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Is it safe to say that Stranger Things is going to end up being the How I Met Your Mother or Lost of the 2020s?
"Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate
our little quirks but, actually, kinda likes them?"
I know I said Lin Manuel Miranda is in literally everything but omfg can I just watch one show without him?? He's in how I met your mother??
The more I watch himym the more I fucking hate Ted. He's so full of himself, he constantly acts like he's better than all his friends and (minor s9 spoilers) gets really mad whenever someone suggests he move on from Robin.
Robin is literally getting married to one of his best friends (Ted is literally the best man) and he's still trying when she's told him she's not interested.
Instead of trying to be happy for them or even just talking about his feelings, he's moving to a different state? Because he got rejected?
I know I'm meant to be rooting for him but is he capable of caring about anyone but himself? If he's this unbearable from his own point of view, how horrible must he be from the other people's?
How I met your mother spoilers!
AFTER AN ENTIRE SEASON COVERING THE THREE DAYS LEADING UP TO BARNEY AND ROBINS WEDDING THEY GET DIVORCED THE NEXT EPISODE ARE YOU SHITTING ME??
I'd seen spoilers and I knew they would split up but really??? They were preparing for the wedding for an entire season and then the divorce is the next episode? We didn't even get one episode of them being married??
The ending to how I met your mother is so shit. (This is a long post btw, sorry)
(Spoilers) Ted falls in love, he's getting married he's got two kids, and Robin has a job she loves plus she's been through so much character development that her and Ted don't really work anymore.
But the writers decide that they should end up together anyway. So Tracy (the mother) dies? And we only find out about that storyline from "she got sick" and "she's been gone six years now"
All because the writers needed to shove Robin and Ted back together. It could have worked but instead of taking the time to work through that really complex storyline it was covered in half an episode
It just seems so meaningless to go through the entire story leading up to how he met her, only to end it the second she meets him and leaving the last bit of the story to be "is it cool if I date your aunt Robin"
The show should have ended at 15:38 because everything after that is completely unnecessary.
Also why was Tracy only ever "the mother"? We only learn her name at the end of the last episode and every time she's in the show it's only to show Ted got his dream of a wife that has his two kids.
Season 9 should have kept the wedding to the first few episodes and then moved on and actually let us see Tracy. Let us actually see what the show was building up to for 9 seasons. And then either leave out her dying and Ted dating Robin or adding another fucking season
I feel like so many shows make the worst people the main character and rely on people rooting for them just bc they're the main character
(This is a long ass really bitchy post about lots of fandoms I'm in sorry in advance if you choose to read this. Also these are just my opinions, please don't be mad at me 😅)
Once upon a time - Emma Swan screws Regina over billions of times (if you put up your child for a closed adoption, that means you can't go steal him back because his new mum is a bit mean to you??) but whenever Regina is an asshole back (or a lot of the time when she didn't do anything) she's the "evil character"
How I met your mother - Ted Mosby is full of himself, never developed as a character and doesn't really care about any of his friends feelings.
Batman - Bruce himself. What the fuck, why does he treat his kids like that??? Tim's 16th birthday? In some older comics he punched Dick? Also he's a ✨billionaire✨ in a city that's such a mess and never tried to help with that (to my knowledge)
Heathers - Veronica is a bad person that acts like she's amazing. No one in this is really meant to be a fully good person though so moving on.
Hazbin Hotel - I know I'm meant to root for Charlie's dream but holy shit can she stay out of other people's business for once? Her "rehabilitation" is peer pressure from an adult woman who acts like she's 12
Miraculous Ladybug - Marinette is a literal stalker. She's such a an awful person and I swear every season I've watched she's got worse. Just because you're a "hero" doesn't mean your life is more important than someone else's
Most Alice Osman books - Angel from IWBFT, Francis from radio silence, I forgot her name because I didn't get that far in but the girl from loveless, all drive me crazy. They're so self centered (Francis sees someone crying and immediately makes it about her?)
Also Ted from the lorax (self centered and a bit creepy), Harry Potter (billionare wizard chad), Mirabel from encanto (self centered and victim complex) and most anime protagonists
And there are a bunch of shows where the asshole main characters are intentional they still get so much more development than these people (blitz from Helluva boss, the main character in doki doki literature club, etc)
✮ NESSA’S 18K FOLLOWERS CELEBRATION ✮ 18 TV Ships I Love (in no particular order): 10. Barney and Robin (How I Met Your Mother) “This woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted to.”
In how I met your mother Tracy's partner (idk husband/fiance/boyfriend?) died and she refused to date anyone for years. Even when she did she "asked him" first
And then she died and her husband (the father of her two kids) got back with his ex? Really Ted?
I'm so glad someone did this because I think of this scene every time Aziraphale says ineffable
The original scene from How I Met You Mother:
I only just found out about the alternate ending to how I met your mother and dear god it was so much better?? It would've been that easy?
Like I get they planned it in advance and has Luke and Penny's scenes pre-recorded but they didn't have to use them? How I met your mother is such a great show and it was so well known and I bet if they went with that ending it would have actually stayed popular rather than getting overlooked.
No, the HIMYM finale is not secretly genius, stop lying to yourselves
The series finale of How I Met Your Mother, with Robin divorcing Barney and then getting together with Ted, a widower, years later could have been great. Yes, I'm serious.
Two people that were NOT soulmates and did NOT work out as couple when they were in their 20s met their true soulmates but life made them split up, and then they got a second chance of happiness with each other because, despite not being a perfect match they were at a point where they could make it work? Could totally work as a "bittersweet" ending. It's not "happily ever after" but it still finding happiness after the tragedy that stole their actual happily ever after, which is a valid, totally compelling story to tell.
But the writers completely destroyed any chance of it working as a satisfying story because the ending simply doesn't work as a twist and foreshadowing can't compete with consistent characterization.
The finale would only ever work if we had gotten to see the years of character development that were supposed to lead up to it. We'd have to SEE Barney and Robin's marriage deteriorating. We'd have too SEE Tracy's struggle with her illness and then Ted's years of grief. We'd have to SEE Ted and Robin slowly reconnecting and realizing that they've changed so much that can actually be a decent couple now - and more importantly, we have to see them CHANGE IN A WAY THAT MAKES THEM COMPATIBLE, NOT SIMPLY REVERSING THEM BACK TO HOW THEY WERE IN THE PILOT EPISODE BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY INCOMPATIBLE BACK THEN!
The show spent 98% of it's time building up to the "red-herring" of a Barney/Robin & Ted/Tracy endgame, with only the ocasional hints that this wasn't actually going to happen. It spent 9 fucking years, 9 seasons of 20+ episodes, building up to it this false endgame. Then suddenly the finale they try to give us SIXTEEN YEARS IN 40 MINUTES, expecting the audience the do the writer's jobs for them and fill in the blanks.
If they had given us the "fake ending" in the middle of the show, then spent the following seasons building up to the true ending, the finale wouldn't have been hated. Sure, no one would be surprised by the events in it, but anyone who didn't want Ted and Robin together would have bailed on the series a long time ago anyway.
And that's why they didn't do it. Because they knew most people didn't want these two to be endgame, LOVED Barney's growth as a character, and were not only eagerly waiting to meet Tracy but were also blown away by how she managed to be even better than we imagined. They wanted to have it both ways: give the audience what they wanted AND say "Sorry, this is our story, if you don't like it you don't have to watch it." It's cowardly, pathetic and a deep betrayal of the audience's trust, because people CAN accept not being given what they wanted - but they don't accept being lied to.
We never saw Barney be frustrated by Robin's work or by constant traveling before the finale - he's the "challenge accepted" guy, for fuck's sake, he used to go random trips just for the sake of having an adventure with his friends - thefore we don't believe that he is miserable enough that he'd want to end their marriage.
You can't show us Robin repeatedly choosing Barney over Ted, give us an insane scene of her covering Ted's face during sex to pretend she's sleeping with someone else, having her react to what she thinks is a proposal with 'You can't do this to me!", and even saying, to his face, that she doesn't love him, and then pretend that she totally still had feelings for him this entire time.
Even Ted pointed out, during this wedding to Stella, that Robin isn't hoping he'll remain single because she genuinely wants him, but because she's just afraid of being alone. C&C cannot convince general audiences, or critics, that she loves this man after they literally described the show as "The story of man that is in love with a woman, and she doesn't want that."
They can't tell me Ted genuinely loved Robin when he was constantly irritated by everything that makes her who she is: the fact that she's career-driven, always takes charge of everything, doesn't want kids, likes to travel around because she wants life to be an adventure, doesn't seem to believe in fate or soulmates, is a gun enthusiast, etc. They can't tell me they'd make it work when that's still who Robin is a person and Ted would still be irritated by it.
They DEFINITIVELY cannot convince me that him being hung up on her for so long means anything when he meets a new potential "soulamte" every other week, and will ALSO fall back in love with multiple exes the second he runs into them again, or so much as thinks back to the good old times.
And they absolutely cannot fucking tell me that he'd still be hung up on her after 25 fucking years, after he met his actual soulmate - unless they want me to believe the woman that was basically born from his rib is not his soulmate, which I call bullshit on.
And no, finale defenders, you cannot make this an inspirational "He found happiness with an old flame after his true love passed away because life is messy like that" when the show itself said, all the way back in season two "If Ted and Robin got married, they'd inevitably divorce, handle terribly, and screw up any kids they had."
Because yes, that's a thing that happens. When Robin meets Ted's parents, there's a whole misunderstanding about the dad supposedly cheating on the mom - and then we discover that actually they've been divorced FOR A LONG TIME, and just never told their kids because REASONS. Ted is even outraged that "Is this what passes for communication in this family?" More importantly, he and Robin, who are wearing the same colors as his parents, are shocked as they realize that the reasons for their divorce were the same reasons that made Robin not want to want Ted - the same reasons that would make them break up episodes later.
The writting is on the wall here. Ted and Robin will inevitably split up, and his kids will resent them both for getting them caught in the crossfire. Ted is already taking a page from his parents' book on How To Suck At Communicating Like A Normal Person by claiming he's gonna tell a story about their mother, only to then be like "Actually, this about how I love someone else and want to date her now."
"Oh, you just don't get it! The show was never about the Yellow Umbrella (Tracy)! It was about the Blue French Horn (Robin)!"
Yeah. It was about Robin. About how she's completely wrong for Ted and how they could never be happy together. About how he needs to let go of this obsession before it ruins his life and his relationship with everyone else that he is hurting during his attempts of getting with her: Victoria, Barney, Tracy, his children, and even Robin herself.
This is not a bittersweet ending. This is not a happy ending. This is two delusional writers ACCIDENTALLY giving their characters the most miserable endgame possible, and being convinced that they're giving us a fairy-tale ending - because yeah, that's what they thought. They weren't even aiming for bittersweet. They were never aiming for "Tragedy happens, but life goes on and you can still find happiness in it." They thought that Robin and Ted being so distraught by their awful lives that they convince themselves they were meant to be, and then go on to ruin their already shiity lives even more, was the most perfect happily ever after anyone could ask for.
The finale COULD have been great. Instead it was the worst thing imaginable, and the very fact that people can only try to defend it by WILDLY misterpreting what the writers wanted them to take from it is proof of how poorly thought out and written it was.
No one likes it for what it is, they like it for what they PRETEND it is. That simple fact is more insulting to this ending than anything I or anyone else could possibly say.
Can't believe the himym writers thought they could let Barney say "if I go a day without talking to you that day is just no good" and then be surprised when we didn't like them divorcing due to her travelling? As if he wouldn't follow her anywhere? As if he'd give a shit about lots of plane rides with his wife? As if she wasn't the only woman he ever loved and he'd be fine with ending that because of something so small?
Headcanon that the finale was just a nightmare Robin had on the plane back to nyc, Tracy's fine, swarkles' marriage is fine, Ted gets over himself and leaves Robin alone for once
haaave you met Dean?
Does anyone’s else have those shows that they’ve never watched but are invested in?
For me it’s Doctor Who and How I Met Your Mother.
Anytime an edit of HIMYM comes up on my fyp I am LOCKED IN
And Doctor Who (especially anything about the Van Gogh episode)
I barely understand the premace of the show but I am extremely invested.
let’s go to the mall
I just finished How I Met Your Mother for the third time. And I know better now, those final endings are gonna remain untouched. In the meantime, my three favorite quotes from the show that hit me so hard I felt the urge to write them down:
"I think for the most part if you're really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you" -HIMYM, S2 E22
"'I've gotta be honest guys...I'm a little scared.'...'Doesn't being scared let you know you're onto something important?'...'If you're not scared you're not taking a chance. And if you're not taking a chance then what the hell are you doing?" -HIMYM S5 EP10
"Here's the secret, kids, none of us can vow to be perfect. In the end, all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we've got. Because love's the best thing we do." -HIMYM S9, Ep 22
And also the Barney speech in season 8 when he prevents Robin from staying with Nick and the Ted speech in season 9, those were amazing