Hate It All You Want, HIMYM Ending Actually Makes Sense After All
Anyone who has loved How I Met Your Mother for nine seasons has probably hated its original ending at some point. What if we told you there was no other way the show could have ended?
Yes, you heard us right. Think about it: most people hate the ending because Tracy dies and Ted gets back together with Robin (it still hurts after nine years, we get it).
Ted's kids in the present day confront their dad, and they seem convinced that Ted would not have told the story in so much detail if it was just to tell them how he had met their mother – their mom is not even in most of it.
This is actually… true?
Many fans want the show to have a happy ending, but the truth is, it could not have been any other way.
If HIMYM was just about how Ted had met Tracy, it wouldn't have been nine seasons long, and it probably would have included only the milestone episodes – the one with the St. Patrick's Day party, the one with the Econ 301 lecture, the one with the breakup with Cindy, and the whole of season 9 minus the drama that has nothing to do with Tracy. That is it.
We can't have it both ways.
How I Met Your Mother could either be a nine-season show about how Ted had met his future wife and circled back to Robin when their timing was finally right or a one-season (max!) show focused on Ted and Tracy's meet-cute story with a happy ending.
There really is no in-between.
Many fans agree that after watching the show for the millionth time, they have developed "a new understanding."
The show's ending is not about Ted being a horrible person who never loved Tracy and was only obsessed with Robin all these years.
It is more about Ted being such a lucky guy to have met not one, but two loves of his life – and timing is everything (the character himself mentions it a few times throughout the show).
After suffering so many rejections in his 20s and 30s, it seems fitting that he gets his happy-ever-after, don't you think?
Barney and Robin's fans, sorry, but Ted and Robin are endgame, it is time for you to deal with it.