No, at the time of telling the story he's still in love with her/in love with her again, and the kids then convince him to go ask her out after hearing the story.
The Dexter finale I was expecting given how the series had trended (even then it was a pretty massive disappointment).
Nothing compares to my immeasurable rage and frustration at the Lost ending. Neglected to answer all the important questions, instead answering a new one they made up in the final season.
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No, at the time of telling the story he's still in love with her/in love with her again, and the kids then convince him to go ask her out after hearing the story.
Shh well that makes more sense.
Whatever though, Ted Moseby was the least likable character that you were supposed to like in any TV show that I can remember.
1. Ted Moseby
2. Jack Shephard.
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The Dexter finale I was expecting given how the series had trended (even then it was a pretty massive disappointment).
Nothing compares to my immeasurable rage and frustration at the Lost ending. Neglected to answer all the important questions, instead answering a new one they made up in the final season.
Lost really pissed me off. I actually stopped liking that show at all after the first couple of seasons, but I couldn't help but keep watching to see the questions answered (and like you said, most weren't). They might as well have just had someone wake up at the end and realize it was just a dream. Not to mention that the ending was also what a lot of fans thought it was after the first season and the creators kept saying that it wasn't.
It seems like most series finales just aren't able to live up to what people want.
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Whatever though, Ted Moseby was the least likable character that you were supposed to like in any TV show that I can remember.
1. Ted Moseby
2. Jack Shephard.
Every character on How I Met Your Mother was annoying pretty much. The show was still good for a few laughs, but in real life, who would want to hang out with such self-absorbed ######bags?
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The Blue French Horn first appeared in the Pilot episode, in which Ted steals it for Robin after she saw it in a restaurant called "Carmichaels" and he said it reminded him of a 'Smurf penis' and she said she'd like one for her apartment. From this point onwards, Robin kept in on the mantle in her apartment.
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Lost really pissed me off. I actually stopped liking that show at all after the first couple of seasons, but I couldn't help but keep watching to see the questions answered (and like you said, most weren't). They might as well have just had someone wake up at the end and realize it was just a dream. Not to mention that the ending was also what a lot of fans thought it was after the first season and the creators kept saying that it wasn't.
It seems like most series finales just aren't able to live up to what people want.
I'm OK with 'what' the whole thing was, I was just angered by how they constructed the final season and then revealed it in that alternate reality they were all in. They could struck that whole part out (or at least explained why, suddenly, they all have different lives) and did the same thing.
The angle they played at the end (not going to make the reveal in order to avoid too many spoilers) would have made WAY more sense if they stuck to the original reality of being on the island AND it would have tied up a lot of the supernatural/inexplainable stuff.
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I'm OK with 'what' the whole thing was, I was just angered by how they constructed the final season and then revealed it in that alternate reality they were all in. They could struck that whole part out (or at least explained why, suddenly, they all have different lives) and did the same thing.
The angle they played at the end (not going to make the reveal in order to avoid too many spoilers) would have made WAY more sense if they stuck to the original reality of being on the island AND it would have tied up a lot of the supernatural/inexplainable stuff.
I reckon if people haven't watched it yet, then they probably won't.......
I would have been completely satisfied if this was the ending to the whole series. It's a great series and I thought this was how it was going to end given that the name is "How I Met Your Mother"
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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The Wire had an amazing ending and from what I've heard, not having watched the show, Six Feet Under had a great ending. Breaking Bad's is actually weakening for me as I get further away from it, but it was still good.
But yes, there's a lot of expectation to live up to in a finale, it's pretty hard to stick the landing. There's also the times where you shatter all the bones in your body shortly after vaulting off the pommel horse, so the landing is irrelevant because all you have is a shattered, failed husk of a body. I'm looking at you LOST.
Yeah I think the issue with this one was that they had all these people who wanted the happy ending for Ted, that the second the mom died they were going to hate the finale.
I see the Robin-Barney thing getting the blame but I have a feeling you end that finale with the exchange on the train platform and everybody loved it.
Personally I think there was more of a payoff with this ending. Makes much more sense on why Robin played such a huge part of all the ongoing storylines and how it always tied back to Robin.
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The Wire had an amazing ending and from what I've heard, not having watched the show, Six Feet Under had a great ending. Breaking Bad's is actually weakening for me as I get further away from it, but it was still good.
But yes, there's a lot of expectation to live up to in a finale, it's pretty hard to stick the landing. There's also the times where you shatter all the bones in your body shortly after vaulting off the pommel horse, so the landing is irrelevant because all you have is a shattered, failed husk of a body. I'm looking at you LOST.
Damn, two Lost burns in successive posts.
The ending for Six Feet Under is not just the best ending for a series, it might be the best few minutes in TV history IMO. They pull you through such a wide array of emotions, it's nothing short of perfect.
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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.
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.
Think the scene they mention in that article about Ted and Robin having lunch would have helped to show that Ted had truly found love with the mother. Might have helped people not be so angry about Ted "Settling".
The ending for Six Feet Under is not just the best ending for a series, it might be the best few minutes in TV history IMO. They pull you through such a wide array of emotions, it's nothing short of perfect.
Six Feet Under is one of those shows that I have a really hard time recommending to friends. I loved the first season, liked the second, thought the third was getting dangerously into shark-jumping territory, hated the fourth, and found the fifth to be a slight improvement but still decidedly mediocre...until the last five minutes of the finale. That sequence is just so perfect in every conceivable way, and it's the gold standard by which I judge the ending of every other series. Unfortunately, it only has the emotional weight that it does for viewers who have followed the lives of all those characters throughout the entirety of the show, so one has to put up with the various degrees of badness in seasons 3-5 to truly appreciate the brilliance of the ending.
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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!
