HIMYM was such a hilarious and great show, all the way up to the end of season 5. Season 6 was worse, but still good. Season 7 was mediocre, with some really good episodes. Season 8 was pretty bad. Season 9 was terrible. That's the basic breakdown, and the finale more than anything cemented the last season's position.

I don't have a problem with Ted and Robin getting together. I don't have a problem with Barney and Robin splitting up. I don't have a problem with the Mother dying. All of those elements, individually, are fine and could work and make for good storytelling. But the way it all happened, the way it was presented, all the bullshit that we have had to wade through for the last few years, makes me disgusted with this finale.

Marriages end, quite frequently, and Barney and Robin were always better when they were apart, or pining after one another, than when they were together. But the show has been building up to the Mother for 9 years, and presenting her as the most perfect and wonderful woman in existence. Which I can let go, annoying as it is, because this is a story Ted tells his kids, and therefore we can assume he is lying his ass off. The wedding between Robin and Barney has been built up for 3 seasons, their relationship for even longer, almost for the entire duration of the show. For both of these highly important elements to just be dealt with off-screen in such an offhand manner is incredibly infuriating, and damning for the show. Couldn't they simply cut out some, or preferably most, of the fluff they padded season 9 with, get through the wedding, and actually show us some of the courtship, and the newlywed's relationship? You know, actually show rather than tell the story. Isn't that storytelling 101?

Though I'm not even surprised. I knew the finale would be bad, I just didn't know in what way. The writers have been phoning it in for a long while.