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analysis: HIMYM finale

So let's just skip the intro and cut to the chase right away. Everyone seemed to hate the final episode of How I Met Your Mother. Why? Because the show is literally called "How I Met Your M-O-T-H-E-R" and yet, the writers decided that somehow, it was a good idea to have Ted end up with Robin, who is apparently not the mother. The way I see it, since the show started out with Ted being infatuated with Robin and since Ted went on to tell the story of how he met the mother but he barely did and rather, he told the story of how he got to that point and the way he did it was that he told the kids about the girlfriends he has had along the way but the fact that even then, he always went after Robin. Sometimes it was subtle and sometimes it was blunt but it was there. I mean, he called off the wedding with Victoria for the sake of not letting go of Robin. He lost Stella, again, because of her. Maybe this show was more about Ted and Robin's relationship all along. Although I