In which I hate on the How I Met Your Mother finale  Warning:
here be spoilers. Run the other way if you want to ruin, er,
watch the show for yourself.  I’ve seen more than one source
describe How I Met Your Mother as “Friends for Millennials”.
After the train wreck of a finale this week (which was just the
cherry on top of a bad season), I’m starting to see why. By the
end of the series, most of the characters have done exactly zero
growing up or maturing, only superficially learning necessary
life lessons long enough to get past their personal crisis du
jour. Instead of giving us some kind of ending with a hope for
people being better than when they started, we realize they
don’t really change at all.  But first, let me give kudos where
kudos are due. Marshall and Lily should be the example of what
people should strive for. They get into fights, often big ones,
but they have a firm commitment to working through them. Aside
from their broken off relationship when they were dating, I
never once got the feelin