HIMYM an Alternate End!

"Which meant for the first time in years, the world was wide open. Because kids, when a door closes, well, you know the rest." - Future Ted

A lot of things have been said about How I Met Your Mother, but one thing that the majority of the masses agree on is that the series finale sucked. I was on the other end of that argument for a long time, defending the finale with all my might. BUT, I just saw the alternate ending and my views have changed drastically.

Ok so those of you who haven't seen the alternate end, but have seen the original finale, I'll give you all a basic summary of what happened. In the end of the alternate episode, future Ted goes about how he met their mother and recaps the whole series, telling his kids how he started off his quest from Marshal's apartment and all the ups and downs he went through. Its like a short 3 minute recap coming back to Farhampton station where The Mother is waiting and he goes up to her and they're under the umbrella and talking. They talk about the yellow umbrella and we get to know her name, Tracy McConnell and then future Ted says, " And kids, that's how I met your mother." Cut to end credits.

Now, a massive massive difference from the original finale. They didn't kill off The Mother, they didn't make Robin a bitch, and they didn't show future Ted standing outside Robin's apartment holding a blue french horn. These are the reasons why the masses of the show had reached to such an extreme position about the finale. 

The reason I liked the original finale is twofold. One, it was honest. I mean this is life guys, bad things happen to good people all the time in this world. Some things work out for some people and some things don't. Some people live to see a happy ending and some don't. Secondly, the original finale talked about second chances. If Ted's wife died, he had a second shot at love with Robin. When Robin and Barney split up, Robin had a second shot with Ted and Barney could raise his daughter the right way. I thought that was really hopeful and sent a beautiful message across the board.

Here lies the conflicting question, did we need to see all that? For 9 years, we waited for the titular Mother to show up. It took a whole season to get attached with her, and they just killed her off in one episode. It took 9 years to establish the fact that Ted and Robin are a no no, but they still managed to some how make it in the end. Great for them, not so great for us. It's all coming down to the fact that although those things must have happened to the gang, we needn't know about it. 

This is why the alternate ending clicked for me. It was the perfect goodbye to the show. The show is about how Ted meets the mother, and that's exactly how they end it, with Ted and the Mother under the famous yellow umbrella. That's all we needed to see. It makes me happy that in the alternate ending, Barney and Robin are still married, and Ted finally meets the mother and all is right with the world. 

I think the writers got a little cocky. Apparently, they shot the scene with the kids in 2006, so they felt obliged that they had to include that bit in the original ending. I respectfully disagree. If the finales were swapped, the show would've ended on a higher note and maybe we would've seen what happens to the gang on the DVD/Blu Ray version. To me, the alternate end is the original end and now my heart is content with what I saw. 

Frikken blue french horn.

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