How I Met Your Mother - Part 4

[Sawyer]

You son of a *****, now you've got me going again....

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I'm glade we final got to see a little more of the mothers individual personality in this one, I kinda felt like any other time they showed her, all they showed was how she was exactly like Ted (there was still a little of that in there) but, they did show a different side of her this time...

not sure how to feel about how she didn't date for all that time, an only been in 2 real relationships, where Ted has dated dozens of girls over the years
I get that she believed in one love a life time and she already had hers, but, its like Ted has been looking for the one this whole time

plus, Ted learned things though those relationships, worked out issues, really discovered himself and what he wants/needs out of a relationship, through the trails and errors of those relationships... so, if the mother never went through all that, is she really ready?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Yeah, that's one thing that keeps sticking out in my mind. They wouldn't be like "Dad, can you just **** with this story already?" if it was about their dead mother.

Something else to ponder...

Spoiler

I know she has been mentioned in the past tense, as she has been yesterday, but so have Marshall, Lily, Barney and Robin and we know that all are still alive when Ted tells this story.

 

[SpideyVille]

I just had an awful, terrible thought. The mother is dead, some time has passed between her death and Ted's story. That's why the kids are bored because its been years and they have heard the abridged story before. The reason Ted is telling the story in detail is that it's the only way he can move on and then he announces that he's going to start dating again. Because that's what the Mother would have wanted because that's how she found Ted in the first place.

Imagine if he announced that he was going to start dating Robin again because she got divorced.

 

[SpideyVille]

Something else to ponder...

Spoiler

I know she has been mentioned in the past tense, as she has been yesterday, but so have Marshall, Lily, Barney and Robin and we know that all are still alive when Ted tells this story.

But he's also referred to them in future tense on many occasions and has shown them all together as they grew older too.

 

[Dr. Evil]

But he's also referred to them in future tense on many occasions and has shown them all together as they grew older too.

Yes but to me, the reactions of the kids is what makes me think the mother is still alive. Their reactions don't seem to me that she's deceased. More like "can we get this story over with?"

 

[The Apocalypse]

Didn't the producers say we'll have a happy ending?

 

[Dr. Evil]

Didn't the producers say we'll have a happy ending?

I believe so.

And the mother should be played by Lori Loughlin.

 

[Erzengel]

I'm glade we final got to see a little more of the mothers individual personality in this one, I kinda felt like any other time they showed her, all they showed was how she was exactly like Ted (there was still a little of that in there) but, they did show a different side of her this time...

not sure how to feel about how she didn't date for all that time, an only been in 2 real relationships, where Ted has dated dozens of girls over the years
I get that she believed in one love a life time and she already had hers, but, its like Ted has been looking for the one this whole time

plus, Ted learned things though those relationships, worked out issues, really discovered himself and what he wants/needs out of a relationship, through the trails and errors of those relationships... so, if the mother never went through all that, is she really ready?

We all take different routes in life. Some take a shorter path than others.

Also from what we know of Ted, he's never HAD that love that the mother had before him. The closest he's come is Robin.

Further, he was pining for her on and off, and then the realization that he needed to really find someone after Jeanette and then realizing he had to move on from Robin.

However, it's obvious that the Mother was probably more "mentally/emotionally" mature than Ted was. But she took a different road to get to that stage that she could move on, just not with Louis.

 

[SpideyVille]

I like to think that Ted and the Mother are sort of the balance in between Marshall/Lily and Barney/Robin.

Marshall and Lily have been together for over 15 years and have pretty much never been with anyone else in the serious sense, and they both weren't very experienced when they got together in college, but they learned how to deal with their issues together. Now on the flipside of that is Barney and Robin, who each dated/slept with a ton of people before and after hooking up with each the first time. For them, they were both super experienced, but also continued to have issues that needed to be worked out with themselves.

Now while Ted has definitely had some experience, he was no where near the level that Barney was at, and for him, at least in the time frame of the show, has shown signs of wanting more of a committed relationship and something that can last forever. Even though the Mother is younger than him, there's some truth to the statement that women mature faster than men, and we don't really know the extent of her first relationship, but she could have learned a lot during that like Marshall and Lily did at first. The only thing that worries me is that it seems like she's jumping from one relationship to another, but at the same time, we don't know how fast that romance develops. Just because Ted meets her that night doesn't mean that they start dating right away.

 

[ImWithTeamConan]

Wow. Last night's episode was completely unexpected. I liked the mother previously (the character and Milioti) but last night's episode made me really love her in twenty two minutes. Milioti was amazing, the writing was great, just a superb and emotional episode.

I got this thought that her red-headed best friend was going to end up on the spin-off but not as a version of Ted's character but of Barney's.

 

[Sawyer]

Last night's episode deserves Emmy nominations, and **** the Emmys if they think otherwise.

 

[runawayboulder]

That was one of the best episodes they've ever done.

This season would have been perfection if they didn't mess with all the filler stuff.

 

[souvlaki]

That was one of the best episodes they've ever done.

This season would have been perfection if they didn't mess with all the filler stuff.

I'm starting to think they should have done a 13 episode season. All the people saying this season has been bad are wrong. It's just been wildly inconsistent. Some of the best episodes of the show have been from this season.

 

[runawayboulder]

I'm starting to think they should have done a 13 episode season. All the people saying this season has been bad are wrong. It's just been wildly inconsistent. Some of the best episodes of the show have been from this season.

Yeah, if they went just a little shorter, this season would go down as one of the best final seasons a TV show ever had.

 

[Prison Mike]

Loved last night's episode but I'm disappointed they didn't reveal her name. I really can't wait for the rest of the season just as long as they are episodes like last night and not fillers.

 

[Donut]

I wonder if her name will be Leia lol

 

[Prison Mike]

I honestly haven't felt that emotional after an episode of HIMYM since last season's The Time Travelers. Last night's episode made me we wish Cristin came on even earlier.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

That was a ****ing fantastic episode.

They made me care about the mother more in 22 minutes than other shows have for their characters over their entire run.

 

[Nathan]

My only problem was that they made her too much of a female Ted, in the way they both have the exact same interests. I think I would have been actually fine with everything, but the way she pronounced 'Renaissance Fair' made me go "Seriously?". I don't want to think of the Mother as being occasionally pretentious and *****ey like Ted.

 

[Sawyer]

My only problem was that they made her too much of a female Ted, in the way they both have the exact same interests. I think I would have been actually fine with everything, but the way she pronounced 'Renaissance Fair' made me go "Seriously?". I don't want to think of the Mother as being occasionally pretentious and *****ey like Ted.

You shut your damn mouth!

 

[Sawyer]

Whoa whoa WHOA.... You guys!!! The guy that played Louis is... is...

SON OF HULK!!!

 

[Nathan]

You shut your damn mouth!

I just hope she knows how to pronounce Chameleon.

 

[Dark Raven]

Whoa whoa WHOA.... You guys!!! The guy that played Louis is... is...

SON OF HULK!!!

I have mentioned that before in this thread.

And I agree with others it was a good episode but am also a bit disappointed they didn't reveal her name. She could have introduced herself to Rachel Bilson's character.

I also would have liked it if she told the story in the future.

And I think that is Cristin's actual ukulele in real life. She played it before in a video:

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Glad that they incorporated that into her character.

Also how come no one mentioned she was on Letterman before Christmas?

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[Teelie]

Going an entire episode without saying her name while she stars in it would be tricky.

And somehow they managed to do it. Despite all those scenes, no one ever says her name.

It was a great episode and while it lends credence to her being dead, I am not sure I still believe it. We'll have to see what happens in the finale to know which is both too soon and too far from now.