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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Way too fairlytale-like and predictable. People expecting this are people who can't handle a story actually going in a non-cliche direction for once. I agree the pacing of the final episode made that ending seem a little too sudden for most fans, but at least it followed the nature of the entire show, which was never about happy/perfect endings, but rather the nature of life and relationships.
That scene needed to be in the final episode of course, to show how they met and that Ted did find what he was looking for at the time, but if you were personally demanding that a scene like that be the end all to the show, then (not to be rude) but it might be best to stick to Disney features.
Anyways, props to the writers for not going with the most unsurprising ending imaginable. As nice and simple as it would've been, I'm glad they didn't. Made it way more interesting and in a strange way, satisfying.
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Which is ironic, considering they went with one of the most cliche and predictable endings possible.
The problem with the cliche ending they went with, is the lengths they went to achieve it. Let's just not pretend that Ted holding a blue horn outside Robin's window was anything but eye-rollingly cliche.
Scrap seasons worth of development, sure, but not for some predictable ending that you purposely made seem unlikely. Spending multiple seasons saying "It's not Robin!" while people were guessing it was Robin is fine, until you scrap all of that with "Just kidding he DOES end up with Robin! PSYCHE!"
I'm actually a little blown away you didn't find the ending cliche. It lacked any original thought, and not that HIMYM writers made me expect some next-level ending, but let's just call a spade a spade.
Like it or not (it's fine of you do, lots of people didn't, some people did) it's not some against-the-grain or creative ending.