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No question, the last episode was a tough pill to swallow. It was just... So damn real. A stark contrast to Ted's fairytale. In the end, he found his perfect girl but lost her. And after all was said and done, he still had that longing for his old flame. They weren't "meant to be" but they ARE great for each other.
We also have to take into account that Ted has always had a flare for the dramatic. He's been telling us nine years of very unreliable stories, that are highly exaggerated and heavy on the nostalgia. That last episode though, the memories are darker. They are colored by the fact that he lost his friends to time and his wife to illness. That last scene of the first half (robin walking out of the party) killed me every bit as much as when marshall lost his father. It's what I'm going through now. I'm in the process of losing all my old friends to time. Yeah, facebook keeps me from losing touch with them, but... Life has this way of camouflaging the bonds until you don't really see them at all anymore.
This episode was ballsy. Very bittersweet. And never shied away from how hard it is to say the tepid goodbye, all the while knowing it's audience was expecting a warm hello.
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