felt too rushed. It was literally less than a 5 minutes between "the mother is dead" and "and now I want to hook up with Robin."
6 years "for Ted" but only 5 minutes for the actual viewers (who are you know...the ones watching the show), means that it felt...cheap. Maybe instead of wasting the whole season on this wedding they could have had him meet her a couple episodes back...had a couple episodes of them together, revealed her death at the beginning of the episode, then had flashbacks and what-not and then the return to Robin at the end wouldn't have felt so cheap/would have had some "punch." |
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Well, they had to do something where Ted and the mother meet in the finale - after all, its called "How I Met Your Mother" and extra eps after that would have always been seen as superfluous. Maybe they could just do extra extra flash forwards, perhaps.
Some people thought it was cheap, some people liked it. I do think this a series finale that will gain more acceptance as the years go on (like Seinfeld or The Sopranos, both of which are now generally seen as good and fitting finales while super controversial at the time)
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I'm sorry, but the fact that they threw that line in there in the pilot eliminating Robin as "the mother" but apparently had this ending planned all along, and had 9 YEARS to come up with something more creative to get us there, or to abandon the idea, and this pile of turds was the best writing they could come up with really makes me feel like they started mailing it in on this show at least like...5 years ago?
Seriously - people on message boards are having better ideas for the finale, let alone better ideas working within the confines of their idea that they apparently felt so bound to. That doesn't say a lot to me about the quality of their writing/vision. Color me unimpressed. Last edited by DaddyTorgo : 04-01-2014 at 11:17 PM. |
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