Ok so I didn’t really waste nine years. Actually I don’t
remember when I started watching the show “How I Met Your Mother” but I am sure
it wasn’t until around season 3 or 4. Maybe even later when it stared airing on
reruns in syndication in 2008. Either way I was only invested in the show once
I learned there was an end planned in the near future and I realized how funny
Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) was on this show.
I mean COMEON he was great in the Harold and Kumar movies but getting to
see a true role model on TV each week was awesome. I am still looking for that
life sized Storm Trooper he had in his apartment. But I digress…
So as the ending was becoming more obvious over the last few
seasons I started watching semi-regularly, then after about two episodes I
realized how much I hated the main character, even though I knew the ending
centered on the Ted character finding the love of his life and growing old and
having kids, I secretly wished he was going to get run over by a bus or a piano
drop on him once he met “the one”, that was the ending I wished for every time
I saw a shooting star.
Inside jokes and running gags aside the show at least had
four out of five lovable characters and there was the hook on who would Ted end
up with. The ending of this show (SPOILERS) was the biggest let down in my TV
watching since they cancelled House and Lie to Me within the same year.
The ninth and final season started out and each following
episode built upon the wedding weekend of two of the main cast – Barney and
Robin. Eventually Ted’s future wife is introduced and it is clear early on she
is the one, now all we have to do is see Ted meet her and we are done. After a
few flash backs, flash forwards, and some loose ends involving a line of past
part time characters that have come and gone over the past near decade, we get
to the end. BUT WTF!!???Q?Q?Q??Q?Q
Somewhere at the end we find out that in the longest running
story of “how we met” Ted finally finishes telling the kids how he met their
mother, and BAM we are told that she already died. Meeting her took nine years,
in two minutes he had two kids, a decade went by, she died, and another number
of years passed. Now all of a sudden his kids are saying “Dad obviously you are
telling us that story because you have the hots for Robin – oh yeah somewhere
along the last 30 minutes or so of the last episode there was a weird left turn
where after Barney and Robin got married (the whole premise for the entire
ninth season ) they divorce and Robin goes off to live her life jet setting
from reporting assignment to assignment and the rest of the gang just moves
forward same as before (except Ted is now married and popping out kids, then
watching his wife die).
Somewhere in that last episode I actually started liking Ted
for just a second – his story was finally ending and all the pompous
grandstanding whiny sad puppy dog goody goody aww shucks BS he spewed for nine
seasons was finally at least coming to an end and a happy one, then the writers
of the show go and kill off the one thing that was good and associated with the
Ted character and that was his future/past wife. Then in a whirlwind last two
or three minutes Ted rushes off to profess his love for Robin, the same chick
by the way he dated back in season one or two and again in three or four and
pined over back in seasons five through nine until finally letting go and
meeting the one. Wheeew let me catch my
breath.
Ok that is it, apparently there is an alternate version to the
ending and it will be on the DVD, however I can saw I wouldn’t buy that crap. I
think alternate endings are great when you actually try to do it right the
first time. However I may be boycotting all works written by the team that
delivered that suck fest of a show.
So if by chance this blog lasts the eugenics war and the
rise of the machines and humanity has a rebirth and one of you finds an archive
of old shows. If “How I Met Your Mother” is one of them, go ahead and watch it
but you’d be better off watching Gilligan’s Island, - at least you don’t get
sold on a happy ending.
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