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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I can't watch re-runs of that show because of how badly they botched the ending.
Every single episode arc except for the 'its a penis!' episode leaves me sitting there going "who !@#$ing cares? - none of this even matters..."
As you noted - all they needed to do was cut to black before the final 3 minutes and then re-run the credits.
This was all it took. But they decided early on that they'd shot those scenes when the kids were younger and they HAD to use them despite the fact that the character arcs clearly made them out of place as the show developed.
I've never seen a show set nearly a decade of good will on fire in 3 minutes like that. They could've ended the show with a homicidal maniac breaking into the house, tying up ted and making him watch his children be sodomized and it wouldn't have been orders of magnitude worse than it was.
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That's pretty much exactly how it should have ended. (I'm talking about the video, not the child sodomy.) I was watching and my heart grew three sizes as I watched Ted find his true love and live happily ever after. I had a tear in my eye and was thinking, "Wow, this wasn't what I expected, but it was great."
And then the last three minutes happened, and I was left staring at the TV like I had just watched the sodomy ending.
In part, I think my disappointment was that I adore that Milioti actress. She's got those eyes that cure all that is wrong with the world. So after the whole series, finding someone with those eyes was the perfect ending, and I liked the concept that Robin may have been great, but she was always one step too far. That's a good novel concept to end the series on.
But no - they killed Milioti and went with the trite ending.