How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[souvlaki]

I just don't buy she is dead. If it's pulled off in a tasteful way, so be it but God that would be such a downer for a sitcom. Not to mention I would like Ted to have a happy ending considering everything he's gone through on the show. Can someone dig up that quote from the creators saying the show ends on a happy note? But then the actress that plays Robin said she cried when the creators told her the end of the show so there is that.

 

[LostSon88]

Has anyone considered the possibility that perhaps her goals of ending poverty has something to do with her "supposed" absence in the future?

For all we know, the kids could be asking Future Ted because their mother is overseas saving the world...

 

[SpideyVille]

I just don't buy she is dead. If it's pulled off in a tasteful way, so be it but God that would be such a downer for a sitcom. Not to mention I would like Ted to have a happy ending considering everything he's gone through on the show. Can someone dig up that quote from the creators saying the show ends on a happy note? But then the actress that plays Robin said she cried when the creators told her the end of the show so there is that.

This is my struggle. I don't want her to be dead, but in trusting the creators, I feel like they would do a great job with the story telling of it. But at the same time, I kinda feel like it would be better if we didn't have this idea and that it would a fresh surprise if it were to happen. It doesn't seem as effective since its a bit expected now.

Has anyone considered the possibility that perhaps her goals of ending poverty has something to do with her "supposed" absence in the future?

For all we know, the kids could be asking Future Ted because their mother is overseas saving the world...

I like this possibility.

And on a side note, I thought that that was kind of a weird thing for her to choose. I mean, I can see how it lead to her studying economics, but fighting poverty is one of those life goals, at least in my opinion, that you would never be able to achieve, so I wonder how that dreams would affect her decisions from here on in.

 

[Marvolo]

Decided to watch episode 200. I think I fell in love with the mother when I heard her sing La Vie enough Rose too.

 

[Darkness Falls]

i liked how they did this weeks episode
i thought it was really sweet to see that in a way the mother has been on a similar journey to find love again like ted is, they both went through various moments where they could've met but through one circumstance or another didn't, and they were both hanging onto a past relationship, ted with robin and the mother with her deceased partner, really looking forward to their eventual meeting, they have such good chemistry in the flash forwards we've seen

 

[Dark Raven]

Didn't Future Ted once say that the mother thought he was an idiot when she saw him in the class at the front? I can't quite remember. But it doesn't seem as if she does. She laughs at his shellfish joke. And she's not there to see him insist that he is in the correct class, because when he says it's architecture 101, she immediately assumes she's in the wrong class and rushes out.

I do wish the episode started off with some narration by Future Ted as well. I don't think there was any voice over to frame the episode and say how it was showing these things from her point of view.

Decided to watch episode 200. I think I fell in love with the mother when I heard her sing La Vie enough Rose too.

And auto correct strikes again!

Of course, there are some people who never use other people's names. They just say "hey" or some other impersonal thing.

While that's true, going the entire episode without a single person mentioning her name is stretching it.

It did end up this way after all. They introduced us to each of her scenes where it had already passed the time where she might say her name (eg sitting next to Rachel Bilson in economics and both of them meeting in the lecture hall for the first time).

I just thought that when Ted and the mother eventually meet, she will already know who he is. She might even recognise him at the train station when she gets out of the cab, because she knows he is Professor Mosby (if she remembers his name). And she already knows that Ted is "in love with her" from what Rachel Bilson told her, because he went for all the items in her room that belonged to the mother.

 

[Prison Mike]

He kind of already knows her too since I'm sure he knows that she was Cindy's roommate. They just haven't been formally introduced. I wish they had incorporated that online dating episode into The Mother's episode. I still wonder if she was that perfect match. I'm guessing not since she was in mourning at the time.

 

[Dark Raven]

He kind of already knows her too since I'm sure he knows that she was Cindy's roommate. They just haven't been formally introduced. I wish they had incorporated that online dating episode into The Mother's episode. I still wonder if she was that perfect match. I'm guessing not since she was in mourning at the time.

Well, unless it was her room mate who created the profile for the mother and submitted it for her on her behalf. But I can't remember if the matchmaking agency required that you had to meet the matchmaker in person for an interview, so maybe it couldn't be submitted by someone else.

Also, Ted doesn't know what Cindy's room mate looks like or what her name is at that point. But the mother would actually recognise Ted as Professor Mosby and at least knows his last name (if not his first) and his face.

 

[Prison Mike]

He should recognize her when the band plays. I'm sure Cindy must have told him her ex roommate has a band and referred her to him. He should put two and two together when she performs.

 

[LostSon88]

I found myself cracking up at all the near misses they've had to meet. Particularly when he runs past her while heading to his classroom and when he walks past her again during the "Now we're even!" scene.

 

[Dark Raven]

I like the commentary that tv.com makes in their review of the episode:

And while there's plenty to discuss regarding everything we learned in "How Your Mother Met Me," what viewers should take away from the episode is this: There's a reason we've been waiting nearly nine years to meet the Mother, and it's not because Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are jerks. It's because the Mother wasn't ready to meet Ted, and he, in turn, wasn't ready to meet her.

As an audience, we can complain all we want about how this or that could have or should have happened earlier, but "How Your Mother Met Me" cemented the fact that this story is as much about the Mother as it is about Ted's journey toward meeting her. By the end of the episode, both characters were at their lowest, thinking they were never going to find love, and little did they know that love was literally just over a fence during that song.

So while "No Tomorrow" showed us that had Ted met the mother all those years earlier at the St Patrick's Day party, she would probably not have liked him, and that he had to go through a process of change in order to be ready or fit for his future bride, she too had to go through a simlar process to be fit or ready for him too.

The past 8 and a half seasons have been just as much the mother's story as it has been Ted's. All the key moments in the series have also had an effect on her life and shaped her into becoming the person she was destined to be. For example, the Naked Man wasn't just a random but relatively insignificant guy in a past episode in retrospect, but someone whose path also crossed with the mother and did have a big influence on her life.

And it seems that both of them have only let go of their past loves this wedding weekend and have been able to move on.

It's also interesting to note that both Ted and the mother had musical instruments from September 2005 that anchored them in the past. Ted had the blue French horn that he stole that symbolised his relationship with Robin. And the mother had the ukulele she was given by her late boyfriend Max.

 

[SpideyVille]

He kind of already knows her too since I'm sure he knows that she was Cindy's roommate. They just haven't been formally introduced. I wish they had incorporated that online dating episode into The Mother's episode. I still wonder if she was that perfect match. I'm guessing not since she was in mourning at the time.

I think this episode pretty much confirms that she wasn't the match because I believe that the girl was said to be the same age as Ted, and she had dogs or something.

He should recognize her when the band plays. I'm sure Cindy must have told him her ex roommate has a band and referred her to him. He should put two and two together when she performs.

When they first showed that initial peek of him watching her play last season, it looked like he definitely recognized her. But I think now, he sees her plays and he hears her sing, and that's when he puts two and two together and realizes that she is the same girl from the night before.

I like the commentary that tv.com makes in their review of the episode:



So while "No Tomorrow" showed us that had Ted met the mother all those years earlier at the St Patrick's Day party, she would probably not have liked him, and that he had to go through a process of change in order to be ready or fit for his future bride, she too had to go through a simlar process to be fit or ready for him too.

The past 8 and a half seasons have been just as much the mother's story as it has been Ted's. All the key moments in the series have also had an effect on her life and shaped her into becoming the person she was destined to be. For example, the Naked Man wasn't just a random but relatively insignificant guy in a past episode in retrospect, but someone whose path also crossed with the mother and did have a big influence on her life.

And it seems that both of them have only let go of their past loves this wedding weekend and have been able to move on.

It's also interesting to note that both Ted and the mother had musical instruments from September 2005 that anchored them in the past. Ted had the blue French horn that he stole that symbolised his relationship with Robin. And the mother had the ukulele she was given by her late boyfriend Max.

Yes! I love that because it really does relate to something that Future Ted said earlier in the series, which was that he was too close to the puzzle to see the bigger picture that was forming, and I think the same can apply to us as viewers. We are so close to Ted's story that we don't see how the Universe is working around him and with others to show how everything fell into place for him and the Mother. And for all the people who have complained about Ted having too many girlfriends and none of them being the one, it's a great example of showing how much he really had to learn throughout those experiences and how each of them made him a better person.

And holy crap, I totally forgot about the instruments symbolism. That really is a nice subtle touch.

 

[Paradox1]

best episode in a while the Mother was great in this.

 

[Erzengel]

Just looking up a list of women Ted has been in a relationship, dated, etc. and in terms of women he's slept with, by my count it's at least 13 but less than 20. For someone in his mid to late 30s, living in NYC, that doesn't sound like an overly larger number.

 

[Nathan]

Less than 20 women? That doesn't seem right. I thought the count of women he dated/slept with is much higher.

 

[Erzengel]

http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Ted%27s_romances

Not sure how up to date this is.

But obviously he slept with Victoria, Robin, Stella, Zoey and Jeanette. That's 5.

Girl's he's dated, the only one that it's stated he slept with was Barney's sister. That's 1. Not sure about the other girls

Jeannie Radford, Allison Moses & Lauren Stein - (mentioned in Stuff)
Carla - (mentioned in Stuff)
Cathy - Spoiler Alert
Royce - The Wedding Bride
Stacey Gusar - Little Boys
Natalie - Return of the Shirt http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Boys
Becky - Baby Talk
Naomi - The ****ty Pumpkin Returns http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Baby_Talk

Then there's the girls he's been on 1-2 dates. I think Vicky where he does the Naked Man and that's 1.

Then the one night stands including. Rachel, Trudy, Molly and the girl from the Sexless Innkeeper. 4.

So actually I only have 11.

 

[Dark Raven]

It looks like the mother only has 2 possibly: Max and Louis.

Also, I wish that Cristin Milioti has been part of the main cast for longer. She carried the 200th episode all on her own and did it very well. The episodes where she's featured have always been much better because of her. She's fantastic to watch.

It would've been amazing to see her actually as part of the gang hanging out with everyone - eg at MacLarens. She obviously knows about that pub, because she's been in there (and was there right before Ted walked in with the green dress), so she could easily have met them all these years before.

 

[Dark Raven]

'How I Met Your Mother' Writers Are Stalling On Penning Final Episode

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/how-i-met-your-mother-final-episode_n_4673799.html

After nine years, "How I Met Your Mother" is coming to an end this March, but the creators aren't quite ready to say goodbye.

The one-hour series finale, "Last Forever," will air on March 31, but the episode hasn't even been written yet. "We're stalling writing it out of sheer nostalgia and fear that we'll be sobbing the whole time," executive producer Craig Thomas told The Hollywood Reporter. Don't worry Thomas, we're loading up on tissues, too.

While they haven't penned it just yet, you can definitely expect the last episode to be an epic finale. "We're going to see 17 years in the lives of all our characters," Thomas said. "We're going to catch the audience back up to the year 2030, when the story is being told by future Ted to his kids."

"It's a very big, ambitious hour. The big important things that will happen, a lot of those have remained true to our idea of how to finish the series that we've had basically since the pilot."

So are they going to show the kids if they set part of the episode in 2030? But Lyndsy Fonseca will look too old compared to her teenaged self, unless they somehow manage to disguise her age. She does look older doesn't she?

It will be nice to see what they are up to, but a shame they'll have missed out on all these intervening years where we see Ted and the mother together, leading up to their marriage proposal and pregnancies, or their family life together.

 

[Teelie]

I remember reading somewhere they already filmed the kids reaction/ending at the start of the series so I don't know how that will be incorporated but they at least have the younger version of them handy if that is true.

 

[Dark Raven]

I remember reading somewhere they already filmed the kids reaction/ending at the start of the series so I don't know how that will be incorporated but they at least have the younger version of them handy if that is true.

Yeah, they've said that plenty of times. It was filmed at the end of season 1. But I always assumed it was just the reaction scene for the part where Ted and the mother actually meet (at Farhampton Station).

But if they're actually setting part of the episode in 2030, then they would surely have to show the kids as well doing something, and they would have to look the same age as the 2005 versions of Lyndsy Fonseca and her co star whose name I don't know.

The only other alternative is if they have some additional footage or outtakes where the two on-screen siblings are fooling around on set or something, which they can incorporate into the episode. Otherwise they'll have to resort to making Lyndsy looking "younger" the same way they've done for Ted and the gang when he was in university.

But doesn't this Lyndsy look considerably older than the 2005 version? She looks like a grown woman here:

 

[Teelie]

The brother is going to be even harder I think. He was younger and still maturing. He doesn't look the same then as he does now. I think he was 14-15 at the time whereas Lyndsy was 17-18 and nearly finished maturing.

 

[batdude]

They are going to pull something here. No way would a fully grown Lyndsey Fonseca be playing Josh Radnor's daughter. Younger sister maybe. At least hope not many people watched both this and NIKITA.

 

[Teelie]

I watched Nikita from the beginning.

Although that also has reminded me of how they are going to show Ted in 2030. Are we going to see Radnor or are we going to see Saget? Or a Frankenstein's monster of Radnor's body with Saget's voice?

 

[Dark Raven]

They are going to pull something here. No way would a fully grown Lyndsey Fonseca be playing Josh Radnor's daughter. Younger sister maybe. At least hope not many people watched both this and NIKITA.

Fonseca looks at least as old as the Mother in that pic above. Perhaps even slightly older.

I watched Nikita from the beginning.

Although that also has reminded me of how they are going to show Ted in 2030. Are we going to see Radnor or are we going to see Saget? Or a Frankenstein's monster of Radnor's body with Saget's voice?

Yeah, that will be a problem. Although Saget's voice has been good for the narration, if they're going to set a show in 2030 then we'd expect to hear Ted sound like Radnor. Maybe it would've been better for Radnor to narrate the show all along.

 

[antsman41]

Why'd he name his daughter Penny?

While still going with Luke... I thought Marshall bet Ted to name his kids Leia/Luke?