Why did it have such little cultural staying power? Its like everyone stopped caring the moment the finale aired.
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Why did it have such little cultural staying power? Its like everyone stopped caring the moment the finale aired.
Because the final season and more so the finale were so shit that it completely torpedoed the rewatch value of the entire rest of the series and all hype for the spin-off.
Basically this, /thread
I hate how they built up Barney's character arc only to throw it down the drain in the last 2 episodes.
I honestly don’t know what the showrunners were doing. Even playing it safe final season would have been better than what they did. It’s not like a “normal” (if you can even call it that”) bad ending, no, it crashes the whole thing with no survivors.
What the frick were they thinking? It was a huge hit, they just had to ride it home safely.
Maybe they were high on muh "subverting expectashuns". Or they honestly made no plans for the ending for 7 years and they just panicked. Like, maybe they were negotiating for next season but it failed and they were like "frick we need to finish it right now".
They had the "Ted is telling the story so he can explain why he wants to make a move on Aunt Robin" ending planned from the start, but as the story went on it made less and less sense really because Robin's arc and chemistry with Barney were way more popular and too many people had already guessed the planned ending. "A good ending should feel both surprising AND inevitable" and the finale of this show was exactly the opposite.
>exactly the opposite
So it was a bad ending which felt unsurprising and not inevitable?
the wrote the finale back in season 2 because they didnt think the show would take off. Apparently they didnt change it at all even though it doesnt make any sense given the context of the seven seasons afterward
idk if it was season 2 or a bit later, but I heard they filmed the final reveal with Ted and his kids way before because the kids' actors were aging rapidly. So they got stuck with it.
Weak excuse. Sure, it's nice to bring the framing device full-circle by having the kids with unique dialogue in the series finale. But it's not absolutely vital.
I would much rather they pick an ending which actually works, and miss out on one more scene with the kids, than keep the pre-existing kids footage and mutilate the ending in the process.
Oh yeah I agree.
>Because the final season and more so the finale were so shit that it completely torpedoed the rewatch value of the entire rest of the series and all hype for the spin-off.
fpbp.
i agree. they filmed the ending in 4:3 ratio near when the show started but had moved to 16:9 by then and the ending sucks anyhow. he eventually simps after robin again but it's so gay.
Never watched much of this. what made the final season and last episodes so horrible?
turns out the mother died and the whole time he was telling his kids he was gonna date Robin who is who he dated at the very start of the show, it was just really stupid and retroactively made the whole show seem pointless
So the entire title is a lie?
The show follows a hopeless romantic kind of dude and is ostensibly about how he met the love of his life. The story is told as a frame story, where an older ted is talking to his children and explaining how he met their mother and what made her so special. But the first season is how he pursued another girl, what they call "Aunt" Robin and how it didn't work out, and they weren't right for each other. The ending was written at the start: The point of the frame story is that the Mother is actually dead in the future time, and the story is really about why Ted wants to hook up with "Aunt Robin" and wants the kids to understand. Over the course of the show, this ending made less and less sense as Robin sometimes felt like an unlikable career driven b***h and just wasn't right and didn't have chemistry with the hopeless romantic and quirky Ted. Robin also developed a relationship with Barney that had a lot better arc and more chemistry during the course of the show and most watchers really liked their story. The ending of the show cast literally the perfect actress to play the mother and then criminally underused her. The final season is set over the course of a single weekend when each season usually represented a whole year which wrote the whole thing into a corner. The well-received Robin/Barney arc was completely rug pulled in a single episode after years of buildup because it didn't jive with the pre-determined ending. The pre-determined ending was widely predicted by show watchers headed into the final season and people already thought it felt lame and predictable and hoped for something else.
the framing device really ended up fricking the show in the end, it already became old after season 2 but they were stuck with it
The finale was the absolute worst: It reveals the tragic death of the mother and then it does a lame self-referential rehash of some of the lame over-the-top gestures of love that Ted had done for Robin in the first season - where it was already made clear that they were cringe and she just wasn't that kind of girl. The ending was so horribly received that they did a reshoot on the DVD release that completely reversed the fates of the main characters - decannonizing the mother's death and writing Barney and Robin back together, but it was just a spineless surrender and lazy add on after their original ending was so terribly received.
What the others said, and also they spent an entire fricking season on Barney and Robin's wedding only to throw it all away in an instant.
With that being said I do want to mating press Robin.
>s1+2
ted and robin date and break up, understanding they fundamentally don't work as a couple
>s2+3
barney and robin start developing a thing while ted looks for his real love
>s4+5
barney and robin break up. time passes, ted tries getting back with her, but she says she doesn't love him that way
>s6+7
idk, the shows was just spinning its wheels at this point. robin turns out to be barren
>s8
barney and robin rekindle their romance, having matured since they were last together. they get engaged. ted is at the end of his rope
>s9
entire season takes place over a weekend, barney and robin's wedding. we see the mom finally introduced, she has a wealth of scenes where she meets each member of the gang, we see a lot of flash forwards of ted and her life together. barney and robin get married
>finale
ted finally meets the mother in a cute scene on a rainy platform
barney and robin get divorced in the first 10 minutes, barney undoes all his character development and reverts to the person and jokes of s2
the mother suddenly dies of a nondescript illness during a montage
ted tells his kids the whole 9 season story was about how he loved robin and wants to be with her
ted goes over to robin's and they end up together
tl;dr: it's fricking shit
It's just FRIENDS but the whole cast is israeli (or gay).
Pretty much this. All they had to do was to put the stuff that happened in the LAST FRICKING EPISODE troughout the season instead of having the fricking weeding take up everything except the last episode.
What the hell were they thinking?
Because eventually every episode was the same, and it became even worse as the series went on. The carrot at the end of the stick was how he met the ACTUAL mother and the conclusion. You stuck with all the samey episodes for this and the conclusion would retroactively make it all worth it.
But nope, final season was a total shit show and the finale was a kick in the balls to everyone who stuck around. There is no reason to go back because of that alone.
Had the finale been great and a fitting conclusion then it would have been different, you would instead say to your coworkers/friends/family “just stick with it’s the end is totally worth it”. Instead it’s “it’s begins great but the ending is a total frick up which erases all the effort of watching it in the first place”.
NOOOOO DONT CALL IT THE WU FLU CHINA VIRUS, BEIJING WILL GET ANGRY
Awful show just like Will and Grace
>will and grace
Now there is something I haven’t heard in a long time. I was starting to think I was the only one who remembered it.
it had a reboot a couple years ago
This show was always total garbage. My friends in college hated Big Bang Theory (also shit) but got How I Met Your Mother on DVD and tried to convince me it was somehow better. They’re even more moronic now, probably from collecting Funkos and watching this shit.
Because it was terrible
>it's good seasons were decently funny but not good enough to be properly remembered the way seinfeld is
>Cast wasn't frickable enough like friends
>It fricked the entirety of it's last season like the office
>Has entire seasons that can't/shouldn't be watched by new fans, making it less likely to be watched by anyone new like in two and a half men.
>"we're having a baby" angle from B99
I still like the first couple seasons though
>entire seasons that can't/shouldn't be watched by new fans
What do you mean? Which seasons? Why?
It might age better in the future when people become nostalgic for its present, which synergizes well with the narrative device of being set in the future and waxing nostalgically for the present day.
Yeah it's unrealistic that none of Ted's kids in 2030 are trans. That will not age well!
it just dragged on way to long, it was huge in the beginning but around like season 5-6 it just started dropping off in relevancy big time, but it was still popular enough to keep going and going but more and more people stopped caring like they used to
because it was just a lazy Friends ripoff with a premise that doesn't go anywhere
Even big bang theory was better looking back
Last two seasons went full cringe.
I never watched it but you just couldn't escape the seethe after that series finale. It was everywhere for a week or so.
it really was huge once, I remember back in the day people would constantly reference the bro code or say "true story" at the end of shit they'd say
It's one of those shows that I saw advertised a lot and claimed to have good ratings but never heard about from real life people. Many such cases, and always the same outcome. The moment the finale is aired it is forgotten.
How old are you?
Probably would have had Friends-tier cultural relevance if it stuck the landing.
How I met your Mother > Friends
Just like GoT.
The best Friends ripoff is Pic Related
Is it worth watching?
Yeah it's good
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I hate normies so much it's fricking unreal
Imagine getting so much sex with so many women it becomes a joke to you.