How I Met Your Mother scenes that foreshadow and/or justify the ending (part 5 of 5)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- One of the main criticisms of the How I Met Your Mother finale is that the writers threw away nine years of character development and great storytelling for an ending that might have made sense in Season 1, but did not account for the way the characters and story had evolved over the course of nine seasons.
This scene compilation attempts to dispel that myth by showing that the ending was on the minds of the writers throughout the series, particularly in the last three seasons. I have also included a few misunderstood scenes (such as the letting go scene in “Sunrise”) that many feel contradicted the ending to show that, in reality, these scenes are actually consistent with the ending.
So kids. That's how your uncle marshall won 5 dollars
Not yet.
Venom Gamer 53 Longest bet ever
20 bucks
It’s sad that HIMYM isn’t on Netflix anymore that was my favourite show
wow im glad to life in germany. We still got it on netflix
.. Ted saying " I kept this story short and to the point" always gets me.😂😂😂
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Imagine if he made it go threw 20 seasons
@@Mrjamesord oh boy lol😂😂😂
Ikr lol😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
Especially when there’s one scene where his son says he doesn’t know who the president is and that makes us realize that his kids actually sat there for a decade😂😂🤣🤣
From a storytelling perspective, the ending of HIMYM made perfect sense.
The only big problem with it, imo, is timing.
The big twist gets revealed near minutes after learning what happened in the end with the mother.
They tried to compress 6 years of time passing in a couple of seconds (or in just one phrase), and that's not enough for an audience to emotionally move on from the previous revelation.
keratos I agree, that is the biggest problem with the finale. But I still love the ending regardless. I just wish they had done more flash forwards throughout Season 9. For example if they had had a flash forward episode early in Season 9 that told the story of Barney and Robin's divorce then we would have been more prepared for all the other twists.
The ending doesn't make sense at all. At no point in their ridiculous on again, off again relationship did they ever seem like a couple that could go the distance or were actually suited for each other and now we are meant to believe that they have dramatically changed personalities and their priorities and will live happily ever after? Give me a break!
Perfect sense? PERFECT SENSE?
You're saying, that a girl he finally found dies at such a young age, then his friend divorces the girl he developed with so much, just for the sake of a silly plot that Ted and Robin should end up together. How is that perfect sense? It's stupid
Yes!! That's my problem with the finale.
keratos I kinda agree. But the problem wasn't the timing but the perspective and how they showed it. I mean spending all this time at the wedding giving hints about it and revealing the groom then the bride then spending most of the final season on it and that scene when Ted let go of robbin.
They should have worked on setting the ending but they wasted the final season because the series is called how I met your mother
The ending is not that big of a problem. It perfectly fits the idea of the show. The problem is the amount of time Tracy actually gets in the show. She gets such little screentime and is killed of so INCREDIBLY easy for someone the entire show is based upon.
But the show isnt based on her, it's based on the quest.
@@jari948 to find her, yes. Without her there wouldn't be a story. Hence its incredible that she gets such little screen time
That's my problem with the final season, it was so long the whole time being just about a weekend and in the end it was super rushed and not enough of Tracy.
You could easily argue that it’s right on the money thematically though. I personally still loved her. And us not getting enough time with her is just like Teddy experience. So we are both feeling like she was taken away too soon.
I was never mad at the ending i was mad that two seasons were built around Robin and Barney and by the end they had split. Why drag out a wedding for one season to just end it. It reminded me of when Ted was left at the altar by Stella. Whole season no pay off, same here, we go through the motions but then there over and we never find out why they divorce. The little screen time with Tracy just makes her seem like she existed to give Ted children, and fill a space in Teds life till Robin was ready to settle down.
Barney with his baby was so incredibly touching.
Makes me cry every time I watch it
Matt Coombes He met a girl and said “You are the love of my life. Everything I haveand everything I am is yours.”
@@Coolspa48 FOREVER.
Funniest part is he has a house phone in 2030 lmao
that's the only part i don't like, you can't defeat your fears of abandonment with a kid, just because she is physically depending on you, how do we know he is going to change for her when he couldn't do it for robin?
they need to add a bonus scene that marshal giving 5 dollars to lilly
They did. You can see it in the bonus scenes.
Wait you mean the opposite
Marshall gave Lily $5 at the bar just before Ted and Tracy's wedding. This means that after Ted and Robin get back together, Lily owes Marshall $10.
@@RSN2277 can you please give the link to the bonus scenes please
@@Coffee_of_entrepreneurs ruclips.net/video/8F5U9XNBZ4M/видео.html here
Barney is really the saddest character in the show I really would wish to see him getting loved
He finally gets loved by his daughter don't worry
Leo Chang he was getting loved the whole time. Robin, Marshall, Lilly, and Ted all loved him and you saw it constantly. When he reconnected with his family, you saw how they changed him. Barney was loved.
The Real Neal but he didn't felt like it
Shahad based on what
The Real Neal his actions and i dealt with feeling not loved and i lived like what he lived for so long so I think i get him 🤷🏽♀️
So Lily saw the real love between Ted & Tracy before Ted did!
And Marshall the love between Ted and robin
Wilfredo Acevedo Franco ooooh touché!
@A N G I E So did you like, not watch any of these videos before commenting?
@A N G I E All 5 of these videos are giving evidence where the ending makes sense so i just found it funny how you left a comment on the final video saying you hated it kek
@A N G I E It's fine that's your opinion but how does Ted being super in love and distraught about Tracy dying make it seem like she's just another fling. It took Ted 6 years to even consider getting back with Robin, even telling this whole story about how he met their mother, how they had a perfect marriage until her passing and then asking their permission to be with Robin again. It's very tragic but beautiful in my eyes.
I would die for a spin off with Ted and Tracy
This ending feels so rushed
I guess I would too! The ending probably felt rushed, because Tracy's time with Ted felt too short to him and they made us feel the same way (as someone said earlier, not my original thought). But having to see Ted and Tracy's relationship (before the kids maybe ? Before Ted's life is just the way he planned it to be) in maybe like a film, or an episode or two could be nice. I really have the feeling Tracy's kinda left out
@@cacciatore_5320 if this is intended like you said, it's mind blowing in so many levels😱
@@cacciatore_5320 I think that her short time on the show was for one more reason. Whenever her character appeared, she was portrayed as someone who is hard not to like. And because her screen time was short, there wasn't that much time to show her bad side, which means it was less likely for viewers to develop dislike or hate towards her (contrary to every other important character in the show, maybe except Penny and Luke), which in turn made people be (most likely) upset or sad that she died, which means that this part of the ending should've safely made people feel what screenwriters wanted them to feel.
Yeah, but as is life itself... time runs no matter if you like it or not, are the outcomes as you want them to be or not.
Sometime you live you're life as best as you can, yet you still miss the most important thing... for not every story is always a happy one.
I love "how I met you're mother" for how great it is, sometime I think that I'm more "Ted" than I think... yet i know I will never find "my Trace". Well it is life...
So true.. I felt that were trying to close the show asap..
Ted Mosby is the only person in the WHOLE DAMN WORLD that would still have a landline in 2030
Lol word
Good encase of an emergency.
To the outdated communicating device🙌🙌
Bro still had a vcr in like 2011, of course he'd still have a landline 😂
@@jackm3672 I still have a VCR! It can play DVDs too, but anyway..
2:07 "...untill she takes a step back from her work in 2020."
Wait a minute...
I see it now
They made a mistake of cutting put the lunch scene
It's Simpsons effect ...
She took a step back because of the corona haha
😂😂😂
Barney was treated poorly...
Barney should have had a better ending...
He should have end up with Nora...
shajed hossain and robin with the other guy
Who Knows u clearly know the show well mate
I think he has a beautiful ending, the love from a child is the most amazing and powerful love
@@verafonteyne6927 No it isn't. It might be some substitute of real love. Children are innocent. You get them candy, they love you.
If it wasn't that bitch Robin. He would have ended up with Nora.
I hate the ending but love the concept. Everyone got what they wanted out of life. Ted got kids a successful marriage, Barney had a shot with robin and ended up having his own child. Robin even realized ted was the one for her. I guess life is just messed up and confusing but it works out
And Tracy went to max.
Tell that to people in a refugee camp in Somalia.
Exactly no one seeks to get this!! It was just timing. Ted got to have kids since robin couldnt have kids and robin got to have her successful career and travel all over the world.
Life doesn't just work out for itself. You have to try to make it work out. Even then it won't work out for many people and they just have to settle for the best option available. Do not daydream.
except lily ended up like a housewife with no time for painting. barney became a jerk again and never found a life partner. ted' s love of his life died. robin was alone with her dogs and ended up again in the same old toxic relationship that never worked. the only one who got what they wanted was marshall. and the group broke up because there ware too many issues among them and everyone lived on a differen place
the story of a guy who thirsted over a girl who dumped him over and over for decades until she's done dating every other guy only to settle for him. legendary!
no its sad, she didnt recognize how amazing ted is and she lost him, but ted cant let go , i really wish tracy never dies
You just said yhe same thing
Mish couldn’t have said it better myself
She didn't settle for him she realized she always should've been with him but it was too late
parisha narang ted did let go coz he found Tracy. But Tracy died. Just like max died for Tracy and she was able to find love again. It’s not like she dies and then he instantly goes to robin. It’s a long process, if you think about it whilst he’s telling the story he’s reminiscing everything he forgot/isn’t in the forefront of his memory. Through that process he subconsciously hones in on his relationship with robin without realising
"don't do this. Don't call her the next day. You're blowing this. Three days. You wait three days."
Marshall is the best motivational speaker.
I hate that. I have never followed that rule. If you like someone call them right away. Don't play games like that.
@@paladine6 agreed, imagine you had to regret those 72 hours of time not expended with her/him like Ted did
Marshall is just THE BEST.
Now I know why the ending was so weak.
Ted didn't wait 72 hours.
Just what I was thinking! haha
2:38 Barney trying to hit on girls like he is still in season 1 is actually so sad.
Extremely sad, as is the case in real life when people are promiscuous. There is often a serious, underlying psychological problem. We are not made for meaningless relationships.
They really undid all of his growth for 9 season bc of a boner for Ted and Robin. Wow
By the time the series ended the actress that played the daughter was old enough to play the mom.
_That_ would have been a great bit of storytelling.
“You remind me so much of your mom.”
Haha Thats kinda disturbing
david fernando alava maya fax right there
That’s great for a movie ending. Hahaha but this is a series.
Maybe in Alabama
Ted be like "Who is your daddy....."
ive always wished after the credits rolled there would be a little sequance where Marshall tells lily to pay up, wouldve made me more satisfied with the rushed ending
They deleted it
@@JS-rf3ge Whyyyyy? Thjs would have made the show complete
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The only thing I liked about the ending was Barney and his child and ted speech about his wife
Whenever I watch the last ep. I stop the video after Ted says, "and that kids is how I met your mother."
John Ronald Reynoso yeah b/c that is the title of the show. Not “How I married my first love”. They devoted an entire season to Barney and Robin’s wedding only to break them in the final episode.
I reccomend you watch the official alternate ending :)
i feel u
Yup, that's the real ending
@@GN-Aaron
I don't really like the alternate ending. It just... ends there. The fact that the mother dies gives the show realism and that's what makes it great in my opinion.
It's funny how they kind of got the front door security technology right but there's no way Ted would have a landline like that in 2030
ted would
I predict that one day you'll dock your cellphone into a hub in your house that you can then have landlines plugged into it. You have the convenience of your phone being everywhere, but not the risk of forgetting where you put it.
@@ProfChaos1985 they already have that technology.
@@sarahm-a2782 I gotta find that for my grandma and get rid of her landline and phone bill
Best90sTV Ted would still have a landline, just like he still had a vcr
Nope, ending sucks. I love Robin, but Ted was better with Tracy and I would have prefered Barney with Quinn.
Actually I think Barney would have been better with Nora. I see Quinn's relationships with Barney just the way I see his with Robin. They're too similar to have a long lasting relationship. Not too similar personalities; but similar temper. However Nora's different. She wanting to settle down in the first place, unlike Barney, Robin or Quinn
@@cacciatore_5320 Nora or Quinn, much better than Robin.
So kids, that's how I met your step-mother
Wiz * SONE 🤯
Her TV did not respond because she called it television. I think she meant to say “Alexa” 😂😂😂
Everyone can try to justify the ending as much as they want but the fact remains that the part with the kids telling him to go after Robin was filmed during season 2-3 because the kids were growing up and they knew the series would go on for a long time. At that point ted-robin were at all time high, made for each other, conquer all the hurdles type of ship. Hell I'll even take the liberty of saying even in season 4 and 5 that ending would've made sense. But the show lasted for many more seasons. The characters went through so much and there were major character development especially in the ted-robin-barney trio. For fucks sake there was a whole season dedicated to Barney and Robin's wedding.
No matter how much people try to justify it, the fact remains that Ted and Robin as endgame was a mistake. The choice was perfect for when it was made but it aged badly.
Exactly. There's a reason why that is everyone's biggest criticism of the finale, from actual critics to the casual audience, because it's pretty clearly true. Diehard fans can try to grasp at straws to defend the finale all they want, but it doesn't change the facts.
The creators had the ending planned from the beginning. It wasn’t just filmed bc the kids were still young. This was always gonna be the case. You don’t have to like it but that was the creators original intention.
They should have done the last season completely different if this was the ending they wanted. Have the wedding be a 2 parter. Then have a couple regular episodes where we see Ted dating Tracy, Lily and Marshall in Rome and Barney and Robin newly married. Have Robin start travelling for work, show their marriage fall apart. Show Marshall, Lily and Marvin's life in Italy. Make us care more about Tracy. The series is based around her and they killed her off in such a bad way. Skip ahead to when Lily and Marshall return to NY. Ted and Tracy get engaged. Have an episode or 2 about the divorce. Tracy gets pregnant. Have an episode about Barney's perfect* month, then make the next episode have him find out he got 31 pregnant. Tracy gives birth to Penny, have an episode or 2 there. More time jumps between episodes, Tracy pregnant again, Judge Fudge, etc. Then have Tracy tell Ted about her illness. Couple episode showing them coping, and have her die at the end of that episode. This would be like Ep 17, so still room to show Marshall becoming Supreme Fudge. In the finale, Ted gets with Robin.
Not the best, but better than what we got.
WRONG IN ALL POSSIBLE LEVELS, THE POINT IS THAT THE ENDING WAS ALREADY DECIDED BY THE FIRST SEASONS, HE WOULD END UP WITH ROBIN ANYWAY. THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT TRACY WAS AND ALWAYS WOULD BE THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. TED KNEW THAT, ROBIN PROBABLY KNEW THAT AND THE WRITERS ALWAYS KNEW THAT, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOW.
@@jamiep0495 I agree this still the best show of all time. But i feel like the writers got lazy made a whole season about a wedding weekend when that wasn't necessary. I wanted to see Marshal being a Rome don Ted and Tracey's first date at least....
Everything was too crunched up together. The real message(s) weren't caught because of how fast everything moved in the finale.
Agreed 100%
Yes I agree that Ted was not exactly looking for an approval to date Robin from his own children, but when his mother and father forgets to mention how they met to him and how his mother met Clint (ted's stepfather) . Ted got mad at both his parents and proclaims that he would tell his kids and maybe even possibly his grand kids that he will tell them the story of how he meets their mother and not a short version, every single bit about it, every part of it, from beginning to end.
PandaGamer8 I think as the video pointed out, this was truly about how he met their mother, but kept getting distracted reminiscing about his old feelings for Robin. This video helped a lot actually
I actually wasn"t surprised by the ending at all, my sister and I always thought how weird it was that no matter where Ted was in his life, Robin seemed to always be the one he came back to.. The storty started with Robin and ended with her, that made sense to me. although, the last season was, for sure, poorly timed, they should not have spent an entire season on a wedding and one episode on several years...
I hate the ending, but I still cry at Barneys speech
It's funny how everyone who watched this show agrees that it had the weirdest ending anyone has ever seen on TV.
LOST
I’ve rewatched it 5 times. first time was shocked and a lil bit annoyed but rewatching it I really think it wasn’t a terrible ending. I’ve watched the alternate ending and that shit was boring af
@@alife_nascimento i was lost to for weeks after that ending damm
I don't. I think it's one of the best ending to a show. Brilliantly written from start to finish. Yes, the ending is a bit rushed and there definitely could have been season 10 (damn you Jason), but just like in the show, real life isn't perfect we've only got 9 season. Be grateful for them, there won't be any show like this ever again.
Will and Grace’s original series ending was arguably weirder
I accept your premise. However, Ted and Robin had already tried being together many times and it didn't work out. They were just too different. So there was no reason for them to get back together yet again, no one was rooting for that. Conversely, Barney and Robin were clearly perfect for each other so it was really sad that they split up.
I agree and I have to say it always bothered me that Robin only seemed to want to be with Ted when he was in a relationship with someone worth it, as if she really only wanted his attention not him.
Just a thought maybe I’m wrong.
Yeah this always bugged me but i once read someones comment that i was like hmm you right, Ted and Robin never worked because of different life goals. Ted wanted to be married and have a family and Robin wanted none of those things and wanted to just work on her career. Thats why they never worked out and they always tried to date but always broke up. In the end Ted finally had a family and got married but he lost his wife...but he got what he always wanted that he couldnt with Robin. Robin became successful with her job and did get married but decided her job was more important at the time so her marriage timing didnt work.She realized she always loved Ted but again they wanted different things and by the time she probably wouldve given another chance with Ted, he was already married with kids. After they were both older and got what they wanted and lived there goals they realized they didnt have anything holding them back from each other, they lived what they had wanted and now they could date and not have those road blocks they had before. I was super mad at the ending because i was like Robin doesnt deserve Ted!! But if you look at it from when they're waaaay older(like the ending) they actually FINALLY work well. Although i do wish the mother had never died but the whooooleee series was ALWAYS about Ted and Robins love story.
@@sirenxsue3159 Maybe, but it wasn't just their life goals, they didn't really work as a couple. Robin was a cigar-smoking, gun-owning, independent woman; Ted was a quiet, traditional, family guy. And that's why they disagreed about everything.
Lucy H, you said what I've been thinking since the show ended. The reason that I didn't like it is because I was never really rooting for them to be together in the first place, at least not after the first season. One of the reasons for this, in my opinion, is they just didn't have really good on screen chemistry (see Jim and Pam from The Office or Alicia and Will from The Good Wife). The standard "happily ever after" ending may not have been the most creative or daring, but entertainment is, after all, an escape from reality so in this case the standard ending would have been the most appropriate and enjoyable. Again, just my opinion, but I still loved the series as a whole.
Suhail Lovee to be honest I don’t think it was life goals as much as it was idealizing people, Ted really idealized Robin from the start and in a way I think she did the same, that’s why I said she only wanted him not really loved him, but that’s how I see the story other points might me right as well
I agree with most of the other fans of this show that hated how the original ending destroyed 9 years of storytelling, but after watching this series of videos, I can now appreciate why the writers and producers stuck to their guns about how they wanted the show to end. I personally still feel they did their fans a great disservice by going that route, but at least I more can understand why they chose it
I agree with you that from a purely fan service perspective, it ended the wrong way, and I can see why someone who had seen the show since the beginning would have found it very difficult to accept the ending. However, as someone who never saw the show during its initial run and watched the entire series for the first time over about a month, the ending made a lot of sense to me.
I think the main reason it was so poorly received was because everyone was misled by the title and the pilot episode and just assumed that the mother would be the one Ted ended up with; and so the entire series was viewed through that lens and all the hints and clues of the series' true ending were misinterpreted or just went over their heads.
@@bendowson3124 I totally agree. And tbh I WAS one of those fans UNTIL I watched your video series about it, and you actually gave me closure on it. I'm nowhere near as upset as I used to be about it. And let's face it, "How I Met Your Aunt" doesn't sound nearly as interesting
Honestly I was never upset with the ending. I just wanted more time with the mother. I have other comments on other videos going into detail why her death means soooooo much more than her dying but upstanding the story of Ted as a whole. Its said really, but even so, the short amount of time made us ALL love the mother.
@@bendowson3124 I don't know, I've started watching this show around time when season 4 has started and honestly, I felt that the ending was right, it felt right and somehow real. Don't get me wrong, I was sad learning about the divorce and Tracy's death, but on the same time I was happy seeing that Barney has finally found the love of his life and seeing Ted and Robin finally getting together.
@@bendowson3124 I don't think the writers wrote it that way because it made "sense" - they wrote it that way because they were insistent on using a pre-filmed ending they made years ago and incorporating it into the script. Adapting to how the show and characters had grown since that point would have been much better than having the child actors remain consistent.
The characters in the story had progressed far beyond that filmed scene. HIMYM had a chance at being one of the timeless classics of the 2000s like F.R.I.E.N.D.S. was in the 1990s. But instead, any discussion about HIMYM always revolves around the terrible ending.
One of my favorite line from the series:"You sonova bietch!"❤️
Ending was perfect for me because they both wanted different things. Ted wanted to have kids and robin wanted a career and that’s the only reason they broke up in the first place but they always loved each other though.
After many years when both got what they wanted, now there won’t be any differences, they both won’t have to compromise on their dreams so that they can regret it later.
This is perfect time for ted and robin.
This!!! 🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you. I always thought the same. As much as I am sad that Tracy had to die young, I was totally fine with Ted and Robin getting back together. And I thought it was all quite realistic. Not everything in life is happy and perfect. Yes, sometimes loved ones die too soon, too early.
Its really great as Robin can't have kids, and when you know she knew Ted's kids well to a degree, it makes a huge difference.
For a career woman, if she were to decide to raise a kid/adopt in a more advanced stage in life, it would be harder (if infant adoption) and the connections would be harder. I think it is a best case senario, underlined when the kids give their stamp of approval. She can be a mother to them even if she cannot biologically have kids of her own. Its almost a sort of longer term surrogacy in a way
I get it but I don’t like how it portrays as only a vessel for child birth and later being killed off. The sicknesses really came out of no where
@@hazeyyy5105 it was foreshadowed many times. When Ted tells her the story of how Robin's mom actually came to the wedding Tracy says something like "What mother would miss her daughter's wedding?" and Ted starts crying since they both know that Tracy will die before Penny's wedding.
There's also the whole ending of Time travellers in season 8 when Ted wishes he could have spent those 45 days with Tracy because now he can't be with her anymore.
Finally there's a subtle reference to her death in the graveyard where Marvin's buried, there's a gravestone with "MOTHER" written on it.
Her sickness was handled very quickly, yes, but it didn't come out of nowhere
Disagree...the show spent years showing us Ted and Robin simply did not work, just as they showed us Robin and Barney were perfect for each other. Ted and Robin tried and failed.
Tracy was supposedly the love of Teds life...his TRUE love, his soulmate...in a way Robin never was and never could be.
And the ending turned her into little more than an incubator, a convenience, a way to give Ted the children Robin did not want, made her a consolation prize, a placeholder for Ted to hold until Robin was ready.
The only thing that comforts me about the ending is that Tracy ended up with the love of her life, Max. Even if is in heaven, that detail makes me happy.
I never thought of it like that
I was just thinking about that the other day when I was watching the ending again ^^
Nope. Ted is the love of her life. She even said it in one of the episodes
I think the ending was actually genius and I really liked it.
It sheds the entire 9 seasons in a totally different light. They finally make sense.
The critique that Tracy didn't have enough screen time is totally stupid, in my opinion. This critique WOULD have been valid if Tracy and Ted ended up being together for the rest of their lives. It would have been valid if the show was about Tracy. But the show (despite the title) IS NOT about Tracy and that's the whole irony and ingenuity about it.
During the show, I was asking myself all the time: When does the mother finally appear and it got weirder and weirder that she had so little screen time given that she is in the title of the show. And the ending finally resolved that: The story wasn't about the mother, she was just a side character. The story was about Robin, instead.
And that's where I also disagree with Ben Dowson (still a great video though and I agree with the other points): I think Ted is already over Tracy before he begins telling the story and just doesn't want to admit it to his children. By telling this story, which is mostly about Robin, he tries to convey them that he loves her, without ever having to admit it, because the ostensible purpose still is "How I met your mother". And by that he tricked he also tricked the viewers, because I think that the majority of viewers believed that the show was indeed about Tracy. Robin was ruled out from the beginning on when he called her "Aunt Robin".
No one expected the case that he could ask her out after that future situation. Basically, the show consists of one future situation (where Ted tells the story) and one main timeline which is all prior to that situation (the story itself). By calling her "Aunt Robin" Ted ruled out that she could ever become his wife and because we all believed that the whole series is just a story about the past, it seemed 100% safe that Robin and Ted will not end up together. The ingenuity of the ending is that they get around this issue by creating a new timeline starting from the future situation where he can actually ask Robin out. This new timeline has never been part of the series before and it is a great twist for a great finale.
The amount of foreshadows were precisely enough so that they justify the ending, but still don't make it obvious at all, so that it still comes off as a surprise. The timing had to be that fast paced in the end, because otherwise the surprise effect of the ending wouldn't have worked. If they had built it up more slowly too many people would have assumed it already. Moreover, the very fast pacing in the last two episodes really makes sense, if you consider, that it is Ted telling a story and that you can easily gloss over irrelevant parts of a story.
And why was the wedding of Barney and Robin so important to Ted that he covered it in such a high detail, i.e. that they had to devote an entire season to it? (A very common critique.) I think that's another misunderstanding of many people: The wedding played a crucial role in Ted's story, because it proved in many situations that there's something off between Barney and Robin and that Ted and Robin are actually destined to be together. In particular, it really substantiates that Ted isn't over Robin at all and it must been a very hard time for Ted seeing how she gets married to another guy, who happens to be one of his best friends. This obviously justifies how he covers that in a very high detail.
Another theory of mine (but you can disagree with that): Tracy actually never was the love of his life. She just was a distraction from Robin. Ted had such a hard time getting over Robin, that he even considered moving to another town, even though he loves NYC. He loved Tracy enough so that he could stay in NYC with his friends despite Robin being married Barney. And he certainly loved Tracy a lot. But Robin was always the number one.
Now, you could argue that this contradicts basically the whole series and that the were many situations where he (or, as in the scene in the video, Lily) claimed that Tracy is the love of his life. However, the whole series was just a story told by Ted and he had to be very cautious not to "offend" his children, by saying that he always loved another girl more than their mother.
I think if we put it that way, the series would be even more genius, because that would carry an important life lesson: If we're honest, life isn't always a fairy tale. Sometimes you love a girl, but she doesn't like you back, and, in reality, many people settle with someone while having been in love with someone else, who they would have preferred. Ted was always chasing for "the one" and at some point he had to realise that it would never work out, because Robin was "the one" and she happened to marry another guy. Thus, he had to settle with another girl who he still liked a lot, but she isn't "the one". (Still he would tell in the story that she is "the one", because it would be dangerous to tell his children that their mother was never the love of his life.) But by conveying in a more (or less) subtle way that he actually always loved Robin, Ted hopes that they understand it and are ok with their mother not being "the one" after having died.
And in the end it all worked. I think that's a very great ending and a happy ending too. If you've read this far, thank you and please comment your opinion if you've read it, because I'd like to hear if anyone ever read this far :)
I agree with you in many ways but i just can’t agree with you on something. We all know ted loved robin for years and she was always his true love, but we also know for certain that ted would never marry anyone unless she is “the one” ,so I don’t think ted would have ever married tracy if he didn’t love her, truly. I think ted got over robin for real but as any human there were always remains of his love for robin, but they got burried and he loved all over again. with the same way but when years passed and tracy died and he used to meet robin at regular bases between 2020 and 2030 his love begun to show again so he decided to tell his kids the story of how he met thier mother and to show them that at this time he loved robin againn.
You make some good points. I think you're right about ted and the story telling. Thank you for this amazing comment!
I disagree on Tracy not being the one; after Ted talks to Klaus in Farhampton Station, Klaus tells him that Victoria was not the one (I cant remember the German word he used but it was basically the one) for him and, when pushed, Ted says he thinks he knows who the one for him is. This could be in reference to Robin or Victoria but after the scene plays out we finally see where Ted meets the one - Tracy. If Tracy wasn't the one they wouldn't have put that scene directly after Klaus telling Ted about his one.
Finally someone who thinks about the show the same way I do. From 2030 Ted storytelling, it all makes sense. I disagree that Tracy was just a distraction tho. He truly loved her, but at the point he's telling the story, she's been dead for 6 years, while he sees Robin from time to time, and all the feelings for her resurface.
E: also, for the sake of the show (I think it applies irl too, you can disagree) it was established that someone can love two People (Stella and Tony, Ted) and that when you love somebody, it doesn't matter if they're "the one" (He chased a perfect match who told him if you love somebody, it doesn't matter, and then later he didn't go on a date with almost perfect match, because he loved Robin). I think ted never truly lost the love for Robin, but he absolutely truly loved Tracy. Ultimately, what I take from this show is
that there isn't really "the one", only the people you truly and honestly love.
That was the longest synopsis I've read and how you related Ted and Robin situation I agreed with. Sometimes "the one" marries another and you settle for the next best thing which a lot of people do I agree with. And unlike a lot of people I like the ending. I feel like the whole show was how he met Robin from the beginning from when he saw he across the room of a bar. Despite always chasing after and harboring feelings for her throughout the seasons. The ending made sense.
It made sense thinking about it but they didnt hit the emotional tone they needed to in the ending. Tracy asking her dead boyfriend if she can move on was so well done. The entire show was Ted asking his kids, after their mom died, if he was allowed to move on. I get the ending and would have enjoyed it but they didnt stick it 100%.
I agree that the execution of the ending could have been a lot better. I think trying to tell the story of everything that happened after 2013 in one two-part episode was a mistake. If I was to remake the series I would include more flashforwards throughout Season 9 that focus on Barney and Robin's story: the breakdown of their marriage, Barney going back to his old ways, Robin drifting further away from the group, etc. Then the finale could be more focussed on Ted and Tracy's story leading up to Tracy's death, followed by the meeting on the train platform and then Ted and Robin getting back together. They could even have a couple of scenes that show Robin bonding with Ted and his kids after Tracy's death that hint at what Ted and Robin's relationship could look like after they get back together.
The clip where Barney asks them to accept him as himself really debunks the people who wanted him just to settle down with Robin & be satisfied. (Of course, people assume the only way to have character development is ending in a monogamous romantic relationship.) By the wording, you can tell his daughter was the love of his life. Niel Patrick Harris explained it very well here: ruclips.net/video/eO2x4ASDo8g/видео.html The story would really be impossible to justify is ending a series, where the narrator pined after one girl (Robin), with a wedding to someone else who first appears almost a decade into that story. This story is about the ups & downs of Ted's romantic journey & the consistent figure is Robin. The problem with Ted & Robin was never their deep affection for each other. It was the different paths they were on in life. In the end, their paths finally converge and the timing is perfect. That is what the Blue trombone represents. Ted is able to have the life he always wanted, a wife who loves him & whom he loves, and his kids. Robin has a successful career and as always very cute dogs. Tracy wasn't just written off. Ted had two loves of his life. Sometimes, that's how real life works. If you watch the whole show through, you'll see it was obvious that the story couldn't have ended with someone Ted meets right before the show is over, and they can't introduce the mother earlier because it would answer the question & end the show. The show was about Ted's journey as a young man who wanted so badly to have love in his life & the ups and downs that entails. His daughter even said at the end, the entire story really revolved around his undying love for Robyn, even her wedding to Barney was really about him sacrificing to make her happy by giving Barney the necklace. Just as Robin is learning to make room for people close to her, Ted learns that no romantic gesture will make something fit when it just isn't right. In the end, it finally is right for Ted & Robyn. Even Lily's toast after Ted's wedding about his journey finding love not them as a couple, that was the story. The ending fit the show, not the show's title. That's how it should be.
The fact that they show present day ted using a landline in 2030 is kinda funny.
Barney finding the love of his live was amazing
Suits are the love of his live
First time I noticed Ted still using a landline in 2030. That's exactly something Ted would do.
Great show, great ending. This was never something typical. Never expected a “normal end” also, every season was around Robin, so he got the girl at the end!!! We met the mother for like 10 chapter. Besides ending with someone else instead of the love of your live or your younger days is totally relatable.
Agree
I do believe the show's creators thought they'd be renewed for a 10th season. But then, halfway through S09 they realised it was not going to happen. That's the only reason for that rushed, underexplanatory finale.
I used to hate the ending and I thought I hated it because of the storyline itself but, in fact, I've noticed that I hate it because the show made me believe in Robin and Barney for A WHOLE EFFING SEASON. So, when the finale hits you in the face on the first 15 minutes like "nope, they divorced", you feel betrayed somehow.
But then I realised that if we had a tenth season with all the finale happenings in detail, the plot would be okay, we would have more of Tracy, we would learn about her illness, there would be time for mourning and there would be time for Robin to find her way back to Ted's life.
nop, they knew s09 was the last one ... the thing is they used 99% of the season on the wedding, they could have shortened and prepared better for the fans to not go mad with divorce a the end.
You were made to believe in Barney and Robin, because the writers used misdirection. However, the clues that Barney and Robin would never work out were right under our noses.
The way both those dogs peeped their heads out at the same time was so hilarious...
I think it was meant to be similar as the first time he did that
Still one of the best TV series I’ve ever watched.
strong points that definitely foreshadow the ending ... it maybe even justifies it ... but that doesn't mean it was the "right" ending. and it certainly doesn't mean i have to like it :0
I think HIMYM depicted all types of relationships that can happen in life. And how a lot of relationships fail because of these aspects.
A couple that will sacrifice everything to each other because of how much they love each other (obviously with its up and downs too, but always ending up with sacrifices for that love), a success story.
Good chemistry but personal ambitions, careers (Robin and Ted)
Good chemistry but timing is wrong, Ted ready to settle down, Robin wants a career
Possible relationships but you cling to the past (Ted many times chose to pursue Robin even though he had chances with other woman)
Careers conflicts (Ted and Zoey, Robin and Don)
Family goals (Robin and Kevin)
Trust (Barney and Quinn)
Commitment (Barney and Robin)
Knowledge (Ted and Stella, when you rush into a marriage for the sake of tying the knot, it ends in catastrophe)
No Chemistry (Tracy and Louis)
Parents (Was one of the biggest tests to Lily and Marshall and could've broken their relationship)
And the worst: Unfortunate events
In life even if you could find that jackpot, the time is too short due to unforeseeable events.
How I met your mother was such a rollercoaster of emotions but terrific.
honestly i felt that the reason i didnt like the ending or i was disappointed is because the love between ted and robin was just sooo long and confusing and sad but with tracy, ted finally felt sure and determined. All im tryna say is....... ROBIN DOESNT DESERVE THE LOVING, CARING, LOYAL, THOUGHTFUL, SWEET, CUTE TED MOSBY. thank you.
I think she does. I think as a result of her relationship with Ted, she became more optimistic and open to changes in her viewpoints and her life. She also did love Ted, even to the point of setting herself up for rejection by trying to stop his marriage to Stella.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 well yeah i get that, because if you’re with someone who’s a good person you become a good person, the problem is that tracy was just so much more understand towards him and robin just broke his heart a bunch of times
@@parishanarang6760 In defence of Robin, I think she saw the bigger picture. As much as she loved Ted, she could not give him what he wanted, and for other things, she simply was not ready. She wanted to avoid the heartbreak of another failed try, and decided to hold out hope until the timing was right. The more I consider this, the more I think Robin was perhaps almost as optimistic as Ted Mosby.
This series you did was really well done! It improved my thoughts and feelings for the show and increased my love for it. Well done! Just wish I could have seen part 3 of your video...
Look Ted could only tell his kids the 8 years leading up to meeting their mother because everything after that, they probably would have known! So he didn’t tell the story to get the approval of his kids, even though they did approve, but it was to tell the story itself.
I remember back when I compared this to Friends, just because my mom watched them both. Friends doesn't even come close to the emotional impact of this show
is it worth watching? I just finished HIMYM and I feel like there's just a hole left in my life. Should I start watching Friends?
Ben Parsons Not really. It has some typical "feel good" moments, but it overused the absolute shit out of the laughtrack, being a sitcom from the 90s. This show has a unique setup that I think sets it apart from other sitcoms. Don't watch Friends, it's got nothing to keep you going
Elliott I completely disagree and think you should watch Friends and see if you like it or not for your own self. Why does everyone assume there’s a laugh track? There was no laugh track, it was shot in front of a live studio audience, those were real laughs.
How can they hype Barney and Robin together for 4 seasons and then suddenly break them up
They didn't hype Barney and Robin, though. Remember the way they broke up the first time, fighting, comfort eating, and getting horrendously fat? Remember when Robin cheated on Kevin, but refused to get back with Barney? Remember when Robin almost abandoned her wedding to run away with Ted? Remember when Barney got angry because Ted still had feelings for Robin? Remember all the times Barney denigrated marriage and lied to Robin to protect his old lifestyle, despite claiming to be ready for commitment? The screenwriters were showing us the reason these two, while appearing similar on the surface, could not last in the long term.
The scene with Barney and his daughter makes me cry every time I watch it, it’s too cute 🥺😭
The only part I loved in the ending is Barney's 😢 it made me cry a lot since he deserves to find someone he could love forever
Bei Bei that was the snow only good part of the finale.
I love that bit it was grate
So he adopted a kid to love forever?
Lo Lo L he had a child with a girl he slept with 😊
@@beibun04 I see, I see.
Of all closing statements I was anticipating, MARSHAL WINS!! wasn't one of them 🤣🤣
But really THANK YOU THANK YOU for this! I've tried explaining so many times and defending my love for the ending. As well as attempt to express just HOW MUCH depth was written in that the writers didnt get credit for.
I will agree with some whose only problem was the distribution of timing for season 9. It was all over the place just for a span of a few days and then a few years apart. It could've been done differently. One random observation that isn't anything major: note all the dogs Robin had. In the first season we knew that each dog was from a relationship, so we can probably assume that she's had some failed relationships occupy her time.
Anyway thanks again for really extracting and breaking down what I've failed to do ✌🏽
And we all remember that Ted made her get rid of her pets. Boy, bye!
This was a great analysis! And I actually buy that this is what the writers actually went for. However, it was really poorly done. The fact that this entire change with everything happened in 40 minutes. We have had a whole season seing Tracy and Ted bonding. Barney and Robin bonding. Lily and Marshall bonding even more. We saw Ted let go of Robin (I know you said that it wasn’t how it was meant to be interpreted but it is really really hard not to see it like that, especially when you don’t have the full picture). And all of us just waited for the ”happily ever after” ending we thought we were gonna get. And then they throw this massive curveball which didn’t make us feel like ”whoa didn’t see that coming” more like ”wait what? So what was the point of it all?” The ending does make sense if you think about it all like you have here, but the problem is that if you dont see thing the way you do here, which most people do not, the ending feels like such a betrayal. Which is why I felt really angry at the ending.
Tracy died this year omg in the storyline
Nhlanhla Shamase actually she dies in 2024
how do we know that?
Şeyda K when they’re in 2030 after ted finishes the story, ted’s daughter says “Mom has been gone for six years now”. Six years before 2030 is 2024.
@@HughQuinn12i have some bad news😞
@@damiengarcia8984 …man.
I totally agree with that. I loved the series not just because they were funny, but because they really reflect the life how it is -hard, with ups and downs, with broken bones and healed hearts. It all made sense to me more than if they let tracy live. ❤
4:20 one doesn't simply resist crying at this part
Patryk Boduch also 420 is pretty awesome
i am so emotinally attached to these characters its unreal, Watched it 10+ times and cry like a baby everytime
For everybody who still hates the final episode of the series, or still don't get why Ted endend up with Robin i always tell: Remember the perspective.
Ted tells the story about how he met Tracy to his kids, and YOU are like someone else in the room listening to the stories.
Ted only tells the kids things THAT THEY DON'T KNOW.
All the years he lived with Tracy are stories that the kids probably heard over and over again. (and they lived a big part of it too)
But one day he sat with them and started to tell the path that lead to the life they already know. (and there is a deleted scene where his daughter asks him how he met her mother)
So yeah, there is A LOT that we wanted to know about Tracy but we'll never know, cause the kids already know it. And Ted obviously will not tell it all again.
That's the point.
During the years Ted and Robin doesn't made sense cause HE WANTS KIDS, AND SHE WANT A CARREER, remember? So then, almost 20 years later he already lived the life he dreamt about, the kids, the perfect girl that fits everything that he ever wanted, and Robin tried to live with Barney (the perfect guy for her) but it doesn't work, so she focused on her job and lived everything that she wanted too. But over the years she realized that she still had feelings for Ted.
So why shouldnt they be together? It's perfect, cmon.
For everybody that still don't get it, life IS like this. Things happen.
The last season show us that all the gang loves Tracy too, everybody has a story with her. And this is never happened with a girl that Ted dated. So she IS pretty important to the story, even if she barely shows up in the season. Remember, the show is called "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER", not "HOW I LIVED 11 YEARS WITH YOUR MOTHER".
For everybody that still hates the ending. After the last episode try to watch "The Time Travelers" (8x20) THAT IS THE REAL LAST EPISODE. That's the one who show us that Tracy is gonna die, show us that Ted would do ANYTHING to had even a little moment more with her. That final sequence is the real deal. It show us that life is not a farytail, that a lot of crazy things happen and all we should do is make our best and hope everything be okay.
This is what make HIMYM different of any other sitcom around, it is not only some "funny show", there is a lot of reality there, and reality sometimes hurts, but the end still can be amazing.
Couldn't have said it better
Great summary
Coming back to this video years after seeing this ending and hating it back then, now in the hindsight this seems so perfect afterall the journey matters more than the destination and people who really are meant to be together find their way to each other , there might be detours but they're never lost
Funny to watch this in 2020 and realize how improbable it all is considering 2020
The most unbelievable thing about this whole story is that a restaurant in NYC would be around long enough to for Ted to steal the blue French horn decades apart.
Just a small observation. Notice the high pitched "Hi" at 1:20. When they met in the sidewalk the girl also said "Hi" in a high pitched tone and Ted did the same. And here they are on the phone and the girl probably said "Hi" again on the phone.
So, the whole premise of 9 seasons was to bounce ideas off his kids, subconciously confessing his love for Robin, without even realizing it.
That truly does make sense. A well put together 5 part series. (well, 4 part, since I couldn't find part 3).
Worth the watch. Thanks for the closure.
I noticed you posted this on the anniversary the finale aired. Nice Easter egg
the ending crushed me for life
i just couldnt move on, and i´ve watched the whole sitcom 5 times
Get a life
@@keilm4681 i do have a life thanks lol
Marshall also won the hairdryer bet as well,he is clearly a master.
This video makes me feel better about the ending and I’m willing to rewatch the series now that I’ve got my head out of my ass and finally see the foreshadows that are after the 5th season. Thank you.
A failed attempt to justify an overly depressing unrealistic ending to a great masterpiece .Nice video still ^^'
I was one of the people who the ending came out of nowhere, this video changed my mind and now I have a greater appreciation for the ending. Thank you OP!
I kept this story short, and to the point!!! My God how i agree with him, . . .we should have had like nine more seasons!!
You know, when I saw the ending when it premiered. But thanks to Netflix and Hulu, I was able to watch it again and again and again ad nauseam. After a few run throughs after the finale, I realized a lot of this stuff. A month ago roughly, it occurred to me why he would’ve run to Tracy’s apartment and say what he said. And now, I watch him stand outside Robin’s apartment with that blue French Horn and I get emotional
Having seen the ending. I found it perfect. Was a bit rushed but the overall story was just perfect. It was very in character. If they did it another way, I'll probably freak out.
It’s also annoying that literally one shot after that incredibly heartbreaking and emotional goodbye with the Mother, we get someone crudely saying “you totally totally have the hots for aunt Robin.” This whole thing was just handled so poorly.
Even though I think the characters grew so different by the end that they really didn’t make sense together anymore, the real problem with this moment at the end is that the essence of the show *should have* been Ted reminiscing about his friends and his beloved dead wife and slowly realizing as they go along that he has reignited feelings for Robin but the way this moment is handled, it feels like the opposite. Like he’s really just using this story as an excuse to lead up to his main goal which is gaining approval from his kids to pursue the woman he’s been pining after the entire time he was married to Tracy.
I started hating Lily around this time for some reasonn
It's literally the last episode...? ._.
Do you mean around the last episode or around this season, in reality Lily is kind of a terrible person.
I mean the last two seasons😂
And it felt very strong in this episode
LemmyCranston
why that ?
Tracy fit so good in the story, should've made a spin-off about the gang's adventures with her.
4:25 I‘m always crying when I watch that scene
Tracy got to be with Max at the end....that’s kinda sweet.
*EVEN IF IT RUINS 9 SEASONS OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENTS AT THE END*
I would say that the story is not about Ted and Robin, it's about letting go of the past and living the best you can out of the circumstances you have. Bad stuff will happen and you can't stop them, just enjoy the time you had and move on. If you think from that perspective it's a pretty good ending.
Thank you for making this show 2 times better.
The truth is that what was supposed to be the yellow umbrella story ended up as the blue French horn story. The woman who truly loved Ted and married him, had children with him... The story of how he met her, and how they finally got together, seemed like a mean to get to Robin. Tracy was not appreciated enough in the ending and that is just sad. Personally, liked the other ending much more.
Thank you for the different perspective. It literally changed the finale for me! I am greatful for that!
Good job, lot of great points I missed.
Between Barney’s daddy issues, abandonment issues, and other issues, him having a child honestly made sense because he made someone that he can love and wouldn’t leave him, someone he can be there for as a father the way his dad didn’t, and it’s a complete circle to his character arc.
When Barney sees Ellie for the first time, he realizes that he has finally found what he’s always been looking for: someone to love who would never abandon him. ):
lol tfw the first words ur dad says to u was a lie to a girl half his age
Omg thank you so much for the analysis. This really made me appreciate the series even more.
The whole series from the very start I wanted ted to be with robin. It seems a lot of people were upset by this but I couldn’t ask for a better ending.
I love that you did this. So many people did not support the ending, but I really enjoyed it, and I think from your video you did too. I am glad that you got this info out there.
So, now that season 8 of Game of Thrones happened, are we just gonna all pretend that foreshadowing is somehow equal to character development and plot progression?
First of all, I haven't seen the Game of Thrones ending and I'm pretty sure this series was made before Game of Thrones Season 8 was released.
Secondly, I agree that foreshadowing is not enough to justify an ending. That's why I said "foreshadow and/or justify" in the title. Some of the scenes in this series are primarily foreshadowing (e.g. Marshall and Lily's long term bet) and these scenes alone do not justify the ending. However, other scenes have been included to show that the development of the characters actually is consistent with the ending. Obviously, I couldn't talk about the whole series in a video series like this: that's a whole other video. However, the scenes I have extracted are all consistent with the overall narrative and character development.
What does this video have to do with GoT?
Tv sitcoms don’t need complicated foreshadowing or complex plots! If they just used the alternate ending the producers would still have a career. They only have there selves to blame for the shitty finale
Tammy Martinez that alternate ending is a cheap copout that goes against everything HIMYM stood for. That’s the shitty ending. Not the actual ending that happened.
False trichotomy.
And here I am watching this video without having anyone to love or even having feelings for anyone just hopping that I will find someone one-day who I can't get out of my head who I'm willing to do everything to be aside of that person.
4:15 sis looks so done i-
I liked this TV serie a lot, and cried in the end. I loved a girl 38 years ago, and I hoped one day she would come back or I can have a chance to see her again. this never happened. but I still love her as the day i met her and the day she left.
Maybe I'm the only person who thinks like that, but I liked and still like the final of HIMYM
This series of videos was put together really well! I’ve Ben through the whole show only once but I caught in pretty much that it was about Ted and Robin mostly. However you went into such detail with little events that many would miss. Thank you for these videos 💯🙏🏽
I personally don’t like that Ted and Robin end up together. I don’t hate it, but...
I well had a wish that robin and barney would end up together, after all barney got no love except his child.
Hero Of The Forgotten Past Yeah, agreed.
When the music starts playing in the end, I cry everytime...