@vale_j8 the show was 18 minutes longer than it was suppose to be, hence the cuts.
— alyson hannigan (@alydenisof) April 1, 2014How I Met Your Mother - Season 9 - 18 minutes cut from the finale
1 Apr 2014
How I Met Your Mother
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They should have cut 68 minutes. What an awful awful let down
ReplyDeleteSo they may cut a lot of the mother's scene and it's why we aren't saw her a lot in the finale.
ReplyDeleteWill probably be included as an extra on the DVD
ReplyDeleteThey could have made it longer, but nothing they cut could make that disaster better.
ReplyDeleteI've had both members of a ship die and last night was still worse than that! I could have maybe accepted that ending back in season two or three, but now? They literally ruined four characters for a twist ending.
And then there's the Bro Code - dating your best friend's ex-wife has to have worse penalties than dating your best friend's ex-girlfriend.
If they had cut the last 4 minutes, they could have squeezed in 4 other minutes & improved the rating of the finale from an F- to something better surely.
ReplyDeleteNo 18 minutes can repair last nights damage. Ted obviously stated that he wasn't into Robin anymore in ep 22 and go back to Robin is just out of character. The writers want to go out with a big bang banged into their pants and will have repercussions on HIMYD.
ReplyDeleteFor the DVD they might as well cut all of season 9 weading footage. Just show the episode of the mother, the flashfowards and the last 3 episodes. Nobody is going to watch a full season of a weading that crashes after 10 min of the finale.
ReplyDeleteIf they we're going to do this why Barneys relationship with Quinn and Nora? 2 seasons to show that Barney and Robin are made for each other, the final season being the weading and the leting go of Ted and Robin. Just to in the the final minutes forget all that like nothing happened.
I feel like C&C were always going to do this, but they forgot that characters develop.This would make sense if there was no season 8and9. Now was too late to do this finale. Doesn't make sense.
I love the show, but this was not the way. I'm i the only one?
I honestly don't feel that the Mother's death was earned, if they had commited to telling more stories about the period between 2013 and 2030 maybe it would feel more earned. They teally wasted time by comitting the the story-telling device they came up with this season. Barney and Robin should have been married by mid-season and then the remaining episodes should have been about the time Ted, Tracy and the rest of the gang spent together
ReplyDeleteThey should have cut the hole Finale!
ReplyDeleteWell...glad we didn't have to sit trough a 18 minute montage of Robin and Ted running across a beach to lovey-dovey music. TedxRobin shippers would've drowned in their fanservice, Barney/Robin shippers would've jumped out of whatever they could jump out of and average fans would have felt sickened even more.
ReplyDeleteI was never invested in this show as much as others were but holy shit was that a god damn let down. I don't even think I can watch this show properly anymore without knowing that Ted is doing all that to get his kids approval to get into Robins pants once more.
perfect ending according to me: The mother sits down next to Ted and says that she now wants to tell her side of the story, Ted leaves to meet his now aged friends in their old booth where we get a final shot of what we watched this show for: the friendship.
I can agree with this to a degree...but then again I never cared for season 8 or 9 terribly because I was never fooled into thinking Barney and Robin were made for each other. For the way I perceived the characters, the finale was perfect. But I agree that the route to get there through season 8 and 9 probably was not the way to go. I mean, I'm pretty sure the primary function of season 9 was for the fans to get to know Tracy more than they would have if they were going to end it in season 8 like originally intended, so in that sense I can't help but feel grateful that I got to see more than just them meeting in the rain. Dragging out the wedding and people's expectations was an unfortunate side effect of that.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget it's supposedly 6 years after the mother died.... and he mainly said that to ensure the Barney/Robin wedding went through.
ReplyDeleteThat was actually the sort of ending I was hoping for. Sad we got this instead.
ReplyDeleteabsolutely agree with your ending...that would have been perfect
ReplyDeletethe actual ending make me feel like mother and children were just a consolation prize for Ted, because he always wanted kids and Robin couldnt have nor wanted them, so he had them, with another, then they made mother die so he could have Robin + they also made Robin super selfish when she stopped being friends with the gang because she couldnt watch Ted and the mother together(Ted was the best man at her wedding to one of his best friends)
New Rule: Any TV series that promises an ending in the pilot can only go three seasons.
ReplyDeleteOkay, despite hating the finale, It's still one of mt favorite shows, so I wish CBS had let it rub for 90 minutes. May be there was an explanation somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAaaand when can I see these 18 minutes??? DVD extra?
ReplyDeleteI quite liked the ending that we did get, however I would have liked your version better.
ReplyDeleteThat would have been a great ending. What a complete and utter let down.
ReplyDeleteMost likely. Seems like we'll get an explanation for the pineapple and Marshall paying up on that stupid bet.
ReplyDeleteI'd generally vote for TV shows being required to end their storylines with season 3, then start fresh if renewed in season 4. That way we'd get more out of the shows we have.
ReplyDeleteLook at TVD, it's storyline is completely wired up with lose ends hanging around from all sides
so who was "the one" now after he had child with tracy and he is dating robin now ???is it tracy or robin?my head is exploding with all qn :)
ReplyDeleteI say 100 episodes and then end it no matter what should be a new rule for every TV-show
ReplyDeleteApparently Robin was "The One" all along and Tracy was just there to have 2 kids so the story made sense.
ReplyDeleteYeah, assuming Robin as a bullfighter as well. And I may have seen it wrong but I think I saw Marshall give Lily the $5 right before Ted/Tracy's wedding...don't know if they'd show her giving it back but definitely a possibility.
ReplyDeleteBloody CBS WHY DID YOU CUT 18 MINUTES! I knew it was Robin & Ted all along but still mad how it ended!
ReplyDeleteThe way I saw it was that they both were, and that was the point of all "the one" talk it was him ultimately explaining that there isn't just one person out there for you. It's not about who he loved more, he loved and adored Tracy, he always will and the fact he also loves Robin and is moving on with here doesn't change that.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry guys, those 18 minutes was a song-and-dance called "April Fool's" and will be in the DVD, lol.
ReplyDeleteThe major point of Tracy's story showed that just because you love one person, that doesn't mean you can't love again or that the love you had for someone before isn't real.
ReplyDeleteThis finale was the biggest slap in our faces!
ReplyDeleteagree!
ReplyDeleteThe show was never about the mother or how Ted met her. It was about the group of friends and Ted's stories about them.
ReplyDeleteI have said that from Season 1.
I feel sad others did not understand that, or chose to think otherwise even if they did understand that!
The finale did not change ANYTHING from the previous 9 seasons.
If the finale did not match up with some people's expectations I understand they have every right to feel whatever they do, but it was not a story told by the fans. It was a story designed and written by C&C. A story designed to end that way from the very first episode.
I feel you. I couldn't sleep as well for a long time and when I did, I had these bad dreams about the finale.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure I had dreams about the finale, but can't remember.
ReplyDeleteI've seen some shows have their best material after 100 episodes.
ReplyDeleteI feel like you and this is from someone still not over Will Gardner's death in the good wife a little more than a week ago. and yeah killing the guy in your ship sucks and a fanfav charcter. but god this finale topped the feeling of loss i had over that. This was horrible. i am in shock. it was every single one of my worst case senarios into one. i could understand the BR divorce i ship them a lot but that one i got. the rest not at all the rest was a mess only Lily/Marshall was okay and barney with his kid was sweet but the faliour of charcter development over all of those years for these people thrown down the drain for this is ridiculous! I am horrified.
ReplyDeleteand yes the bro code... also was like you ask your kids this? seriously how about also asking your best friends permission like he asked yours to date her in season 4 finale. that might have been a kind thing to do.
We're gonna need some name dropping, here.
ReplyDeleteKnots Landing. Mary Tyler Moore Show. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteActually the finale did change something about the previous 9 seasons, since those previous 9 season have shown us time and time again how Ted and Robin are not a good match. My bet is that they did get the happy ever after after that ending, the ending just shown us they get back together in that moment in time, like it had shown us multiple times before, and those times before it didn't worked out, so why would it work out now?
ReplyDeleteIt was in no way a twist ending. Every season was peppered with hints and all the episodes of final season hinted at it rather strongly.
ReplyDeleteIn theri 30s Ted and Robin were not compatible, bad timing. They wanted different things.
ReplyDeleteOver the next two decades they experienced those things. Ted found his fantasy woman, the mother of his kids, and Robin became a globe-trotting reporter who got to see and experience the world.
Those life experiences changed them. They are much different people at age 50+ than they were in their late 20s. or early 30s.
Ted and Robin at 50 are most likely compatible since the now meaningless reasons that held them apart before are not important to them. What is important to them is they both realize that they want to be together.
Does that mean they live happily ever after? No.
But, the series was never really about who Ted ends up with. It was about the journey and evolution of this group of friends from twenty-somethings who did not know who they were or what they truly wanted to fifty-somethings that are self-aware ready to begin the later stages of their lives.
Rewatch the pilot. Rewatch the season 1 finale. Rewatch multiple episodes of each season. This series has always been about Ted/Robin. Haters gonna hate.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong.. I didn't love the episode but don't think it deserves the hate either.
ReplyDeleteOr another ending: Ted tells this story to his children but he's actually telling it to himself. Maybe around the future time, Ted and the Mother's relationship had gotten a bit stale, or they'd drifted for reasons even they didn't fully understand. But by telling this story, what he went through and how he found the woman of his dreams and the love of his life, he remembers everything good and is reminded of how perfect they are for each other. And when she comes home, Ted hugs and kisses her and just professes his love once more.
ReplyDeleteAnd to top it off with some humor, perhaps the very ending is an even older Ted in his study room, when his grandchildren run into his room and in the midst of a little talking, they carelessly ask him how him and their grandmother met.
Or anything like that. And I'm not a tragic-ending hater, but man, that ending was a bummer
They clearly lacked any planning and to make you think for two three seasons that this couple can and will last.. And then divorcing them then that blue French horn .. This is worse of all I would have liked it if the divorce and death still happened but Ted decides not to chase robin again.. What is the point of showing mother if she has to die to give way to Robin and why try to make Barney and Robin a couple. Barney regressing back and then becoming a Dad that too very protective.. I never expected this and all the story that was told till season 9 episode 22 is enough for me! Thank you creators!
ReplyDeleteThey were sort of locked in by the fact that they filmed the scene with the kids back in season 1/2. The show went on far longer though, and developed in other directions. Doesn't excuse how poorly they railroaded the characters in the last episode to get the plan back on track, but it does explain it a little.
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