Of “How I Met Your Mother.” Subtitled “How Carter Bays and Craig Thomas stabbed me in the heart after nine loyal seasons.”
Last night was the series finale of one of my favorite shows. I started watching HIMYM in 2010 when Mac and I moved in together. While he was deployed the first time, I caught up on all of the past seasons and haven’t missed an episode since. It ranks up there with F.R.I.E.N.D.S. at the top on the scale of my favorite shows. I love the jokes, the plot lines that wove through seasons of the show, and the unconditional love between friends. I admired Ted’s unswerving hope that he would find the one, I saw strangely accurate parallels between Marshall and Lily and Mac and me. I laughed with the gang, and I cried with them. I yearned for the moment when Ted would see THE MOTHER. And now I want to go to New York to punch the writers in the face. I was definitely disappointed in the show’s ending. No spoilers here, but the finale was horribly predictable, and I was not pleased. I wish that the writers had gone with the ending we wanted, not the ending we knew would happen.
Who else watched HIMYM? Did you like the ending?
PMerr says
YES! I completely agree! I am so not happy. They rushed the whole storyline at the end, just to find out that Ted just wants Robin still. Ugh. They built up the whole series to be about the mother, and they jump into meeting her, barely talk about her because they’re talking about the wedding, and then she’s gone in less than an hour. Ugh!
Mrs.B says
I’ve never been a loyal watcher of the show but had seen enough episodes to understand and completely guess the end. It was pretty bad!
Munchkins and the Military says
I watch occasionally.. When it happens to be on TV and I’m not watching something else.. I wouldn’t mind if you told me what happened..? I think I may have figured it out based on Facebook statuses though.
Angie Rachels says
I hated the ending!!!!!!!!!!!
Angie Rachels says
I hated the ending!!
Jen says
It’s sad that I never got into the show, maybe it’s time.
Megan says
Team Tead & Robin!! 😉