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Originally Posted by getbak
I think that's the biggest problem with it.
They fell into a trap that a lot of shows do, where they want to finale to have some big shocking conclusion that it ends up being inconsistent with everything that has built up to the finale and/or they don't want to reveal anything before the finale, so everything gets crammed into one episode.
The first 22 episodes this season dragged out the final 72 hours before the wedding, then the final episode rushed through 17 years.
If they had wrapped up the wedding in the season premiere and had Ted and Tracy meet at the beginning of the second episode, they could have told the same story that they told this season, but they could have made it one where we cared about the mother dying, and one where we saw Robin be there for Ted after she died, so we'd all want them to end up together.
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I largely agree with this. It's not that the episode wasn't consistent but that it rushes ahead so quickly that there are necessarily gaps that the viewers don't see. How you fill them in determines how satisfying/realistic you think the ending is. The only problem with your suggestion would be the inevitable question of: "he met the mother in the second episode of the season, why are there another 20"? I still think compressing the lead-up to the wedding (which was pretty boring) and stretching out the "post-script" of their meeting would have worked better.