Its not about how hot she is. Its about the impression she makes. She was buying a ticket and its was an absolutely uninspired reveal. The impression it left me with was why the heck is this girl supposed to be any different? Because I know she is the one? That's not good enough for me. It was lazy. The reveal needed to have a spark or a hook to make us feel the difference between this woman and all the others.
Exactly. I don't hate the actress or anything, but the way sh was reveal was only special because she was revealed, and not because the moment itself was amazing.
Again, I hate to do the Smallville comparisons in this thread, but that was just another show that had a predestined ending and spent many years building up to it. But i remember when they finally showed a glimpse at the suit in the season 9 finale, and then they finally revealed it in season 10 and the reaction was mixed. On one hand, people were excited because they finally saw the suit and thought it was a sign that we would see Clark wear it and become Superman right away. Yet other people hated how they used the suit from Superman Returns, and how it was essentially just a prop.
Now it sounds like the mother will be in some episodes next season, which is a good thing, but from some of the articles out there, it still sounds like Ted won't be meeting her anytime soon, and that's the reveal that I'm most excited for. After all, I want to see
How Ted meets the mother.
I agree with the writers. The way they ended has me really excited for next season, and I hope that this gets their creative spark of the earlier season back now that they aren't going in circles any more and the status quo will now change significantly, much more than the last few seasons.
I was reading the IGN review of the finale and they brought up a great point, which is that the only notable thing about the episode was the reveal of the mother. Everything else was just setting things up for next season, as opposed to bringing any kind of resolution to anything, like its been in most other finales for HIMYM.
I think it would be nice to finally wrap up Ted/Robin and then focus on Ted/the mother. I also hope it's not all looking for the mother. I wouldn't mind a few episodes, but all season would be ridiculous. I hope the series finale has Ted proposing, but I have a feeling she may get pregnant before then, especially considering that one of his offspring (can't remember if it's his son or daughter) is born in 2014 (or 2015? I don't have time to look it up).
Yeah, I did a hypothetical timeline a while ago. Basically, Ted has the daughter in 2015 during their Star Wars day, which was sometime in April. So assuming that the daughter was about a month old, she would have been born March 2015, which means, assuming it was a normal birth and not premature or anything, the mother would have conceived her sometime in June 2014. Since HIMYM has tried to go in real time for most of the series, it would be fair to say that the mother would be pregnant shortly after the Series Finale in May 2014. We might have some time lapse now since the wedding in or time would be a week in a half from today.
To me, I wouldn't be surprised if Ted knocks up the mother before they get married because I doubt they will meet and start dating right away, after all, the mother is still supposed to be dating some other guy, so she still has that arc for herself.
Well I hope it is a way of working round the title. But what would be cool and still a way of working round the title is if they did get married next season and the show ended with her actually becoming a mother, and the daughter being born.
I guess that, for me, if Ted were simply to propose and it ended, I'd still feel there is more story to tell. I'd want to see a happy ending where Ted actually gets to enjoy his wedding day and get married. Maybe I want that kind of payoff myself.
I still see them doing some kind of montage ending where they show the to throughout the years, starting with the birth of the mother, then moving in to the new house, then the birth of the son, followed by their other adventures until they finally hit the present, where Ted is telling the story to his children.
And with all the Smallville comparisons, I am hoping that Season 9 will be what the last season of Smallville never was. That could have made the jump to a fully-fledged Superman series where we see him in costume. That would've given the show a much needed fresh injection. Instead, we only got a bare glimpse of Clark in the costume from the neck upwards (so basically his head, which we'd been seeing for the past 10 years) and then a shirt rip right at the end.
With HIMYM, if we and Ted had only met the mother in the very final episode, it would've felt just like that finale episode of Smallville. But equally, if Ted still only meets her and begins dating her towards the end of the season (if that's what they mean by "much later in the show") then it would still be almost tantamount to that. I want a fully-fleged relationship throughout the season. And if they don't get married, then I want them to leave open the possibility of a movie like they did with Sex and the City where we could actually see Ted's wedding day.[/QUOTE]
I was one of those people who never expected to see Clark fly or wear the suit until the finale, so it never bothered me when they did that, but what I really hated was that the teased Tom Welling in the suit for so many years, and yet they never gave us a good look at him in the suit. The CGI stuff, not to mention that it was recycled stuff from Superman Returns, really upset me as a fan and it took me a very long time to forgive and watch another episode of the show again on DVD.
With HIMYM, I kinda have the same feeling, but since the show has always been about flash forwards and flashbacks, I could see them start the season with Ted and the mother at dinner with Marshall and Lily, for a second, and then have them talk about something that happens years back, which would take us back to a time before they met. Like I said, the big thing about this show is the story of How they meet, and I think seeing the end in sight, the writers have started to take certain liberties that they never would have in the past. Kinda like how in Smallville, it was assumed that when Clark trained in the Fortress with Jor-El, that it was supposed to mean that he would be gone for 7 years, until they finally decided to let him do the training and still be around.
Maybe the fact that she looks like Lily (and some say she's a cross between Lily and Robin) is significant. Sometimes in life you think you've found someone who would be either almost perfect or very compatible with you but either they're already with someone else, or there are just a few things you wished were different or more like another friend.
Robin isn't ideal for Ted. She didn't want children and she wants different things to him. There are some things about Lily that are more suitable for Ted. She's a more family-oriented girl and more creative as well, which is what Ted seems to like. But she's with Marshall.
With the mother, she might be just the right balance between and combination of Lily and Robin, which is what might make her right for Ted. And maybe the fact that she looks halfway between them is therefore symbolic of that, even before we have gotten to know her.
Yeah, when I think about the mother being a cross between the two, I really start to like the choice more. I'm just interested to see if someone in the gang acknowledges the resemblance.
Also, I remember Robin spoke about Chemistry and Timing in the premiere a few years ago. Ted always had chemistry with Robin, but the timing wasn't always right. Like now, Robin wants to get married, and in the flashback to when Ted was marrying Stella, she had the same feelings of wanting Ted to marry her, but he had Stella at the time, and now Robin has Barney. So while they seem great for each other, there's always going to be something missing and something in the way.
And another little Smallville reference, I remember how Clark was in love with Lana, even after he was falling for Lois, and I always hated how they just phased out his love for Lana from one episode to the next just because Kruek wasn't going to be around anymore. I always wanted to see Clark get with Lois and then tell Lana that he's not in love with her anymore because he's happy with Lois. I hope they do something like that with Ted and Robin because I don't want to see it be another lightswitch thing.
The music supervisor's always great. I still have chills from Band of Horses "Funeral" from the first episode.
I love going on youtube page for the music videos only to see the top coment be something like "HIMYM brought me here."
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I got it they'll show the Mother's side of the storylines leading up to the wedding.
If they're going to drag out those 56 hours, then they're going to need some way to add fillers.
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