It is time to put away the playbook away for good, because “How I Met Your Mother” has officially ended, but did the finale live up to the expectations of TV critics and fans of the series? If you haven’t seen the series or it’s finale, beware of spoilers.

On March 31 2014, the CBS show “How I Met Your Mother” ended with what is considered to be one of the most controversial series finales in the history of television. After the finale aired, fans of the show went to Twitter and Facebook to post their outrage at the finale.

Fans who have stuck with the show since it premiered in the Fall of 2005 had high hopes that the finale was going to be “legendary.” However when viewers tuned it, it was not what they hoped for.

James Olson, 20-year-old undecided major, says, “I was not a big fan of the finale and I had really high hopes that the show would end on a high note.”

Before Ted, the main character of the show meets the mother at the station, there is a flash-forward to events that took place after Barney and Robin’s wedding. After the wedding, Lily and Marshall weren’t too thrilled when they saw Ted at “Mclaren’s”.

However, there were turning points in the finale that caused a lot of debate. Barney and Robin get divorced, Lily and Marshall have three kids–then sell their apartment–and Barney becomes the father of a baby girl-and above all the mother dies.

“The events that took place during the finale were rushed and the fans deserved a lot more than what they saw that night,” says Olson.

“The show really had some unforgettable moments and scenes during the nine year run,” said 19-year-old engineering major, Josh Kraner. “One of my favorite moments was when Barney uses his playbook for the first eight seasons to seduce women.”

The series gave us a group of characters and how their relationships developed. Many other key moments in the series and objects all link up to the finale of “How I met Your Mother.

The blue french horn was one of those objects that kept on coming up because when Ted and Robin started dating, he was willing to do anything to spend the rest of his life with her. Especially when in the final scene of the finale, he is shown holding that same blue french horn from their first date.

So, was the finale of “How I Met Your Mother” a complete waste of nine years for fans of the show? Was Ted’s journey from Robin to other women in his life including the mother worth it? Maybe, Maybe not but it will go down as an all time great series.

If fans want an alternate ending, there will be one in the complete series box set scheduled to be released this fall on DVD and Blu-ray.

Update: Removed a quote from a student that was falsely placed in the article, since student was not interviewed in the first place.