On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would argue that they could've pulled off the ending (Mom dead, Ted to > Robin) to far less scorn had they structured that final season differently. > By making it all about Barney and Robin's wedding, they minimized Milioti > and focused on that as a red herring. > > The show has never had a problem dealing with surprise death. But by > spending so much of season nine on something that was so irrelevant to the > ending they planned on, fans felt this was a bridge too far. > And this brings us back again, perhaps, to the differences between binge and regular viewing of a show like this. For regular viewers that last season took 9 months of their lives, and I see the point you are making about the misdirection. For my son and I, there was less than 2 weeks between the time we first saw Milioti revealed as the Mother at the end of the last episode of season 8 and learning that she had died in the last episode of season 9. I actually enjoyed and approved of the structure of the last season - with each main character getting a chance to meet the kids mother, before Ted does. The focus on that wedding also provides even more foundation for the eventual ending that Ted is still in love with Robin, even as he really was in love with Mother, who was the woman he was waiting for (Robin was just another woman he was waiting for even further down the line). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
