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The journey of Ted is finally over, he finally met the Mother. The finale of How I met your mother was a very important episode to complete the circle after nine seasons. However, it seems that many fans are disappointed by this episode. I am one of those disappointed fans, and I'd like to write about this without simply blaming, insulting, underestimating the creators and the writers. I think that the creators wanted to take a risk, by finishing the series with an unexpected (for most of the fans) ending. It could have been considered as shocking, if the entire 9th season was not about the marriage of Robin, and if Ted did not try to take Robin back on each occasion (other than in the episode "Sunrise" where Ted let go off this love). But it was all about Robin, and as the daughter said "I don't buy it". Indeed I didn't buy it either, and that's exactly why I think that Ted not ending up with Robin would have been shocking. My disappointment was more about characters than the ending itself. Let's start with Ted: After nine seasons and countless loves/defeats, it seems that he learned nothing at all. Other characters changed, grew up, learned from their experiences, but not Ted. I had the feeling that all the stories he told to his kids were in order to tell that their mother was a very important person for him, but never more important than their aunt Robin. Tracy: We learned her name at the end; this was understandable in order to keep her mysterious. But other than the episode "How Your Mother Met Me", she has never been an important character, even in the finale. This can be explained as "the kids already knew the details about their mother after their parents met, so they didn't need more stories than these", but, we, the audience didn't know her at all, waited to know her for 9 seasons, and finally didn't have the chance to have a close look at her. As a result, we know her less than some occasional characters like "The Blitz", Daryl LaCorte, or some of Ted's/Barney's/Robin's girlfriends/boyfriends. She may have died at the end, but I think that her character should have been developed more, at least as much as to make the audience sad when we learned that she passed away. Barney: Within the group, Barney is the one who changed the most. He went from a womanizer to a romantic lover who followed his wife everywhere in the world despite not being respected/trusted. At the end he says, "If it didn't happen with Robin, it won't happen with anyone else." He was so committed to this relationship that Barney in the beginning of the series and at the end is not the same person anymore. And this should be this way for characters especially in series; you have to show the change (unlike Ted who didn't move even a step despite all that he lived). Nevertheless, this change doesn't seem enough; I think that a cherished character as him should have ended up happily with the love of his life, the woman who changed him into a good person: Robin. My opinion on him is that this ending wasn't planned from the beginning of this show, but for having him in the center of "How I met Your Dad" (Maybe I'm wrong, but this is how I feel, the ending of HIMYM was sacrificed for the beginning of HIMYD!) Let's do like Ted, and finish our review with Robin: Robin was another beloved character of the show and I think that she didn't deserve an ending like this. She should have ended up with a man, who gave up everything for her, such as Barney. Like Ted, she ended at her starting point, living with her dogs, for her career, and falling for a blue French horn... (A beautiful image on its own, but a failure in the name of character development.) If this disappointment was in whatsoever episode in any of the seasons (that we had in numerous occasions), it wouldn't hurt this much, but it was the finale... As I said, I have the feeling that it was a sacrifice for the upcoming series (hopefully I'm wrong). Despite my disappointment with the finale, my final words are a huge Thank You! to the creators, writers and all the cast & crew of this lovely show...