The How I Met Your Mother finale upset so many fans but not me. I really think it was an apt ending that is too close to reality. It was not a Disney Fairy Tale ending we all as kids grew up with that ends “The Prince and Princess got married and they all live happily ever after.”
It was one of those endings that made me sigh and say “ah, that is life.” That is real life. You don’t always get what you expect. Life is not that predictable like the movies.
When I started watching the show, I always got the feeling that Robin Sherbatsky was the mother but the speculations died when they finally showed that umbrella scene. But the weird thing to me was Ted Mosby always talk about Robin to his kids and so that screwed my head and wondered where is the mother and why Ted is telling this story to his kids.
True enough to my gut feel, the Mother is dead. How could we all not see that
The only reason a father talks about their mother to their kids is when they are missing her or if she is dead. Hell, I didn’t even remember the Mother’s name.
Why are fans so disappointed that How I Met Your Mother ended that way. The title is very apt, MET past tense. It was just about meeting not staying.
Those who still didn’t get what happened in the ending. Here’s a rundown.
The Mother is dead.
Ted all along was telling a story about how he met the Mother but how he loved Robin all his life.
Ted and Robin got back together.
Barney divorced Robin and got the 31st women he screwed preggers and now he got a daughter that probably changed him to a reformed womanizer.
Marshall and Lily stays happily married with lotsa kids.
Lesson learned in the series
1. Things in our life doesn’t happen the way we want it to be sometimes. There are detours and maybe shortcuts we take that stirs us to a different direction.
2. There are people we met in our lives that will change us forever. There are people we will love until the end no matter how they hurt us
3. True friends will always stay and remain friends no matter what.
4. Love is a choice. We either act against it or for it. We may love the person we think is best for us or love the person meant for us from a distance because that is what we thought was the best thing to do.
5. Never expect. Because expectations leads to disappointments. Live. Love. Laugh.
6. Happy endings differ from person to person and situation. My happy ending may not be your happy ending.
How about you what did you think of the How I Met Your Mother finale?
Stay gorgeous everyone!
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I hate to say it- but I am glad they finally finished the story! I used to love watching the show but got tired of trying to figure out who the mother was!
It crossed my mind more than once the mom was dead for the very reason you said. Why would the dad be talking to his kids about their mom? One obvious reason is she’d be dead, but we don’t like to think of things like that. Such a funny show based around the death of a mom.
I missed the last episode. 🙁 I didn’t even watch the last season. I’m going to find it online and watch it.