How I Screwed Your Series Finale

Hello. I am disappointed.

As you mentioned in your post, the himym finale was, how should I put it... Surprising. And by surprising I mean "what the flip what are you doing you can't do that that is bullshit!!1"

There will be spoilers. Consider yourself warned

I'm gonna start by saying I am very very disappointed by the divorce. I mean Barney and Robin were practically the same person, and while for some it would be a terrible decision to marry someone just like you, for them it was a brilliant idea. Because that's the kind of person they are. They were best friends, they were brilliant together and they actually wanted the same things out of the relationship. I refuse to believe the fact that they traveled so much could ruin their marriage. I mean, neither one is really the settling type, so I'd imagine a little change of scenery would not do that much harm. Also, Robin seemed at times also as sick as Barney to the whole traveling thing. I mean the easy thing to do would've been to request a position where she didn't have to travel. Not get a divorce from the guy that was clearly your other half.

Not to mention the buildup that wedding had! Since season 6 the first and last episode have been about their wedding plus the entirety of season 9. That's four years. Four years it's been in the making and now you take it all apart in minutes??? No, you don't do that! It's like if at the end of Friends Phoebe and Mike suddenly got divorced. Like, no. No. They were better than that.

That's strike one.

Then comes the part with the babies. Lily and Marshall getting a third baby? Well, possible, but I wouldn't have done that. Granted, in the future visions they had back when they moved to the crooked apartment they both had three kids in them, but I still think Lily would be done after two. Besides with her growing art career (which she totally deserves to have) two kids is enough work. But that I can live with. I can very well imagine they could get a third kid. But Barney? While it was a lovely scene where he held the baby and the next scene in the bar was funny, Barney is not daddy material. Not really. He'd be the best uncle, but he'd probably be a pretty lousy father. He would try, of course, determined to be the best father he himself never knew and people do change so it could kinda work out but how? He's gonna go live in the suburbs? No way. He's gonna take a little child into bars with him? No flipping way. I just can't see how he would integrate this new baby into his life.

That's strike two.

Now, this I could've still lived with. I'd have been kinda pissed, but I would've survived this series finale. But no. Noooooo, they didn't leave it there. Oh no. They fucked it up.

By ending the series with Ted and Robin (apparently) getting together they completely ignored the character development of both of them for the past few years. I mean asdafdsadgajsdgnhaasdfgsadgaghhhhh. The whole episode about the balloon and letting things go? Yeah forget that. The several seasons of Ted getting over Robin and accepting that the things they wanted were too different? Haha nope, never happened. The life Robin had built herself for herself, her career and her relationship with Barney? Well we can't have that, can we? They reduced Robin from her status as a character to "the thing that always was there for Ted to come and get". And that is not good. That is bad, that is really bad and frankly that's insulting. And what's she gonna do now? Wasn't the whole problem with Barney that she wouldn't stay still? And now she's just gonna move to the suburbs with Ted to live with his two teenaged kids? What?? They still want different things from life, THE WHOLE PROBLEM THAT LEAD TO THEM BREAKING UP IN THE FIRST PLACE IS STILL THERE!! By having a ~30yr break fixes nothing.

Frankly, I don't even think they love each other. Not like they pretend they do. Ted even said it himself "I don't love you like that anymore" but I don't think he ever really did. He loves the thought loving Robin like that. Because Robin is smart and funny and beautiful and perfect except she's not. She's not who Ted wants her to be and she probably never will be. She doesn't want to be a mother, she doesn't want to stand still, she doesn't want to play house and be a housewife. That's not who she is.

Ted is a romantic, and the problem with romantics is that they often love the idea of love more than the person they say they love. And that's what Robin is to him. Not the woman he loves, but the woman he'd love to love. And he has convinced himself that he does, And that can be a problem. Because that kind of thinking can lead to thinking about women as romantic prizes instead of people. As if you complete enough romantic gestures you achieve a girlfriend. That's not how it works. That's not how it should work.

So to recap, this series finale very effectively:

• destroyed a perfectly good relationship they had been building for four years
• apparently for the sake of another which should have the exact same problems as the one they destroyed
• threw one of it's characters into a situation he will have great difficulty navigating without warning and without telling us what happened after
•  reduced another character from her position as a character to a "prize" for the male lead
• ignored any character development that has happened in the past few years
• ditched "The Apartment" in a very unceremonious manner
• exploited the Mother to give Ted the kids he wanted but Robin couldn't have (may not have been their intention to come across like that, but that's the feeling I got)
• was a terrible finale
• I mean it's the flipping season finale this it not how you do it.

Basically, DON'T.

And to (kinda) quote a very great man "I acknowledge the network has made a finale but seeing as it's a stupid ass finale I've elected to ignore it."

Pie out.

P.S. I am lucky, I guess. I only invested a year of my life into this series, but some have been watching it for a decade. I am very, very disappointed. And I am not the only one.
P.P.S. What show of a group of friends should we watch now? From Friends to How I Met Your Mother and now towards new things~