How I Met Your Mother

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

.... But showing how you don't want the same things as a 50 year old as you had as a 20 something wasn't the point of the damned show.

What was the point? Don't you think the producers, who created the show, know what the point of the show was better than you? They knew the ending before the show even started. It was what they always intended to happen.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by splatbass

What was the point? Don't you think the producers, who created the show, know what the point of the show was better than you? They knew the ending before the show even started. It was what they always intended to happen.

Then they did an awful job of doing it given that the entire show seemed like it was actually a completely different direction from that until the last 5 minutes.

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Then they did an awful job of doing it given that the entire show seemed like it was actually a completely different direction from that until the last 5 minutes.

Yeah, I think they call that a "surprise ending".

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by splatbass

Yeah, I think they call that a "surprise ending".

Again, executed extremely poorly.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by splatbass

What was the point? Don't you think the producers, who created the show, know what the point of the show was better than you? They knew the ending before the show even started. It was what they always intended to happen.

Narrator Ted's first words were to tell his kids the greatest love story: that was the story of how he met their mother.

Bays and Thomas painted themselves into the corner with the pilot.

Anyway. 200 and a scatter of episodes centered with one thread: how everything led to Ted meeting the Mother. His narration along the way painted the picture of how he had grown, matured and eventually came to be ready to meet the woman because without this change she'd probably avoid a relationship with Ted or he'd be too fixated on something or someone else.

The show made it a REPEATED plot line to demonstrate why Ted and Robin weren't meant to be, and the narration of Ted *never* used these points to show that things change.

I get that things aren't always perfect and the Mother's death makes sense (which is bullshit IMO because HIMYM is an escapist type of premise that relies on a fairy tale type of resolution but w/ever) but undoing several hours worth of character development just to put Ted and Robin together is pretty ridiculous to me.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by splatbass

What was the point? Don't you think the producers, who created the show, know what the point of the show was better than you? They knew the ending before the show even started. It was what they always intended to happen.

Half correct. Sepinwall probably could convey this much better than I will but....


In the pilot, they threw in the curveball of "and that is how I met your Aunt Robin" to end the episode to increase the chances that CBS would pick up the series. They thought of the whole "your story has been aunt Robin this whole time dad. Go get her" in the second season because you could pretty much toss it at the end of any season and it would work if the series was cancelled.


They basically married themselves to this idea from there on out. My problem with them doing that is they spent from season 4 on, hammering us over the head with the idea that "Ted and Robin will never be together!" just so it would be some stupid twist. Not to mention the last season was the worst of the series. So much filler. That finale was crammed with too much.