and I guessed it

(as some didn't see it, won't say anything at all except it reminded me of
Psycho in a most abstract way)

http://t.co/bL0ChiDjM1

See How it (http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3220651-9-23-last-forever-20140331/?view=getnewpost) Ranks Against Lost, Dexter and More.

http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/481957/purpose-mother-final-season-thread?page=10

Post by Uncle Seth Drakin on 4 hours ago
Wow....that ending just pissed me off. So basically the past few seasons, you could throw away because they mean nothing for the most part.

Post by London and Kendrick on 4 hours ago
God I'm disappointed.

The whole show is supposed to be the story of how Ted met the mother, but really it was all about Ted and Robin ending up together. They gave us both endings.... Ted with the mother and Ted with Robin. It felt like such a cop out to me.

I knew the mother would die and I was pretty sure Barney and Robin wouldn't last, so I'm guessing that's why those moments didn't hit me like they were supposed to.

Post by Arrow on 4 hours ago
So, I'm not the only one who felt that ending was a complete cop out? Good.

Had pretty big hopes for the finale, but man that really disappointed me.

http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/481957/purpose-mother-final-season-thread?page=11

Post by Ray Bradstone on 2 hours ago
I hate the ending for what it is. But the fact is, the show went back to its roots and portrayed real-life situations. Not everyone has a Disney ending. Stuff like this happens, and things don't always turn out the way you expect. I give the producers credit for trying something different, but the finale left me a little sad.

Post by ronswanson on 2 hours ago
Robin and Ted getting together betrays so many seasons of character development. Also, this entire season got flushed down the drain in 25 minutes.

Post by BorneAgain on about an hour ago
My issue with that is that it wants to have its cake and eat it too.

Yeah, Barney/Robin don't work out, the mother dies, and Barney's hook-ups finally end in a pregnancy, but the actual story consequences of that (Barney and Robin having to deal with each other, the mother getting her goodbye to Ted and the kids, seeing the mother of Barney's child) are all swept under the rug so we can have the romantic reunion featuring two characters who much of the last two seasons overtly demonstrated were not really compatible. Its a an ending hiding under the cover of "realism" in order to build towards a conclusion arguably less realistic than any of the scenarios it suddenly finished.

Hell an ending where the Mother died, and Ted eventually got help raising his kids with Barney moving in with his child, and that in a sense being the family the two had would still be less contrived than a Ted ending up with the woman he's arguably been carrying a torch for for 25 years at that point.

Post by Threadkiller [Classic] on about an hour ago
Here's my review of why this absolutely did not work at all, and why this also isn't the abomination or betrayal some are claiming it to be online.

www.rickey.org/met-mother-series-finale-recap-review-last-forever/

But I guess I'll just get my biggest gripe out of the way first: what was the point of the "one season, one weekend" conceit?

Instead of spreading out the infinitely more interesting lifetime of stories over twenty-two episodes, we got an entire season that focused on a wedding that ended up being almost completely useless to the show's endgame. Instead of having a series of episodes in which Robin is around less and less, prompting the gang to start questioning their friendship; instead of having a season in which Robin and Barney start to question their marriage, culminating in a divorce that leaves Barney rudderless and searching for a new identity in his old one; instead of having a season in which Barney gets some random woman pregnant and discovers exactly the thing he needed to give his life meaning; and instead of having a season in which Ted meets Tracy/The Mother, courts her, and falls in love with her (allowing US to fall in love with her in the process), we got twenty-two episodes of slap training, Billy Zabka, Sherri Shepherd and Marshall getting stuck on the world's most interminable road trip, Lily just sort of existing, and an entire episode dedicated to a guy whom we'd never met before and would never see again save for one brief shot at Barney and Robin's wedding.

And worse, the finale props up some pretty warped gender politics, as Robin and Tracy are basically revealed to be little more than goal lines for Ted (this finale pays Robin SUCH short shrift), and #31 is a woman whom we never even SEE and whose name we never learn, because she exists for no other reason than to provide the womb for Barney's redemption. Couldn't we have met a "Mother" for Barney at some point over the last twenty-two episodes before springing into the finale (23/24, respectively)? Maybe the logistics didn't work out for Bays and Thomas, but I do know one thing...

Good luck getting anyone to give How I Met Your Dad a shot now.