I thought it was less that she didn't mind and more that she felt sorry for him, and not a little embarrassed for him.

Yeah, I just took the pregnancy as a parallel to the movie. Never occurred to me it was foreshadowing. I was already anticipating "Two more months."

Well, most vice presidents would toe the party line. But who knows what Biden would do? He seems to enjoy the element of surprise in his public statements (as when he announced that he supported gay marriage when the president was still trying not to take a position).

Wait — if Brienne of Tarth is Adam, doesn't that make Jaime Hannah?

Eh, six years is plenty long to mourn a spouse, I think. I don't have a problem with that. He should spend the rest of his life unhappy?

Heh. If they didn't want to spend the last episode bumming people out, featuring a divorce, a schism among the core group, and an untimely death was probably not the best way to go.

I just disagree that the show pointed toward Ted/Robin for eight seasons. Maybe for the first two or three. The last several seasons have been all about Ted letting go of Robin so he would be ready to meet the mother. The ending we saw on Monday night effectively erased all that character progression in favor of a…

I don't know. I wasn't crazy about the finale, but Slap Bet and Swarley (and many other episodes) will never not be funny. I don't see them as tainted now because I didn't like the last five minutes of the show.

I don't think it was as bleak as all that — Barney regresses for five or six years (which was too long, in my opinion, but still not a lifetime) and then has a baby girl to whom he is devoted. Marshall had a crappy corporate job for about 3 years (from 2015 to 2018, right?) at which point he becomes a judge and then…

I agree, but Ted has already made that particular choice. Taking chances is great, but if they don't work out you need to learn from the experience. Ted just keeps repeating the same folly over and over.

I don't believe at all that Ted really loved Robin and not Tracy the whole time they were married. Everything we saw of their marriage looked ecstatically happy, and he was paying absolutely no attention to Robin at the costume party because he was so wrapped up in Tracy. And I think it's OK to move on from your…

It matters in the sense that it shows backward character development for Ted. He is still making bad choices that will lead to his ultimate unhappiness. I thought the ending was frustrating because it's basically, "Oh, look, Ted's setting himself up for heartbreak again. Bring down the curtain." Did he learn nothing…

I thought that Tracy was definitely the love of Ted's life. And I don't mind that he is moving on, after six years; but I don't see how he and Robin will ever work out.

Well, the number of dogs in her apartment suggest that she's in New York more often now; it's hard to imagine that she'd have pets if she's still hardly ever home. Other than that, there's really no reason to believe this is going to work out any better than it ever has.

Oy vey.

I honestly didn't think Robin came across as sad — Lily seemed sadder than Robin, to me. (What was going so wrong in Lily's life that she was trying so hard to hold onto the past, anyway?)

They got married. They were married for three years, but were not happy together because they didn't have much time to spend together, given Robin's career.

A resolution to the pineapple mystery may be on the DVD. There is going to be a secret scene that pays off a question, and I can't think of what it would be other than the pineapple.

Also: Right Place, Right Time, The Leap, Subway Wars, Trilogy Time, The Time Travellers.

Yep, I have the same problem.