Picture this: You're standing alone on a train platform about to reset your life. You just said goodbye to your friends, packed up your house and are waiting for the train to take you to a new city. You're running away from your feelings because you're afraid they might ruin something that is already in a very solid place. And just when you think your life is about to change directions; it does, but not in the way you expected it to be.

For nine years, the loyal and faithful fans of the hit CBS comedy "How I Met Your Mother" or HIMYM for short, waited patiently for that moment to arrive. They watched week in and week out as Ted Mosby (voiced by stereotypical dad Bob Saget and played by Josh Radnor) told his two children about how he met their mother. In the series finale on March 31, 2014, fans finally got to see Ted Mosby and Tracy McConnell meet on the train platform under the Yellow Umbrella.

While this might seem all hunky-dory to those who never watched the program, those who saw the final three minutes of the show are still in rage today.

Just after Ted and Tracy meet on the train platform, before Ted even goes and talks to her, we see what has happened in a span of 17 years. To spare you the time of explaining it all, here's a quick spoiler alert.

Ted stays in New York and falls in love with Tracy before getting her pregnant with their daughter Penny. Marshall and Lilly have a third child and finally say goodbye to that hallowed apartment above MacLarens. Barney and Robin spend the entire final season preparing to get married only to be divorced three years later. Barney creates a second playbook which results in a unplanned pregnacy. Robin leaves the group for a while to focus on her career but makes it back in time for Ted and Tracy's wedding. We then see a happy montage of the Mosby family loving each other and finally seeing Ted get everything he's ever wanted.

Still don't understand why audiences are pissed off? Just keep reading.

Moments after we see the family happy, Tracy is dying in a hospital bed in the year 2024. Ted then finally tells his kids the infamous line "And that kids, is how I met your mother."The kids, like little brats they are, tell their Dad that the story was never about mom, but rather Ted asking permission to date their "Aunt" Robin again. In the end, Ted is outside Robin's window with the blue french horn smiling and the show ends.

Ahem: WHAT THE HELL DID WE JUST WATCH!?!?!

That was what was being screamed by most of the fans when they saw the ending. Now to some, I'll give the benefit of the doubt, it was a solid ending and fans received closure. To most however, they felt like nine years of their lives were wasted in a single hour. No, not just the fact that Tracy died as many expected but many other reasons.

The entire plot of season nine was within a span of 56 hours from a Friday afternoon to a Sunday night in Farhampton. That weekend was all based around the wedding of Robin and Barney. Long story short it was a comedic and longer version of "24." If the entire season was based around a couple's wedding, why the hell did that couple divorce less then 20 minutes into the series finale? Yes, we know it was actually three years but to the audience it was a commercial break. We as fans wasted 23 episodes seeing Barney turn from a womanizing playboy to good man only to see him become that same guy with 30 minutes left in a series.

Also, we see flashbacks of Tracy meeting the entire gang before ever meeting Ted. During which, everyone agrees they have found the perfect girl for their hopeless-romantic protagonist, and yet they never introduces her to him. This issue could have been resolved before the wedding ever started if Barney, Lilly or Marshall just would have said, "Hey, you should meet my buddy sometime."

Over the season, we also got to see possibly the cheesiest scene in television history when Ted "let's go" of Robin. On the beach while looking for a drunk Barney, Ted tells Robin that she is the girl for him, but he knows she needs to be with Barney. After a heart-felt talk, Ted lets go of Robin's hand as she "magically" floats in the sky and metaphorically out of Ted's life. Later, we see Ted tell Robin right before the wedding, "the Ted who loved you is gone" finally cementing that he is officially done with Scherbatsky. So then why the hell does he go back to her in the end? If he's over her why does he just say, "Aw, screw it, I'll give this another chance."

The only saving grace of that entire episode is probably the performance of Neil Patrick Harris. "NPH," who plays Barney, ends up knocking up a girl and has a daughter named Ellie. After meeting her for the first time, he instantly falls in love with his daughter and becomes a changed man for her sake. That was a raw performance by NPH who was probably thinking of his own kids while making that speech. Still, while his performance may have given the audience hope for "Swarley" in the future, the episode still bombed.

Before the biggest flaw, here are two minor flaws to the episode that make no sense. After nine years of voicing future Ted, why didn't Bob Saget appear at all in the finale? At least give the guy a cameo in a scene for all the unnoticed work he's done for almost a decade. Also, how the hell is Barney okay with his best friend dating his ex-wife? It doesn't matter how long you've been divorced, friends don't date friends' wives, period. Ted had her first, but Barney put the ring on it ... end of story. Oh yeah, and to the people who say that's a "realistic ending," get married and then have your ex date your friend, and tell us how you feel.

Finally, throughout the final season we see all the highlights of Ted and Tracy's relationship. From their first date and the story of Gary Blauman, to the proposal at the lighthouse, all the way to Tracy singing "La Vie En Rose," and Ted quietly listening one room over. We fell in love with Tracy McConnell. Bravo to you, Christin Milioti, on bringing the character fans have waited nine years to meet to life. Not only was your performance believable, but even those who has written you off after Ted's infamous "45 Days" speech were hoping you lived in the end.

Unfortunately for Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, many people have burnt holes through your heads for an idea that you had EIGHT YEARS EARLIER. If the show would have let us meet the mother for a season and then seen her slowly die and Ted come to peace with her death, this might have been a fantastic series finale. Instead, you rushed through almost 17 years of plot structure just for Ted's kids to feel important after not saying a word for seven years. To Ted, Tracy's death was six years ago, to the audience it was less then three minutes.

How can you expect them to just be okay with her dying and Ted moving back to the one girl most people didn't want him with? You could have put him with Victoria, and we'd be pissed but still understanding. But no, you had to keep an idea in your head (that should have changed) and waste nine years of fans lives.

Most of the fans I know can't even enjoy the old episodes due to the fact they are ruined by the ending. It's been over a year since the series finale, and I think I've only been this upset at one other thing that has happened in my life. If you're planning on watching the entire series, watch the alternate ending so your dreams aren't destroyed like ours were. So congrats writers of HIMYM, this series finale was pa ... wait for it ... thetic.