I watched the first two or three seasons and enjoyed it, then kind of lost track. It looks like the finale was... questionable? I admit, I'm kind of curious. Just not enough to actually watch the show.
I watched off and on over the years--the boys were all really into it. I didn't think they could make me care about the mom, given that we spent 8 years with everybody else, but they did a great job making her a person and all. And then in the last 90 seconds, we find out the mom died and the kids think Ted should go hook up with Aunt Robin.
My youngest is just SO ANNOYED. I think he had a crush on the mom (who at least got a name, thank goodness.)
Ah. I'd suspected the mom was dead, and certainly they were always pushing the Ted/Robin. I quit watching around the time Barney/Robin kicked off. I could never buy that.
Yeah, and if the show had ended right about when you stopped watching, this ending would have worked better. But they've spent years with how Robin and Ted wouldn't work and everybody let go and moved on, and then kind of just went 'psych! we take it all back.' Ted had (apparently) 6 years to grieve and mourn but we got about 15 second of summation.
Or they should have stepped back and looked at the show they'd actually written, all 9 seasons, and ended that show, not the one they originally planned on ending.
And then in the last 90 seconds, we find out the mom died and the kids think Ted should go hook up with Aunt Robin.
I hadn't watched after the first I think 2 seasons but this seems really... wrong. If they spent so long illustrating why Ted and Robin worked better as friends, why couldn't that have been the resolution. Okay, so he's telling the story after the mom's died I can buy that, that's fine, but it seems to lessen the impact of that if the story then circles around to being Ted/Robin again.
We went from the wedding to she's dead to the kids saying 'you should totally get with Aunt Robin' to end credits. (Barney & Robin had already whiz-banged through a divorce earlier in the hour.) It was such a deflating ending.
Yep. We were yelling at the tv at the end. BabyBoy is SO PISSED. I think it's also the prime example of why 'Show, not tell' is the cardinal rule -- because we didn't SEE Ted mourn/grieve. They just told us it had been 6 years. Yeah, well, not for us. It'd been 30 seconds. hmpf.
I haven't ever watched the show (my last sitcom love was Friends, with a sideline into Arrested Development), but even I think that was mean. What the hell were they thinking.
I honestly had a couple of seconds where I was thinking it was an April Fool's joke.
I loved Ted and Tracy and Ted with his daughter and I could skim over a lot of the other, less-than-wonderful stuff (though really, I'm so incredibly tired of how successful women can't have a life outside of their job) but the end was soso bad that there's no coming back from it.
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My youngest is just SO ANNOYED. I think he had a crush on the mom (who at least got a name, thank goodness.)
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I hadn't watched after the first I think 2 seasons but this seems really... wrong. If they spent so long illustrating why Ted and Robin worked better as friends, why couldn't that have been the resolution. Okay, so he's telling the story after the mom's died I can buy that, that's fine, but it seems to lessen the impact of that if the story then circles around to being Ted/Robin again.
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I loved Ted and Tracy and Ted with his daughter and I could skim over a lot of the other, less-than-wonderful stuff (though really, I'm so incredibly tired of how successful women can't have a life outside of their job) but the end was soso bad that there's no coming back from it.