Can I suggest an alternative finale? I don't think the plot points were the problem for the most part, but rather the execution. So here is my alternative plot sketch for the finale. The main plot is similar, but the flashbacks are extended.

All that time in the Mosby Boys and he's learnt how to commit the perfect crime!

I haven't been this pissed off since Roseanne. I said as much last night while throwing my remote to the other side of the room in temper. It's like they fed us this big epic love story. This love that we were all waiting to see unfold, and make everything worth it. It was supposed to be a story about how life can…

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.

Yes, this is a case of the writers having a vision of the show's ultimate Ted-Robin direction for so long that they ignored how attached many fans were to the Barney-Robin pairing or to the story of Ted and Tracy/the Mother.

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…

Also this. My emotions have been reduced to gifs.

^^ Me during the entire episode. Ugh.

I don't understand how he left mid-reception, but members of the band were also leaving. That makes no sense, unless Robin and Barney threw a way shittier wedding than I anticipated. That, and his not moving were annoying, but it wasn't that bad a finale. Bittersweet. But it was better than Dexter and Lost. The only…

Yeah...that phenomenon is actually less uncommon than you might think.

My money is on the last moment being hearing the Mother's real name for the first time a la Mr. Big in Sex and the City. I'm already cranky about it.

A while back they did a funny answer to that question, actually.

Beautiful dress (not strapless)!

MoGlo, you know I love your writing a lot but the title man! I was literally mainpaged today with an article called "How We Talk About Women" and your title is everything that I was complaining about how the media dehumanises women by llabelling them in reference to men. We all know who Reeva Steenkamp was, at least…

A bad ass Ursula who is the same proportions as she was in the cartoon. Don't give me some skinny sea witch. Poor, Unfortunate Souls is much better with some size. Queen Latifah (I'm just picturing her as Mama in Chicago)?

I don't think she's trying to pick a fight with people's priorities. Like I acknowledge that I could probably have a body like that if I followed a similar regime, but I never will because I don't care enough... so I'm not her target audience. She's targeting people who want a fit body but claim it's impossible to…

OK this, this right here pisses me off. And I know it shouldn't. Yes, there should be more body diversity in fashion. Yes, women of all shapes, sizes, colors, anatomies, etc. are beautiful and should be represented. NO the language of the discourse should not be "this 'plus size' REAL woman is better than all those…

She heard someone talking about "Orange is the New Black" and took it literally (pause for laughter)... but seriously, those are Princeton's colors. Or, she loves Halloween.

OH. MY. GAWD. BRILLIANT!!!!!!! One of those 2 + 2 things no one is making connections on. Yes. this. yes.

Wait, why are we supposed to marry people we can't count on to act responsibly ?