[ SECRET POST #2667 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2667 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[philstar22]

I don't usually do this. I'm usually a canon is canon and fanon is fanon girl. There are plenty of parts of my fandoms i don't like, but I just enjoy my personal fanon without ignoring that canon exists as canon. However, the last episode of How I Met Your Mother changed that. Its just so different from anything that could possibly have made sense that the show ends with 9x22 for me.

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[lyriel]

"However, the last episode of How I Met Your Mother changed that. Its just so different from anything that could possibly have made sense that the show ends with 9x22 for me."

I've never watched that show and I know absolutely nothing about it, so could someone explain to me, in general terms, what was so shocking about the finale? Did they swap-out all the pairings at the last minute? Did they "undo" everything that had happened previously?

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[meredith44]

After a whole season of Barney and Robin getting married, they had Ted meet the mother. Then in the last few minutes, Barney and Robin got divorced, the mother died, and it turned out Ted telling the story was really about Robin and his kids gave him permission to date her. So the show ended with him going to Robin to date her. Meaning meeting the mother was fairly pointless except for giving him kids and the whole season with the wedding was also pointless. (It might have been different if they had timed it differently, but having all that stuff dumped in the last bit after getting everyone invested in Ted/the Mother and Barney/Robin doesn't seem to have worked for the majority of people.)

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[lyriel]

So they basically pulled a fast one and undid the whole premise and ret-conned a bunch of stuff? Again, I know nothing about this show, but it sounds like a lot of fans would be pissed off at that...

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[meredith44]

Pretty much. They filmed the ending back in the second season (when the kids were still the same age and wouldn't look oddly aged up). But then they went to nine seasons, and I (and other people) feel that ending didn't make sense any more. They showed that Ted and Robin didn't work so well as a couple (they tried more than once) and they got people invested in the other two relationships. So they basically got rid of the relationships and they retconned some of the characters' personalities. In the span of minutes at the end of the finale. Yeah, a lot of people were pissed off.

And you're welcome.

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[lyriel]

Wow. I didn't think TV shows were usually planned that far ahead. Either they weren't expecting the show to run for so many seasons, or else that's very calculated and kind of...diabolical.

"In the span of minutes at the end of the finale."

That's fucked up.

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[lyriel]

thanks for replying, btw.

Re: Fanon Discontinuity

[philstar22]

So, basically during the show Ted has held a torch for Robin who does not return his feelings. And in the last two seasons, we get the setup showing us why Ted and Robin would never work and why Robin and Barney do. We see Barney changing and maturing, we see Robin realizing that its okay to want a career and to travel and to not want kids. And all the rest of season 9 was about the Barney/Robin wedding and Ted finally letting go of Robin and meeting the "mother" who is a perfect match for him.

And then in the final, we find out that Barney and Robin divorced after 3 years because she travelled and he couldn't handle it. Even though we were shown before he loved her for who she is. And then all of Barney's character growth is destroyed. And Ted gets a few years with the "mother" who then dies. And at the end, Ted really isn't over Robin and turns out the story was about Ted wanting Robin all along. Even though we never see her returning the feelings.

So basically, the moral is that if you are a creepy stalker you will eventually get the girl.

Oh, and the third couple, Marshall and Lily become only about Marshall in the final with Lily barely registering.