r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Morr4Seiya • 4d ago
Hated Tropes (Hated)You know this cute couple we spend the last movie developing?Yeah,they broke up off-screen
John and Lori-Ted 2
Sam and Mikaela-Transformers 3
Wade and Vanessa-Deadpool and Wolverine(yeah,i know the ending implies they get back,but it just begs the question what was even the point,even Morena Baccarin Vanessa actress complained about how her character was sidelined)
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u/catchyerselfon 4d ago edited 3d ago
The obvious answer to the problem of the teen actors growing up between seasons 1 and 9 is to just LET IT HAPPEN. In the series finale cut to them as young adults and the joke is that it’s taken dad 9 years, on and off, to tell them about the path to meeting their mother, and it wasn’t in one or two days back in 2005. Like once a week after dinner he sits them down and tells them another story about his young adulthood. The adult kids roll their eyes all “FINALLY, Jesus Christ, Dad!”
The series finishes with the “edited to be actually good” ending of Ted and Tracy under the yellow umbrella, and no scene of her dying of Ali McGraw Disease where she looks radiant in a hospital bed (but we don’t even know what’s wrong with her, we just have to assume cancer). Maybe Tracy WAS sick for many years, but the twist is that she comes home from the hospital on the last night of the story reveal to tell them she has a surprise, she didn’t want to get their hopes up, but the doctor says she’s officially hit the five year mark of cancer-free.
Oh, and Barney and Robin don’t get divorced and waste our time spending an entire damn season on their relationship just to have it fall apart in a few flash forward scenes. This is why I’ve never rewatched a series I loved, the ending made it seem like none of this was worth it!