HIMYM

[impy]

Dammit, Barney and Robin. Dammit! I don't watch comedies for realistic relationships.

^ Clearly written during the episode. It's now over and I'm too sleepy to really say much more than this:

If I hadn't actually enjoyed the Psych finale so much, I would say that one just could not please me with a series finale. But I did so it is clearly possible.

I've mostly enjoyed the final HIMYM season and unlike previous seasons, I've been watching as it airs instead of binging on it whenever Netflix airs it. I enjoyed meeting the mother a thousand different ways. I think she's adorable and I wanted to know more about her. I could have done without the Marshal road trip aspect of the earlier part of the season and more of the mother.

Soooooooo... the whole finale just having her pop up sporadically only to die off camera without a goodbye?

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

I had a fair amount of confidence in the finale going into this because I didn't have huge expectations and I liked the whole, "We've had this planned and shot since forever!"

Um, no. In this case I think that hobbled the finale in a weird way. Let's pretend I turned back the clock to when I gave a damn about Ted/Robin being endgame. You don't center the premise on the show on meeting the kids' mother only to rarely mention her as a way to get the kids to say, "dude, that was just a set up to getting our okay to ask out Aunt Robin."

You could've had the entire fucking season be all about the mother and actually played that relationship for what it was billed as and still had your Robin endgame, dammit.

Instead I feel cheated. Incredibly cheated.

The only thing that rang true in the episode for me was the love of Barney's life. That I actually buy, even if it did involve the sinking of B/R to get it to happen.

Comments

[irishgypsie.livejournal.com]

Yup, all of this. Spot on. We just finished watching and both of us are very disappointed. We've been huge fans of the show since the beginning and this finale is such a huge let-down. I liked Ted/Robin for a while in the beginning, but Robin is who Ted drifts back to whenever he doesn't have anyone better. Robin's not the love of his life; she's his security blanket. I really hate that they spent this season showing how completely perfect the Mother was for him and really getting us to finally root for one of his relationships (because let's face it, all of his previous ones had issues of one kind or another) and then just kill her off like she's not actually that important. NO. This episode should have been ALL about Ted and the Mother (I'm not loving the name Tracy either) and ending happily together.

It's not as bad as the Dexter finale, but it's up there on my list of worst series finales, and that makes me both sad and a bit angry.

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

Exactly on getting us to love her and her being absolutely perfect for Ted and adorkable together the 23 seconds we ever saw that happen.

They still could have had Ted/Robin but it would have meant more if we'd seen more of Tracy (indifferent on the name because I know and adore a Tracy, though I like they had the same initials) during the yearly jumps. Though to be honest, not a super duper fan of those but that might have just been because she wasn't in them enough and I was so friggin' hoping that with the way they shortchanged her in almost every episode all season long they were just holding out for an hour long episode of her and Ted.

I shouldn't have cried more at the IDEA of her dying than when she did because that should have played out. They had an hour to pull it off and they could've and then chose not to because... we needed MORE T/R? I... really? Geez, man.

It doesn't help that I stopped buying Ted and Robin as a viable couple about the time they actually found a way to make Barney/Robin work. (Also about the time Victoria came around the first time.) I wonder how much my opinion would change if I'd still been rooting for them? I'd like to think it would still be set at "Are you kidding me? She was a footnote in her own origin story, what the hell!