The ending itself would be cliche if seasons 4-9 didn't happen. But that's not the way it went down. While there were Ted/Robin fans that wouldn't give up on that idea, the show spent that entire time convincing us that it would go down another way, and that the possibility of them ending up together was dead and buried and wouldn't allow Ted to be happy. Robin turning out to be the mother at the midway point of the series would be cliche. Ted ending up with Robin after the death of the mother (whom represented in many ways an end point for Ted's story of finding happiness) and after an entire season showing us that Robin was making a life with another man, isn't exactly cliche.
What would constitute a non cliche ending for you? Moments before Ted is about to meet the mother everyone gets killed off by a gang of monkeys with semi automatics in a tragic "swing-by"? It was mentioned in an earlier episode, so that could've been the foreshadowing!
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