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Originally Posted by cookster50

The wife really hated it. I wan't a big fan.

Originally Posted by Brainiac

My only complaint is all of the wasted episodes in the final season. IMO the first half of the season was complete garbage. They spent far too much time with Marshall in the damn car, they spent far too much time focusing on the days before the damn wedding, and they spent far too much time repeating the same jokes over and over. I mean, how many times is it really funny that Lily gets a new drink put in her hand as soon as the old drink is empty? Answer: it was funny twice. After that it was tiresome and I felt like the writers were mailing it in.

I did notice real improvement in the final month, the last episode was warm and touching, and the final 5 minutes were perfect. When Ted's daughter said "This story isn't about how you met mom", I thought that summed up the entire series perfectly.

It wasn't about he met their mother. It never was. It was about Ted's journey.

After suffering through the God-awful Dexter finale, this was a relief. Dexter's finale nearly ruined the entire series. The HIMYM finale affirmed the series.

Still doesn't change the fact that the show runners fatigued the **** out of the Ted/Robin 'ship, only to seemingly write them off in S7 onward yet magically put them together in the finale.