How I Met Your Mother’s Most Unnecessary Plot Twist Still Sounds Like a Joke
Why make things so much more complicated?
It seems that when writers don't know what to do with a love story, they decide to turn it into a cringe-worthy love triangle. The obstacle on the way to true love is not always a bad thing to introduce, but sometimes it is just unnecessary and adds nothing to the plot.
This was the case with How I Met Your Mother. The main couple of the series was Robin and Ted, but for most of the show they weren't even together. There were many reasons for this, but the most important one was that they wanted different things in life.
Ted's dream was to find a wife who would be with him forever and bear his children, while Robin was definitely a career woman and did not want to dedicate her life to family matters. However, when they were together, their chemistry was real and they seemed to care about each other deeply.
In fact, for the most part of the series, we had no doubt that they would end up together. But that all went up in smoke when the writers decided to put Robin and Barney together... Frankly, it was a risky move, but it was definitely an unexpected twist.
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Now, what we really don't understand is why the decision was made in the first place? The writers tried so hard to sell the idea of them together that they almost succeeded!
Fans started to believe that something could actually work between Barney and Robin, and that makes a lot of sense. They were similar in a lot of ways, and we can see why they would not be the worst ending for each other.
But just when we believed in them as a couple, we found out that Ted is still in love with Robin. And frankly, after the locket scene, we got the feeling that she was, too. But anyway, the writers went ahead with the wedding, only to give us a divorced Barney and Robin three years later.
What was the need to bring this questionable relationship into the story, make it believable, and then brutally destroy it? Unless the writers just got bored and wanted to torture the devoted fans for a little while.