7 TV Finales That Pissed Off The Fans
3. How I Met Your Mother: That Last-Minute Montage
How I Met Your Mother is a show in dire need of an alternate ending. Fortunately, it has one, but no amount of DVD extras could have made the official one any less painful.
The CBS comedy tricked fans into rooting for all of the wrong things during its nine-series run. It convinced the audience Ted and Robin are horrible for each other at every turn and painted the Mother as this mythical happy ending for the protagonist.
All of the fans hopes and dreams for the characters came apart during the concluding season, not gradually over the course of a well-paced final run, but abruptly during a montage in the finale which revealed the Mother was dead, and Barney and Robin split.
Okay, so the Mother had to die to fit in with the series canon, but there's an undeniable sense of fan betrayal about Ted ending up with Robin.