An Ending that Comes Full Circle



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After nine years and 208 episodes it all comes down to the ending that comes full circle. "Last Forever" might not be the greatest series finale of all time but it was in one way a naturally perfect finale that has some problems.

As the episode begin, we see the gang at the ceremony of Barney and Robin's wedding and Ted sees Tracy McConnell (The Mother) playing the bass for the band at the party.

After Barney thinks that Ted should meet her, he declines and was going to head out before going to Chicago but not leaving without saying goodbye to everyone which in this case felt emotional.
But it all changed when Ted was at the train station in the rain and an older lady was perusing him that he should go back and talk to Tracy and given him that it's probably destiny.

24 hours later we see that Ted hasn't moved to Chicago and that Marshall and Lily think that the reason why he didn't go was not good. But Lily realize that this might be different than the rest.
Jumping forward in the timeline we see that Marshall and Lily were going to be parents for the third time and that Marshall would be get to be a judge in Queens, known as "Judge Fudge" and later run for New York State Supreme Court, with the name "Supreme Fudge."

The most difficult or one of the most difficult issues with this finale was that after spending an entire season of focusing on Barney and Robin's wedding that three years later that they can't work on their relationship and got divorced.

What a waste of storyline of two characters that we thought they were happy for each other.
Barney on the other hand after the divorce he still acts like the same old playboy he is until he went for "the perfect month" and turns out that "Number 31" is pregnant. Probably the most emotional moment was when Barney meets with his daughter and finally falls in love. Telling her, "You are the love of my life. Everything I have and everything I am is yours...forever."

As with Ted and Tracy, we see that they are happly engaged with two kids and after seven years of engagement that they finally get married and the whole gang comes back at the bar.

Years later after their wedding we find out that Tracy got ill and died. And we soon come back to the present time six years after Tracy's death and we see Ted (played by Josh Radnor in makeup and not Bob Saget) telling the end of the.story.

As soon as his children realized that the "long version" was not about how he meet their mothere but how he still has strong feels for.their Aunt Robin and told him to go after her.

We see that Ted goes yo Robin's apartment and rings her buzzer. And as she looks outside, Ted is out there holding a blue French horn (which is a call back from their first date in the pilot episode).

The creators (Bays and Carter) have thought of the final since season one. What a sense of direction that they gave these characters to make it all the way for this finale.

There might have been some disappointments in this series finale but not all finales are in a way perfection. But in this case it was probably perfect in a natural way. This is not just a story but more of a journey that in a way that life sometimes has its own ways.

To some fans and viewers that might be a slap in the face of a goodbye. If we look at it Ted and Robin were suppose to be together and that she wasn't the mother we all came to think to be, but the step-mother. They have a relationship chemistry that still carries on even after her marriage to Barney. In the end, this whole series was one life's journey of friends, family and mostly being with the person that you care for the most.

And with a finale like this one we did get some closer as this story comes full circle.