[Discuss Thrower]

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.

Narrator Ted's first words were to tell his kids the greatest love story: that was the story of how he met their mother.

Bays and Thomas painted themselves into the corner with the pilot.

Anyway. 200 and a scatter of episodes centered with one thread: how everything led to Ted meeting the Mother. His narration along the way painted the picture of how he had grown, matured and eventually came to be ready to meet the woman because without this change she'd probably avoid a relationship with Ted or he'd be too fixated on something or someone else.

The show made it a REPEATED plot line to demonstrate why Ted and Robin weren't meant to be, and the narration of Ted *never* used these points to show that things change.

I get that things aren't always perfect and the Mother's death makes sense (which is bullshit IMO because HIMYM is an escapist type of premise that relies on a fairy tale type of resolution but w/ever) but undoing several hours worth of character development just to put Ted and Robin together is pretty ridiculous to me.