How I Met Your Mother - Part 2

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Disappointed beyond belief. :(
 
I could be wrong, but I really don't think they will. I genuinely thought they would hold off the Barney-Robin engagement until the end of the season, but they met us halfway. I'm thinking this season finale is the wedding, whatever goes down at the wedding, and then Ted meeting the mother at the train station.
 
He'll meet her...










and he wont get her name or number and spend all of season 9 trying to find her.
 
Stop it, you! :argh:
 
So I see they cant resist the almighty dollar. Expected.
 
Season 8 should end with us finally meeting the mother at the train station. Just her introduction to Ted. Something simple like she says her name, then fade out.

Season 9, the mother should be a regular and we should see them in a full blown relationship. The good and bad.

It'll give us a chance to better understand why she's the one...then close Season 9 with the wedding and a closing shot of future Ted and his wife.
 
That's the way I see it. I've never understood the idea of "Oh, no, he shouldn't meet her until the very end." Why? We can see the ups and downs that lead Barney and Robin to settling down together, and the trials of engagement and marriage and parenthood that Lily and Marshall go through together, but with Ted, all we get is a "Here she is. And she's the one. Believe it!" And we're supposed to just take that on faith? No way...
 
i hope this means we meet the mother at the end of this season and get to know her next season.
 
LostSon88 said:
Season 8 should end with us finally meeting the mother at the train station. Just her introduction to Ted. Something simple like she says her name, then fade out.

Season 9, the mother should be a regular and we should see them in a full blown relationship. The good and bad.

It'll give us a chance to better understand why she's the one...then close Season 9 with the wedding and a closing shot of future Ted and his wife.
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See, I wouldn't mind if they spent a season with the mother and showing their relationship together, but I feel it would also go against the premise of the show. I mean if you show the mother, at what point do you end the series then?

I know around season 3, when they first mentioned the Umbrella, Future Ted said that this "the story of how I became who I had to become before I could meet her." To me, that sounds like they only want to focus on Ted before he meets the mother, not what happens after.
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That's the way I see it. I've never understood the idea of "Oh, no, he shouldn't meet her until the very end." Why? We can see the ups and downs that lead Barney and Robin to settling down together, and the trials of engagement and marriage and parenthood that Lily and Marshall go through together, but with Ted, all we get is a "Here she is. And she's the one. Believe it!" And we're supposed to just take that on faith? No way...
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Not to sound like I'm always throwing out the Smallville argument, but in season nine they hinted at the suit, and we saw an actual suit in the final premiere, but they still postponed that until the very last episode. I think we might see something similar with HIMYM. They've already shown the spot where they'll meet, but as they've been doing so far since the premiere, they are keeping it until the end, and I think the most we'll see is a montage of their relationship in the final minutes.

Also, I remember with Smallville, they had kept him from training at the fortress because the belief was that by doing that, he would have been gone for years like in the movie, and would have become Superman in the process. They spent years postponing that until they ended up changing that altogether toward the end, despite the fact that it lead to some major unresolved issues with the character's future, like whether or not people ever saw Superman's face and realized he looked familiar. I don't know if the showrunners are willing to do the same because they might have a specific ending/meeting in mind, and introducing the mother sooner might mess up any character development arcs they still have in mind for Ted.
 
I don't think I'd equate the Mother with a simple costume, but okay... :o
 
I'm just saying that both shows have had a predetermined end, or moment that the shows have spent years building up to. And both introduced a critical object early in the season that symbolized that the end of the journey was near, yet spent most of the season trying to prolong the end for as long as they could. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ted get a love interest or something else to help them kill more time until he meets the mother, which will most likely be next season.

I think best case scenario is, in this season's finale, they show him looking at her in the station, but they end it before they have a conversation. I just can't see them intoducing the mother this season, and making her a full time character next season, just like I couldn't see them give Clark the suit or the ability to fly an then spend a season with him as Superman. Both shows are about a journey to see just how the character gets to the end with an outcome that we are already aware of for the most part.
 
Ted will end up slicing the mother and wearing her :(
 
I have not watched many of the episodes this season. Is Bob Saget still voicing Older Ted? Or did they drop that?
 
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I have not watched many of the episodes this season. Is Bob Saget still voicing Older Ted? Or did they drop that?
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He's still there, but since the focus was taken off of Ted for a while, he hasn't been used as much as in the past.
 
I personally am happy that it has been renewed. This show can still consistently get a laugh out of me and the characters are so likable that I have absolutely no objection to spending another season with them.
 
A year ago I would have said the same, but the start of this season has really changed my mind because they really strayed a long way away from the premise of the show. But if they can continue with the tone of last week's episodes, then I'll be glad for another season. They didn't rely on any outrageous gimmicks, other than with Seth Green's character, which was still fairly tame compared to other things they've done this season.
 
I saw someone online compare the current state of HIMYM to latter day Seinfeld. I think I'd agree with that. Does it have the strength or consistency of the earlier years? No. But it's still good for a laugh. It hasn't gotten downright dreadful and it hasn't taken the kind of quality nose-dive that The Simpsons took or that The Office took last season before getting moderately better in this final season. Or like Two and a Half Men, which was never funny to begin with. :o
 
I think the best way to define my gripe with the show and the way its been for this season is that every episode has felt like a filler. Granted the last episode seemed to make the more recent episodes seem worth it with the Barney and Robin stuff. But since Ted has been in more of a C-plot kind of role, there has not been much growth and change with him as of late.

I personally wouldn't mind if they postponed meeting the mother for another year or two, just as long as we see Ted continue to move forward, as opposed to being just a background character to the Barney/Robin marriage and Lily/Marshall's child issues. The show isn't horrible, but it just feels like its still around for the sake of being around.
 
Forget that. It's time to introduce Ted (and the audience) to the mother.

It'd make for a fantastic cliffhanger where we see them engage each other for the first time, only seeing her over the shoulder...then as Ted introduces himself to her and extends his hand, she shakes it, says her name, then cut to a medium shot of her face smiling.

Fade to black.

C'mon...if they did that, I'd be pretty juiced for season 9.
 
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