[ SECRET POST #4130 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4130 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation]



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[Lee Pace]


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[Spyro Reignited Trilogy]


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[How I Met Your Mother]









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Comments

[fscom]

08. https://i.imgur.com/TrvfQRy.jpg
[How I Met Your Mother]

[mrs_don_draper]

I agree 1000%. I also don't understand why they made her infertile instead of just choosing not have children. So forking annoying.

[greghousesgf]

ugh. glad I was never into this show.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree!! It's such an annoying thing when shows make all women characters want a big wedding and kids, especially if they have no indication of wanting kids beforehand and actively dislike children! ((I also remember that it happened to Elliot in Scrubs which sucked. I liked that she didn't like children and wanted to focus on her career but then she flipped completely for some reason))

[sparklywalls]

I'm so used to fiction doing us women who don't want or can't have kids dirty by now that I unfortunately wasn't surprised to see her do the "aww but I should've had them with Barney" crap.

What really boiled my piss was her ending up with TED and an insta-made family as though that made it all better. As though another really awesome woman (who presumably wanted those kids) didn't DIE (after being built-up for actual YEARS) to make that possible. Seriously fuck everything about that finale.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, is that really how the show ends?!

I dropped it maybe one or two episodes after the one OP refers to, and by that point I was too tired of the bullshit to bother looking for spoilers. I'm glad I didn't stick with it until the end (what a bullshit ending!), but I still wish I had stopped watching one or two seasons before I actually did.

[sparklywalls]

Omg anon you really did not miss out if you gave up! That whole last season is wasted on a wedding that basically DOESN'T MATTER.

I'm still angry every time I think about it. Like, even though Tracy (the mother) was basically a plot device I still felt she was amazing from what little we knew about her and deserved better. Basically it was foreshadowed HARD that something was going to happen and surprise! She ended up sick and died. The end of old Ted's story is basically Ted seeking permission from his kids to romantically go after "aunt" Robin and they give him their blessing. In any other walk of life I'd be ok with this but just how the entire series ended it rubbed me the wrong way. Not to mention Barney only reformed because of the gross "omg I have a baby daughter now and I love her!" trope from a man who previously treated women like shit.

The secret is right. Robin/Career ftw.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, that is awful in so many ways. I'm definitely glad I dropped it.

[(Anonymous)]

I have a head canon that Ted is a fantastically unreliable narrator who built up Robin's feelings for him in his head, and when he turns up at her house with the blue french horn she says "Ted please, I'm still not interested. Stop chasing something you can't have and go home, I need to be up at 4am to catch a plane to Vienna." Robin/Career is canon

[(Anonymous)]

I like this headcanon.

[(Anonymous)]

That is a good headcanon.

[(Anonymous)]

It's actually also a terrible ending for Ted. It was anti development. He blindly ran back to Robin every time he suffered a big break up or other devastating event. He used her as a reason to not move on and grow up. She was a crutch for him, as Victoria wisely pointed out. That's why him letting go of her in season 9 was an important moment, but the writers totally undid that development with the ending. Why was Robin the love of Ted’s life that he could never completely get over even after years of happiness and children with a woman who was perfect for him on every conceivable level? The show never answers that question. I don't even like Ted, really. But bad writing is bad writing and that annoys me.

A proper ending for Ted would have shown him no longer having an ounce of romantic feeling for a woman he simply never fit with. His late 20/30 year old self thought love was enough but his 40/50 year old self should have come out wiser than that. Love doesn’t magically change people. "Love" doesn't make a woman more suitable for a man, but it can make him believe that she is.

I do have a little bit of righteous anger for Robin, though because I'm a woman who doesn't want children and doesn't even practically like them. The writing screwed her over by not even having her being friends with Lily after she and Barney got divorced. That might have been the worst insult to her character. A woman who wanted love and family her entire life got robbed of that because she had dreams that wasn't a baby.

[sparklywalls]

Actually don't disagree with anything you've said here and it just makes the finale even more shitty. Basically everyone got done dirty in some way and it's a symptom of the writers sticking rigidly to their desired end game when the series went on waaaay too long to stick with it.

[nightscale]

Yeah, TV tends to do women who don't want kids really dirty in some way.

But this show fucked up a lot of things with the characters by the end, which was sad because I liked it.

[philstar22]

I don't think she was regretting not having kids. She was just grappling with the idea of being physically incapable of having them. I don't know, but as someone who really doesn't want kids, I still feel like if I found out I couldn't have them because of some health issue, I'd probably relate similarly.

[(Anonymous)]

That seems realistic to me, as someone who also doesn't want kids.

But the hatedom for this show is very strong on F!S.

[(Anonymous)]

Just ONCE I want to see a woman character who doesn't want kids, then finds out she can't have kids, then like, has a party, downs a whole celebratory bottle of champagne and throws out her birth control.

I'm assuming it's an "Edgy" sitcom.

[(Anonymous)]

pretty much what i would do. i can't afford to get my tubes tied so finding out that i got it for free would be sick!

like man, pregnancy is such a damocles' and even with birth control something can go wrong.

(though even when you're supposedly unable to get pregnant you can sometimes, just ask my mum...)

[(Anonymous)]

I've been wanting to make this exact same secret for a long time now, but was struggling how to word it. I feel you OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I don't see it that way. Robin always had big goals and her dreams were never about having kids, but that doesn't mean (even though she didn't GENERALLY want kids) that it could never be something she thought about. People make big decisions and then still go back to kinda re-think them, to make sure they still feel the same way, all the time.

I thought that episode where she finds out she couldn't have any felt very real, because although she didn't want them she did also feel a twinge of some kind of sadness, because even if she WERE to change her mind someday it wouldn't matter because that door was shut.

Imo that show really fucked up a lot of things in the end but that wasn't one of them. She was still a very career-oriented woman.