How I Met Your Mother Ending

This show had an amazingly epic run that came to an odd end a couple of weeks ago. Took me awhile to digest the ending but here I am. The sitcom ran for nearly a decade and gave viewers that same feeling that Friends did many years back. It was something we all could relate to sometime or another and it was entertaining as hell. It was funny and the catch phrases people got from the characters, Barney especially, will forever be remembered. I think there was one thing, maybe two, that viewers were waiting to see on the finale. Everyone wanted to see if Robin would go through with marrying Barney or if she and Ted would get back together. What happened? Confusing shit happened. Let’s go back. When Robin and Ted were dating, you could probably hear the hearts melting. That would sound terrifying but still, heart warming. They were that couple. The one that you aspire to be. The one that you see drift apart but silently die inside, hoping that it’s just a momentary lapse of closeness. I, for one, never gave up on Robin and Ted, but they went their separate ways for good at some point and although they would look back every so often, the idea of Barney and Robin began getting drilled into everyones brain. I too, at some point, started to kind of, maybe just a little bit enjoy the idea of Robin and Barney. They had so much in common but I didn’t really think that two people exactly the same could last. So fast forward to the ending. How did those awesome writers decide to end a decade of epic awesomeness? Robin and Barney did end up getting married. Robin put Ted behind her and decided to move on with Barney. That was her choice. And it was there that Ted met their mother, Tracy. After years of those writers forcing Robin and Barney down our throats, many people were at peace with this decision. But wait! There’s more! What happens next is the confusing part. Turns out that after 3 years of marriage, Barney and Robin get divorced. We find out that Barney fathers a child with a one night stand he once had. And we also find out that Tracy dies of Cancer 6 years prior to Ted beginning this epic tale. Lily and Marshall have three children and Marshall becomes a judge too, blah. At the very end, after Ted is done telling his story to his children, they are pushing him to ask Robin out.  FLASHBACK! In the pilot episode, Robin sees a Blue french horn in a restaurant called “Carmichaels” and Ted says that it reminded him of a smurph penis. Robin says that she’d like it for her apartment so Ted steals it for her. After that she kept it on her mantel in her apartment. During the ups and downs of their on again off again relationship, the blue french horn kind of symbolizes where their relationship is. The first time they broke up, Ted being forced to return the blue french horn to carmichaels symbolized them being over. The horn went back and forth between the two several times and before the series finale, it was back at carmichaels again. FLASH FORWARD! Teds kids are urging him to go ask Robin out, so at the very end of the series, it shows Ted standing outside of Robin’s apartment holding the blue french horn. And that’s it. That’s how they decided to go out. Sentimental, yes. But how is that logical? The way they crammed all of those years into one final show kind of throws me off. But then again the show is called how I MET your mother, not how I met and courted and dated and loved and all of this other shit.. your mother. I think that the writers could have taken the ending in a different direction but I’m not disappointed that Ted and Robin got back together. I spent so long being disappointed that Robin and Barney were falling for each other that I was just relieved that Ted was able to get his real true love back at some point. So his wife had to die for that to happen. I mean, that’s not crazy at all right? Right??…