You only get one chance to see your child grow up. If I was with someone who didn't care about that I'd never have a kid with them.

This is such a big deal. For a black woman — a dark-skinned woman — to get a BEAUTY campaign. Very exciting.

Dead on accurate comparing this shit show to the Roseanne finale, which re-wrote everything we thought we knew and loved about the show. I hated everything.

The big difference is that everyone rooted for Ross and Rachel from the start. That show gave us Ross saying "I just want to be married again." and Rachel walking into the room wearing a wedding dress, in the first episode. It set the tone. Ross and Rachel had this incredible chemistry and everyone was invested in…

Ditto. A thousand times over. I haven't seen anything much from the last few seasons, so I have no vested interest in the finale suckage. That being said, Bob Saget should have been older-man Ted. Also, the whole, "your mom is dead and I want Robin" should have just been delivered flatly by Saget in one go where he…

I can't believe he just didn't have Bob Saget voice anymore. What if Ted had turned into Bob Saget? That would have been perfection. That being said, I feel so vindicated right now that I stopped watching this show around the time when Marshall's dad died and never looked back. IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE FREE.

(FYI: I've posted bits of this elsewhere, but repeating it here because this is the actual place to put it.)

Reading the summary of this article, it seems like Robin got the shitty end of the stick because she couldn't have children and didn't buy into Ted's bullshit. Ted gets the girl, the kids AND THEN Robin, and Barney gets to continue to be a womaniser but also gets to have a child which Robin does not.

The How I Met the Unimportant Character That Gives Ted the Kids He Wanted That Robin Couldn't, But Now She's Dead So Ted Can Be With Robin finale was garbage.

It would have been SO kick ass if after his kids told him he should ask out Aunt Robin, Ted had said, "It's not like that between your Aunt Robin and me, kids. Loving your mother taught me that true love is something different and so much more than what Aunt Robin and I ever had." At least then we would have seen…

Ugh, you watch television? I only read books by French existentialists.

Except that everything in the show before that had to be retconned to get that ending. In the previous seasons we were hammered constantly by the story that Ted and the Gang stayed together as close friend throughout their life. It's in the dialog, it's in the flash forwards, it's in the narration. All thrown away…

Six years, ten years, those are movie time. For the audience, us, it was less than five minutes. Five minutes after nine years of build up. By any standards it's a letdown. Especially when those nine years have been spent telling us that Robin and Ted are not a match, ever.

I think it's a fitting ending, if only because it works so well with my reason for dropping the show somewhere in between the 3rd and 4th season. (I kept up with the development to see the mom.)

False. I present: M-A-S-H.

I was actually okay with everything up until the "Ted's going after Robin again" ending. I thought the moment when he met the mother was genuinely really moving—it fit the tone the show has established over the years, it had some nice call-backs, and both actors knocked it out of the part. Hooray. I'm even willing…

We've known the mother's name was Tracy this while time. At first I was sure it was going to be Leia (son named Luke, but daughter named Penny. Ted ways wanted Luke and Leia for his kids names)
But then I started rewatching from the beginning.
In season one Ted meets a stripper who says her name is Tracy. Ted then tell…

What I just wrote on the GT rant thread (don't judge me for the length, I've been watching this show since I was 14. 14!!!!)

Erin didn't even mention the offensive Barney shit about how he only learns the error of his ways about women when he becomes a father to a little girl. But even then he's still a misogynist because he refers to his child's mother as "Number 31" and tells some women at a bar that they need to go home and dress…

^^ Me during the entire episode. Ugh.