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"WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the series finale of How I Met Your Mother  The final episode of long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother split fans and critics right down the middle when it aired in the US on Monday night. &amp;#039;Last Forever&amp;#039; saw Ted (Josh Radnor) finally reach the conclusion of his epic tale, only for the die-hard romantic to realise that his heart still belonged to Robin (Cobie Smulders). But Ted and Robin are no Ross and Rachel. The team behind HIMYM seemed to be under the impression that the majority of the show&amp;#039;s fans wanted them to end up together - but with every new outraged tweet, blog post and fan edit, it became increasingly clear that the opposite was true for the majority of viewers. It&amp;#039;s not the first time that a TV show have thrown its support behind a particular pairing, only for fans to cry foul - here are five more examples of ill-suited sweethearts. How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor responds to finale backlash Jack and Kate - on Lost  Marooned on a desert island, Kate (Evangeline Lilly) had her pick of the men on Lost but ultimately narrowed it down to just two - getting hot and heavy with both hunky doctor Jack (Matthew Fox) and charming con-man Sawyer (Josh Holloway). Sawyer was paired off with Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) in the fifth season, while Kate picked Jack. But we can&amp;#039;t help but feel that these two couples were mismatched - Jack and Juliet had mad chemistry, while we always preferred Southern smoothie Sawyer with &amp;quot;Freckles&amp;quot;. Dawson and Joey - on Dawson&amp;#039;s Creek  James Van Der Beek&amp;#039;s verbose Dawson Leery and Katie Holmes&amp;#039;s gentle Joey Potter may have been childhood sweethearts - well, kind of - but when Dawson&amp;#039;s Creek paired Joey with Joshua Jackson&amp;#039;s bad boy Pacey in its third season, sparks flew in Capeside. On this occasion, the Creek team wised up and - spoiler alert! - had Miss Potter pick Pacey over dull Dawson in the show&amp;#039;s finale. Ryan and Marissa - on The OC  &amp;quot;If you have to work this hard, it&amp;#039;s not working,&amp;quot; - Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) was great at doling out relationship tips on sun-soaked soap The OC but maybe he should have taken his own advice. The brooding teen always knew that he and poor little rich girl Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton) were &amp;quot;from different worlds&amp;quot; - but pursued her regardless. It all ended in tragedy, as Marissa&amp;#039;s ill-fated fling with bad boy Volchok (Cam Gigandet) saw him run her car off the road - she died in Ryan&amp;#039;s arms, leaving Seth (Adam Brody) and Summer (Rachel Bilson) as Orange County&amp;#039;s undisputed golden couple. Sam and Diane - on Cheers  Sam&amp;#039;s pursuit of Diane was central to the early seasons of classic sitcom Cheers but, in the end, it never quite happened for Ted Danson&amp;#039;s womanising bartender and Shelley Long&amp;#039;s academic waitress. At the end of the fifth season, Diane left Boston behind to pursue her writing ambitions and, though she and Sam were reunited in the series finale, they soon called time on their relationship once again. But if we&amp;#039;re honest... didn&amp;#039;t Sam always have more chemistry with Diane&amp;#039;s replacement Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) anyway? Clark and Lana - on Smallville  It should&amp;#039;ve been Chloe! Though DC Comics lore dictated that Clark Kent (Tom Welling) had to spend his high school years mooning over Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), their long-long-long-brewing romance was this show&amp;#039;s Kryptonite. On the other hand, Clark&amp;#039;s pairing with Allison Mack&amp;#039;s savvy young journalist Chloe Sullivan was dynamite - surely this is one of US TV&amp;#039;s best couplings that never happened? Do you agree with our list? Or are you a diehard Dawson and Joey supporter? Which other TV couples were mismatched? Sound off below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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