Complete and Utter OT: HIMYM Series Finale
This is probably way too OT to be posted, but that Walking Dead thread stayed up so...
Am I the only one who doesn't think that the series finale to How I Met Your Mother was the worst ending to any show in the history of history? I loved the ending, but I feel like I am the only one on earth to love it.
The worst ending to any show in the history of history belongs to Dexter. How I Met Your Mother finale crappiness didn't come close to topping that, but it was still bad IMO.
Upvote for you........I hated the ending of Dexter.
but loved the show. What are ya gonna do...it is what it is.
This is a fairly good assessment of my intelligence level. Thank you for that, Radric.
I'm not going to go as far as say the audience is stupid (since my wife watches it), but I agree on the show being terrible. Nothing but cheap laughs.
for clicking on the article that was so clearly marked for that little bit of input.
lol says the guy complaining about people talking about McDowell in the McDowell thread. And to be a bit fair to the guy, I didn't know what this thread was about until I clicked on it.
I wasn't complaining about ...
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Exactly. I've never seen HIMYM, but it's just a sitcom. You watch it for some great lines, not because of the story arc. Same with Seinfeld. Was it a great ending? Well no, but how was it supposed to end? There's little continuity from episode to episode.
I didn't like it, but I can kind of understand why some people did.
I can actually summarize my thoughts with a football analogy. Every September we seem to hear, "If you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback." Ted ending up with both of them just felt too messy and it cheapened both relationships to me.
Classic show. It's unfortunate that they are doing a spin-off however.
...is how I met the World"
It also feels incredibly like Curb-era Larry David, which people hadn't really gotten used to yet. But if you look at that episode as a sort of conceptual setup for Curb, it's totally worth the payoff.
PS - Now LOST on the other hand...never did I think a show could make me so regret investing myself. So so so stupid.
Honestly, "How I Met Your Mother" was a great series. It had good writers will good jokes and yet also was able to mix in some serious moments. That finale yesterday was something i would of expected from any other average show and didn't do the whole 9-10 year run jusitice. I felt that the point of the show was to meet the mother not meet her and then kill her off instantly. Just my opinion.
It's not your standard sitcom, in that it has a pantheon of stories and characters that interconnect in a way that's more like a sci-fi type of series. I've never seen a show with so many obscure callbacks and lots of its references tip off that the writers and showrunners are my age (late 30s).
I really enjoyed the finale...it did exactly what it needed to do...let us see this hopeless romantic finally meet his destiny (the Mother) and then realize his destiny (Robin).
This also fully explains the reason for Ted to be TELLING his kids about meeting their mother. If she's in the other room, it's kind of a lame story that they should be telling together (or at least interrupting at some point). Because she's been gone for 6 years, it makes much more sense.
Side note: It's wild that the actors playing the kids have known the ending for years. (They filmed that scene years ago before they aged out of the roles.)
Maybe I'm biased because my mother died when I was in high school and I would have LOVED for my father to tell me their story.
Somewhat mindblowing that the kids did that! I wonder how old they are now.
Girl plays the eldest daughter on Modern Family if that gives you an idea.
You've got your actresses confused... The girl from HIMYM is Lyndsy Fonseca.
The series wasn't the greatest thing ever, but the writer's did a very good job of keeping their characters and plots internally consistent compared to most sit-coms. They also never introduced an additional permanent cast member, which often happens when a show continues too long. A lot of their jokes missed the mark for me, but I did like the writers' ability to create running gags that might pop up once or twice a season. I know when I'm with my group of friends who've hung out for a little over a decade, a lot our jokes together really reference some other joke that we might have made several months ago, and some cycle through for years. In a way, the show felt like that, and the more you watched it the better it got. I didn't really like the first few episodes I saw, but once it was everywhere in syndication, I couldn't help but see it more frequently, and it grew on me very quickly. But I can see how some wouldn't like it.
The one thing I will completely defend this show about is that the cast had incredible chemistry. You could tell they had a lot of fun together making that show.
I had the same issue. I don't care about whether or not some random coworker gets an invite to the Wedding, or about the "Slapping Sensei's", or that Barney was super hungover on his wedding day.
If they were gonna show those future moments, I would rather have had a full season of them. Not just 5 minutes per skit
Anything would have a better ending than the Elite 8.
HIMYM jumped the shark at the musical episode. If you kept watching after that, then you got what you deserved...
Jumped the shark? Really? Who says that?
It's a common term used to describe the moment in time when a show began to decline in quality.
"Jumped the shark" jumped the shark a while ago.
It's also important to remember that Happy Days went on to be #1 for 5 more years after Fonzie jumped the shark.
I personally thought the ending was good (not great; it needed a lot more time for the stuff that happened at the end) - instead of every marching off into their fairy tale lives the ending had a huge dose of reality (that and it all really fit who the characters were). The ending also did cap off the show - it's not a story about how Ted met the mother and their life together (which his kids would have never wanted to hear since they experienced it), it really was a story about how he met the mother, and the story between him and Robin that has gone on throughout the entire series.
The amount of gags/plot lines that went throughout the entire run of the show was amazing (in the last episode - Marshall hands Lily cash when Ted gets married because of the bet they made at the beginning of the series, the mother's name is Tracy which was an obscure reference where Ted made his kids think that she was a stripper, etc)
I was wondering if anyone else caught the quick monetary exchange between Marshall & Lilly and if they would know what the significance was. Most of the reviews of the finale didn't really touch on it. I thought the finale was ok. I liked that we got to see how the lives of the characters played out after the wedding. The part I didn't like was it was just a long story/excuse for Ted to call Robin to ask her on a date again. I thought that part was kind of lame because the mother was actually much more perfect for Ted than Robin ever was and then to kill her off sucked. In a show of running jokes, it was fitting that it ended how it began, with Ted bringing Robin the blue french horn.
I stopped watching HIMYM awhile back, and thank goodness I did. I caught a couple of episodes this season after not watching the last couple, and it seemed to me that every episode was a bottle episode this season.
I still think the worst ending in TV history has to be Lost. The best ending has to go to M.A.S.H or The Sopranos.
What was it about making the country think the cable went out that "Nailed it" exactly?