‘How I Met Your Mother‘s finale has been a controversial topic for the show’s fans. The episode ‘Last Forever, Part One’ paved the way for the HIMYM gang to break up and move on with their lives. However, fans could never expect what waited for them in part two. The show creators divorced Robin and Barney. Above all, it revealed that the nine-season build-up was only to see the eponymous mother die.
The finale seemed a lazy way to bring back Ted and Robin together and even enraged fans. Amid the huge disappointment, the creators released an alternate ending showing a happier finale. However, creator Carter Bays stated in his Reddit AMA that the show always intended to see Robin as Ted’s endgame. Therefore, the finale was not a quick wrap-up blunder. However, here’s how another version of the finale went down.
Tracy Does Not Die And Ted And Robin Do Not Get Back Together
In ‘Last Forever, Part Two‘, Ted’s children break the horrible news to viewers that many years have gone by since Tracy passed away. In the following scene, Ted runs to Robin’s old apartment carrying the blue french horn parallel to season one. However, none of this happens in the alternate ending.
Ted, as usual, narrates that he married Tracy and is happy “waking up next to her every day.” Indicating Tracy is alive. And the show ends with Ted saying, “And that kids is how I met your mother.”
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Meanwhile, Ted and Robin do not get back together. The couple has proven their incompatibility multiple times throughout the show. However, Robin and Barney still get divorced in the alternate ending and Barney finds new meaning in his newly born daughter, Ellie Stinson.
Robin Continues Her World Tour As A Professional Journalist
After Robin divorced Barney, she continued her world tour as a reporter. Her whereabouts are not specified in the alternate ending. Nonetheless, this ending suited Robin better. The journalist always prioritized her career above anything else. Therefore, it seemed illogical to keep Robin rooted to where she began when instead she wanted to travel.
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Robin never wanted to be a mother, let alone “the mother” of the show’s title. She and Ted wanted completely different things in life. And Marshall losing Lily’s bet seemed more practically suited to the character’s dispositions.
