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

2. Implies A Tragic Existence For Four Major Characters

As previously stated in the article, when 'The End of the Aisle' concluded there were two happy married couples and the impending meeting of another, all of whom had grown into more complete human beings throughout the course of the series. But the events during the final hour of HIMYM suggest that Barney, Robin, Ted and The Mother all led incredibly tragic and depressing existences. And in some cases, it was more an existence than a life. Taking each in turn: Despite meeting the woman of his dreams, who gave him two children and was his perfect match, Ted spent 25 years obsessing over a different woman. One who he met eight years before her, Robin. Therefore Tracy's existence is very tragic. Not only does she lose "the one" on her 21st birthday but when she does finally completely move on after a tough eight year struggle, she does so to a man who is still in love with another woman. As for her lasting memory to Ted? Despite all the fondness he remembers her with he views her as more of a lesson than "the one" by the way he speaks in his final monologue. Barney showed that he was incapable of companionship, after all the progress he made with Robin (and in a smaller sense Quinn and Nora) it was for nothing because he just gave up and went back to meaningless flings but this time without even the presence of his friends. He did eventually achieve maturity thanks to the birth of his daughter, who presumably will never know her mother as Barney and the gang seem to not even know her name. Needless to say, with Barney's partying ways, things don't look good for her growing up. And Robin. Perhaps the most tragic of all. She rejects all of her friends and lives the life of a social recluse, replacing her friends with a new pack of dogs. And she stays that way for the majority of 14 years. She has once again plunged 100% into her work, yet it is seen through her expression when talking about it to Ted and Heather that it isn't bringing her any true joy whatsoever. She simply lives with regret about rejecting Ted for all that time, to the point that as soon as he appears with the blue french horn she is immediately his.