How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segal, Freaks and Geeks), decides to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ted realizes that time may be running out on finding the love of his life. His friend Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, Doogie Howser MD) is the anti-Marshall, a guy who thinks he knows everything about meeting women and isn't afraid to tell you.
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1x01
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aired Sep 20, 2005
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@az25 Read this: http://rromanova.tumblr.com/post/81356037619/why-the-how-i-met-your-mother- finale-is-an-outrage - My thoughts exactly about this finale. This post explains why this ending was so awful for so many people.
I think spending 22 episodes with Barney/Robin's wedding, SHOW SPOILER only to find out in pretty casual fashion they've divorced after 3 years comes as a bigger shock then if they had only did half the season at the wedding, but I don't know. It really makes sense when you think about who Barney and Robin really are, two extremely individual people trying to make love that grew from a friendship work in a marriage
But, again. This show has always revolved around Ted/Robin, and has ALWAYS been a romantic comedy in long-form, and if you hadn't realized that, you did indeed waste 9 years of your life.
I'm completely confused by the negative reaction to the finale. It gave me everything that I needed. I don't understand, what is it you were looking for? I go into shows, even ones I love, with a clear mind not expecting them to do anything, but to let them do what they do without any pre-conceived notions of what might happen.. and if you did that, this finale should have been satisfying, if not that great, though it definitely wasn't perfect, and was pretty disappointing at times.
The time-jumps were easily my favourite thing. I'm so glad they gave us a little glimpse into what they were doing at various points in the future. It's easily the most interesting thing they've done with the show for the last 2 seasons. This isn't the Dexter finale, or final season. This is a network show that had to adhere to 22+ episodes a season. That's an incredibly strenous schedule to write 22 perfect episodes (only show that comes close is THE GOOD WIFE), that fit within the overall story, yet can stand on their own. Which is why HIMYM has "an excuse", unlike Dexter.
Now, the rage about the Robyn storyline. You've been watching this show for 9 years, and EVERY SINGLE YEAR, we've gone back to Ted and Robin, in some various form, whether it's them getting back together, or finding love in friendship, and even this year, finding the damn locket. I seriously don't understand how that could be where you draw the line.
SHOW SPOILER I'm incredibly disappointed that the story ended being the mother had died, and Ted was telling the kid's about her, but guys, Robin has changed over the years, Ted has been without Tracy for 7 years, of course it's kind of natural for them to give it another shot. This show has always been about Ted and Robin, sorry to break it to you. I'm not sure what you thought you signed up for, but Cristin Milioti just joined the cast this season. She wasn't all of a sudden going to become the center of this show.
Fucking awful finale. I can't believe they still wouldn't let the Ted/Robin storyline go.
Well, that was one of the worst things i've ever seen.
this finale can only be April fools!!!!
@killmotion over react much?
What a terrible finale. I'm so disappointed.
Dat ending. Kinda unexpected.
Awful finale. If you're thinking about watching it, don't. I wasted 9 years on it. Here I thought they'd wrap it up and give happy sendoff and all we got was a slap in the face.
WHAT A GARBAGE FINALE
@ryano1076 yes
@jmxd Do you mean "skip"? I don't see any ignore button.. Anyway, I had just skipped those two eps and it took them off my feed
@jmxd I have been looking for that ignore toggle but couldn't find it, thanks for confirming its existence! I had "fixed" it by lying and setting the extra episodes as "seen" but I think I'll go with the ignore function, it feels... more right :D
@ames811 @ryano1076 @fei I 'fixed' it by going to the episodes tab above and toggling ignore for the duplicate episodes. At least now they don't show up in my show list anymore.
Yes I notice this too. I thought something is wrong with my schedule, making me have to unfollow and follow again
@fei Yes, how can they not notice this? Esp for show as popular as this..
I see the missing episodes have been auto-added but someone needs to manually remove the duplicate episodes that have been created :(
@fei same here bro :( wish there was a button on here to do a forced update, on a cooldown of course.
The incorrect episodes order here on fmtv is really messing with my OCD, someone please correct it asap >__<