"How I Met Your Mother" Finale Thoughts

So, people are really, really, really upset about this ending. Since Ted ended up with Robin, the show was a hoax, they say. The writers essentially wasted nine years of storytelling-the could have just told the story with the pilot. What people are forgetting is perhaps the central element of the show - it's realness. Real life is messy. People get into fights, they breakup, they get divorced. People die. Christin Miliotti's role as "the Mother" served as far more than a prop for Robin. Ted's story is a real story. After going through tremendous heartbreak, he finally meets the "one," and they fall in love, have kids, etc. And that's all great. The show probably could have ended with the Ted and Tracy smirking to each other under the yellow umbrella, and people would have been happy. It was revealed in the 200th episode that Tracy's longtime boyfriend passed away, leaving her incredibly heartbroken, wrought beyond despair. And then Ted came into her life. So why isn't it fair that Ted falls in love again after McConell's death?