Shut up already, the HIMYM finale was perfect

**SPOILER ALERT – How I Met Your Mother Ending**

Here’s the problem with all fans of TV shows in general – when they get invested in a TV show, they start generating all sorts of expectations for the characters. I  learned from my Gilmore Girls days that you should never ever set any kind of expectations for series finales. Ever. Also, remember LOST, you guys?

So, this is the day after the How I Met Your Mother finale aaaaand, well, haters gonna hate. I watched the Facebook, Twitter and media outrage mount and I just don’t get it.

I thought the ending was a great one and given what the past 9 seasons have been leading up to, it makes perfect sense. All this time during Ted’s epic tale to his kids about how he met their mother, it turns out she’s been deceased for some time and is now slyly seeking their permission to romantically pursue long time friend, Robin (or as the kids know her, Aunt Robin).

THANK GOD!

Because if the mom were alive, it means this whole time the kids were okay with the lack of mom in his whole story and his weird fixation on “the gang”…and somehow that’s not okay.

My husband (not a die hard find like me) always caught me watching it and would say, “How is Robin not the mom? This is so stupid. All he does is talk about how he’s in love with her.”

So, what’s wrong with the ending? I would argue – nothing. What did we want instead, guys? An inane amount of callbacks to our favorite jokes and to finally see Ted and Mother (her name is Tracy…but I don’t actually care) living happily ever after? For Barney to leave his womanizing ways because of  his marriage to Robin? Of course, we all expected to be able to rely on our rocks, Lily and Marshall.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that it makes more sense for Barney to be truly changed by seeing his own daughter in the world (something that would have been impossible with Robin), and for Ted to have felt a true deep love with the Mother but to be ultimately be sharing this story to show us that Robin is his final love. This is exactly what we’ve been building up to since the first episode.

I’m sorry, all you disappointed fans, I think the creators know what they’re doing with their baby and have had the future planned since episode 1.

(Side rant on Gilmore Girls: part of the reason us GG fans were disappointed was because the original writers stepped away from the show for some time and when they came back to do the finale the show was already not what it once was. HIMYM fans should consider the blessing of having the same creative direction all the way through.)

Good God, what kind of fan-response will we see when Mad Men ends this year?

The main thing I want to ask all the haters is – “If this sucks so bad, then how should it have ended?”