I just finished watching it for the second time, and I understand the issues surrounding the ending less and less. It’s always struck me as odd that so many people spend time wondering how the series could have been done differently. This isn’t entirely a trivial matter, but it’s not really important and says nothing about the finished work.
The finished series is a given. It cannot be changed. We can say we didn’t like it, we don’t understand it... etc. But we have to interpret the finished material.
So we can say we didn’t like the ending. But it’s meaningless to say that I would have done it differently, which is why I don’t like it. It’s not possible to do it differently, not even in theory. Let me explain: it’s not possible because then a different story would emerge.
There’s no other way; this is our story. To put it another way: we could write a different story, but it wouldn’t be this one.
First of all, I liked the ending, and second, I liked it even more. Don’t be mad at me, but I don’t think we can say we don’t like the ending but we love the series.
Because the series’s focus is on the ending. Especially in the last few episodes. This is very clear in the final, well-known scenes of the last episode, when Ted holds up the horn again.
Of course, this is just my opinion, not a revelation 😉