How I Met Your Mother: What went wrong with it?
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loonieloona — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 06:49 AM)
Since they knew going in to the final season that Ted and Robin were the real endgame, I think the final season was not handled well.
In a show that's all about flashforwards and flashbacks, setting the season over the wedding weekend should not have prevented half of the stories from being in the past and the future with the wedding weekend as a framing device rather than the primary storyline.
We could have gone into Barney and Robin's wedding knowing already that the marriage wouldn't last (think of the musical The Last Five Years) which could have given and opportunity for the significance of certain details to make more narrative sense.
We could have actually seen more of Ted and Tracy's life together so that we didn't feel quite so much like we knew too much but not enough about Tracy.
We could have seen Robin reintegrate into the family so that the kids' enjoyment of her makes more sense.
Basically they needed more episodes like How Your Mother Met Me that touched on the wedding weekend but wasn't really about it.
They could have used the time better rather than all the filler plotlines about bacon and the captain. -
janhommer — 9 years ago(January 10, 2017 01:05 PM)
And do you agree that the title How I Met Your Mother was really a mistake? It made you think that the most important thing about the show was meeting the mother, when it was actually Ted's supposed growth as a character.
It was obvious from the beginning the whole mother thing was a MacGuffin. I think the ending is self-explanatory, Ted's daughter says it : The mother doesn't even appear in the story (or hardly). I personally didn't even expect to see as much of her as we got to, I thought we'd see her in the last scene of the last episode with Ted going "and that's how I met your mother", the end. Instead, it turns out -and that's a great irony- that the punchline of the first episode wasn't a punchline after all. See it really
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about Robin and how could it not be, that's been obvious for the entire series. Very fitting ending, actually, in my opinion -
bigdog-65546 — 9 years ago(January 28, 2017 04:29 AM)
I don't think the writers anticipated how Barney's character would develop the way it did, or how amazing Neil Patrick Harris would be in that character. He easily became the fan's favorite and while they realized that they had to give his character more play, they also knew they had to keep true to Ted, who was the main character in the story.
And I think HIMYM was an appropriate title. While the series wasn't always about how Ted met Tracey, it was different and grabbed attention.