'How I Met Your Mother': Cristin Milioti Debunks Morbid Finale Theory 

nice, up top!

Aquaspirit77 this comment wins

+mattwho81 It was just that...I saw Barney and Robin not working out from a mile away. Robin had so many doubts about marrying him. she even listed reasons not to marry him half a day before the wedding. Also Barney and Robin never talked about problems until the snowballed, because they were emotionally unavailable for various reason; that's not a good basis for a long term relationship. it isn't unbelievable Barney relapsed after a failed marriage. Like how an alcoholic relapses after a traumatic event in life. I think the ending was alright, not perfect but it was alright.

+Kay Jay she had doubts because she knew the type of guy he was but he fell in love and settled down with her...then they destroy the barney character only to have him regress back to his old self while everyone else has progressed for the better...its just lazy writing from their part

Barney wasn't the same. He had Ellie, and he even told two, as he would put it, "hotties" to go home. I'm not saying I liked the ending, because Robin annoys me, but I see it and accepted it. The show isn't about how he met their mother. It's the long love story of him and Robin. Sure, Tracy was perfect. But she wasn't Robin. Robin remained the same, because she had no changes as a character, besides not being able to have children (which wasn't even part of her plan). The show really puts the tough reality of life just when Ted gets left at the altar. And from the there they really build up the love trio Ted/Barney/Robin. Of those three, Barney was building up towards being an actual adult. Ted was continuing his love quest. And Robin stayed the same. But I digress. The point is, the show's finale is really good and sums up himym. It's brilliant and makes you think about the little signs throughout the series. I accept the ending, and the more you watch it, the more you really get it.

I feel like the whole Robin and Ted thing was forced. She clearly was never that in to him. In fact, after their break up it seems like the only times she was interested was when he was with somebody else. Ted did love Robin like crazy though. He was obsessed. Robin cared for Ted and loved him as a friend but she was never in love with him the way Ted was in love with her.

That is such a bs. They absolutely were not the same they were at the start. Ted WAS able to let Robin go. He was happly with Tracey for years! And even after her passing he did not rushed to Robins in the next day. It took him 6 years. What was he supposed to do. Remain on his own? Then I suppose Tracey should have done the same after death of Max? I mean Ted and Robin had and enduring bond. Robin did not realize it at some point, but eventually she changed in that regard. Up to last episode it was Ted who thought they should be together, when he stopped it, Robin started to think so (which is btw very consistent with what happened prior to Barney and Robin marrige where Barney tolt he stops running after her). And Barney being the same? Are you kidding me? He devoted his life to his child. That is nothing like episode 1 Barney would ever do. It took event like becoming a father (and COMMITING TO IT) to change the guy. It would have been lazy writing to just linearly developing charecters like you would have wishsed for. Instead, he had a breaking point when he realized something. I think the very reason people are dissapointed at the ending is that they just were proven wrong and people don't like that. Everyone thought they knew what will happen and when proven wrong, they just started to bitch about it...

+NotAlexTurner I just watched that episode again a couple of days ago. But honestly I think you're giving the writers too much credit. I seriously doubt that they intended that to be a Easter egg, yet never said a word about it after the show ended.

i'm just pointing it out son, chill out

NotAlexTurner Also, just making a point, don't mistake a reply with more than two lines as a rant.

+NotAlexTurner you need to chill… he's trying to make a valid point wha't your problem?

eswolf Don' t bother wolfy, Alex probably thinks that the secretary Barney had named Tracy is also an Easter egg for the mothers name reveal. What he doesn't seem to understand is that they used the name Tracy McConnell to further the umbrella TM initials joke.

she is an actresse

Yea she lied like a pro.

Sensitive Atheist but she said they didn't film any alternate endings and they did

she is an actress...

No they edited in an alternative ending because so many fans hated the one they filmed haha

Either way you can't blame her for "lying" it's her job that she has to keep secret

truth. it hurt. i wanted robin to die when i saw the end

they made you THINK it was about the umbrella. If it really was about the Mother instead of Robin, the story would've started either the first day of college when he met Marshall or started at Barney and Robin's wedding. The story starts with Robin and centers around her so much that it makes sense that ends with her. And whoever called her a liar about the alternate ending, you're stupid. The alternate ending ONLY exists on the DVD and the only person they brought in to make the new ending was Bob Sagget for the voice over stuff. All video footage in the alternate ending was stuff they already had from shooting season 9 as is.

oh my god finally another person who understands the ending lol

blink182lives100 personally I believe Ted is more compatible with the pastry chef (I can't remember her name). But it wasn't my story to tell, it was Carter Bays' story to tell. My only complaint is that there's like 3 or 4 episodes in season nine that I wish were replaced with actual plot pushing episodes. Barney's parents, waste of an episode. The final slap, waste of an episode, Darrin, waste of an episode.

***** ehh yeah those were just filler episodes. but I did like the final slap I thought that was hilarious.

"How I Fucked A Great Series With A Bullshit Ending"

MultiUnreal LOL. All that build-up just to let us know "oh Tracy's dead btw guys" lol.

Jparodyy Actually, what really pissed me off was all that crap with Barney and Robin's wedding. They spend an ENTIRE SEASON hyping it up and giving Barney some major character evolution, only to just toss it all out in about five minutes.

MultiUnreal Yup that pissed me off the most too lol he basically went back to being season 1 Barney which made the whole last season kind of pointless

'How I Met Your Stepmother'

The original ending gave the resolution to the near decade long story the show was about. The show was always about Ted and Robin. The show was never about the mother. The mother was a McGuffin. She was a plot device that had little to do with the overall plot. Ted and Robin were the endgame. That was the point of the show; Ted and Robin. The title How I Met Your Mother became very apparent by the end of the first season that the show was not about the mother. It would have been a slap in the face to watch Ted and Robin will they/won't they for nine seasons and then have the mother swoop in at the finale and make nearly a decade's worth of investment rendered pointless. That's a slap in the face.

+tpoppapuff i agree, the way they ended it made more sense to me. it was the outcome we kinda expected. but damn, what a journey

+tpoppapuff Although I understand what you are saying, I disagree. The story was about all of the characters' progress and growth as people, not just the relationship between Ted and Robin. We got to see Ted grow to be a person who could finally let go of the thing holding him back, which was Robin. The ending was a slap in the face to all those who saw this evolution. Ted, in the end, did not grow as a person because he went back to Robin.

Dragonwyrm It wasn't ONLY about Ted and Robin, but Ted's maturation is the reason they got back together at the end. If you think it's a slap in the face, then you didn't actually understand his character growth. Ted ended up with Robin because he had grown as a person. Their relationship was never going to work out together because of where Ted was as a character during the entire run of the show up until the point in the finale. He had several experiences during that time but never matured enough to actually understand love and separating that from obsession and his preconceived notions of a soulmate and what that actually means. Robin became preconceived notion. She was this ideal of what Ted had always had in his mind, but it was false. He wasn't mature enough as a character. During the show's nine seasons we watched Ted slowly become a little bit wiser and a bit more jaded until we finally saw him at his breaking point with his obsession with everything that Robin represented. To that point he had never evolved as a character because he kept relapsing. He never did evolve until that last episode when he finally let the idea of Robin go. That was the point at which he evolved. That was his turning point. He didn't gradually evolve over the course of the show, he only became more frustrated and pushed toward that evolution. That single moment where Ted let go of his romanticized ideals and obsession, was worth ten thousand episodes we could have watched before and still would have never evolved the character as much as that single moment. Ted's maturation during those nine seasons would be measured in baby steps whereas that moment is measured in miles. It was in that moment that he truly evolved as a character by any discernible, meaningful degree. And, not coincidentally, he once he let go of "Robin," which again was a stand in for all of his obsession and preconceived notions of what a soulmate is, did he finally meet and accept someone as a person that could give him everything he ever needed. That was a new Ted, one that made an incredible leap in a short amount of time and only very briefly over the course of a couple minutes of screen time. That is the mature Ted though. That is a completely new Ted. And that is the Ted who doesn't end up with "Robin," his obsession and preconceived notions of what a soulmate is, but instead ends up with Robin, the actual character on the show. What you're failing to realize that the Ted that ends up with Robin at the end of the series is not the same Ted that showed up at Robin's apartment with a blue French horn in the first episode. That parallelism between the end of the first episode and the end of the last episode was a narrative device; this time things work out for Ted and Robin because Ted is a more mature person.

+tpoppapuff oh, so you're saying Ted's character growth was from him no longer requiring the qualities that were on his list, in his significant other, and rather then letting go of Robin in the episode "sunset", he let go of his obsession with her?

yea what is the beauty in that?

Joseph Levy this was posted before the last episode was aired so she couldn't say anything

Kapsproductions Life isn't perfect, people aren't perfect. Sometimes, people find the person they are meant to be with but things happen. I'm willing to bet you weren't upset when Matt, Tracy's boyfriend, passed away. No, you played it off like it didn't happen, you may have felt sad for her, but you didn't care about him.

John Jams Major differences there buddy 1. Max wasn't even a character. He was a reference and began and ended at "He and Tracy were happily together and he died". 2. The ENTIRE SHOW was a build up to her. Her personality traits were peppered throughout the episodes, with Narrator Ted giving little tidbits on how she reacted positively to his little quirks that drove everyone else insane. The audience was endeared to her LONG before the character was even cast, let alone made an appearance. 3. The fans were blatantly lied to in order to keep this brilliant "twist". The creators were asked if Ted and Robin would end up together. They answered no. They were asked if Robin was the Mother. They answered no (technically a lie as they make her out to be the only Mother Luke actually knows and a second one to Penny). They were then asked, even before it was made obvious during the "future moments" between her and Ted, whether Ted was sitting them down to tell them the story because the Mother was dead. They answered no again. It's one thing for a story to use misdirection, getting you to focus on one thing while the truth is there the whole time, but they LIED about the obvious outcome. 4. Holy crap people get on my nerves with that "life isn't always happy" moments. Don't crap the ending of an endearing show, even after it'd run longer than it should have, and say it's being "realistic". If it was realistic, Marshall would have a great deal of difficulty becoming the lawyer he was, much less the judge he would be, due to the many things he's done and plastered all over the internet. Barney would have multiple STDs, more than one child, several stalkers, death threats, battered by angry husbands/boyfriends, multiple arrests, and, in all likelihood, dead. There's no way Robin would have EVER been struggling in her career. Given who her dad was, she probably wouldn't even have that career. I mean who encouraged her to go be a pop star if he killed off all semblance of feminine behavior? And she's a pop star, even if largely in Canada, as popular as they made her out to be, she would've started as an anchor. Not out in snowstorms covering fluff material. That also would've translated over and helped her in NY. Given how he wants them all to succeed and how he loves them in his own way, her dad would have also pulled strings to help her out. They lied, thinking that would keep the interest and buzz, instead of relying on the show to carry itself. They ignored good writing to stick to an ending before any of the characters developed and expressed regret over doing so. They slapped a lame excuse on it for the sake of a "twist" and called it "realistic". No. It sucked. It was the equivalent of Luke calling out to Vader in agony from Force Lightning and Vader walking up and just going "Dude... I've ruled the galaxy for 20 years with an iron fist, killed entire armies solo, and one of the first vile things I did was kill kids. But since you said 'please', that changes everything! Whoops..." as he stabs him with a lightsaber. That would've been "realistic", but that's not what the story was naturally heading towards.

Theinen84 how is that a major difference? Matt was to Tracy what Tracy is to Ted. And most of my previous reply came from an interview with Neil Patrick Harris. Do I think Ted will stay with Robin? Hell no, it didn't work the first time because she wanted to travel. But, it makes sense that he would go back to her. Robin isn't the mother, because the show never shows Ted and Robin getting married. Also, you're mad because they lied to you? Really? In that same interview with Neil Patrick Harris, the interviewer (I don't remember who) responded to Neil when he said, "the ending made a lot of people mad" with, "well, they really don't have a reason to be, I mean it was free to them". That really made me start thinking. I used to be upset about the ending, but when I heard that I began to rationalize the story. If the mother didn't die, he would have been with the mother, but because she did, it makes sense that Ted would go back to Robin. What did you want to happen? Tracy and Ted to live happily ever after? I think it would have been better if we would have had an entire season to get to know Tracy before she died, but they didn't want it that way.

that’s exactly what i thought!

Eh... I guess. She could have just been traveling for work, though, or something. Like she’s out of the house for an extended period of time and he decided to tell them all the details because he’s just like that. Keep in mind the timeline of how long he’s talking is somewhat fluid.

+SimplySimming What did he have to do with it?

Is there an article you can direct me to to read more on this? Thanks.

+SimplySimming But there were nine seasons - Zachary's just suggesting that they wrapped up Barney and Robin's wedding in the 8th, and spent the 9th on Ted and Tracey and the group. That wouldn't require Jason Segel to sign on to any more seasons than he already did.

the children don't say just get robin. They're mother died a few years ago and they see how ted and robin are together. they don't boy the story HIMYM because it's about his feeling about Robin. they like Robin and the wish that there father is happy and that's time for him to go back in a relationship. so the story is told very quickly but it's years in there time

The thing is that the line "How I met your mother" needed to be delivered in the final episode so the title makes sense. And even if the integration was done during flashbacks throughout the season it prob would be convoluted. I do think they could added more in the final episode but it is what it is

Wow

The cast literally had no idea what the last episode was going to be... until the day they were handed the script a few days before the recording. So every interview that you see of the cast, pre-finale, is unbiased.

Fabien Camille Actually, they filmed the ending for the finale back in season two. At least Josh and Cobie knew.

Pooja Ekbote actually, they only filmed for the finale back in season 2 with the kids (to maintain their ages) during their reactions when the time did come around to the end of the show however, no one else knew anything (i.e not Josh nor Cobie), it was just the 2 kids.

Pooja Ekbote That's a valid point.. but not Robin though. The only thing that was filmed post season 1 was the scene of Ted talking to his kids right before they call his bluff.

Pooja Ekbote I think.........

Saying "that is insane" is not in itself an answer to this or any other question, it's an opinion of the statement she was asked to comment on.

She also said there were no alternate takes/endings which we now know there are

Alexander Dockham There weren't any alternate takes on the ending while filming. The "happy ending" version is a result of editing, so she couldn't know by the time they were filming.

She lied when she said there wouldn't be any alternative endings, because there is one coming out in the fall! I'm so excited, I might finally feel closure!

Jalla Bingomer No there is no alternate script the alt-ending in the dvd is going to be made up from existing footage and Cristin did not know about it.

dary

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there's an alternate ending

+Emmanuel Arce its not, i saw it, its just cut

Ya there's an alternate ending and it's still better

I wholeheartedly agree with you. It is a profound and complex story...and I had a similar experience with my father telling me about my dead mother. Because of that, I picked up many things along the way that gave you clues that the mother is no longer alive. Among those clues, during the entire narration, Ted never says anything like :just ask you mother" There is no reference in all the narration that indicates he is talking about a living person that he loves. Rather, he is trying to get over his loss. In the last scene with the kids, they are pushing Ted to get back out there, and especially to rekindle his feelings for Robin. Tracy tells Ted in one of the last episodes where the unsaid background is she has a terminal condition that she worries that Ted might become someone lost in their stories. Surprisingly, in the second to last scene of the series, Penny is functioning like Lily giving Ted the advice he needs to hear,

Like Game of Thrones?

Agree.

@@danielwanger5919 it was Kit Harrington who said it in an interview

I disagree and I'm still going to hate on the terrible ending. The reason it was so bad wasn't because of what you think the show's "message" had been. We spent an ENTIRE season focusing on just the weekend of the wedding of Barney and Robin and about 10 minutes into the next episode it's over? That felt cheap. They were certainly asking us to invest ourselves in that relationship by having a whole season revolve around it. To just end it the next episode and have Ted right back after Robin after all the buildup of the Mother being his soulmate was just wrong. There is no way to spin that into being a representation of their "message". They asked us as an audience to invest in all of those things and then pulled the rug out from under us. Bad... Bad all around.

tylergirl1970 I totally agree with you... And it's a comedy, for God's sake! Besides, Robin-Barney breakup in 10 minutes goes against any logic, couldn't she change job to give Barney a chance? If she is so self centered, there will be no chance of success with Ted too... No, there are no excuses, this was a very poor and inconsistent finale.

No kidding I started watching it after I graduated college in 05. And my life almost emulated Lilly and marshals it was awesome. This show doesn't owe us anything

radoico tylergirl1970 agree with you two, it doesn't make any sense. And Robin and Barney belong together , Ted and Robin broke up, and get back together, and broke up, and it doesn't make any sense to get back together again. And hole season was about Barney's and Robin's wedding and then 10min after it we found out it's over. And Ted is telling a story about the love of his life. He said he loved the mother , but at the same time he's got fellings for Robin. And Barney gets child with some random girl, and stays alone. And he still got fellings for Robin. I mean, he said that he loves her when they broke up. I'm so sad about him. The show was great, but the ending is awful.

i watch a god damn comedy show to escape reality not to remind me life sucks.

Victor Chin I feel where you're coming from... But technically, she didn't lie! ;) More importantly, she didn't deny it. Which is why I was still skeptical. You know what they say about assuming!

She should've borrowed the line barney uses whenever they ask him what he does. "Please..."

Victor Chin "that's insane" does not always necessarily mean no. It could just mean that's insane that they would do that, or that's insane that the fans have figured it out. She gave a politician's answer ie answering the question without actually answering the question and let the public infer what they want. It's not actually lying. I bet the producers were impressed with that.

She did lie about no alternate ending guys.....

Anastasia Sandjaya She actually didn't because he asked her if she shot in any alternate ending and said no while rolling the eyes. That was true since they didn't shot anything for the alternate ending. They just made a montage of previous scenes of the show with Bob Sagget narating. But didn't shoot anything additional. I think the alternate ending wasn't planned, they did it because the real ending sucked and people hated it. Too bad it was too little too late.

You're kinda correct indeed... But if you notice, the alternate ending didn't have any extra scenes that the original ending didn't have.. It contains the part where Lily said about how emotionally strong Ted was (or something like that), and the station-scene, but they did add in a quick little recap of the series.. So, perhaps Cristin actually thought that there was indeed no alternate ending, and the directors of the show made it after Cristin did this interview.. One thing I also actually like in the alternate ending is that for the final credits they decided not to play the theme song, but instead a more emotional song, just to emphasize the fact that the series has ended..

yeah but in the original ending she did die and there are scenes filmed for that, 2 scenes leading up to it and one where she is in the hospital

Well, technically she never lied about dying. She just said that it was crazy and ridiculous. She never said that it was false. She also didn't lie about that alternate ending either. The question was if they had filmed an alternate ending. They didn't film alternate scenes, they just made a different cut. The alternate ending was made long after they had wrapped things up (probably after that interview as well). So she never lied about anything.

She says "that's insane"... so yes she IS lying because it is not insane and she knows it.. it is actually exactly what she filmed . She is actively misleading the interviewer. I don't fault her for it, as a contracted paid actor she is likely forbidden from exposing it but to pretend that she wasn't misleading anyone is incorrect.

I mean, Kit Harrington also lied for the better part of a year about Jon Snow being dead when that didn't even last 2 episodes when the season aired. It's just what actors do.

LMAO I'd still let her :)

Just make sure at the wedding, she says "I do," and not "that's crazy."

HAHAHA I will!

She lied coz she said the finale is beautiful u.u That's a lie.

KarinMozina I was just making a joke based on the fact that I didn't like the finale :P

When they ask about all endings she says no, which isn't true.

Sean Richmond They didn't *film* multiple endings ... they just used existing footage for the alternate ending...

Well at least part of the narration was new technically.

She could have said that she can't say anything about it...

[Project Blue] if she said that on that question, everyone would know that's what going to happen

Ricardo van Dijke If you say so :)

[Project Blue] Then it would of been very obvious and people would probably be mad at her for avoiding the question.

Ricardo van Dijke ***** Exactly, both of you -- I completely agree. Did people actually think she was just going to flat-out say, "Yeah, you're right... She dies" or "I can't talk about that"? Both would have been awful things for her to say before the finale aired.

It reminds me of the first five minutes of UP. You're welcome.

+Jniki_nishi Well, I think they should've separated it a bit more. Like an end of credit sequence or a Christmas special or something.

I feel the last episode was good until the last few minutes it felt like more of a cop out and they just threw one more twist in at the end just for the sole purpose as to screw with them

+sam frizzell Don't get me wrong, I would have loved that ending if it was the end of season one or two, but Ted and Robin could have run away together at any point and even Lilly says it, just move on with your damn life Ted! In the end, it was more like a series of gags than a TV show.

+Stupid Penguin Sounds exactly the last 10 minutes kinda ruins the first few years

that's a load of B.S....

Yes, the ending of the show was realistic and I liked it. Tbh, a stereotype ending wouldn’t really fit to HIMYM and I was happy with the ending. And for the people who complain about it, the show‘s name is „How I MET your mother“ and not „How I lived happily with your mother till the end of our lives“. And when Ted came to Robin with the blue french horn I really liked it.

SorrowfulLesson Perfect? It was awful! The big twist was that she was dead and it all came back to Robin. Ted and Tracy were more tied together than Ted and Robin!

+Donna Noble OMG Donna was one of my less prefured compaions now she is like lke my 4th because of what you said

+Donna Noble "The ending was beautiful, and anyone who says otherwise is just bitter" Well, that's not really true, is it. People may like or dislike an episode of a sit-com for any number of reasons. And she didn't actually "lie." She simply said the death theory was "insane." And they didn't shoot alternate endings - they simply edited an alternate ending by leaving out the stuff about her death and Ted hooking up with Robin. She did a neat job of sidestepping the questions without lying.

Okay, I stand corrected; somebody here actually understands the finale and why it wasn’t bad, and I love how it’s my favorite companion. >3< ~

My issue with the ending is how they spent a whole last season building up Ted finally letting go of Robin. Then, just 1 episode later, they destroy all of it. Why? What was the point? It makes so much of the series a waste of time. All the buildup of the yellow umbrella, for what? Just to toss it in the trash 10 minutes later and go right back to the blue horn. It was just... bad. It turned the beautiful story about fate and long awaited love into a cheap hook to keep viewers watching. And it turned the title from "How I met your mother" into "How I met your mother so she could be conveniently killed off to fix the whole we dug ourselves into when we said 'Aunt Robin' in season 1". The alternate ending is definitely the real ending IMO. The one that was aired was just a crappy messed up dream Ted had after sipping a bit too much scotch.

HA! totally!

Or it could've meant that the fans are digging way too deep into something that is right in front of their face and she just loves their enthusiasm.

The ending was already spoiled. People saw it coming for years and it still sucked a rotten egg!

+Vospader21 She knew since years before.

No, she was cast in the last season. The creators had it all planned, but she knew when she was given the script. But yes, this video is after the finale fas filmed so she knew.

the alternate one are for people who did not get the show... the only thing i would change is giving the information about tracy's death a little earlier so that all those stupid people would not freak uot about the lack of a disney ending...

Yeah that's the same for me.

I watched the episode again yesterday, and watching it again, it was like: "how could have no one seen that coming?!" , the lines he says when he's talking to her is so obvious that he is dead, the "I want those extra 45 days with you" part and the "I will always love you" part of the scene is dead obvious (no pun intended :P).

that was when i first knew she died--him crying at her door? going back? needing those 45 days? no...I knew something was wrong. and when they were at dinner and pronounced themselves an old married couple and Ted cried after she said, "what kind of mother doesn't go to her own daughter's wedding," that was the nail in the coffin, pun intended.

Sarah H If they left it subtle, people like you would be bitching that there was no Resolution

Yes but its true there is going to be an alternate ending, but they didn't actually film more content especially for it, they just recycled the 17 mins which they couldn't fit into the TV time slot. Apparently it solves the mystery of the pineapple, how robin became a bull fighter and other stuff.

ainsley Chan No, I mean that it is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from the original, and a little birdy told me that robin and barney don't divorce!

Omar Khan It doesn't matter. The creators consider the aired version canon... and proud of it. That alternate ending should be considered either just a blooper reel or peace offering, but we all know Ted just went back to cling desperately to his past. So Jed Mosely was a jerk after all.

Hal Guerrero Maybe, but you should confirm with the HIMYM twitter account.

I would not be surprised if they are just tricking people into buying the dvs and she still dies in the alternative ending.

I would use "disappointing."

and that too

I'd say "Bullshit"

and that too

idk why everyone hates the ending i thought it was adorable

Because it is over.....

Nick Sparrow well technically i can still go back and watch previous episodes but yea no more new episodes lol

ichigo kurosaki Yea that's what I mean. I used to watch episodes on Netflix nonstop because I loved it so much. No more.

blaknite16523 I did the same thing...

Do what I do just never watch the last five to ten minutes of the very last episode ;)

The season wasn’t bad tho. It was great season. The last few scenes kind of suck but in the alt ending those don’t exist.

Daniel Kottcamp no shit

i thought the same thing! Didn't see you had written hehehe

i've watched this show hundreds of time and it literally never occured to me

3 words Blue French Horn It ends where it started.

Dixie Alexander and it was a crap ending. just ignore the whole 9th season and all the character development made through the 9 seasons.

Yellow umbrella>blue French horn

nah I'm gonna be upset by the crap ending until the alternate ending comes out, and hopefully that one will make sense with the show as a whole and then I'll be ok

Kellr0ck To bad you have to buy a package including all nine seasons in order to get the alternate ending not just the season nine package.

Same 😫

I didn't hate it. But it was very sad

you must only watch disney movies... i loved the ending, and that alternated ending was just shit...

If only it was 10 episodes and not 22. But yes .. you're right.

lol dam was it really 22

yea thats just rediculous

cooljak30 I agree. I can't believe they would build up to something like that for seasons, and literally spend the entire last season in the weekend of that wedding, and then within a few minutes of the finale be like, "Oh yeah it was hard, so we got divorced. Anywayyyyy......" When I first read the theory of the mother dying, I was crushed, and I thought that was such a shitty thing to do. But I could have never imagined that they were killing her off, and wrecking Robin and Barney's marriage, all so we could go right back to square one and that blue french horn.

Exactly they could have gone for that ending if they had simply executed it better. The only thing that made sense about it to me was that hey could finally be with Robin now cause he could love, married, had kids, started a family, had his dream home, essentially completed all his goals and shit that would have prevented him and Robin from having a relationship. They both did actually Robin was at height of her career. So no issueswould arrise as well as resentment. Still, just poor execution. Wife dies they cant even respect us with info of disease, robin and barney break up essentially over no wifi (there was more to it but so I feel the issue of traveling could have easily been rectified). Barney doesnt really change or become a better person, he knocks up 31 chicks in a row and gets one pregnant. I had no clue how I was supposed to feel about that. He doesnt even have the decency to call the mother of his child by name. Lily and Marshal are my favs but I was still upset they couldnt make sacrifices for each other like seriously he had the ability to be a judge so early in his career and you wanna do art. They could have compromised, or lily coulda gone to to italy for a year, while Marshal stays back, etc. Luckily he still became a judge later down the line but still. All in all I feel HIMYM warranted a whole nother season in stead of trying to crame one into a single 2 pt ep. Like theirs no excuse after all the full eps they had focusing on nothing and then had a ep try to fit EVERYTHING. they shoulda cut the wedding arc down and added the storyline. Oh well whats down is down I guess. Just feel finales are a shows last hurrah and farewell to audience and fans and should be down extremely well and leave no doubts, issues, problems or questions.

I totally agree! I mean if the show had ended back in S1 and they'd made Victoria the mother and everything I would've been totally ok with the ending but with what went on in the other EIGHT seasons it makes NO sense!

She can't say anything.. you know if she said anything about the ending she would have the biggest lawsuits against her right...

You are unspeakably wrong... the earlier season are by far the funniest.

She said its "insane" She didn't say its not true! ;)

Brandon Xing She also didn't make eye contact when she said "insane" and then re-directed her response

She never actually denied that Tracy dies. She said "that's crazy" to the fans believing that the mother is dead.

Jake O'Shea shes probably thinking its crazy that they figured it out

That's what I meant.

I read this in the Govenors voice.

2kVue123 There are a lot of governors.

Well, they couldn't reshoot the finale. The kids aged. They were forced to use the original ending

***** What about all the hints that they dropped about the mother dying?

***** There is one in Season 9 if I remember and one interesting use of a song called "The funeral" in 8x01

***** No, it's kind of a big hint, I remember

***** Oh shit I also remember one from 7x17 Who knows how many hints they dropped

The ending made me sad

You have to remember that they sign a non disclosure agreement meaning that they can't reveal the end unless they want to lose a quite large part of their pay. It's not her fault for lying, it's the fault of the interviewer for asking.

Plus, she said things like that they didn't FILM an alternate ending, and they didn't, the alternate ending was just a different narration. Plus her response was that the theories were "crazy" you could interpret that to mean that it was crazy that people were so spot on. Just sayin'

All she said was that's insane

You can definitely tell that a lot of these scenes were filmed early on also. I can bet that some scenes from season 8/9 were filmed during the early seasons. They had a very clear vision

they get the script a day before they film, it might have been here real opinion

Jesse Martin Actually she filmed the finale prior to this interview, and therefore, she knew. However, due to the contract they are under, as loveGG3 said, she is not allowed to reveal anything. At the end of this interview, she calls the finale "beautiful," meaning that she knew what happened which confirms that.

have you seen the cast of twilight?? all of them express profusely on how they feel about the movies... i haven't seen that much self hatred since the 90's

michael giraldo last i checked, Twilight was not considered as a part of legit Hollywood, and usually considered a joke to be honest. Have you seen Kristen Stewarts smile? Wait, I haven't either. Twilight casting is not truly a great way to base an argument.