How I Met Your Mother scenes that foreshadow and/or justify the ending (part 2 of 5)
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- One of the main criticisms of the How I Met Your Mother finale is that the writers threw away nine years of character development and great storytelling for an ending that might have made sense in Season 1, but did not account for the way the characters and story had evolved over the course of nine seasons.
This scene compilation attempts to dispel that myth by showing that the ending was on the minds of the writers throughout the series, particularly in the last three seasons. I have also included a few misunderstood scenes (such as the letting go scene in “Sunrise”) that many feel contradicted the ending to show that, in reality, these scenes are actually consistent with the ending.
part 3: • Video
Hey guys. So, Part 3 got removed as you probably noticed. Unfortunately I don't know which clip(s) caused it to be taken down and I don't want to risk reuploading it so here are the scenes that originally made that part:
In Season 8 Episode 21 Romeward Bound, Barney spends most of the episode trying to see the body of his wedding planner. He envies Marshall who could get away with telling her to take off her coat because he "has no stink", implying that Barney DOES have stink. He also says that Marshall wants to spend the rest of his life with Lily and only Lily, but won't admit the same for himself and Robin. Later, Barney accused Ted of claiming to know Robin better than he does. However, Ted's words to Barney are confirmed in Season 8 Episode 23 Something Old where it is Ted, not Barney, who recognises that Robin needs help. After going to help Robin, she tells Ted that she's doubting whether she or Barney are ready for marriage. As it is later revealed, neither Robin nor Barney were really ready for marriage at this point in time.
In Season 8 Episode 24, Ted chooses to move to Chicago since it is the only way he feels he can move on from Robin. Therefore, Ted's eventual decision to stay in New York for a girl he had JUST MET is proof that Ted had finally moved on from Robin. It is later revealed that Robin chose to move to Japan for the exact same reason that Ted almost moved to Chicago, i.e. that she was still in love with Ted. This proves that Robin never fully moved on from Ted after their breakup. It is also interesting that although at this point in time, Robin had been saying that she was not ready for marriage, part of her still wished it was her marrying Ted, not Stella.
Hope you get it back up soon, man, these videos are really interesting
Ahh. Alright,
That statement Barney made to Ted in Romeward Bound was enough for me to DESPISE him. He never deserved Robin at all for she was too good for him. 😡
Please upload it again. I love every single video on ted and robin together
Ah but if we were basing it off the season 9 episode. Saying only Ted recognized that Robin needed help wasn't entirely true. Barney went to the carousel as well. Ted just came first.
I always felt like Robin rejected Ted here mainly because Kevin just left her because she can't have children. She knows how big Ted's wish for children is, so she couldn't possibly be with him for the same reasons as there were with Kevin.
Anna B Kevin still was willing to adopt or have kids by some other way but it was Robin saying that she didn’t want kids at all that made him leave and I feel that’s why she said no to Ted because unlike Kevin she knew he’d love her enough to accept her decision even though having kids was always his dream. Robin chooses to say no and close the door forever so he would be able to find the true woman of his dreams and have the kids he always wanted.
Exactly Anna B i agree
amal zuhair which he did. I personally feel Ted and Robin were never meant to be
Plus, Ted said he was willing to sacrifice having children to be with Robin, which she couldn't let him do. Remember the episode with Karen and the lakehouse test or whatever it was called? It showed that them ending up together ended badly. It showed that the writers probably already knew about Tracy, maybe not her name or all of what she's like or that she'd die but that Ted would have children with someone else.
That's a good point
I hate that Barney doesnt really get happiness that lasts.
He did. It was his daughter. The one girl he could always trust to love him.
@@JoybuzzerX you are right, but i feel like he deserved a gf too who loved him. (Read this comment in a non bitchy voice, i realised that it can be read several ways)
@@jadestea4495 My guess is he'll turn out like his mother and find that one, late in life.
@@JoybuzzerX i hope so (didn't just think of that)
I was so disappointed with Barney’s ending! 😭
I actually liked Quinn for Barney. Robin works fine too. Its just really sad how the ending didn't give any justice to Barney. Its like he was scammed. He deserves better.
I think Barney's ending in the finale showed audience members that after all the years, he finally had a reason to respect women. Giving his character a daughter is a bigger conclusion to his storyline than marrying him off.
@Kagereneko he deserved worse
Well, Barney was only going to marry Quinn to stop her from stripping not because he genuinely wanted to. It’s out of insecurity. Robin on the other hand was someone he truly loved. But she still couldn’t give him what he needed, a daughter, which you could see is the only thing that completely changed Barney.
It's to show that you can't live your life that way and end up happy.. His hedonistic lifestyle leads to loneliness and sadness.
@@scarlettwitch6300 that is absolutely not character development. he was rly engaged twice and married for three years to a LONG time friend and he rly said “only just NOW do i respect women” 🥺
When you need a prenup, better call Saul
I had completely forgotten that Saul was in HIMYM. Playing a sleazy lawyer, to boot. He really got typecast
3:21 there was apparently a crazy sale at the Yellow Umbrella Emporium
3:05 this scene never fails to get me emotional. I cry, get goosebumps and makes me feel so good at the same time. How I Met Your Mother has this power to make me feel so hopeful...
They have a good soundtrack
You can see a big foreshadow there, in season 2, in the episode where Barney's brother gets married, the last scene is Barney holding his nefew and Robin and Ted dancing in the back...
yeah the ending made sense for season 2 when it was written
Feels like I'm the only one who actually liked the ending. Most felt bad for Barney, but his kid is a blessing in disguise, Ellie proved to us that love comes in different forms, may it be romantic, friendly, or parental. Love may be such a bitch, but once a person experiences it, it changes their whole perspective on life, it gives them multiple reasons to wake up everyday and I think that's beautiful.
Niel Patrick Harris actually explains his ending really well here: czcams.com/video/eO2x4ASDo8g/video.html
Basically, he says that anything else would be trying to make Barney something that he is not and that Barney has validity as a character without a romantic relationship.
@@shaynagubert4156 well said by the guy himself
Unpopular opinion alert! I actually like the ending. I mean, okay, it is a little rushed and messy... but that's how real like looks like. You want to have your happy ending and then everything is messed up and you have to choose your path again. Robin loved Ted, I believe she did. She had problems, she didn't know how to express her feelings, but it's her father's fault. The story about the mother itself foreshadows the ending. It should be a story about the mother specifically, but it isn't - Ted finally had worked through Tracy's death and he recalled good memories from his 30s. Even the Barney's ending is satisfying - okay, he lost Robin, but he got a wonderful little daughter that turned out to be the only woman able to change his behaviour. So yeah, I think that this isn't a perfect enging but this it the ending made by life itself and corresponding with the characters of the show.
Finally someone
Exactly. For me the ending made me love the show even more.
Ending is logical, only Barney would have better but it was great ensing
I loved the end so much!
Agree!
The last part did make sense cause he wanted those extra 45 days with her cause at that time he is narrating the story to his kids saying that he wants those extra days explaining that he truly loved her
He loved her, that's sure! Tracey was the perfect woman for Ted! She had exactly what he liked to have in a partner. She understood him perfectly and shared him the same tastes and point of view... Ted was happy with her, he had what he deserved with her (a calm life full of love and happiness) BUT his true love was Robin! Robin wasn't the perfect woman for him but he still loves her and that's the real love (no logic, no compatibility, time can't kill it...) maybe it doesn't make sense, but love doesn't have to be meaningful or make sense to be!
Robin wasn't the best one for him but he always wanted Robin! Even all! ♥️
@@athena8030you said it perfectly ❤
this whole video is honestly nonsensical if you just remember other parts of the show
He is telling the story to his kids. The whole thing was his story to the kids. 11 Years after she died. The last scene is him telling the kids that's what he would have done knowing what he knows now.
Took me few minutes to get this
Yeah but what they're saying here is that the writers were foreshadowing it.
do you guys remember in which episode was that scene? i can’t remember so..
@@zulal118 it's season 8 , episode 20
its the episode where future versions of barney and ted meet
It was only 6 years actually
2:18 actually I think that at that time, Ted was right, for once in his life he understood that he can’t cling onto the idea that one day he’ll win the lottery with Robin
You just can’t blame it all on timing, it’s like what that German guy said, true love can’t be obtained by one over time, if it hadn’t happened yet, chances are, it won’t, it’s just doesn’t work that way
Love, the real true kind of love, happens in the moment, you just can’t force it
I'd argue that that's precisely how Ted felt about Robin all this time... I mean, from the first moment he thought "one day, I'm gonna mary that girl." And I believe it's how Robin felt too, deep down, only for a long time she was too scared of making herself vulnerable like that, of admitting it to herself and allowing herself to feel that way. I'm convinced they both truly loved each other. The only thing preventing them from being together was the fact that they wanted different things - Robin wanted to travel and to pursue her career, Ted wanted to settle down and have kids. But by the end of the show, both of those things are taken care of... Ted's already had children and the family life he dreamt of, and Robin has made a career for herself, travelled the world and now is finally ready to settle down... So, for the first time ever, there's nothing standing between them. I'd say that's what the author meant by "timing".
Mark Williams I agree with you. What Ted was saying wasn’t bullshit at all. I think he was truly in love with Robbin at that time. In fact, I think he’s been in love with Robbin since they broke up, but he pushed it aside and buried it because he knew that it wouldn’t happen. He had to move on, and he tried to, but things never worked out for him. That’s why when he found Robbin on the rooftop he threw his feelings out there, everything he had repressed. Then when he found out that she didn’t feel the same way, he gave her that ultimatum. He needed to find a way to move on, and find someone that would help him move on, and the only way he could do that was to give Robin that ultimatum. The only way that he could move on was for Robbin to unequivocally tel him “no”. The only problem was that he didn’t move on. He couldn’t, yet. He was still in love with Robin even after she said no for like the hundredth time. Thats why he stopped spending time with her at until Lily gave birth. It was just too hard for him. That’s why he went crazy trying to find that locket for her, that’s why he said no to Victoria when she gave him that ultimatum, that’s why he was so distraught when she said yes to Barney. He just couldn’t understand why it was Barney and not him (they make a whole episode about it, band v DJ). But the thing was that he had to go through the wedding and everything, because now, seeing Barney and Robbin happy, he was finally able to let go. And in doing that, he was able to find his love.
@@mansurmamdani2896 Robin in turn watched her chance with Ted slip as she saw him with Tracy. She already felt that way with Stella and doubly so with Tracy
Ted wanting the 45 days does make sense if she was still alive because he would still want even more time with her. That's how much he loves her. However, watching the scene with the view of having lost Tracey makes it more touching. There are two ways to view it and seeing it the second way is amazing.
There’s no justifying the ending the final season is literally built around Barney and robins wedding and they literally ended it in an episode just because they had problems spending time together
If you removed the last season's idiotic format ( 1 season = 1 weekend) the ending would work so much better.
The ending was rushed yes, but it made sense as pointed out in the series over and over again. Robin always loved Ted and Barney was never able to settle down for a girl
Robin does not deserve Barney or Ted’s love 😭
Riiiiiiight 😭
Let’s face it Ted is such a dick to all the girls he’s ever dated but Tracy
Susana Lopez I don’t think he was to Victoria even though he did cheat. Oh and zoey and Trudy
Susana Lopez and Stella in the end. The whole moving thing sure but that’s it
Robins not that pretty and DEFINITELY not that great of a personality.
Saying that Ted put unfair pressure on Robin in making a decision on whether or not she truly loved him is bs in my opinion. It is unreasonable for him to wait until they're both 40 before the possibility of them being together becomes real, and in the meantime he has his own life to live. It may be a lot to throw at someone, but entirely justified. If she loves him and needs to take time to make that decision it's valid to feel that way, however to expect the person who's subject to that decision to just aimlessly wait for you to make that decision is ridiculous. There is a time limit to this sort of thing, and to suggest otherwise is just plain unrealistic. That time limit varies depending on the person and situation, but here it has clearly been reached and perfectly acceptable to be addressed.
No. Robin wanted to say yes, but if she said yes she'd feel obliged to date Ted destabilising the friendship she really needs to help her get through. She would have said yes if Ted was a little more patient with her, for heavens sakes she made out with twice just as he was going to say "Let's be friends"
Alok Otta lol I completely forgot about this drunken rant of mine.
I see the point you’re making but I’m still inclined to hold my original position. The wishy washy (for lack of a better term) nature of their friendship/relationship was one of the most frustrating things to watch about the show. There’s an argument to be made about the poor writing decisions, but I was touching more on the immature/unrealistic nature of these character decisions. After a certain point you just have to move on, there’s wisdom in the old adage “shit or get off the pot” and the characters and the overall story would have benefitted tremendously from letting it die when it could have. That would have been a respectable story decision, and would have added a nice touch of realism about growing older and finding ourselves in this uncertain world where all we strive for is our happiness, whatever shape it may take. But instead what we got was “wait for the right time, even if it’s a lifetime” and I just think that’s some bs.
No disrespect though, to each their own.
What I mean is that had Ted allowed her to recover from her breakup than she would say a yes when he did ask her. She just wasn't ready to say "yes" at that point in time, as her entire world had been destabilized at the point in time. The 40 years deal was their way of locking each other down, even if they got together earlier
Their relationship was so strong as they put platonic first romantic second. Their romantic feelings at least until 2024 were always badly out sync with each other. To get a sense, Robkn was expressing feelings for him before her wedding day, on her wedding day, after her wedding day(it became solid and unshakeable) after that.
To conclude their only problem is that they were always out of sync.
As for her and Barney, their relationship was built on getting each other's pants and was always like that. They were incredibly toxic, always fighting and I never believed they loved each other. It's a sheer miracle they even lasted 3 years.
Y'all don't like Barney's ending because you only see happiness if someone's not alone (in a romantic way). His full happiness is his DAUGHTER, come on, is not so hard to understand that. He doesn't need a girlfriend or wife, joy isn't there just if you are dating or married.
Nah the writers deliberately rewrote the trajectory of his arc to save their original ending. That’s literally what happened
Speaking of why Robin closed the door then, I think there's another reason that she already knew she can't have kids and she always knows how much Ted want kids.
At the end of the "Weekend at Barney's" episode, Barney makes a pretty solid point about how lying and deception is part of his nature and how their engagement ultimately came down to misdirection and lies as well. He made a similar defensive point about his lying nature at the rehearsal dinner. With that in mind, his wedding vow to always be honest to Robin means that he's giving up a pretty big part of his personality. That always seemed like a major hint to me that their marriage is not meant to last. You can try to change your personality like that for some time, but you can't escape your true self forever.
This is pretty briliant. Thanks for taking the time to do all this 👍
Everyone was so in love with the mother she was just a little too perfect for me with not much character development people can say what they want about robin but I liked her because of her flaws it gave us a reason to watch if Tracy had been in the show the whole time let me bake you cookies and sing to you and play guitar and line up with ted perfectly I would have shut it off and never looked back
BARNEY SHOULD HAVE MARRIED QUINN!!!!!!!!!! They were perfect together
Allana Paoli fax
It would’ve been cool if they had hooked up at some point after the divorce and she was the mother of his daughter…they could’ve built up their trust through co-parenting
It was the extra 45 days scene that I rewatched and the foreshadowing of the show made sense to me.
i liked barney and robin, idk, robin seems to like what she doesn’t have, like lily stated. there might be a lot of hate on robin but i actually kind of like her?? idk. she has flaws. like, a lot, and that makes her really human. but so do the rest of them- aHhHhHh mixed feelings.
Dude its clear that you like Robin ... but she is really and narcissistic perso , she wants to keep ted as a backup plan , its not beaucause of the timing but becaause we all knwow that whenever the timig is bad Robin want and need attention from anybody . She admits that she dont love TED because she really dont love him . it just dependecy
Un Viewer Random She doesn’t just keep him as a backup, it’s more the idea that by the time they’re 40, she’ll likely have done what she’s already wanted to, and possibly ready to settle and have kids. That’s because they’re both in love with each other, but like it’s said multiple times, the timing is off. Robin hasn’t traveled the world, or had a successful career yet. Ted wants kids, but she isn’t ready for that, and we learn that she can’t have kids. She only says that she doesn’t love ted to spare him, so that he can hopefully find someone else, and won’t cling on to her. You can see how much she doesn’t want to do it. And all of the characters are build to be like real people; flawed. All of them can be bad people, or just annoying, but that’s what makes them so great
@@evildrhobbes5974 So you're okay with using other people as baby incubators without them even knowing? Have you seen the delete scene where Robin literally asks Ted to cheat on Tracy (ANOTHER CHEATING SCENE) because she's feeling yet again lonely?
Jairo Melchor A. Just because ted ends up having kids and then his wife dies, doesn’t mean that she would just be a baby incubator, and i was saying that robin wasn’t ready to have kids, but that doesn’t mean they couldn’t adopt once she was ready to settle down (and by ready to settle down, I mean in a point in her life where it makes sense to settle down)
B. That’s a deleted scene, and is one for a reason. Even if it was only cut to make the last episode shorter, we’ve seen her do the same thing when he was with Victoria the first time, where she invited him over to “make juice,” with the desire to sleep with him, and after she finds out that he lied about breaking up with Victoria does she realize what she asked him to come over and do, without believing they were broken up; because she was lonely and life sucked that day. It doesn’t excuse it, but she’s done it before, and regretted even attempting it afterwards
@@evildrhobbes5974 See, the issue is that you claim that they are flawed, which is a factual statement on the characters, but you totally forget that by the end of the series none of those flaws end up costing the characters anything.
Robin was the person who despite loving someone, she was willing to force that person to forfeit relationships if she was lonely, keeping that person as a toy you can leave in a box and open it up when you're ready.
That very big flaw was shown through out the series, with Robin being a key factor in two cheating moments (with Ted and Barney). That very same flaw didn't end up being an actual flaw because, the ending makes it seem as if it was destiny, that their love was pure and that it was a GOOD example to be learned from, when it was actually not.
Robin cheated many times, and the actual realistic ending would have been her ending alone, or might as well meet with someone else, thus actually giving the lesson that your mistakes will have consequences. The same with Ted, the moral of his story would have been to move forward with an open ending.
If anything, the ending we got was the worst fairy tale ending you can come up with. Robin making soo many mistakes, as well as Ted, and those mistakes never paying off anything. Ted ends up with two kids, and Robin doesn't have to feel bad for him so they get together yet again. It is the perfect example of a clearly happy ending (not a realistic one) for Robin that doesn't match the other lessons shown in the series.
@@jairomelchor8024 i totally agree and i see your point Evil but In life we are not perfect but we become better because we learn about ours mistakes. When you screw up , you have to face the consequences, people can be mad at you but you learn and you try to not do it again . The problem with peope like robin isthat they never learn anything because people forgive them or worst are like " she is just a poor victim , she feel lonely an shit " ... you can understand their pain but it doesnt justify evrything they do
Robin is selfish and if it was real life i can assure , she could have really suffer for all the craps she did. She is not a good person and the serie sow us : that if you are really pretty , people can forgive you for everything.
Robin did bad to Ted and Kevin.
She has never compromised for any of her partner.
Kevin was willing to marry her even after he knew she did something bad to him, he loved her and wanted to marry her when she revealed she is barren. However she didn't even want to discuss the idea of adoption. She later made herself sound like the victim when talking to Ted. 'He couldn't look past this'. Unattractive personality. Robin is who you befriend or date, not s girl you should marry.
I wont even go into every shit she did to Ted. Too numerous to count.
Eg from earlier season is that she didn't want To compromise even a little change in her home decour when Ted and her was going to move in
To be fair, having or not having children is no small detail and compromising over that is not wise. There's bound to be resentment and Robin knew that, that's why she and Kevin broke up. If they did have children despite her not wanting to, she'd resent him. If they didn't have children, he'd resent her.
That being said, I agree that Robin wasn't deserving of everything her boyfriends did for her... The only thing she ever sacrificed was that job in Chicago to stay with Don, too bad she did it for the wrong guy. She let herself be chased by Ted and Barney without ever doing anything in return for them.
@@mullermix oh I agree having a child is a big deal.. I guess I was more upset she phrased it like Kevin couldn't look past her being infertile.
She didn’t do anything to do Ted. She just didn’t love him back but wanted him as a friend. It was his choice to protect himself and walk away.
Then it's not a good sign that Robin told Ted "You know babies were never part of my plan, but if were to have somebodies babies I'd have your babies". She straight up told Barney and Kevin they wouldn't have children with her
She was pretty upfront with Barney's mom saying she won't be having any grandchildren, and she had a very testy relationship with her. Even before she told Ted she loved him, she asked Ted's mom "Why don't you want me to have your grandchildren?"
She felt neutral about Barney's daughter, but oh boy when Tracy told Ted she was pregnant Robin wasn't smiling and got estranged from the gang saying "The guy I probably should have ended up with, with the beautiful mother of child". Yet she loved Ted's two kids as her own having an immediate liking of Penny(luke wasn't there) and it's pretty evident given that she was a central feature of his children's crayon drawings keep in mind she had an aversion to children. In bad crazy, future flash forwards show Robin and Lily having drinks all events are after her divorce from Barney, and only one happens when Tracy is alive. Oh yes, and Robin barely spends time with Lily and Marshall's children and she is talking of an incident with Marvin that was very hard-hitting for her. Tell me she isn't trying to get tips on being a better mom from lily.
Tracey finally joined the stars, 'nd joined Max, her first love! So she gets happiness that lasts too, like Ted does with Robin, Barney with his daughter and Marshall with Lilly! Everyone gets happiness ♥️
You can’t make the ending work because the whole final season preceding it was about Robin-Barney and their wedding.
We got to see too little of the mother, the Robin-Barney marriage and it felt like Barneys development over several years was just thrown away at the end to get the desired Robin-Ted ending. That wasn’t organic.
the thing is, that we know the setup that they would eventually end up together was always there obviously bc of the ending with the kids, the creators always knew it would end like that, i think the biggest problem fans of the show had was that after all this set up after denying for 9 years that robyn and ted would end up together it felt like a betrayal to see the mother die, specially after seeing her in the 9th season and being everything we thought she would be and actually liking her
The writers denied Robin was the Mother. That is completely different from denying they would end up together.
Tracy was always dead we just didnt know it till the end of the show. Keep in mind this is a story being told from Ted's perspective to his children who have already been through 2013-30
I actually liked the ending. Show should have been “why I want to date aunt robin”. The kids are right when they say their mom is barely in it cause the whole point was to see if his kids are ok with him dating again.
More like, "How I Became Obsessed With Your Aunt Robin".
I feel like the ending really gave justice to all the characters, arguably including Tracy
it's what makes this series great, the fact that the title itself is a plot twist, we can't deny the creativity on that one
Jihyo made me gay, and let’s be honest. If it had only lasted a few seasons, it would have seemed brilliant even at the time. It’s just that we had to wait so many years to meet the titular “mother” that people felt cheated.
I hadn’t actually thought of it as a plot twist though, but you’re right.
The ending would have worked a lot better if the show only ran for say 5 seasons. The way Ted and Robin are always on and off again over and over again just made it tedious.
5:19 Barney called Saul
5:27 Maybe she better called Saul!
12:24 Ohhh nooooo i cant handle it
Even barney called saul
The fact that there are scenes that prove the ending may have been planned from the start doesn't make the ending suck any less, it just makes the rest of the series suck more.
Than by that logic Sleepless in Seattle, forrest Gump and leonard and Penny from BBT would suck too
i liked that they stick to the plan till the end...the creator showed us that HIMYM is still grounded to the reality of our life that there was no perfect ending and life sucks sometimes so we gotta live with that eventhough we are gonna hate it
Were the writers just like happiness for Barney Stinson? Not a chance
Barney’s end made sense tbh because everyone other than his close friend group and his mother in his life that he loved left him: His father, Shanon, Robin first time, Robin choose Kevin over Him, Quinn and After robin and him got married she decides to remove Barney away from his home another one of Barney’s bright spots and they go all over the world eventually robin chooses her career over him. All these people left him and when he had a daughter this was the one chance for him to love someone that essentially couldn’t leave him and he could also be single
The scene where Ted goes to see the Mother before they meet, I'm pretty sure that was confirmation that she was dead or about to die
I realised another scene you're missing, which is where Barney's brother James announces in coming back he is getting divorced Robin cant admit that her relationship with Barney isn't fragile
45 days thing really clears up the situation clearly.
Tracy was alwas going to die.
Tracy was dead long before the story began. They just told it to us in the end. It's getting a card, but only finding out its blue in color when you get it and you dont want a blue card
@@alokotta5466
Yeah that's the reasom (unlike others) I like the ending of the show.
The painting in the first scene behind ted is the same painting that Robin has in her appartment in the last scene when she comes home with the dogs
I think people tend to forget that Tracy was in love with someone before Ted too, and that person had passed away. I can understand why it's hard to see how little time we get to spend with her on screen, and yes she was perfect for Ted, she was everything he needed and wanted, but Robin didn't have to be perfect for Ted to love her, he just loved her unconditionally. It makes sense in the long run, Tracy wasn't scared to die, she was ready to. Finding Ted was like finding a reason to live life again, but when faced with death Ted was far more heartbroken than her. Robin regreted letting go of Ted, she knew he was the one for her, but she couldn't be perfect, her not being able to bare children is a real thing some women struggle with and somtimes love doesn't come as easily as a career does, but at some point a human needs love. Ted never stopped loving Robin, he just had to learn to let her go, but then he had to let Tracy go too, yes she was the mother, but she wasn't his end game, Robin was.
02:30
His eyes break my heart every time.
I do believe Robin meant it when she said she didn't love Ted, when they broke up she was fine, when she and Barney broke up she was a mess for months
She ran off to Argentina in order to deal with it. As she said she was "crying her eyes out" and was merely trying to "survive" it, and also they had to hide it as Lily and Marshall were getting married at the time. When she and Ted had their first proper conversation she told him he was 'bigger'. She and Ted broke up it was only because they had differing life goals and Ted was holding her as both of them cried. She ran off to Japan again when he almost married Stella, and came back telling him not to marry stella as she hoped there would be a chance for them in the future.
When she and Barney broke up she only cried because she felt like another number to him. When they broke up she stuck by her marriage pact with Ted she proposed as Barney proposed the same thing for them. Barney and Robin broke up because they were miserable together. Her reaction to nora was of estrogen fueled jealousy.
Robin didn't mean it, but said so because Ted pushed her into a hard to get out of situation. Her response would have been very different had he helped her recover and then asked.
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Please upload part one and part three again, my life is a mess, but strangely I wanna know that the end of the series makes sense, and i need to remember all those details
They got taken down but if I find them on my hard drive I’ll put them up on a Google Drive for you.
@@bendowson3124 Thank so much! I"ll be waiting
@@elvynojeda6041 They will appear on this folder in about an hour drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gwaA0smktXMe4Ppnl4zZcMKw-s-HRKqv?usp=sharing
@@bendowson3124 Thank so much again dude! I already downloaded them
I screamed like a little girl when I realized Saul was there
I still internally decided #31 is Quin
Remember the episode robin had a boyfriend with a kid, the last part of that episode, they shown the drawings of Ted's children and those drawings were Robin's favorites. The children drawn every bondings they had with Robin. Seems like she's their mommy. 🥺♥️
I will never get over how badly the writers made this show end.
scene 1. if you think that the women you're in love with doesn't love you not pursuing it perfectly reasonable some people love the chase some find it painful personally I've never pursued somebody I knew didn't have the same feelings for me cause I respect them you've just to sit there and deal with the problems even if that really hurts (barney would obviously pretend he isn't hurt)
scene 2. robin literally can't bring herself to say I don't have feelings for barney perhaps she could have deeper feeling she doesn't want to admit to herself, and the marriage pact is I guess a sign that she still has feelings for ted I more so took it as her trying to make sure ted still had hope (something she knows he needs), your third point doesn't support the ending, it isn't complete bullocks you can't just label scenes which disagree with your point complete bulloks (seriously do I have to be disagreeing with one of my people), or maybe robin just doesn't love him like I'm all for different interpretations of scenes my first point was a scene interpretation that i felt made sense based on the context provided but this is like a level of mental gymnastics i didn't expect, the last point covered the same thing you said perfectly
scene 3. the door has closed forever he probably knows in the back of his mind the truth that robin is in love with barney (and that's blatantly obvious if you aren't looking to just justify an ending that you only like cause it supported a bad relationship that you liked) and ted knows that soon they'll both realise the truth of each other and oh yeah that robin doesn't love him, marshall believing otherwise was i believe trying to be ending foreshadowing but that doesn't make the ending better it just shows that the creators were panicking about the ending as well
scene 4. bro if people are doubting that claim I'm sorry you've managed to find someone with less art literacy than you, seriously though how does this support the ending
scene 5. yes he had trust issues with quinn i don't know if watched the end of that episode but it's explicitly shown he doesn't have those same problems with robin
scene 6. yeah and i kinda hate this i will probably agree with you in this scene but just a reminder of the bit in season 9 where he shows that she can trust him, oh wow you still managed to mess it up by missing the part where barney blows up the other playbook like seriously this is going from mental gymnastics to just dishonest very quick
scene 7. i mean it does it just makes the speech show how much he loves her more than how much he misses her (but i don't care too much about the tract stuff like i dislike but it's not the worst thing in the world
In his ending speech the fact that Ted says "to the end of my days" instead of "to the end of OUR days" is the clearest sign that Tracy is dead. Super-romantic guy Ted probably would've wanted those extra 45 days anyways (it would've saved him from Jeanette), but the my vs. our gives away who is still living.
Barney's attorney is SAUL!!!!
THIS is awesdary!
For the time travelers Ted could have just loved her enough that he found out how close their patches intersected to want extra time. In the alternate ending that is probably it. For Vesuvius, which I know isn't in this but is the other big foreshadowing for Tracy dying, it was probably that she was sick and could have died so that is why Ted reacted like that.
I think Robin is more self centered than you think. I don't think she was trying to spare his feelings by not saying 'I love you'
I disagree completely because body language shows that is exactly what she did the point where he paused the video is proof. Words mean nothing it’s how the person acts when words are said that tell you what they are really thinking. “I can’t let him sacrifice his dream just to be with me” which he literally told her he would do. The only way to make sure he didn’t wait around for her was to let him believe the door was closed. It’s a subtle way to show how much she loves Ted. In fact there’s a LOT of subtlety between Ted and Robin that shows how much they love each other that goes over people’s heads
@@joshz2491I totally agree. She is very jealous of Tracy when she tells Ted she is pregnant with their child. She was already at the counter to "get another" round when they were discussing the wedding. She is asking herself "why isn't Ted marrying me?" and "why cant I give him the kids he so badly wants?"
I could never take Robin and Ted seriously together. Ted was actually obsessed with her and it was honestly suffocating. After the second season we were all over them. She has so much more in comman with barney and even if they didnt work out. To go back with Ted just didnt make sense. The only literal reason they made them get bsck is cuz they already made the ending. However continuity wise it made no sense. Just seem so forced man.
Robin going back to Ted makes sense to me because I've always saw Robin seeing Ted as her last resort. I never saw her as truly loving Ted, not even when they were dating. Every time she doubted and thought maybe she should have chosen Ted, that was her head thinking logically because she could see how Ted is obsessed with her. She knows that Ted would do anything for her. Robin always sees Ted with pragmatism instead of through her heart. She ended up accepting Ted because by that point, she was alone and simply needed to be with someone safe, but until the very end I never saw love from Robin's part. So yeah, it made sense to me, but not very romantic.
I’m always interested. If Tracy was still alive, would he choose Robin over her? It’s kinda weird that you can still have a little feeling of love for someone, especially in the moment when you are already married to Tracy. It’s just weird
No, he would not choose Robin over Tracy. His feelings for Robin only resurfaced after she died.
Robin did the right thing. Ted needs to move on
Honestly, Barney and Quinn not getting together felt like a bigger assassination than Barney and Robin getting divorced
Barney will always come back from his old self even after showing the character development y'all claim he has.
Him having it is a fact. It just went out the window in the last ep.
Im so upset that barney and quinn didnt end up together
i think the end was perfect imo
4:50 better call Saul!!! 😂😂😂
Robin only ever wanted Ted when she couldnt have him. Once she realized what she was doing to him she helped him close the door and stopped being selfish then she moved on to Barney and clung to him even though he lied and they fought all the time. Even his proposal was wack. He had cold feet the entire relationship right up until their wedding day. It was doomed to fail but killing tracy so ted and robin could be together was the absolute worst way to end the show. It was just a complete let down that it's called how I met your mother and shes there like a few episodes and then she dies and he ends up with manipulative ass robin anyway. What was the point of all these seasons and stories just to have her dead in the ending. I really couldnt stand robin at all. From episode one to the last I didnt like her. Shes super manipulative annoying and kept ted on her hook for years. That's all. Them ending up together is like hey so my wife died and I dont want to be alone will you be with me and the fact that he has kids and she wont take that from him is probably the only reason she said yes because she didnt want to be alone either. That's not the same thing as love. Or to me it's not. Him ending up with barney wouldve been a better ending lol
Okay, hold up, Robin wasn't manipulative. And the point of the show wasn't actually Ted and Tracy or Ted and Robin or anything like that. It had to have a plot to drive it, but the show was really about friendship, the fact that everyone has flaws (aside from Tracy, but she was shown as this woman that Ted had always been looking for and like it was him telling his kids so he wouldn't be very critical of her anyway) and acceptance and humanity and other important life lessons.
Also, Tracy's death not only helped show the realities of life but also provided happy endings for the characters, including Tracy since she died happy and (I'm sort of an atheist so I disagree with this but when talking fiction I adopt characters' beliefs to see their point of view, like in Romeo and Juliet I see how their double-suicide was their happy ending because they were together in heaven - arguably Romeo might be in hell since he killed Tyballs but you get the point) she seems to believe in an afterlife so I imagine she's reunited with the person she loved that was shown to die in the episode "How Your Mother Met Me"
Barney never change, hate him for chasing after Robin
I don't buy Barney and Quinn's breakup
They were happy until Barney was pressured into making the pre-up
Yeah, but the prenup was not an ordinary prenup and it revealed much about Barney's character and his warped understanding of what marriage would be like. If Barney hadn't been so selfish and just made an ordinary prenup everything would have been fine.
The prenup scene is so funny lmfao 😂😂😂
Dude you let the play book out in the opening?! What were you thinking
Barny had Sal as a lawyer 😂😂😂
Disagree with the last one. Cause if you love someone you wish you could spend any extra time with them that you could because we only have this one life this way. I would anyway.
This is what happens when you have saul goodman as your lawyer
The big issue i had with the ending is that Ted and Tracy were happily married yet Ted then marrying robin after her death made it seem like either Tracy was second fiddle to Robin or that Robin was Ted's back up option.
Barney should've just said it's teds copy of the playbook, it was that easy
I have 2 questions
1) how did you source the footage of the scene?
2) what did you use to make this compilation?
I watch all of videos with subtitles it's really hard to read to different set of texts at the same time, if you could have a narrator for your text that would be great.
thank it would make it easier for those that are hard of hearing.
This series broke my heart 😭
Quinn always reminded me of Hayden Panettiere
How the ell am I just finding these?? ALthough I keep telling everyone to WATCH THE EXTENDED cut of the ending. Also, the whole series starts with Ted telling their kids how he met their mother with the voice of Bob Saget, who also played a widow character on Full House. Why would you even tell this kind of story, if the mother is say in the next room?
I wish atleast in the end,just once, Robin would had said"I love you Ted Mosby"otherwise ted just appears to be a consolation prize for robin.
her big smile and happy tears were more than enough to convey the message
You are missing the scene where Robin tells Lily why she is going after Barney, "the only way to get him out of my system is to get him into my system one last time" in the episode Lobster Crawl
I'm not quite sure why that's relavent.
@@bendowson3124 Think about it, Robin would persistently go after Barney till they got engaged and subsequently married. After they divorced, they were done with each other. She got him into her system one last time before he came out. She held him in long enough till she knew she didnt want anymore of him, just like the way it was with lobster where she didn't want to have lobster anymore after she had it following the doctor telling her she was allergic to it, and lily told her "you can never hookup with Barney ever again"
@@alokotta5466 Wow, I never thought about it that way. Thanks!
@@bendowson3124 you're welcome
Robin is kind of plain, boyish, and homely. And very self centered. Why did Ted and Barney chase her so hard ?
Look at the show more closely, Robin chased Ted way more than he chased her, including the 14 year wait for him. Barney chased her agressively, they peaked before crashing and burning
Foreshadowing is not character development. That first scene also "foreshadowed" Ted and Robin not working out. You are making up Robin's thought processes.
I feel you missed the "For the longest time" scene in Time Travellers where the 2033 version of Ted is wearing a ring different from the one when he was with Tracy and the 2033 Barney is not wearing a ring. This indicates Robin and Ted have gotten married by this point
Wow, good spotting!
@@bendowson3124 oh and well there is also the scene where Ted is discussing his wedding with Barney and Robin who look visibly tired and distant compared to Ted and Tracy. Robin isnt exactly happy when she finds out Tracy is pregnant or even discussing their weddings. Robin also looks really relieved when she goes to get those drinks
They don't trust each other. Call it quits
Anyone notice that Better Call Saul is the lawyer.... is this in the same universe as Breaking Bad?
So he closed the door but she didn’t.
You missed the point. He lied saying he will love "tracy" till end of his days but he didn't.. no matter how romantic tracy and Ted relationship was "Ted was and allways loved Robin" but Robin i dont really know
9:03 onwards, otherwise known as iron-clad proof of why Barney was unfit for a relationship or a marriage. Robin deserved better than that and I'm delighted that she and Ted ended up together in the end.
There was proof of it right from the proposal on the WWN towers. Infact a landslide supermajority show why Barney and Robin's divorce is a question of "when" rather than "why"
The scene where Ted discusses his upcoming nuptials and Tracy tells Ted she is pregnant is where Robin gets incredibly jealous. Despite which she becomes luke and Penny's new mom. Ted is also the only guy shed even think of having kids with
@@alokotta5466 agreed. 👍
In the episode Lobster crawl, Robin goes after Barney to "get him out of my system". Shows that Robin even wasn't invested into hers and Barney's marriage
I probably forgot to say this
Robin objected to tracy/victoria/stella in which cases she cried in a washroom for th ed first time/ ran of to Japan/ roamed all over the world and tried running off with him on her wedding day. Consequently this makes Ted the subject of Robin's pursuit and not the other way round as he was realistically after her in season 1 and No pressure only. He pushed Robin to Barney only for her to spring back at him.
Quinn was the best partner for Banny
Is it Just me or is Ted too weak to get over anyone
Getting over people you care about is hard to do, especially if you're already emotionally oriented
@@sabrinyahh He got 250104659 years. There is no excuse what so ever
@@moritzposs6138 I mean he's happy now so 🤷♀️ it clearly worked out for him
@@sabrinyahh doesnt justify the 30 years He wasnt. And we dont Know if it will be a Happy end
@@moritzposs6138 it's really not that deep dude
Your hoop-jumping trying to justify that travesty of an ending truly is impressive.
Best hurt forever.
I liked the ending (yeah I said it) but I really wish Barney had stayed with Quinn
Where is part 1?
I agree with foreshadow, but I decline justification.
Oh I call bollocks myself. No, Ted doesn't put Robin under immense pressure when he asks if she loves him. He has every right to get closure and move on with his life. After he gets his "no", he lets her go and even sends her to the arms of his friend.
My point was that Robin DID still love Ted but was not ready to get back together with him. However, she knew that if she admitted her feelings, Ted would still be holding on to the possibility of being with her and it was THAT pressure that Robin couldn't stand. Robin knew that either way, she couldn't give Ted true closure so she might as well give him false closure instead.
I strongly advise you watch the Season 9 episode Platonish as it clarifies what Ted was really going through at the time. While it was true that Ted was no longer "holding on to Robin" after being told she didn't love him, that state of "not holding onto her" completely disappeared once he got the slightest hint that Robin may still have feelings for him.
8:56 😆
The problem isnt that the mother dies for me at least. I think that works but him getting back with Robin doesn't. I just don't buy the idea that the whole story is really about her.
Barney should end up with a good person like Patrice, only my taugth
say word put away who cares act like that cause you need to be nice to her and she was wondering what happened again watch it
say word put away who cares act like that cause you need to be nice to her and she was wondering what happened again