By TIME Video
If there’s one lesson to be learned from the finale of How I Met Your Mother, it’s that the show was never really about the Mother at all.
Perhaps it doesn’t come as a complete shock, since it took a whopping eight seasons before Cristin Milioti’s character was revealed as the Mother, but the show ends with Ted rekindling his romance with Robin via a blue French horn.
While not everyone was pleased with the show’s ending (which included a few other surprises), it certainly got people talking — “Ted and Robin” was trending on Twitter Monday night, along with #HIMYMFinale and the show itself.
Watch the video above to see what happened.
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