How I Met Your Mother: 7 Ways Finale Went So Wrong

4. Makes His Storytelling Motives Very Questionable

Ted has told his children the incredibly long story about "how he met their mother" yet even they saw through the thinly veiled attempt to once again use her as nothing but a plotting device in the middle of a Ted and Robin story. Counting the minutes rather than the nine years of the show, he has been speaking for over four days. Even a generous fan could reduce the number for storytelling being quicker than actual events, but there is no denying that it is an insanely long story. The length of the story Ted tells his children is forgiveable dependent on the motive, especially when factoring in Ted's love of sharing his past tales, but the actual motive supplied by the final two minutes of the finale are insulting to fans and it should have insulted the children as well. The children could be happy for Ted to move on and be with a woman other than their mother, as they said they had observed the affection, but Ted has disguised this plight behind the façade of telling the children about their mother. Who they will have limited memory of if she has been dead six years and therefore died when they were children. Even further, when the children question Ted in 'Pilot' about the fact that he was speaking about Aunt Robin, why didn't they make their point then and simply tell him that they were okay with him asking her out? Everything about it seems a blissful oversight to allow the format to continue rather than any narrative credibility.