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Originally Posted by DaFace
That's actually pretty much how I feel about it. I hadn't even considered the watchability factor. It really did sour me on the entire series.
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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
I haven't been able to just rewatch an old episode just to pass the time like I did before the finale.
Which is a shame because the fifth season was some great television.
It just seems so pointless when you consider how it all ends.
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For me it was the exact opposite. The entire final season sucked so bad that I had stopped watching reruns from earlier seasons. The twist ending (where they revealed that Ted's entire story was NOT about how he met their mother after all) saved the series for me. Now when I watch old episodes with that in mind, everything makes perfect sense. The entire series really was about the standard plot of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. The girl was just Robin all along. Those two belonged together from the pilot all the way through the finale.
In fact, I can't help but think that the producers had this in mind when they cast such a plain Jane as the mother. They didn't want her to be as hot as Cobie Smulders, and she wasn't. And it wasn't even close.