It was bad ending, but it wasn’t as bad as many people make it out to be. We got a whole season of meeting the mother and it was great. The last episode, while it does undo a number of things, isn’t really important to the overall story. If you just ignore it, or if it never happened, everything else still works.
The fact that you can and probably should ignore the finale still makes it a bad episode and a bad finale, but it doesn’t retroactively make the rest of the series pointless and it doesn’t answer any questions that weren’t already answered.
Idk. Was it really a season of meeting the mother? It was more a season of
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Barney and Robin planning on getting married, married for a very brief time, mother met finally, killed off, then him going to Robin. Very abruptly too (in the last couple episodes.)
It definitely to me was a clear waste of a season and entirely ridiculous. This guy talked about his whole life up to that point to where he finally meets their mom and… Then just goes to Robin? Even the Ted actor said he couldn’t believe they were still doing the original ending.
I don’t see it much different than people never wanting to rewatch GoT- knowing the ending is awful definitely makes you think why bother, at least for me.
Noobs. I hated everything from the pilot.
Honestly, I’m a big fan of it, too, with the major exception of Harris’s character. I get that the writers tried to play it for laughs, but having Barney scold women–not men, women–for the type of behavior he previously took advantage of was just plain sexist.
I took it as growth of his character. He went from trying to take advantage of naive and/or promiscuous young women to trying to prevent them from being taken advantage of. Now, of course it’s not his place to do it for them, but he’s showing off his new “fatherly” behavior. I didn’t love that part, but it was nice to see him not being a total sleeze anymore.
I didn’t mind the finale overall, but I was sad the mom, only recently introduced, died off. I get they were using that as a springboard to get him back to Robin, but I was frankly done with the Ted-Robin pairing.
trying to prevent them from being taken advantage of
I don’t necessarily have a problem with this, (although I’d still rather have him go after predatory men, who are the real problem) but the writers had him scolding and shaming women rather than taking any sort of constructive action.
Oh, yes, I definitely agree with this point.
It’s such a strange choice, IMO. I can see just as much (if not more) comedic potential in “former lech hypocritically shames other lecherous men” as the is in “former lech hypocritically shames promiscuous women”.
I really liked the ring bear.
What happened in the finale
Turns out, Mom was actually a Cylon.
