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The finale was very flawed, but it was not quite as bad as I thought it'd be. It seems like many people are mad at the fact the mother died, that Barney and Robin got divorced, and that Ted is trying to get back with Robin. I think they could've made this work, but they needed another episode or 2 to get this point across. Filler episodes such as "Mom and Dad" and "Bedtime Stories" should have been scrapped for more meaningful episodes that involve the mother. One episode should have been dedicated to Ted's life after he met the mother, and another episode should have been dedicated to the mother's sickness and death. Also, the one thing they did right was how they wrapped Marshall and Lilly. I thought they succeeded there.

My biggest problem with the finale was that they somehow managed to make the mother's death, the biggest tragedy that has happened on this show, seem insignificant. There were merely 2 quick mentions of the mother's passing, which made an ending that would have been super impactful have far less power. Scenes such as the first time they found she was sick, Ted telling the gang she was sick, what her exact sickness was, her last words with Ted, and the funeral would have this a truly moving finale in and of itself. I also think Ted should have made it far clearer that the mother's passing was the most difficult time of his life. After that, the plot could have changed a bit. Instead of trying to get with Robin, this story could've been told because the mother died 6 years ago to the day, and he was mourning and remembering how great she was by telling this story to his kids.

If they wanted Robin and Ted to get back together in the end, fine. First of all, they should have shown the deleted scene of Robin and Ted having lunch together after bumping into each other when Ted was showing his daughter the GNB building. Also, they should have made it clearer that the mother's death was the hardest time of his life, even harder than (then past scenes of Ted's hardships, such as Victoria moving, breaking up with Robin, getting left at the altar, Barney and Robin getting married, etc., pop up). He then should have explained to the kids that he thinks he was finally ready to move on after a hard 6 years. Then the kids bring up Aunt Robin and he asks her out exactly how he did in the finale.

Lastly, many people were mad at Barney and Robin's divorce, but I personally thought this was inevitable. Yeah, they're extremely similar, but not necessarily in a good way. Both hated commitment and were very independent people. They just shouldn't have divorced them in the episode right after they got married. The fans were invested in this relationship, but the creators knew all along that Barney and Robin's wedding was not truly about their relationship: it was truly about Ted meeting the mother. Therefore, I don't think the creators thought fans would care about their what-seemed-like immediate divorce, but fans were invested in this relationship already and did care. Barney having a kid and becoming mature was a good ending for his character though.

All in all, we needed a 3-4 episode long finale instead of 2 if they wanted to end the show like this. If they only wanted a 2 episode long finale, they should have used the alternate finale because they just didnt have enough time to explain the ending they presented.

After 9 long seasons we got a rushed and unsatisfactory ending. The finale was full of contradictions and ludicrous events. Ted finally meets the very likeable mother only to kill her off so soon. This was a savage decision. After almost a decade of build up and so many annoying relationships to suffer through they kill the mother off and Ted winds up with Robin. The show spent 9 seasons telling us why Robin and Ted could not work and contradict themselves in this rushed ending. Also the timing was so off, the mother dies and Robyn gets divorced and goes with Ted with Ted in 2 episodes. After dragging this show for so long they offer this terrible sequence of events. Barney's character development was destroyed and Robyn was shown as miserable without a man and children? This didn't make any sense given she's been an independent woman in the whole show, the writers forgot about all this. A very poor payoff after suffering through some mediocre episodes/writing.

2 mistakes:

• Barney and Robin's divorce
• Ted and Robin ending up together

This episode and the final season might not have been so good, but the mother dying, along with their umbrella meetup, is the single greatest love story scene I have ever seen.

not my words, but expresses exactly my thoughts, originally written by Josh Gaisser:

'Dear How I Met Your Mother Creators,

To say I was disappointed in the series finale of How I Met Your Mother is a gross understatement. I am disconcertingly, irretrievably, unfathomably disappointed in the way you chose to end what used to be my absolute favorite television series of all time, to the point where it makes me physically ill to think about. For nine seasons you taught us to believe in magic, and in destiny, and happy endings, and in the fates always working out in the end, no matter how bumpy the road to get there was. This ending absolutely destroyed everything that was magical about this series. A few things you destroyed:

Barney Stinson. From the moment we saw Barney asking about his tie at the end of season 6, and realized that he was getting married, we have seen the character of Barney Stinson evolve, albeit slowly from a manipulative womanizer to a gentlemen worthy of marrying Robin Sherbatsky. When he finally vowed to always tell Robin the truth the moment before he married her, I was proud of him and the full circle that he had done. And then, in one episode, you destroyed three seasons of character development for Barney and made him devolve into an unfunny, immature scumbag of a guy who knocked somebody up and who wasn't even happy about having a child until the moment he held her in his arms. What a SAD, MISERABLE ending for one of the most diverse characters in the show.

Robin Sherbatsky. Ruined her character as well. So she becomes famous, ditches all of her friends and her husband for her career, and lives an anti-social life where she eventually ends up all alone in her old apartment with more dogs?

I could have lived with the mother dying. I could have lived with this. I could have been happy. I could have made it work.

But you decided to take it one step further.

You decided to ruin Ted Mosby. You decided to turn Ted Mosby from a hopeless romantic telling an amazingly beautiful story of how he met the mother of his children into some elaborate ploy to ask his kids' permission to pursue Robin again. Robin. THE SAME WOMAN WHO MARRIED HIS BEST FRIEND AND WHO TOLD TED SHE DID NOT LOVE HIM AND THAT THEY WOULD NEVER WORK OUT EVER BECAUSE THEY WERE TOO FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. By the way, way to break the bro code, Ted. You shattered Ted's character by convincing us he finally moved on from Robin. But no. Still pining after the same woman after 20+ years. Makes me physically ill.

But the worst thing....

You ruined The Mother and her story. You turned her death into a minor part, another hurdle Ted had to jump to finally reach Robin. We did not see ANY mourning from Ted for the death of his wife. We did not see their final moments together. We did not see the funeral. We did not hear any sadness from her kids. All we heard was "Oh by the way, the mother got sick and died, let's talk about Robin instead". Makes me absolutely sick to my stomach.

You ruined the magic. And for that, I will forever be disappointed.

In my mind, the series ended with Barney and Robin's wedding. A snippet of Ted seeing the mother playing bass on stage. Finally meeting her at the train station. Flash forwards of their lives together. Ted proposes. They have an amazing life and two children together. She slowly gets sick and eventually passes away. And in order to honor her memory, he sits his kids down and tells them the long, amazing story of how he met the love of his life.

And that's the true story of how Ted met the mother, the love of his life. At least, that's the story I will be remembering.

Sincerely,

A Disappointed Viewer"

The ending was perfect it shows how ted met his childrens mother and not Further. The character development was perfect the way barney finally settled down was good and not the way you thought it would be. Marshall and Lilly finally found an answer to their big question on how to live a parenting life with friends in it. I think people are wrong about it being disappointing because they wanted the happy ending with barney and robin being together. But the show has a great message about how life never turns out as you think it will and that's why they let tracy die. Love is not something you just turn off and that's why the series started with Robin and ted dating and after all those years they finally got each other. it was a happy ending and i think it was the right one

*Barney & Robin getting divorced is basically a slap on each viewer's face. This makes the entire season 9 (also many parts of season 7 & season 8) seem pointless.

*What the hell just happened to Barney?! He knocked up a random woman (who didn't even appear in the episode) and ended up being the single father of a baby girl?! No love in his life?! I cannot believe that the creators gave this awesome character such a pathetic ending.

*And Ted ending up with Robin?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I actually thought that after meeting the Mother, he would finally let Robin go. But it turns out, the Mother was just a rebound to him. This got me devastated. The last 5 minutes basically destroyed the show. The title "How I Met Your Mother" doesn't make any sense now! He didn't tell his kids the story of their "Mother" because he missed her and wanted to remember the moments! The storytelling was an indirect way of letting them know how much he loved Robin. The Mother had no significant role in this story. She didn't even get her deathbed scene for crying out loud!

Overall, it was a really bad episode. And a HORRIBLE way to end a show. Very disappointed.

I seem to be in the minority on actually liking the ending, and I am going to try and explain why with this review.

To start with the show was called 'How I Met Your Mother' so the title itself inferred it was going to focus less on getting to know her, but about the journey that Ted's character took to get him to the point of meeting her. Given what we now know about Tracey's ultimate fate I view this as more important than ever for Ted and explains why the show took the route it did, that the story was Ted's way of trying to explain to his kid's how much he loved her and what he went through to find her so that they don't think he has forgotten her.

I loved Tracey's character and the more we go to know her the more her and Ted seemed a perfect fit for each other, so now even when I re watch the final episode for the umpteenth time and we find out she is sick it still causes me to shed tears after several viewings. The writers had this fate in the pipeline from the beginning and followed through with this, life is not fair and the people wanted a happy ending well unfortunately that does not always happen in life even if people deserve it.

I never saw Barney and Robin as a fit couple wise, I can't explain it and they just never seemed right to me so it was no surprise when they got divorced. As for Ted and Robin at the end, for me as time went on it always seemed to me that their characters had probably met at the wrong point in their lives. Fast forward to 2030 where Robin has moved back to NY essentially as full circle but it seems she has achieved things she wanted and is probably more where Ted was when they first met, and throughout the series it was said on a couple of occasions that Robin had her moments of regrets in regards to Ted.

For me looking at the series as a whole the ending worked as well as I could have expected, and I will thoroughly miss the show so thank you for 9 years of awesome entertainment.

I was always a fan of HIMYM from a young age and watched the show week in, week out. Season 9 had a lot of problems but I hoped for the last episode, they'd give us one last hooray before signing off. But to find out that the Mother died at the end so Ted get finally get with Robin was lazy, insulting and infuriating. We waited nine years to see what happened and we couldn't even get a decent conclusion.

They put us through the 9th season, getting to wedding day for them to get a divorce in the next episode, seriously?!

I think people misunderstood the main point of this finale. Most people seem to think this: Ted was supposed to meet this amazing girl (not Robin)who would be everything Ted has been searching for, but instead the writers took a cheap exit and killed off the mother so that Ted could be with Robin. I might be wrong, but this is what I think: Ted is telling the kids about how he met their mother. But, the real story is that Ted has only ever loved two girls, The mother and Robin. But, after a while he gave up on Robin and she gave up on him and (as the time-line in the episode shows) they drifted apart. Robin stopped believing in "the gang" because the gang was really just Ted, the guy she should have married. Ted met the amazing woman he had been searching for, and he married her, but this amazing woman, got sick. Ted stayed with her through it all, but in the end, no matter how hard you try to cling to the past, its already gone. Ted is telling his kids this story because he loved their mother and he'll never truly be ready to get back out there and meet someone new. Ted's only ever loved two girls, and the other reason he's telling the kids this story is because he is and always has been, in love with Robin. That's what I think the meaning of the finale was.If you compare how many episodes the mother was in as opposed to how many episodes Ted showed how much he loved Robin, you would be comparing about 8 episodes with almost three quarters of the show. Nobody deserves to have the love of their life taken away, but Ted, he didn't deserve it one bit. Robin may not have been the mother, but she's the love of Ted's life and in the end, wasn't that what Ted was always searching for? In the end it is kind of touching, the way Ted is telling his kids this story. To remember how he fell in love with their mother might only take an hour, but to remember how he fell in love with Robin, well, that would take a lifetime of stories to tell.

My review 11/10 for reminding me why I loved this show in the first place. Its about reality and I will always remember How I Met Your Mother because it wasn't just a sitcom, it was a story.

So where to start. I was ready after ep 23 to give this a 10,not after the whole ending,never that is how bad it was and how bad executed it was! I liked HIMYM as it was, some seasons were unnecessary long, some too short. Like season 9 :

1) Whole season 9 tells us the story of Robin's wedding day, which is unnecessary long because it disbands shortly after(not a surprise) but too much unnecessary drama.

2)They could make the wedding on a few episodes and then the rest of the season would be what should be the wider plot of the 2 last episodes, where a lot and I mean a LOT of STUFF actually happened that moved the storyline forward. Not in 2 episodes - it was RUSHED I felt as if they flushed it in the toilet.

3)Then BARNEY is back to his older self in 2 minutes 9seasons of character development -GONE, yeah then he grows up again (9seasons only for a contrast -that is cheap)

4)TRACY- the writers made us love this character, only to kill her afterwards ? If they would give her at least a season of flashbacks to make us prepare then it would be OK, not like this. Where was the gang at the last moments of her life ?Big moments... tcc. No funeral ? No last words ? She was there only to give birth to Ted's children that is all ? If they needed to kill her (still against that) then they should make another season with her.

5) ROBIN and TED , That was the nail into the grave. I would just put up with Barney's change back and forth in 2minutes ! I would even digest, the death of TRACY(even though it was lazy work to make her die so fast, no plot whatsoever-RUSHED), but that he is telling the kids the story to only be with ROBIN again ? WHAT? JUST WHAT? Do you honestly think he would have been able to ? 9 years he was unhappy, unlucky, depressed and wanted to move to Chicago. Then he met Tracy, then she died ?Would you seriously assume that he would not moved away? That he would be sane ? He must have been at THE deepest bottom,destroyed! And that the whole HIMYM series is actually an excuse story for the kids if he can "bang" Robin again ?

Sorry, but just NO, that was too much even for me. I am deleting HIMYM from my minds as it never existed. (True story)

The Alternate series ending is the ending I'm rating here. I love these characters and himym has shown that life isn't always what we wish it was. Yes, it's heartbreaking to see Barney and Robin get a divorce, but seeing Barney become a father is touching and there might still be a chance for Barney and Robin, at least in the alternative ending.

The last minutes of the show are perfect and exactly how they should be, with Ted finally meeting Tracy/the mother.

I recommend you buy the season 9 dvd to watch the full alternative season finale it's well worth your time and money. And for the people who like the original ending, even with the alternate those events can still happen. It's a win, win!

This is my favorite sitcom of all time, it was truly legen... wait for it ...dary!

The finale episode was horrendous. Just a gigantic pile of garbage. I have no idea what the creators of this show were thinking. They ruined the entire 9 seasons in 40 short minutes.

All the character growth blown to bits.

SPOILER ALERT:

For the last 3 years they have built towards Barney and Robin. From character growth, to an entire 9th season dedicated to the wedding. Then in one commercial break it is destroyed. They divorce? Really? After spending 3 seasons and an entire final season building up to it, you end it in 10 minutes? You thought that was a good idea?

Ted and his kids are turned into morons. His kids complained for the duration of the story about hearing the story, and then we find out their mother is dead? What the? Yeah, seems realistic. Kids complaining about hearing a story about their dead mother.

I did not want to see Ted and Robin for the 950th time. Yet that's what we got. So, the creators of this show get in return a well deserved failure for not only this episode but now the show as well.

Seriously. This one episode ruins the entire series. It is not among one of the worst I can recall. And I mean it too. There is literally no point to the series now that the final episode has destroyed everything about the previous 9 seasons.

And How I Met Your Mother comes to a close. This show is special to me because I discovered it on my own. One day I started watching it, and from that moment on I was hooked. I relate to this show in countless ways. I'm a romantic. Makes sense. I loved this episode. The scene right after the wedding when the Gang gets together one last time was perfect because they were saying good bye for some time. That scene was touching. The High Five to end all High Fives was hilarious. HIMYM managed to keep its humor through the entire episode while at the same time filling me with emotions unmatched by other television.

Characters: Barney: His transformation over the series was a writing feat. When he got married it was a too hard to believe. I was convinced it wouldn't work out. It didn't. He wasn't ready for it. He'll never be ready for it. But when he has a child in this last episode, and when he sees it for the first time and says "You are the love of my life. Everything I have and everything I am is yours." That moment was so powerful that I swear I won't see another moment in a story like that for a long time. He grew up. It took him longer than anyone else. But he finally grew up. Lilly: She stayed the same. She loved everyone and wanted them all to be together. But it just wasn't realistic. She was the glue to the Gang. Marshall: He manages to move to Rome, still become a judge, and eventually move on to bigger things. He's also got a wife he's loved his whole life, and at least three kids to keep him busy. This man . . . well, he's one happy man. Robin: She never truly did stop loving Ted. It was something she could hide from herself just as well as she could hide it from others. The pain of watching her ex-husband be happy, and her ex-lover be happy, and her friends be happily married - it was just too much. So she escaped. She left just as Ted planned to do. Ted: I could write a whole book about how amazing Ted's character is and how much he's changed me personally, but unfortunately this review is limited in it's amount of words, and I must minimize it to the best of my abilities. I love how the episode didn't begin with meeting the mother, nor end with meeting the mother. He met her more towards the middle. It was perfect. So perfect. They instantly realized how their lives had intertwined subtly over the years. And I'm pretty sure it was at that moment that they both knew it was something special. Lilly noticed it too. His endurance through love was the story that was told and something we went through with him, and the notion to that was well executed.

My favorite parts: The flashback to when Lilly made both Ted and Barney promise that the only way they could hook up with her is if they married her. That was genius on such a high level that I'm pretty sure the creators are prodigies. They both married her. And they made it work. The decision to divorce between Robin and Barney was coming. It never would have worked out. We all knew that. And yet it wasn't sad. The one thing I didn't like in this episode was how it took Ted so long to marry Tracy. That bothered me a little.

The end: The theory that the Mother was dead has been the most highly-debated theory amongst this show. I was convinced by it. The Time Traveller episode had me suspicious. But the episode where Ted tears up at the words of "What mother misses their daughter's wedding?" is what got me. I knew she would die. And I feared for the end. But they handled it so well and so tenderly that it was sad, but it wasn't soul-crushing depressing. When Ted is telling his kids of how he stood by her side through the rest of her life, I was crying at that point. When he mentioned how she got sick, it was hands down the best way to handle her death. Most people thought it would ruin the series, but you cannot tell me that you hated the finale because she died. I just won't believe you.

We knew the end of the series since the very beginning. Go back and watch the pilot and yep, there's the end. No one suspected it. I mean, people suspected he'd end up with Robin, but who would've thought that he'd bring her the blue french horn and hold it up to her, and she'd look out her window just as she did in the pilot, and then you'd just know.

All in all, this piece of television was strong, and kept true to its characters, and I really couldn't be happier with this conclusion. They didn't try to outdo themselves. They told the story they'd been planning to tell since the beginning. I'm sad that this is going to be my last review of How I Met Your Mother. But I'm glad it ended on a perfect note.

I never expected a credit sequence to be so emotional. My friends, this journey was legen wait-for-it dary. (I'm still pretty curious about where that pineapple came from.)

After watching one of the greatest sitcoms and its finale for the third time, my thoughts on the last two episodes have changed. It is very clear that the finale is bad, even terrible, but not in the ways i thought before. The writers tried to give this ending a theme of "this is reality whether you like it or not," but the ending result was a finale that felt rushed and depressing. Let's start with the divorce of Barney and Robin. Everyone watching knew in the back of their minds that these two would most likely not last, but after one whole season of the producers convincing us that this couple will endure, it was sad to see them break up with not one seen of them fighting for their marriage. And even the problem that led to the divorce (Robin's traveling new job) was only spoken through a couple lines of dialogue never shown. Its almost as if the producers wanted to rush the divorce as fast as possible to make that horrid ending scene a little more "believable." the scene with barney falling in love as he holds his baby daughter in his arms is, in my opinion, one of my favorite scenes of his. But that's what it is, only one scene. This "Barney was not a person capable of being in a committed relationship but found eternal joy and hope in having a daughter" theme could have been one of the best executed plot lines, but it wasn't. Instead, it became a rushed piece of crap that the producers stuck in their because they had no idea what to do with barney at the end of the season.

Finally, the blue french horn ending scene. I think what made this finale change from bad to "one of the worst finales in history," is the fact that they chose to ruin the development of not only barney, but with ted as-well. His main story (before the ending) was meant to show him finally moving on, and his scene with Robin, when she says "Maybe i should be marrying you," was an impactful scene of Ted finally admitting that they have become completely different people and their relationship was never meant to last. Dear producers, you did not need to have a plot showing how someone can find another love of their life after their past love has died (Ted running to Robins apartment), because you already showed that with Tracy. Tracy's death is emotional and real, and is completely disregarded with Penny's comment (filmed 9 years ago and should have been thrown out 4 seasons in), "you totally, totally, totally have the hots for Aunt Robin."

If only How I Met Your Mother's "Last Forever, Part 2" ended at 18 minutes and 15 seconds would it be remembered as subpar rather than a story almost as terrible and heartbreaking as being left at the alter.

I have read a lot of angry fan outcries at the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. I understand that people have been very upset, because over nine years of amazing character development we have started to care deeply for the main characters. But what people seem to forget is that How I Met Your Mother is not as much about finding true love as it is about growing up and gaining life experience.

Ted grew from a hopeless romantic loser into a responsible and independent dad after making many, many mistakes. And while Ted ending up with Tracy might be a happily ever after ending that fans desired, it is not always what happens. In fact, the ENTIRE POINT of this show is that people change. People change a lot in nine years. The last scene in which Ted ends up with Robin is the perfect statement to make that absolutely clear. It might not have been so powerful if Ted had spent more time mourning over Tracy.

Besides, in all nine seasons Ted was shown to deeply care for Robin and it was also clear that this love never really weakened. In fact, as time progressed his feelings only became stronger. Does that invalidate his relationship with Tracy? Absolutely not, because the show creators gave their all to make her a perfect match for Ted. They were truly happy together and I am sure Ted's world collapsed when she passed away. But he knew from experience that moping around does not solve anything. That is just not how life works. He had hit a brick wall multiple times in his life, but he always moved on.

And this ending might be his biggest achievement of all. Having the balls to stand up again after losing the love of his life and taking a big risk with his old flame is the most courageous thing he has done in the series. Yes, he has a lot of baggage and so does Robin, but he learned from previous experience to deal with it.

Furthermore, people tend to think that How I Met Your Mother was an unrealistic, magical, light-hearted show with lots of fantastical scenarios and over-the-top caricatures that suddenly got dark and grounded in the last episode. While yes, this may be true, they forget that HIMYM has always dealt with serious issues in a grounded and nuanced way. The series has always been bittersweet at times, with lots of traumatic events (Ted being left at the altar, rejected by Robin, losing 'the gang', etc).

While I agree the show may have overstayed its welcome (which becomes especially clear after watching the 6th and 7th season, which seem to drag on forever), this is the ending the show creators have always wanted. Not for shock value, but to make a statement. It took a lot of guts to end the show in this way and I am glad they pulled it off the way they did.

All in all, How I Met Your Mother is one of the few shows that provides funny jokes, believable and likable characters and sometimes incredibly sharp writing at a reasonable pace. Like life it has had its ups an downs, with a lot of mediocres in the middle. It was a damn good show with a fitting ending.

I started watching this show in 2011...but off and on.....And then I saw the episode "Bad News".... I was laughing so hard I looked like I was having a seizure! And then the end of that episode.....I had tears in my eyes; I had lost my father to Alzheimer's only a year before. I watched this show religiously from then on.

Some people get really upset when this show hits you with a sad or bitter-sweet ending.... I actually liked that! Strangely, I am one of those people who gets PO'd at Sitcoms "Tackling important issues".... But this show took a different....tack.

I dripped tears over the ending in this episode.... But what happened is what tends to happen in real life.....

Think about this; Why did he spend so much time telling the kids about how he met their mother?>>>>>Obviously, because their mother was no longer around!

Is it sad? Of course!.....But it is like real life. You should stop wishing for a perfect fairy tale and enjoy this ending.... It was as beautiful as anything I have seen or heard........

For the finale this 9 year show deserved I don't think it got it's due. I mean, the ending showed how people change and "grow up" but the very end with Robin, Come On! They were just playing it safe. But I did enjoy the episode but can't really say this was a proper end.

I can't believe that they did that to The Mother why would they kill her off. She and Ted were so happy, and Robin is just.... who's to say what happened to them in the past won't happen again. But you know it was most upsetting knowing that the final scene with the kids was shot during season 2 and they knew how the show would end from then. I'm glad it's over and like I said earlier good end, but not quite "Legendary" as it should be.

First of all, I am a huge fan of this show. I have watched quite a lot of sitcoms so far, and HIMYM is still one of my favorites. The Finale is pretty much a disappointment to me, not really the ending itself, but the pacing of it, which is very inconsistent with the show as a whole.

I am neither a Barney&Robin fan nor a Ted&Robin fan. No matter who Ted ends up with, I just enjoy watching the gang hanging out at the bar or wherever they are, doing silly crazy things together, loving each other at the same time. As far as I'm concerned, the friendship between the five is what the show is really about. The show used to very good at telling stories, flashing backwards or forwards, always ends up well.

However, this finale is very inconsistent. I am 60% sure that the writers were 'eating a sandwich' when they wrote this finale... They didn't answer many questions we have, like the pineapple. On the contrary, more questions popped up, like what happened to Barney after? Single father and die alone?? Okay, I am 100% sure that they were eating sandwich now.

If the writers decided to use the ending they shot 9 years ago, the ninth season shouldn't have been all about the wedding weekend! The ending scene Ted holding the blue french horn and standing at Robin's apartment again 9 years later is very heartwarming. (After all these years, many things have changed, but people are still there, feelings are still there... very romantic). BUT if there are gonna be these many twists and turns after B&R's wedding, how the hell did the writers think it could be a good idea to focus the whole season on one weekend?! Don't they have stories to tell? They have an entire episode for Barney got drunk before the wedding photo, but use only 3 minutes for Barney and Robin breaking up. An episode for 'Wedding Bride 2', but less than 2 minute for the mother Tracy's death? (Are you kidding me?) There is a whole episode about Marshall telling bedtime story to little Marvin, which includes several boring stories, but there is only 3 minutes to make Barney go back to be the sad womanizer again (this is just coming out of nowhere: didn't Barney grow at all in the 9 years? I mean, after Nora, Qinn and Robin, I thought he had grown up and been ready to have serious relationships. Where is the 'perfect month' idea coming from? Seriously? So he broke up with Robin, he couldn't move on and find someone else nice?).

Just changing either the finale or the season's storyline would save the show. I think, like most of the audience, I am able to accept any kind of ending as long as the show keeps its consistency by telling good stories.

The writers didn't manage to live up with this one single expectation... Dear writers, HIMYM fans have followed the show for NINE freaking years, so if you think the disappointment that fans complaining about is just because they only want B&R stay together and the Mother not die, then you are wrong. They want this ending because you use at least 2 seasons to convince them this is for the best. The expectation for this kind of happy ending is actually built by you, writers!

Please don't pull some 'bittersweet' crap on the audience. This is a sitcom for God's sake, of course fans are expecting a perfect ending. Please don't use 'this is closest to the reality' as an excuse. Playbook? Bro-code? Slap bet? does any of these sound realistic to you at all? The audiences are not looking for 'reality' in a sitcom!!!

Don't say the audience couldn't cope with bitterness happened in this show. When Marshall's father died, Barney reunited with his father, Ted got left at the alter, the audience are fine because those episodes are tastefully done.

Life is full of surprises, good and bad, people deal with them and move on. In fact, the stories of moving on are the best part, because it's like a journey, a journey we shared with our friends and loved ones. When you present those surprises in life on TV as form of sitcom, you can not just throw a bunch of bombshells and skip the journey.

I have to mention Friends here since these two shows are so similar in many ways. I love Friends' finale because they were simply celebrating love. The pacing is nice as usual. The audiences have some laughs when Phoebe shouted 'Flandge', teared down when Rachel stood at the door said 'I got off the plane.' They didn't rush the stories that Monica and Chandler couldn't have kids, Rachel and Joey were in love and broke up, Phoebe broke up with Mike started dating the scientist guy but finally got back to Mike into 40 minutes, because these are the key moments of those characters' lives. It takes time to show the audience HOW all of these happened. That is how a great show should end.

It feels like the writers are running out of time in HIMYM's finale, so that they have to compact so many moments in one episode, but they do have time, they have one whole season to end the show in a lovely way and they wasted it... Such a shame.