A thousand times better than the crap "redo" ending they gave us.

This is beautiful in its simplicity.

Ouch. really? I have probably seen one episode, despite numerous people telling me it was amazing.
This was the "Simple" version? Wow. Uh. Does it change the story at all?

There's nothing a thousand times better in any How I Met Your Mother ending that comes after the 5th season.

It just went too long and got sloppy as hell, greed conquers all.

The funny thing is that had they did this ending from the start. I would have thought something was missing. It's too perfect/happy. So I sorta understand why they did what they did originally. Still, like Yogi said, the show went on way too long. They never have the good sense to end it when it should and they keep dragging it out for money's sake for way too long until it sucks and we're sick of it.

Also what sucks is that we really don't get to know the mother much. Sure, getting to that point was great. but its still lackluster when they try to cram an entire relationship and a whole personality into one season.

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I stand by my original statement that this was better than the original ending.

However, I also concur with everyone else that this show went on way too long. These are not mutually exclusive statements.

I'm just saying that the ending they fed us originally was complete "get out of jail free" craptastic. And this one was better.

I'm not sure if this is what you're saying (I might not be reading this correctly), but the ending they had from the start is the one where the mother dies, not this happy one. This was a backup ending that they filmed just in case they chickened out.

The problem with the real ending, for me, is twofold:

1) It didn't take into account how great Cristin Milioti was as the mother, and how much chemistry she had with Josh Radnor, which made her death an even bigger bummer. The original plan was going to be for us to only meet her very briefly, which would have made that ending sting a lot less.

2) I didn't take into account that the show was going to run for as long as it did. If the show had run for say, four or five seasons, the whole "Ted is still in love with Robin" thing would have seemed way less creepy and strung along. As it was, because the writers had to continually plant the seeds of Robin and Ted still being in love with each other throughout the show's nine years to make their ending still make sense, it made their relationship seem unhealthy and toxic. The finale comes off as weird and sad instead of romantic.

But yeah, I'll agree with everyone else that the last few seasons of the show were pretty weak. That fart of an ending was just the final insult.

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