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Here are my thoughts:
1. I always thought it was weird Barney and Robin were getting married. I thought Barney and the stripper were a much better match.
2. Why is everyone so hung up on Robin??
3. I don't think Robin and Ted were ever a good couple.
Just curious, who was your favorite Ted GF/Wife???

I felt like it was so much packed into an hour (what, almost 16 years?) and they should have done more preparing for all of that during the season, even though they were building up to the meeting of the mother. Except, we met the mother the first episode of this season, and it was a build up to all of them meeting her for nothing. Ugh.

@heartonastring: DH looked at me after the Barney & his daughter scene and whispered, "I want a daughter." I thought I was going to die on the spot. It was so cute.

I was annoyed all night at the ending, lol. I feel like Robin never deserved Ted. He did so many huge romantic gestures and she never once reciprocated and only ever pushed him away. She flat out told she him wasn't in love with him and she married someone else when she knew he still had feelings for her. I also felt that she never loved him exactly the way he was, which Tracy did.

I felt like they built the whole Tracy/Ted relationship up to be about fate and true love, and yet it was like the whole thing was invalidated because he ended up with Robin anyways.

I did like the scene with Barney and the baby though. They stayed true to his character with his continuing to be a womanizer but I loved that he true love of his life was his daughter.

@ShootingStar: I agree. It annoys me they did a whole season based on a wedding that ended in divorce 3 years later. It also seemed like the reason for divorce was flimsy.

@Mamaof2: I liked Sarah Chalke too.

I thought the ending was suitable, but maybe it was the way they executed it that I didn't like.

I wish we had more chance to become attached to Tracy. I think we should have seen more of their courtship, their wedding and their relationship. There should have been a tear jerking moment where Ted is with her in the hospital room (they show a scene like this for a split second, but I feel they should have made more of it) and then a scene at her funeral where Ted makes a speech or something. It really felt like she was just "killed off" before we really cared she existed at all.

I get that most of the episode was basically about showing what happened to everyone, but I wish they had at least made me feel bad that the mother died (who, imo, deserved to be with Ted way more than Robin).

@HLK208: "I can't believe they did a an entire season about Robin and Barney getting married, just to find out they get divorced."

I know! I really wish they had focused on Ted and Tracy more. I think Barney and Robin getting divorced is realistic, but it certainly was annoying after having their wedding be the focus of the whole season.

"However, his daughter says that this is not the reason he made them listen to the story. She suspects that the real reason is that he is in love with their Aunt Robin"

I'm not a fan, never watched regularly, read mostly what I know about the series, but from what I gather on the finale... the whole "mother" ruse was left much too high-level just to have Ted back with Robin at the end.

Just finished watching it. Sigh. So many feelings.

I was totally bawling when Barney met his daughter and Tracy died. I was really let down that the endgame was Robin because I never felt that Robin reciprocated Ted's feelings. They were just too different. It also made Robin seem a bit sad with her 5 dogs and just "waiting" for Ted at the end. Robin is better than that!

@babynumber1: I didn't even think of that, but you are SO right.

@babynumber1: I think what Ted really wanted was to find "the one" and in his mind if he got married, then that girl was it. But he realized when he truly fell and in love and found the right girl, it didn't matter as much if they got married or not.

I saw this re-edit of the final part of HIMYM and I liked it a lot better than the additional stuff with Robin.

@sunny: Awwww! I love the re-edit! I'm going to pretend that's how it went. Ted met Cindy on the train when Robin and Barney lost their wedding band and Cindy got them in touch with her ex-roommate's band.

I actually thought this was a great ending. I really want to go into why but can't right now. Hopefully can find time tonight.

They were never going to make everyone happy no matter what way they went but I think it was true to the story. And I actually applaud them for making this ending rather than a super happy everybody wins ending. It just seemed more real.

@littlek: The mother! By far

@sunny: That is how it should of ended and forever will in my mind. And he knew she was Cindy's room mate because Cindy organised the band when the other one dropped out. Plus the bass and yellow umbrella.

@sunny: What @AprilFool: said... reminder when Ted was in the subway with Cindy (and her wife and their new baby) Ted was talking about a band for Robin and Barney's wedding and Cindy said oh my roommate has a band let me set that up... or something like that.

I actually liked it! i hated that it felt rushed, but i think what they should have done is eliminated one of the way too many episodes this season during robin/barney's wedding weekend (maybe the slap one?!) and had this be a 2 week long finale (1.5 hours or 2 hours). Then they could have spaced out a little the mother's death and the Robin/Ted moment, and it would have felt less abrupt. I get that ted and the kids have grieved the mom for 6 years, but we got like 6 seconds and that was a little rough. Plus, all the jumping through the years was exhausting! i would've liked to live it a little more, making the episode just a little longer.

But at the end of the day, it felt true to life for me...everything in life is about timing, and ted and robin never had their timing right until late in life, but that meant that Ted got to marry his perfect woman and have kids like he always wanted, and Robin got to pursue her career like she always wanted. And then at the end, they get to live out the remainder of their lives together, maybe.

I saw this titled "Ok , Now I finally understand the ending"

I don't feel like they built up the mom's character enough. I didn't feel that sad when she passed away because I didn't know much about her.

Ugh, I agree with the majority of you - I hated the ending. I think the show just went on too long for that ending to be satisfying. It would be one thing if HIMYM only lasted 2-3 seasons and so he ended up with Robin in the end. Then we wouldn't have been so invested in this LONG journey to meet the mother AND we wouldn't have seen all the ups and many many MANY downs to Ted and Robin being together! I feel like that relationship was played out TO DEATH and so it just wasn't believable to me that they would STILL want to be together after all that! Plus, what was the Mother? Just Ted's consolation prize because Robin got married? And then the only reason they didn't get back together when Robin got divorced was because he had kids with the Mother? I don't know - I pretty much hated the whole thing.

The only redeeming parts where that Lily & Marshall pretty much had a happily ever after. And I loved when Barney met his daughter and how much he changed after that. But the rest sucked.