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Originally Posted by splatbass
What was the point? Don't you think the producers, who created the show, know what the point of the show was better than you? They knew the ending before the show even started. It was what they always intended to happen.
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Half correct. Sepinwall probably could convey this much better than I will but....
In the pilot, they threw in the curveball of "and that is how I met your Aunt Robin" to end the episode to increase the chances that CBS would pick up the series. They thought of the whole "your story has been aunt Robin this whole time dad. Go get her" in the second season because you could pretty much toss it at the end of any season and it would work if the series was cancelled.
They basically married themselves to this idea from there on out. My problem with them doing that is they spent from season 4 on, hammering us over the head with the idea that "Ted and Robin will never be together!" just so it would be some stupid twist. Not to mention the last season was the worst of the series. So much filler. That finale was crammed with too much.