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Originally Posted by djsFlames
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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The mother dying and Ted not hooking up with Robin would've been significantly less cliche.
All I'm saying, and feel free to love the ending and defend it to high hell, is that it wasn't creative, or interesting, or new, or whatever. It was just a predictable vanilla ending to the show.
Anyone who watched the show would've guessed Ted ended up with the mother, and while they purposely used misdirection to make the ending less obviously and cliche, the ending is still the ending. It doesn't matter how we got to the ending that decides whether it's cliche or not, but the ending itself.
Speaking of Lost though, I'm maybe one of a small handful of people that thought that ending was just perfect for that show. People drag that whole show through the mud because they didn't like how it wrapped up, which is ridiculous. Despite my feeling towards the ending of HIMYM, my overall outlook on the show hasn't changed. Again, I didn't expect it to pull the rug from under us or anything like that, they got the obvious ending, they just did it a bit cheaply.