Girlfriend just watched the last episodes.

Cheating on Victoria was part of the process, it needed to be told, so they could understand the full extent. Lily and Marshall breaking up was a huge event in their lives and something they all had to deal with. Same with Marshall's dad dying. If those events were huge events for Ted, and they were, why wouldn't he include them in his story?

I've been told weird ass stories by my parents. I've been told stories about how they lost their parents. I was there for one of them, and will be for the last one in a few years. They are big moments for people and affect everyone around them. Ted and Marshall are so close, Marshall's father dying probably felt almost as bad to Ted, if only because of how bad Marshall was feeling.

Those parts might not have been completely essential to How he met their mother, but they were big moments in his life he wanted to tell them about.

As for Robin and Barney cheating, that's part of their love story and showed them getting back together. It was important to their story and while that fact may not be the best to include when telling his kids, he did it anyway. Ted's a perfectionist. And he also makes bad decisions, this was one of them. And this is just an argument in general, it has the same issues with either ending. If he was asking them for permission to be with Robin, why would he need to tell them about that anyway?

It did anger the shippers, sure. But it also angered people who loved Ted's character development and the evolution of the story. Throughout the course of the show, there was always the question of whether Ted was truly over Robin or not. And the answer was always no.

UNTIL the final season. They did an entire episode showing that he finally and truly was letting her go, and she floated into the sky, away from him, he was finally free. He could never have been with Tracy if he had not gotten over Robin. That was by far the most important step. And when he finally reached that point, he met her. Because it was time. That's the point of EVERYTHING with him and Robin, she was important in his life. But when he finally was able to let her go, and be free, he could meet the perfect woman.

He wanted them to understand the gravity (no pun intended) of the situation and how important it really was to him. The writers didn't need to add this part in, but they did, because they needed to. Because Ted needed to be done with her. He had to be done with her. Had they truly wanted him to end up with Robin, they should not have had this happen. Ted would still love Robin, and after the mother dies, would make sense for him to run back to her.

This of course would shit all over Tracy, but that's basically what they wanted to do anyway. My point is that they told the story the natural way, and naturally, Ted was over her completely, and the whole final scene completely ruined that development and felt weird, unnatural, and just downright bad writing.

Just because you WANT to do something a certain way, doesn't mean it SHOULD be that way. The best example I can give here is George Lucas. If the original trilogy was the way he originally WANTED it, it would have been dreadful. That is why the prequels are so terrible, because he got his way for them. The original trilogy, before he had the power to demand things done a certain way, smarter people said no to stupid ideas because they didn't work.

Then he went back and kept trying to change the original trilogy over and over again. NO. It was done and perfect, that was not something he should have done, and people hate him for it.

The writers wanted Ted to be with Robin, but because of that scene and everything leading up to it, it was wrong. It no longer was the way the story was going and they forced it back in, which is the issue.

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