HIMYM Finale Proved Victoria Right, and We’re Dying on That Hill

In an unexpected twist, Robin and Barney get divorced after a few years of marriage, and Robin drifts away from the group. Tracy dies, and Ted’s kids encourage their dad to go after the woman he has seemingly loved all these years – Robin.

Ted shows up at Robin’s apartment with a blue horn (a reference to their first date all those decades ago), and the ending hints that those two will finally be together because the timing is now right, with Barney or Tracy not in the picture anymore.

How I Met Your Mother fans hate the way the series ended, largely due to the fact that they were looking forward to Ted’s happily-ever-after with Tracy and Robin’s with Barney, considering that season 9 was all about Barney and Robin’s wedding (and it was all for nothing).

We digress. Viewers really shouldn’t have been so surprised at how the finale unraveled – Ted’s ex-fiancee Victoria told us the ending a year prior. In season 7, Victoria runs off with Ted, leaving Klaus at the altar.

In season 8, Victoria and Ted are dating again, and Ted even proposes, only to discover that Victoria’s condition for marrying him is for him to cut all ties with Robin. At the time, the audience was flabbergasted by Victoria’s reaction and even started hating the character. Some people still don’t understand why she did what she did back then, as some Reddit discussions suggest.

However, Victoria had the right to feel this way and to demand that Ted stop hanging out with Robin. After all, she turned out to be right – Ted did have leftover feelings for Robin in season 8, at her wedding in season 9, and even all those years later when his wife Tracy had already been long gone.

Victoria knew that their only shot at happiness depended on Robin’s absence from Ted’s life, and she took it. She then made the hard decision to give up the guy she loved and move on with her life (kudos to her!) – and that’s something Ted and Robin were never able to do.

Source: Reddit