This contains spoilers, lots of them. So if you have not yet watched the finale of how i met your mother, then watch it and come back here.
Also this is not a regular 'beauty blog' post i just REALLY need to vent my feelings, again, i have already done it several times to several of my friends. There's a lot to say.
So, the legen- (wait for it) - dary 9 season series of 'How I Met Your Mother' has drawn to a close, it's final 2 episodes were aired on Monday night, on CBS at 8pm Eastern Time (1am where i live...) I watched it the following day. I was so pleased with the start of the episode and i was so excited to see the ending and everything in between! I am a huge fan of the show,
Then the first bombshell hit. Barney and Robin got divorced. Now, okay, don't get me wrong i don't mind all TOO much that they got divorced, maybe they grew apart and all that. But it's just the fact that the whole of season 9 was based around their wedding? They did the whole build up of the elaborate proposal and everything up to the wedding and it showed just how much they loved each other. It wasn't perfect, and they argued but you'd think they would make it work. And they wouldn't base an entire season on their wedding if their marriage only lasts 3 years?!
But i will forgive the writers on that, there has to be some surprises in there to make you shocked and just to keep the audience on their toes.
Then Ted makes a long drawn-out goodbye to his friends. Which did make me cry, because he was moving to Chicago, so you have to say goodbye. But then they go to the bar and there he is. He didn't move because he saw a cute girl. The rest of them are hardly even mad. He made them go through a horrible goodbye which made them all upset, to just be there, sat chilling in the bar again. UGH.
I did really think Barney's ending was brilliant. I'm sad he get divorced, but then he has a baby and thats what he was looking for his whole life really. But who is the mother? You don't even find out it's just some random girl. But does Barney keep the baby? Do they share looking after the baby? Too many unanswered questions.
The last 10/15 minutes are just the worst. Far too many things happen far too quickly. It's like the ending has been so rushed, we gain wayyy too much information to process. It's the kind of ending that could have been put on the end of any episode. Like they were always ready to end it whenever, but they could have planned it out better.
The writers had this ending planned since the beginning. But the fact is i for one have grown to realise Ted wasn't meant to be with Robin. Which is what they kept saying, so basically the mother, isn't Robin, but the girl Ted ends up with is the girl he meets straight away in the first episode where we are lead to believe that 'no it won't be her that would be ridiculous' because it's not REAL you don't say i want to find the love of my life, and then meet her straight away.
We were also made to absolutely adore the mother, she was so perfect for Ted. Like they were amazing, so much better suited than Robin and Ted were, but then oh sorry the mother died of an illness. No more information. You don't even find out she's actually dead until the kids go 'Moms been dead for 6 years'
The actual meeting of Ted and the mother was beautiful i loved the whole same initials thing with the umbrella and the looks they gave each other. It was perfect, and it would have been an extraordinary ending if it just stopped there. But of course not, stop there?! Why would we do such a thing.
Now i wouldn't have been okay, but i would have thought it was a suitable ending if he said 'and that kids is how i met your mother' after the umbrella scene. and then it cuts to the kids crying and Ted comforts them and says it's okay and they'll get through it together, and it was true love and he had the happiest time with her, and now he has those two and its all okay. That would have been the 'beautiful ending' which is what Cristin Milioti described, after denying that the mother would die and saying that that idea is 'insane'. Look what happened.
But no, the kids aren't upset. They aren't upset at all. They basically say 'No dad don't be silly this entire show isn't about how you met mom it's about Aunt Robin' then go on to tell their dad to go and get Robin, one of his best friends ex-wives, which we have been led to believe repeatedly that their relationship does not work.
In my opinion, they tried too hard to do a 'Ross and Rachel' on 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S', and bring the couple you always wanted to be together, together. But it really didn't work. Ted is supposed to be with the mother, not Robin. That is what these whole 9 seasons have been telling us. But then to make a dramatic twist like that. I see how they think it would have been shocking and amazing, but it was shocking and enraging.
For me, the ending was under the yellow umbrella. I'm going to try and pretend the rest of it was a bad dream. I will miss it though, everything else was so good.
I want to congratulate the writers of 'How I Met Your Mother' for a brilliant, just shy of 9 seasons of brilliant television, the cast were incredible and everything was amazing about the show. But just why did it have to end like that? You had so much potential.
