Today we will dance across the backs of dead Greeks.

[rogueslayer452]

++ Hello and welcome to everyone from the recent friending meme that had been going around. *waves* There's been an influx of friending memes on LJ lately, and I'm glad for that. This site probably won't return to the level of activity it used to be during its heyday, at least many are attempting at it, so the more the merrier.

++ The alternate ending for How I Met Your Mother has been released, also known as the one and only true ending the show should have had.

I know series finales in general can be a hit or miss for people depending on how they're executed, and you cannot please everybody, but I have never seen a series finale so universally hated as what was originally aired for HIMYM. I will never understand the reasoning for choosing the ending they decided to show, and why it was so hard for them to basically see that this ending was the one people were wanting, one that made sense given what they were leading up to. It actually feels like a proper bookend to the show. I was never invested with the series, had only sporadically watched episodes throughout the years, but it makes me really angry that they wasted all that time for a crappy finale when they could have had this, which unfortunately even though we have it now seems "too little, too late."

++ Over the course of the week I watched some movies I hadn't seen before. First was Doom, which I ended up liking. It was entertaining and reminded me a bit of Resident Evil, and not just for the fact that they're based off video games. Next was one that had recently come out but I didn't go see in theaters: 300: Rise of an Empire, which Eva Green was practically the main star of the whole thing and stole the spotlight, let's be honest here. She was magnificent. I just wished there had more Lena Headey. Though I actually hadn't seen the first 300, so that may be next on the list.

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[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

I've never watched "How I Met Your Mother," but OMG, the sonic boom I heard when it ended. People were P-I-S-S-E-D. Glad there's an alternate ending at least.

Out of curiosity: What happened? (I've spoiled myself for what happens in the original ending, since it's not really my thing and I don't think that's likely to change, but I don't know any of the characters' names.)

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Essentially, the last season was entirely focused on the weekend of Barney and Robin's wedding, which over the course of the last few seasons the show was building up to them being together and getting married. Ted, the main character and the one narrating/telling the story, had previously dated Robin in the earlier seasons and was still quite hung up on her. The entire point of the season was seeing the personal growth of characters as we reached the end of the series, Ted especially since there was an episode dedicated to having him finally let go of Robin and then finding his actual soulmate, a.k.a. the Mother, at the wedding itself.

The alternate ending, as seen above, is what many people were expecting the finale to be. It showed Ted officially meeting the Mother, Tracy, after showing having a quick montage of all the things that occurred over the last nine seasons which prompted Ted to end up at that moment, and after they have their first talk where basically everything clicked for them, his voiceover states, "And that, kids, is how I met your mother." Which is perfect because it's the bookend to how the show first began, with future!Ted telling his kids how he met their mother.

Now, the ending that they chose to air, the one you read about, is entirely different and completely betrays everything the show built up over the seasons, particularly the last season, and disrespecting the character developments that happened.

Apparently, the creators wrote that finale during S1/S2 when the show was teetering on being cancelled so they had a backup finale in case that happened -- hence why I think that version should have been the alternative ending instead of the other one, because otherwise it doesn't make sense given all that has happened over the course of nine seasons. It was just so infuriating, and the fact that so many people, from dedicated fans to casual watchers (such as myself) to even people who didn't care for the show were upset and pissed off by how the series ended. So this is not about biased fans being bitter about not getting what they wanted, it's about the utter disrespect to the narrative of the story being told. That finale might have worked for S1/S2, but it doesn't work after NINE SEASONS worth of developing these characters, their storylines, their personal growths and developments and seeing their relationships evolve.