Your frantic need to believe that you are in some objective way “right” about this ending, and that people who didn’t like it are “wrong,” is getting tedious. It’s possible to discuss a work of fiction without being so contemptuous of the people who disagree with you.
I strongly disagree, for example; I think it was the worst execution of a series finale that I’ve ever seen, and it’s not close. It means that I will not watch the show’s reruns, and that I will avoid the follow-up show. This opinion is real, and valid, as a response to a creative work - no less so (or more so) than yours. I think they failed, spectacularly. I don’t think “unpredictable” is a synonym for “good” and I don’t think planning an idea carefully in advance renders it a de facto good idea. But I’m also totally OK with the idea that you do, and it would be nice if you could handle doing the same in reverse.
Since the “spin-off” shares only a similar name, I would give it a chance.
Watching HIMYM reruns will not be enjoyable after the finale (which I hated). Hard to watch episodes now about Barney & Robin being right for each other, or Ted and Robin being wrong for each other.
Also - in the finale are we to believe Robin had no other serious relationships after Ted and Barney, in those 10 years or so? Did she ‘wait’ for Ted, or did she just ‘happen to be available’ when Ted was ready? either way, dumb.
It seemed to be pretty well presented that Robin couldn’t have had a serious relationship after Barney because 1) her career and B) she was still hung up on Ted. The scene in the empty apartment revealed she’d been avoiding the group for years because it included Ted happily with someone else.
Yes to 1) and no to B). She might just as logically been avoiding the group because B1) she was on the road constantly and B2) it included her ex-husband.
Of course Robin could’ve been charmed by Ted showing up without warning carrying a blue French horn, but her next reaction could’ve easily been “Dear God, not again.”
I meant during the scene in which the camera was pointed at Josh Radnor, his mouth was moving and words were, apparently, coming out of his mouth. Are you suggesting they dubbed Saget over him?
According to the wiki, the last time we saw the horn was back in the restaurant Ted originally stole it from, chained to the wall. How it got back there after the second time he stole it for Robin, I don’t know. Maybe he just kept returning it.
I would have liked a scene of Ted trying to buy the horn after twenty years of stealing it and bringing it back.
That was exactly what she’s doing. She said on screen that she was avoiding them because Barney (“my ex-husband”) and Ted (“The guy I should have stayed with”) were there.
Speaking as someone who liked the Finale but didn’t love it I have thought about why it made people so angry and I think the mistake the creators made was that while the character Ted had six years to get over The Mother’s death but the audience had less than a minute. The clash in tone was way too sudden and jarring which made people angry and frustrated.
In hindsight, even though they had this plan since around Season 2. When they saw how charming and perfect Tracy was, they should have scrapped the idea and went with Ted and Tracy Forever…
