Dear Writers & Producers of HIMYM,
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lizzardgirlSo here are seven easy & simple ways that the HIMYM finale could have been much, much better than it was.
1 - just don't air it. Everything ended in a great spot last week, we could have ended there and everyone would've been happy.
2 - don't kill The Mother! Make it so that she was very ill, but then she recovered and it was through this period when he feared he was losing her, that Ted realised that yes, she was the one woman he wanted to spend his life with, not Robin. Then he tells the story to his kids in order to show them how happy he is to have their mother in his life!
3 - if you have to kill The Mother (and I'll admit that *that* plot twist at least made sense, sort of), don't do it off-stage with a half-sentence allusion. Make the finale all about how Ted found the Mother, but then lost her heartbreakingly, but that it was the friendship of his four closest friends that got him through the worst of times. Show us how they all were there for him, in a platonic way (!!!) and how they supported him through all it. The message is then not that The Mother was simply someone to bear the kids Robin couldn't/wouldn't have, but that she was the love of his life - that he may find another woman, but at the moment he is just happy to have the friends he has because they helped him through thick and thin.
4 - whatever you do with The Mother, don't break up Barney & Robin. I'm serious. DON'T DO IT. It's utterly silly and far-fetched that they'd break up over something so easily solveable as the travel issues. Yes, I see how it might lead to a hiccough in their relationship, but they love each other so much, they would just find a solution for it. It's not unsolveable. They could've set a limit to Robin's travels, Barney could've found a different job, there are so many different compromises they could've reached. To end it like that was stupid stupid stupid.
5 - if you have to break them up - preferrably over something that would ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE, like Barney sleeping with someone else because he got nostalgic - then you'd damn better get them together again!!! Robin seeing how much Barney has matured when he's a responsible father to his daughter could've been such a great way to get them back together again. Instead, that Barney's-kid-subplot came out of nowhere and quickly dashed off into the great nowhere again.
6 - yeah, so you really, definitely want to use the scenes with the kids filmed back in 2006 about how their dad is hung up about Robin. (Because yeah that totally makes sense to use scenes that were devised AGES ago and never revised according to new developments). So use that. BUT MAKE IT A JOKE. MAKE IT SO THE KIDS WERE POKING FUN AT THEIR DAD AND HIS LONGWINDED STORY BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUS TO THEM TED IS WAY OVER ROBIN BECAUSE HE LOVES THEIR MOM, WHO THEN ENTERS THE ROOM AND TELLS THEM TO STOP TEASING THEIR DAD.
7 - Or else, have the scene in all seriousness, but then have Ted reflect that while he may be still hung up on Robin, *SHE* is clearly meant to get back together with Barney, and it's not Ted ringing on Robin's door, but Barney, driven by Ted, because Ted - through telling the story to his kids - understood how they were meant to be.
1 - just don't air it. Everything ended in a great spot last week, we could have ended there and everyone would've been happy.
2 - don't kill The Mother! Make it so that she was very ill, but then she recovered and it was through this period when he feared he was losing her, that Ted realised that yes, she was the one woman he wanted to spend his life with, not Robin. Then he tells the story to his kids in order to show them how happy he is to have their mother in his life!
3 - if you have to kill The Mother (and I'll admit that *that* plot twist at least made sense, sort of), don't do it off-stage with a half-sentence allusion. Make the finale all about how Ted found the Mother, but then lost her heartbreakingly, but that it was the friendship of his four closest friends that got him through the worst of times. Show us how they all were there for him, in a platonic way (!!!) and how they supported him through all it. The message is then not that The Mother was simply someone to bear the kids Robin couldn't/wouldn't have, but that she was the love of his life - that he may find another woman, but at the moment he is just happy to have the friends he has because they helped him through thick and thin.
4 - whatever you do with The Mother, don't break up Barney & Robin. I'm serious. DON'T DO IT. It's utterly silly and far-fetched that they'd break up over something so easily solveable as the travel issues. Yes, I see how it might lead to a hiccough in their relationship, but they love each other so much, they would just find a solution for it. It's not unsolveable. They could've set a limit to Robin's travels, Barney could've found a different job, there are so many different compromises they could've reached. To end it like that was stupid stupid stupid.
5 - if you have to break them up - preferrably over something that would ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE, like Barney sleeping with someone else because he got nostalgic - then you'd damn better get them together again!!! Robin seeing how much Barney has matured when he's a responsible father to his daughter could've been such a great way to get them back together again. Instead, that Barney's-kid-subplot came out of nowhere and quickly dashed off into the great nowhere again.
6 - yeah, so you really, definitely want to use the scenes with the kids filmed back in 2006 about how their dad is hung up about Robin. (Because yeah that totally makes sense to use scenes that were devised AGES ago and never revised according to new developments). So use that. BUT MAKE IT A JOKE. MAKE IT SO THE KIDS WERE POKING FUN AT THEIR DAD AND HIS LONGWINDED STORY BECAUSE IT'S OBVIOUS TO THEM TED IS WAY OVER ROBIN BECAUSE HE LOVES THEIR MOM, WHO THEN ENTERS THE ROOM AND TELLS THEM TO STOP TEASING THEIR DAD.
7 - Or else, have the scene in all seriousness, but then have Ted reflect that while he may be still hung up on Robin, *SHE* is clearly meant to get back together with Barney, and it's not Ted ringing on Robin's door, but Barney, driven by Ted, because Ted - through telling the story to his kids - understood how they were meant to be.
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Date: 2014-04-02 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-03 09:08 am (UTC)I refuse to let the memories of the finale taint the rest of the show because I loved it and it was awesome. I will just pretend that half of it never happened!
Because there were good parts in it, I won't deny that. They were just overshadowed by the two horrible plot twist.
If I ever get good at video-editing I'll re-edit the finale so that Barney and Robin don't get divorced and it ends at the train station!
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Date: 2014-04-04 03:31 am (UTC)herhis life and his point of living was to show her how munchshehe lovedhimher. We've got the beginning of some nice fluffy FFs going for us!Edit: OMG I need to proofread! I'm so embarrassed.
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Date: 2014-04-04 10:31 am (UTC)And now I'm tearing up because *that* would have been really beautiful. Sad, but beautiful. And meaningful. And it would not have had everyone revert back to what they were in the first episode.