Okay, so I like HIMYM. I even tolerated a lot of episodes in this last season. At a point, I just stopped watching because this season was just getting old for me. I only watched the final episode because of all the negative feedback I'm seeing on facebook. It's not the worst thing ever, but... Spoiler While it had its moments, and the actors were giving it their all, the major problem of it is the writing. My biggest problem with the finale is the divorce between Barney and Robin. The entire last season is building up to the wedding between the two of them, right? In the first twenty minutes of this episode, they completely nullify that. And why do they do that; so they can have a Ted/Robin ending. I have no stake in the shipping wars on this one. I don’t give a crap who he ends up with. What I have a problem is they setting up this wedding, and then get rid of it just so they can have a certain ending. Yes, I’ve heard that the last ten minutes have been planned since season two (the last scene with the kids was filmed way back then). Just because you filmed that, it doesn’t mean you have to use it. Or, since you planned that ending, could you have done it some other way that didn’t make the last season feel like a waste of time. In five minutes, I thought of a much better way of figuring out how to end it.
I liked the finale a lot but Spoiler The fact that Ted and Robin ended up together pissed me off so much. The whole show was building up to meeting the mother and the ending was just a slap in the face to everyone who's been watching since the start. To be honest, I'm starting to think the whole thing is a big April Fool's joke. If it is, it would probably be the best one I've ever seen. But yeah maybe I'm just in denial because FUCK TED X ROBIN.
We watched the Finale last night. Michael and I have always loved the show but we didn't really care for the finale. His words were basically: If I liked the show up HERE before the finale, my liking for it after is way down here.
I've only been half-paying attention for like the past three seasons (my parents watch it so it's on the TV while I'm in the room), but for as much as I cried at that one episode detailing the mother's backstory, the finale made me want to punch a wall.
