7 TV Show Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

3. How I Met Your Mother - Ted And Robin Don't Work

How I Met Your Mother's finale is pretty widely hated by fans, not just for the fact that it reverts to Ted and Robin but the way it skips over his time with the Mother - and her death - so quickly. Despite that, though, the writers obviously wanted this to be a fitting, emotionally satisfying conclusion for the show.

Despite that, though, there's not much to suggest that it's going to work out. Obviously Ted and Robin are at very different points in their lives than they were during the timeline of the show, but over the course of nine seasons we were repeatedly shown how they didn't work as a couple, and on top of that Ted has two kids. It's one thing being cool Aunt Robin, and a completely different prospect being a step-mother.

It's also worth remember that the final scene with Ted telling the kids was shot way back in Season 2, meaning that, despite all that was going to happen and the different paths characters were going to go on, it was always going to come back to this, no matter how little sense it might make or how much investment viewers - and Ted's children - had in the story. So Ted spent nine seasons telling his kids about how he wanted to sleep with their aunt, in a relationship that probably wouldn't work out.