Goat3001

It wasn't much of a recurring joke. It was mostly contained in that season 1 episode with a few mentions here and there. Either way, the joke itself was that it was a mystery that they couldn't solve. That was the joke. We were never supposed to know how the pineapple got there because Ted and the gang had no idea.

Xander

I've ranted about this finale enough in other places, so just let me say that I didn't care for it. Nine seasons of them telling us "Robin's not the mother", only to end with "......but surprise, she's who Ted really ends up with after his wife tragically dies young!" really sucked and I didn't like it at all.

Timber

I don't know, I still feel the first half of the episode wrapped up the "How I Met Your Mother" story and the second half was more of "and then what".

Michael Corvin

Yeah kinda like a finale and reunion all rolled in one.

Decker

Nobody commented on this before when I posted it. I thought it was a big deal, or at least a cool little nugget. Was that actually common knowledge or something?

Raul3

No, that's actually great, the kind of details you expect from this show.

But everyone, including me, is so mad at the show right now that don't want to talk about that.

Fist of Doom

Thought it was a great end to the series. Also the funniest ep in a while.

Minor complaint: When Ted is supposedly in the same room as the kids, the lighting/cinematography doesn't match at all. It looks as fake as it is.

madcougar

So IGN is reporting that Bays & Thomas will be adding an alternate ending to the show on the 9th season DVD set as well as the complete series DVD set:

I don't know what to think about this. According to every interview I've read with these dumbasses they had the ending in their head since day one of the series and NOW they're saying that they actually had TWO endings in the can but chose the one that would upset the most people? I have no doubt they've recut something to appease the legion of angry fans. Too little too late for me. I wonder what their ending is and how it could possible be any better than the fan-made ending posted here earlier.

My guess, in this alternate ending instead of dying a slow death by despise, the mother is hit by a bus. The end.

dex14

Fuck them.

Raul3

They can ignore that the mother dies, because they talked about that in the previous episodes, so...

Are they going to change the whole last episode? Because that's what's wrong. Barney and Robin divorcing, and all of that.

Yeah, after thinking more about it, there is no way they can fix it.

JimRochester

Watched it again last night. Decided it was worse the second time around. Spend an entire season on one weekend then to blast through years in 50 minutes.

Matthew Chmiel

That's because the footage with the kids was shot nine years ago whereas the footage with Ted was shot less than 60 days ago.

Coral

The writers are retards if they didn't think there'd be a big backlash over their ending. They obviously didn't put themselves in the viewers shoes and also haven't been paying attention on the net during the shows run.

The only fix they can do is similar to the alternate ending provided in this thread. Tracy will still be dying and Robin/Barney are still divorced - the only difference will be that it will probably end with their meeting at the train station (maybe adding in something with the kids)... but there'll be no going after Robin.

Personally, my major problem (no saluting pun intended) is with going after Robin. That's THE biggest sin that winds up doing two terrible things:
- brings up something we wanted to die since forever... Robin/Ted will they/won't they crap
- diminishes the importance of the marriage to Tracy, who is "the one".

If Tracy is going to be dead in the future, we don't want to see Ted bouncing back from it right after we see them meet for the first time. I didn't want the sad ending, but I would've preferred it over the "oh well, Tracy's dead... time to go after Robin after pining for her for 25 years straight".

The whole season felt negated because it glossed over the mother and went back to Robin in the end, as well as dedicating it to a wedding weekend that ended in a divorce minutes after they tied the knot.

How could the writers not see what they were doing?

mikehunt

so was the mother of Barney's kid also part of his life after the kid was born? she was never shown

I wonder if they filmed a few different final scenes with Ted's kids (with different plot points/outcomes) years ago or just the one we saw?

emachine12

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hang on a damn minute here.

From the IGN article linked before, did anyone really read the part quoted in this thread?

Specifically, what is up with this:

It doesn't say the alternate ending is on the ninth season DVD set, it says complete series DVD. What the hell?! The ninth set better have that alternate ending, otherwise its another "screw you" to fans who bought the series sets every year.

magiccmom

My biggest problem with this is the fact that the writers think the Ted/Robin storyline was some kind of magic. I never felt the connection with them and quite frankly, after watching the magic between Ted/Tracy I can't believe they would want us to accept that Ted went back to Robin. Their relationship never had that connection. Major fail.

Trevor

I only watched the show a couple times a year, but always enjoyed it, so tracked down the finale on YouTube tonight. Not as great as it could/should have been, but not too terrible. I teared up at the Barney holding his newborn daughter scene.

madcougar

I think the ending may have worked if the series ended after the first couple of seasons. But they started with the Barney/Robin stuff in season 3 and six seasons later, the Ted/Robin stuff was ridiculously played out.

IGN later corrected itself and said it's also going to be included in the 9th season DVD set. But even if you LOVED the finale, no way anyone can tell me the 9th season was worth buying. Ever.

superdeluxe

Sometimes you just need to complete your TV sets. I have the 9th season of xfiles

emachine12

Awesome. And while the season had a majority of awful episodes, there were a nice bunch that I would love to revisit again.

onebyone

With any luck, the alternate ending would be worse...athough I am not sure how that is possible.

Screw this show.

Still bitter, that's me.

Michael Corvin

An alternative ending is nice but it can't undo what we've already seen.

madcougar

I could NOT bring myself to buy season 9 of the X-Files. And as crazy as it may sound, not buying that season freed me from my completest attitude that I had. So I only have the first 10 seasons of The Simpsons, the first 7 seasons of The Office, and the first two seasons of Glee.

Decker

Bass Player Wanted, How Your Mother Met Me & ........????

emachine12

Daisy... well, until that stinger and Vesuvius come to mind.