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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
They wrote themselves into a corner and it was their fault. They could have written a more appropriate final season and ending because the show took them to places they didn't expect to go initially. Looking back, they went way off the tracks and had they not continued to shove the Ted/Robin thing down the viewers throats, could have had a much better ending.
Overall, it was just dumb on their part. Plus, the show became nearly unwatchable, if not completely unwatchable, around 2011 for me. I only tuned into occasionally and for the extremely disappointing finale.
But hey, Seinfeld's one of the greatest sitcoms of all time and it's hard to name a worse finale. Larry David acknowledged as much during a season of Curb in which he did an addendum to it.
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Agree about Seinfeld.
The other issue with HIMYM is the network structure though. Look, I get money money money! Of course. It makes all the sense in the world. But it plays against the artist process sometimes. Give show creators a finite number of episodes and give it to them early. Let them wrap up on their own terms. Especially with something like a LOST or a HIMYM that has a sprawling, overarching "mythology" or narrative gimmick.