There is a huge brouhaha about how HIMYM couldn’t come up with a more pathetic way of ending this super amazing show. Critics are mumbling judgementally that how a show that made people giggle and guffaw throughout the nine seasons made a big mistake by resorting to a mawkish climax.
There is a huge brouhaha about how HIMYM couldn’t come up with a more pathetic way of ending this super amazing show. Critics are mumbling judgementally that how a show that made people giggle and guffaw throughout the nine seasons made a big mistake by resorting to a mawkish climax.
For HIMYM fans who didn’t have the time to catch up on the grand finale, here’s what happened!
Ted Mosby finally decided to tell his kids who their mother is. He tells them about his legendary journey with his four best buddies Barney, Robin, Marshall and Lily. And then comes a point when he gives away information about a certain Tracy Ms Connell – the mother of his kids who’s died of an unknown illness. Even though the mother is revealed at the end of the story, the kids realise that their dorky father is still in love with the fiery Robin Scherbatsky – who he proposed years ago but got rejected by the babe. As if the whole purpose of telling the story was so that he could get united to his lady-love finally in the end, so that his kids could show him the right way to following the love of his life again.
Meanwhile it turns out that Barney and Robin divorced years ago, as if the relationship always doomed to failure. Robin goes on to become a big hot-shot journalist and Barney finally finds the person who he wants to devote his life to. He has a daughter from some random chick, but when he holds the tiny bundle of joy in his hands, it becomes clear why none of his relationships worked. Becoming a doting dad was he was always meant to be. Lily and Marshall are happy as ever, they have been the messengers of positivity throughout the show, overcoming hindrances in their own mature ways.
In the end, Ted’s kids ask him to rush to their aunt Robin and say what’s in his heart without wasting much time. And he does so, with the same blue French horn with which he proposed her ages ago. Nothing seems to have changed, except Robin who finally realises this is how it was meant to be after all, after those years of gruelling confusing moments of finding that ‘perfect someone’…
My verdict:
I guess people were expecting a ‘happily ever after’, which is why the finale didn’t work with them. Maybe they were too dissapointed with the legendary couple ‘Robin and Barney’s’ relationship going kaput and how the makers also kill Tracy to get Ted and Robin together. Maybe according to some of them the ending was way too forced. But for me HIMYM has always been a ‘slice of life’ show. I think it had a successful run for 9 years because somewhere every urban youngster saw a bit of themselves in those iconic characters. The way Robin is almost never sure about her relationships, the way Barney is trying to find a purpose in life and hiding under the garb of his frivolous lifestyle, the way Ted’s search for true love seems like a never ending task despite being in innumerable relationships…isn’t that somewhere our story as well? Robin and Ted hitting that ‘epiphany moment’ in the end is a very cool scene for me because it gives you a sort of hope that everything will make sense in the end, and you will know why all that chaos and confusion messed up your life for a while.
Do tell us your views about the grand finale!
