How I Met Your Mother - Part 2

[SpideyVille]

I guess they need something to keep Ted busy for a while.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, let's not act like there's no story to tell there...

 

[Dark Raven]

Should've been Robin and Barney's wedding by midseason, with the rest of it showing why the mother is the perfect choice. Victoria just seems like it's drawing things out and she's not exactly the most interesting character. She was ok in season 1, but Ted was in a different place back then. She's rather irrelevant now.

 

[SpideyVille]

I'm sure they'll be some kind of lesson there that he'll learn from and tell his kids about, but I just don't want to see him waste time with Victoria because it seems like that's his distraction for the moment.

I'm getting flashbacks to how Smallville always kept Clark from training at the fortress by sending various things like Phantoms, villains, and Kara to keep him from finally moving forward. I just hope his breakup with her is worth it, especially since I already feel like the whole pairing together was forced this time around.

 

[dynamic]

Ashley Williams, who plays Victoria, has been in everything from Warehouse 13 (Agent Sally) to Royal Pains to various other shows.

 

[Dark Raven]

Ashley Williams, who plays Victoria, has been in everything from Warehouse 13 (Agent Sally) to Royal Pains to various other shows.

That was her in WH13? Forgot about that and didn't recognise at the time.

 

[dynamic]

^
That was her. She's also the sister of Kimberly Williams Paisley.

Ob: the show - I hope Lily and Marshall have something more interesting to do in the next episode.

 

[Dark Raven]

^
That was her. She's also the sister of Kimberly Williams Paisley.

Ob: the show - I hope Lily and Marshall have something more interesting to do in the next episode.

I remember her being quite annoying in Warehouse 13. Also, didn't think she was related to Kimberly. They seem quite different. Does Ashley Williams look bigger than in season 1? She seemed slimmer back then. Now it's as if she's been sampling her baking too much.

 

[dynamic]

Her character on W13 was supposed to be annoying. I think she slimmed down for W13, and then gained again when she was on last season. Ashley wasn't a twig on season 1 either. She's very hot, though.

 

[SpideyVille]

How I Met Your Mother Creators on Setting Up the Final Pieces

With the Mother of all meetings closer than ever, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas on destroying relationships, bringing others together, returning guest stars and Robin Sparkles' last song.

How I Met Your Mother’s Season 8 premiere ended with a big moment for the series – Ted and the still-unidentified Mother seen at some point “a little ways down the road” waiting at the same train station, presumably about to meet.

If you’re worried they’ll be a swerve, and she’ll walk away before Ted talks to her or some such, don't fret. HIMYM creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays recently spoke to the press about Season 8, with Thomas firmly stating, regarding that train station, “That’s the moment we’re gonna meet the mother. We can honestly say that. That’s where it happens. We’re moments away.” Said Bays, “That moment is something we’ve been building to for a long time and we’ll see more of that moment as the series goes on.”

Bays noted that back in Season 6, Ted said, “When I met your mother, it was the day of a wedding,” and added, “We specifically at that time made it the day of a wedding, not at a wedding. I think a lot of people were a little misled by that, which I feel a little bit bad about. But it’s not actually at [Robin and Barney's] wedding, it’s at that train station.”

Said Thomas with a laugh, “We like jumping to endings and then not telling you the middle. It’s very sort of awkward storytelling when you think about it, but we enjoy it! We’re gonna fill in all of the blanks on that day for sure. That day is the biggest day in the history of the group, obviously, and that’s where the series is heading. We’re getting close now.”

Just how close is still being figured out, since it’s still not clear for sure whether Season 8 is the final one for How I Met Your Mother or if it will be renewed for Season 9. But as Carter and Bays explained, for now, they are moving forward as though this is the final year.

Asked again about whether the show might bring in the mother before the very end and continue with her as a character, rather than introduce her at the very end, Thomas replied, “That’s one of the biggest questions of the series and people ask us all the time. I feel like I haven't come up with a good way to dodge it yet, so I’ll just say, 'I’m dodging that!' It’s certainly something we’ve talked about and considered. But I don’t wanna say whether we’ve committed to it. Wait and see.”

Bays and Thomas said that through the eight years of the show, their plan for how HIMYM would end hasn’t changed. Said Thomas, “It’s the same plan. It’s the same plan we’ve always had. So if you hate it when you see it, just know that we committed really early to it. We were 29!”

As for what else is to come before that ending arrives…

Romances of Doom!
Right now, Ted has reunited with Victoria (Ashley Williams), Barney is engaged to Quinn (Becki Newton) and Robin has begun dating "Crush" (Michael Trucco) . But because of the way How I Met Your Mother works, we know all these relationships are doomed. Which is why the showrunners don’t mind spoiling that coming soon is what Bays joked is “the break up month!” for all those couples.

As Thomas noted, “We’ve shown you the end of all these relationships. We know that Ted doesn’t marry Victoria, we know that Barney doesn’t marry Quinn. So we’re showing you this sort of path of carnage of these relationships. I think ultimately the challenge was can all three of these breakups be completely different from each other? Can there be a funny one, can there be a dramatic one, can there be this? And I think we’ve done it. That’s the goal of breakup month – to show you three completely different disillusions of relationships. I think everyone, including the guest cast – like Michael Truco, Becki Newton – everybody got to be great in all of it. We’ve shot all of that now and we’re happy with it."

Meanwhile, “[November] sweeps will really heat up that progression of Barney and Robin getting back together and I think we’ve come up with a fun, weirdly appropriate way to reunite them in a whole new way that I hope that everyone will like. It’s a weird way to get them back together, but it’s really fun.”

New Kids on the Block
Thomas Lennon popped up in the season premiere as Victoria’s fiancée, and Bays and Thomas revealed he’d be in at least one more episode. In addition, his fellow The State alum, Joe Lo Truglio will be introduced as the partner to Martin Short’s character, Garrison Cootes, at Marshall’s law firm.

As for "Crush", while he was briefly seen back in Season 6 and in the premiere, future episodes will establish that he’s what Thomas described as, “sort of a struggling, cable access chef. He’s really awful and searching for his perfect chef catchphrase.” Added Thomas, “We don’t want to give away too much away about the character, because we kind of have a little reveal about him. His relationship with Robin will delightfully implode during breakup month.”

The Past Returns
How I Met Your Mother has had a ton of memorable guest characters over the years. So with the end in sight, might we see some more familiar faces again? Revealed Bays, “Yeah, we have a plan actually – and this might be a very expensive plan. We have a plan to bring back many, many people that we’ve had on the show. Not to completely steal their idea, but I enjoyed the Seinfeld finale, when you saw everyone that’s ever been on the show and we have a way to do that that sort of fits in with the universe of our show. So hopefully there will be a cavalcade of familiar faces going into the final episode.”

In the meantime, True Blood’s Joe Manganiello is confirmed to be returning this season as Brad, Marshall’s old friend. Said Thomas, “He went to law school with Marshall and he’ll come back as a lawyer and will feature into the trial [involving Marshall’s firm].”

How I Met Your Baby
Adding a baby to a long-running sitcom can be a tricky thing. So will that addition become central to Marshall and Lily’s storylines and How I Met Your Mother itself this season? Said Thomas, with a knowing laugh, “This is what I’d like to believe… We are tending to the fact that they have a baby more than some other shows have, I think, but I don’t feel like the baby takes over the show… It feels like they have a baby, but not like the show is all baby, all the time. That’s what we’re shooting for.”

Bays and Thomas noted that they were often using what Thomas described as a, “Really creepy, lifelike stunt baby. It’s the creepiest thing I’ve ever touched – and I’ve touched some creepy things! So a fun game this season is pick out the creepy, fake baby if you want to do that sort of as a drinking game at home.

Robin Sparkles Forever!
As our time with Bays and Thomas was wrapping up. I had to ask the duo: If How I Met Your Mother is wrapping up soon, we have to see Robin Sparkles again, right?

Replied Bays, “That’s always hanging out there as a thing we want to go back to - I think one more time before we hang it up.”

Added Thomas, “We have an idea. The challenge is always to do it and have it be completely different than the others. I’d like to think that all three that we’ve done have been different and we have a way to do it that I think would be completely different from all the other three. So yeah, we want to do it before the series ends.”

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/30/how-i-met-your-mother-creators-on-setting-up-the-final-pieces

 

[dynamic]

If they do a season 9, they should have the last season as Ted and the mother's courtship.

 

[dark_b]

i think if they will not decide together for the final season that then they can not writte the best possible ending.

 

[Sawyer]

Surprised at how quickly they broke up Barney and Quinn.

 

[SpideyVille]

Same here. I actually thought Ted and Victoria would be the first to go, but they didn't really touch on that relationship, though I thought it was kinda random how Klaus was living with them and how cool everyone seemed with that.

 

[O'Haire]

I'm glad. Didn't like her character. They tried to hard with her IMO.

 

[HighFivingMF]

What the Hell was Victoria doing with her head in that scene with her and Ted in bed during the "Barney has a point" part?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Surprised at how quickly they broke up Barney and Quinn.

I kinda was too, but as soon as they said, one of these couples were going to break up... I knew it was going to be them

they've already revealed that he's going to end up with Robin instead, no real point to dragging out the Barney and Quinn relationship

 

[Matt]

What the Hell was Victoria doing with her head in that scene with her and Ted in bed during the "Barney has a point" part?

I'm not sure, I wasn't looking at her head in any of those scenes.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Same here. I actually thought Ted and Victoria would be the first to go, but they didn't really touch on that relationship, though I thought it was kinda random how Klaus was living with them and how cool everyone seemed with that.

they did skip a head a few months so I am sure it weird at first, but, they came to accept it in time

 

[dark_b]

the s7 finale is about Barney. the premiere was about Barney. and now the second ep is about Barney and it looks like the whole season will be about him.

i dont think its balanced enough.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I say the premiere was more about Ted, but I do hope they have more Ted centric episodes because the last 2 seasons have been more focused towards Barney.

 

[dynamic]

Barney is more interesting than Ted.

 

[SpideyVille]

I noticed this a while ago, but it says a lot when they show a commercial on CBS for the show and the character they usually have in the end with the logo/date/time is Barney. I know NPH is the more popular/well-known face in the cast, and was the character that stood out so much in the early years, but the show is supposed to be about Ted first and foremost. But it's been very clear that he's been given the back seat until its time to really push him towards meeting the mother.

As for the Klaus thing, I think IGN's review described my problem with it perfectly, which is that the entire situation is just unthinkable, and it was also unresolved at the end, which leads me to believe that he will factor in the breakup with Victoria. Otherwise, I didn't really see him as a necessary addition. I also found it too ridiculous, which goes back to what I said about the last finale and the premiere, which is that they seem to be taking bigger stretches in terms of believability, and that has sort of been turning me off lately. It worked for Barney in the past because he was always a unique kind of person, but when certain situations don't get the laughs that they're supposed to, I think that's when you start to have a problem.

 

[corby]

I like to imagine that Bob Odenkirk's characters on HIMYM and Breaking Bad are actually the same guy at different points in time.

 

[John Locke]

I think it's become more about Barney in season 7 and the second episode is because he had a girlfriend. Two in fact and Ted didn't. Whenever I think of Season 6 I don't think of Barney and Nora. I think of Ted and Zoey (and the Blitz). Now that Barney doesn't have a girlfriend it will be more focused with Ted and his relationship while Barney is off doing somethig crazy in the side plot.