[ 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]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 16 secrets from Secret Submission Post #591.
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Comments

[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.