Re: How I Met Your Mother
Josh Radnor (who plays Ted) on the finale:
“A lot of [the reaction] was great,” Radnor said. “I think the narrative the media got ahold of was that everyone was outraged. I don’t think that was true.”
From Radnor’s perspective, fan support was split down the middle.
“I do a lot of speaking at colleges, and people always want to talk about the finale,” Radnor continued, “so I always do a little survey of who loved it and who didn’t.”
The results?
“Sometimes it’s 50/50. It seems to be about 60/40 — 60 [percent] disappointed, 40 [percent who liked it]. Something like that. So I think it’s been overstated, people’s disappointment with it.”
Continued Radnor, “If Ted and Tracy walked off into the sunset together, I think people would have called it a soft or sentimental ending, or it was a fairy tale. But something about How I Met Your Mother was it always upended your expectations, it always made you cry, it always was not what you thought it was. So I think it was in keeping with the DNA for the show. And my suspicion is that it will age pretty well, so let’s talk in 10 years and see what people think.”
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