Robin is kind of annoying.
She is back and forth on everything.
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A world class biatch I've hates since S1..
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Easily my least favorite character on the show, way over the top with some of her mannerisms (which, unfortunately, I think is due to the writing) and, yes, also a pretty annoying person, as written.
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She was such a strong character until about the 4th season. Then she became really uncertain and not nearly as strong and independent like she used to be. I always say I'm a lot like the early seasons of Robin. But definitely not the later seasons.
shareI agree about Robin being a strong character until about the 4th season. I think the change in Robin's character began when the writers put her in a relationship with Barney at the end of the 4th Season. Not learning from this mistake, the writers decided to make a Barney-Robin relationship the focus of Seasons 6-9, which wrecked Robins' character and wrecked the writers' planned Ted-Robin ending.
Robin is such a terrible character by the end of Season 9 (and is made even worse in the Finale), that I think it was hard for many fans to root for a Ted-Robin endgame. In contrast, had Robin at the end of Season 9 been more like she was through about midway through Season 4, I think the Ted-Robin endgame could have worked.
For example, it would have worked for the version of Robin that existed at the time of Shelter Island to end up with Ted. That version of Robin clearly thought a lot about Ted, as evidenced by the following exchange:
Robin: I quit my job.
Ted: What?
Robin: I'm moving back to New York. I thought I wanted that job, but I want to come back to my real life, and I think you should go back to yours.
Ted: What does that supposed to mean?
Robin: Don't get married. Look, you're rushing into this. It's like you're trying to skip ahead to the end of the book. Ted, you're the most romantic guy I know. You stole a blue French Horn for me! You tried to make it rain!
Ted: I did make it rain.
Robin: It was a coincidence! But after all that, this is how your great, romantic quest comes to an end? You're just disappearing into someone else's wedding, someone else's house, someone else's life without a second thought! That's not the amazing ending that you deserve. That's not Ted Mosby.
Ted: I love Stella. She's the one. If you really feel that way, I guess it's a good thing you're not coming to the wedding after all.
Also note that at this point, Robin still has her characteristic skepticism ("It was a coincidence") that is greatly weakened by the end of Season 9. For example, Robin at the end of Season 8 needing to find her buried locket to prove to her that the universe wanted Barney and her to be together is exactly the kind of thing that Season 4 Robin did not believe in at the time of Shelter Island.
Also note that at this point, Robin still has her characteristic skepticism ("It was a coincidence") that is greatly weakened by the end of Season 9. For example, Robin at the end of Season 8 needing to find her buried locket to prove to her that the universe wanted Barney and her to be together is exactly the kind of thing that Season 4 Robin did not believe in at the time of Shelter Island.
Great point! Robin also doesn't believe in the possibility of ghosts, and I think she was well established as a very practical person so that locket thing didn't fit with her character at all. I also find it hard to believe any teenager would bury a family heirloom in perhaps the most famous park in the world and think it'll be there 10 years later and was this supposed to show that Ted going all out to find it proves he was her true love? Because at the time I thought he was being crazy and just another gesture how he goes over the top to try to force a love and Robin does nothing but accept romantic gestures.
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