The Last Forever with How I Met Your Mother
“Kids, I’m going to tell you a story. The
story of How I Met Your Mother..”
I first heard this line back in 2008 when Ghel
and I started watching the show. The first episode got
me hooked and I remember saying “Hey I found my new favorite show.” I
consistently and repeatedly watched the episodes and I fell in love more and
more with Ted, Lily, Marshall, Robin and Barney.
No joke but I think my own gang became close
because of HIMYM. During our awkward days, when we have no story to talk about,
HIMYM became our common ground. We got our own blitz, glass-shattering
thoughts, oh! Moments and we even dreamed of our own MacLarens.
HIMYM felt very real to me. I related to Ted’s
pains, saw most of myself in Robin’s walls and ambitions, laughed at Barney’s
ways, and adored Lily and Marshall’s love story. Each episode, I took home
something that was emotionally uplifting. In more ways than one, they really
taught me how to live. That’s how personal HIMYM and I became.
Which is why I’m still reeling on the ending
that happened.
I didn’t like that Robin and Barney got divorced after spending the entire season planning their wedding. I
didn’t like that Barney went back to his jackass ways after the divorce and even got another playbook and fuck if he really completed a perfect month of
sex. I didn’t like that all of a sudden he’s mature again after seeing his
lovechild. Yes, maybe a kid can really change your life but in the narrative
sense I felt that it was rushed and forced just for the sake of showing a
matured Barney. I didn’t like that the Mother died just that fast. I felt sad
that after 9years of waiting for her, the show just gave a minute showing Ted’s
married life with her – and then she died. Just like that. Really, Show, if
you’re really going for the death track you should have at least made it super
dramatic. But not even a funeral was given. It seems unfair for Ted and the
Mother. I didn’t like that Ted and Robin got together in the end. They didn’t have
to be together just because the last scene was planned and filmed nine
years ago. There was just so much build up on the Mother being so awesome and
perfect for Ted that’s why I was really looking forward to seeing many scenes
of them together in the end. But sadly it didn’t happen that way.
But on the other hand, it now made sense why
Ted began with the story of how he met Aunt Robin. It made sense why on the
first season where Ted met a stripper named Tracy, he joked to the kids that it
was how he met Mom because her name is Tracy McConell (clap
clap on the continuity, Show). It made sense that amidst all the fun stories that Ted told, the fun was never about
him. The fun was all about Barney and his adventures, Lily – Marshall and Robin-Barney’s
love story. Most of the stories about him were about his many failed attempts
on love, how he got left at the altar, how he got hit by a goat -- and boy did
he emphasized all of that. All because he was telling the kids that without the
Mother, before he met her and after she died, his heart will always be sad. It
made sense on the ugly reality that people die; friends change priorities and
fall apart; and no matter how truly people fall in love, some relationships are
really not meant to last. I appreciated all of that.
I wish the Show ended on the train with Ted’s
monologue on the background telling how thankful he was for approaching her.
That he was thankful for the life they have built, no matter how short it was.
I wish they showed Lily, Marshall, Robin and Barney on the porch with Ted –
gray hair and all that. Because I believe the show wasn’t just about Ted’s love story– it was the five of them being for each
other and for Ted.
It was just a so-so hour among the many good
half-hours in nine years that HIMYM gave us. After all, it’s just 2014. Ted and
the Mother are probably having a date at Central Park right now and talking
about Renaissance and Star Wars. I’ll think of it that way.
I’ll miss you HIMYM. Thank you for being here
in my youth’s many big moments … and for actually being one of the big moments
of my life.
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