[ SECRET POST #4688 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4688 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

Saw it coming. Still hate it. Just because they planned it doesn't mean it was a good ending. They spend the last few seasons telling us why Ted and Robin weren't good for each other. I do ship Barney/Robin and think that they just worked and that their ending made no sense. But even apart from that, Ted and Robin don't work.

And what gets me is that basically the message ends up being that Ted's dreams of a family and kids are the objectively best dreams and that there was something wrong with Robin's dreams and that she had to change who she was. That's what bugs me the most.

Also, by the end, Ted was really unlikable to be honest and even the Mother didn't deserve to be stuck with him, but at least that pairing worked and they fit each other.

[(Anonymous)]

+100

[(Anonymous)]

It's easy to focus more on the how the ending ruined Robin's character, but I'd argue Ted was also done a great disservice. During the show's run, 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 Ted letting Robin go via balloon metaphor in season 9 was such an important moment for him.

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 person want kids, stop being self sufficient to a fault, or keep them from putting their career before anything else. A couple needs to have the same life goals in order to be successful. I know some people like to think that love just fixes everything but it doesn’t. It’s a naive and even harmful idea in some cases. But who cares about logic? French horn of destiny! Yay!

[philstar22]

This is very true. But honestly I disliked Ted by the end of the show and didn't care about his fate as much as I did the other characters. But you are right, the ending did him a disservice. Did everyone a disservice really.