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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

How I Met Your Mother had an ending in mind when the series began. They even filmed part of it so the children wouldn't have aged.

And by the time that series wrapped up, that ending was awful. Didn't matter - Bays and Thomas stuck with their original ending and as far as I was concerned, made the entire show difficult to watch in re-runs.

Having the ending figured out in advance can be a really bad thing if you're unwilling to veer away from it.

HIMYM's ending while infuriating, at least made sense from the point that Bays and Thomas alluded to it for the entirety of the show through allusions to Bertold Brecht and "Love in the Time of Cholera." They just didn't show their hand until the episode where Ted imagines the conversation between himself, himself from the future, Barney and Barney from the future.

Really, what ****ed up HIMYM was the fact that it shouldn't have gone beyond the seventh season.