How I Met Your Mother - Season 9

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The new episode this week was great.
Weekend at Barney's

Hope the last 6 episodes will be as good.

phasers

why didn't they just go ask James or Loretta about the hangover thing, since barney called it a family recipe?

Aside from that niggle it was a good episode, loved the flash forwards and the tantrum references

Wellyd

Fingers crossed that the last few episodes will be great. I saw the Symphony of Illumination episode on e4 the other day and it reminded me how much I'm going to miss this when it's gone!

Alfred Borden

really good episode, going out on a high it seems

Callanutd

Best epsiode of the season for me. Really funny and smart, just like the first few seasons.

iguana

So was that the first time it's been confirmed that Robin and Barney do actually get married? Past episodes that flash forward have been cagey about that, like in Trilogy Time Barney's left hand is in his pocket for the whole 2015 scene to hide whether or not he is wearing a wedding ring.

I guess now that Ted turned Robin into his old balloon, we're free to see her end up with Barney.

pickarooney

I thought this was a very poor episode, even by recent standards.

celica00

Really liked the las 2 episodes, im getting really sad about the ending now ha

Rob30888

I thought it was yet another weak episode. The flash forward scenes were so inconsistent - Lily and Marshall look to have aged about 30 years by 2020, but Ted and the Mother look the same in 2022?

Killer_banana

Was an okay episode. Felt like they had some good ideas but was executed poorly. Still better than most of the season...which says something about just how bad this show has become.

phasers

:eek:

Well that's that then, the Mother is dead in the future.

Wellyd

I am an emotional wreck after the last 4 minutes! Very well done though!

certifiedcrepe

Wow took me a few minutes to really get what the mother said... So sad.

iguana

God, this show is going to end on such a downer.

It doesn't really ring true with the start of the series though. I can't imagine the kids would have thought they were being punished by their dad telling them the story of how he met their mother if she had recently died.

Wellyd

I feel so bad for Ted. The flashforward was to 2024 which is only 10 years ahead. I'm too attached to these characters!

sunbabe08

wait? what?




well that's just heartbreaking. excuse me for wanting at the end of this series for the mother to come along and say something like "are u finished the story yet"*


*um, so glad i'm not an actual writer

allym

There's still hope! She could have been really sick in 2024 but recovered by the time he's telling the story in 2030.

I've no idea how likely that is but it's a possibility? In saying that, I've thought she's been dead for a long time now so I've prepared myself for that!

sunbabe08

had my theories as well at some stage, but i didn't want to think that. i'm not prepared at all

Killer_banana

Well this is going to just encourage those who are convinced she's dead and Ted's remarried to Robin.

Bar the heartbreaking flash forwards and Robin's mother turning up I found most of this boring. I got a laugh out of Narshal simply because the scenario played out is based on an interview from a good few years ago where Jason Segel said he wanted to leave because him and Lily had got to a point where the only story lines left were variances of 'Where's the birthday cake?' *Marshall with icing on his mouth* 'What cake?' He also repeated it in This is the End.

srm23

didnt get that the first time watching,
so she is dying there or is she a ghost?

i cant see any reason they wouldn't give a happy ending to this series!
will kind of make the earlier a bit difficult to watch too knowing it
doesn't end well ever

scottmcb04

I took it as meaning that teds mother died and missed him marrying the 'mother'... maybe im miles off or wasn't paying enough attention, but I never thought it was the 'mother' was dead!

Killer_banana

srm23 wrote: »

didnt get that the first time watching,
so she is dying there or is she a ghost?

Dying.

scottmcb04 wrote: »

I took it as meaning that teds mother died and missed him marrying the 'mother'... maybe im miles off or wasn't paying enough attention, but I never thought it was the 'mother' was dead!

Apparently a few people took it this way but I don't think so. The mother expresses worry of Ted getting lost in stories instead of living, she later finishes his thought about not acknowledging the little time you have left with someone when enjoying those last moments an he starts crying when she says 'what mother would miss her daughter's wedding', daughter, not child, which suggests she's going to miss their daughter's wedding.

phasers

The evidence is leaning pretty heavily on dead Mother right now, especially after Ted's speech about wanting those extra days with her from last season.

I hope it's a red herring and she's just having some sort of health scare but I'm getting more and more convinced that the Mother doesn't make it to 2030.

TGJD

Yes, it does seem like that is where the series is going. It really came as a shock how much it bothered me when I saw that episode. The mother is one of the more lovable characters too which makes it worse. It certainly will be a seriously sad finale if it does end with that revelation.

itsirishfarmer

http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/03/04/how-i-met-your-mother-death-twist/

wuffly

Has to be a red herring....

TGJD

I would like to believe that it is a red herring but alas I fear that is not the case. Too much of the evidence points to it not being so. I disagree with the main point of that article as well about the show's theme not fitting that ending and it hurting it's viewing figures in syndication. Blackadder anyone? I would hate the show to end with such an unhappy ending though.

pickarooney

that article is hilarious. Do they really have that precious an approach to comedy?

wuffly

I think it may be that Robin has died and has had a daughter (somehow) who's wedding she wont make it to.... hence the story being so Robin & Ted orientated. Ted would be pretty upset at losing her? Thought of the blackadder ending too...

TGJD

wuffly wrote: »

I think it may be that Robin has died and has had a daughter (somehow) who's wedding she wont make it to.... hence the story being so Robin & Ted orientated. Ted would be pretty upset at losing her? Thought of the blackadder ending too...

Doubtful Robin is in flash forwards that take place well after the 2024 scene with Ted and the mother.

wuffly

TGJD wrote: »

Doubtful Robin is in flash forwards that take place well after the 2024 scene with Ted and the mother.

Ah... blackadder ending it maybe then.... need to re-watch the first few series...

sunbabe08

um anyone remember that robin can't have kids. well naturally anyway.

cython

Of course if this is a red herring, I'm going to put forward an out there idea that Ted's mother died not long before the 2024 scene, and Ted's (rarely featured, admittedly!) sister is getting married shortly after (either after the scene, or after their mother's death but a bit before the scene). It could explain Ted welling up at the idea in the way that he did, while also disconnecting it from the Mother.

Zwillinge

cython wrote: »

Of course if this is a red herring, I'm going to put forward an out there idea that Ted's mother died not long before the 2024 scene, and Ted's (rarely featured, admittedly!) sister is getting married shortly after (either after the scene, or after their mother's death but a bit before the scene). It could explain Ted welling up at the idea in the way that he did, while also disconnecting it from the Mother.

That's what I thought, he was crying over his own Mother passing.

I had to re-watch that ending, cause I found the episode pretty boring and wasn't paying full/proper attention until that scene.

Not many episodes left; hopefully they end it on decent stories and not just twist, twist, twist!

pickarooney

cython wrote: »

Of course if this is a red herring, I'm going to put forward an out there idea that Ted's mother died not long before the 2024 scene, and Ted's (rarely featured, admittedly!) sister is getting married shortly after (either after the scene, or after their mother's death but a bit before the scene). It could explain Ted welling up at the idea in the way that he did, while also disconnecting it from the Mother.

Yeah, that kind of ludicrous cop-out wouldn't surprise me that much from this show to be honest.

iguana

pickarooney wrote: »

that article is hilarious. Do they really have that precious an approach to comedy?

I think for the most part US network shows have a very different attitude to comedy than the UK or even US cable network shows. I think such a downer ending to HIMYM would be very unusual for a US network and I guess it would upset people as they think they know what to expect from that type of show.

The funny thing in the article is when it suggests we think about what would have happened if in the Friend's finale Rachel was killed in a freak plane crash. I can't help but think that would have been kind of awesome.:pac:

Killer_banana

If it's not a red herring how unlucky is the mother. She find someone she loves dearly and then he dies leaving her too devastated to even consider dating again for years then she finds someone she does love enough to marry and have kids but she gets sick and dies young.

At the start of the episode they called themselves an old married couple because they knew each others stories but if the mother is dead it means they never actually got the chance to truly become one. Also even if she passed Lily's front porch test she will never get to sit there and play bridge for real. Damn the more I think about this the more depressing it becomes.

Killer_banana

cython wrote: »

Of course if this is a red herring, I'm going to put forward an out there idea that Ted's mother died not long before the 2024 scene, and Ted's (rarely featured, admittedly!) sister is getting married shortly after (either after the scene, or after their mother's death but a bit before the scene). It could explain Ted welling up at the idea in the way that he did, while also disconnecting it from the Mother.

It doens't gel with her comments about fearing Ted will get lost in his stories and not move forward and that sometimes when you realise how little time you have left with someone it can be too painful to acknowledge that fact. The writing of the show is so bad these days I wouldn't be too shocked if it was a crappy cop out like that but her other comments really don't fit with his mother dying in my opinion.

celica00

if you look at the actors tweets, it seems to be a sad ending anyway or partly sad at least <

martingriff

To me the telling of the story by Ted to his children was allways because of 4 reasons

1. The mother dies and he is telling how he met

2. The mother is on her deadbed and is just recounting the story

3. Its a letter he has wrote to the kids which they are now reading after his death

4. A story told by an old Ted.

I have not seen any of this series and can't remember if we ever saw the future of him telling the story so some of my theories may be gone

miralize

Why cant the kids seem to give it a **** about the story then?! When they used those cutscenes with the kids, they always used to roll their eyes in boredom...

Bacchus

Total buzz kill... was there a buzz left in HIMYM? So, the mother is dead in the future and this must be what they're on about when they filmed the final scene with the kids years ago. Not only does this make for a depressing end but is a cheap move to squeeze some emotion out of the finale. Also, if this has been planned out for a long time now, it just makes Ted's stories even MORE inappropriate! "Sorry kids, Mom died but here's how I met her... and how Barney hooked up with random women for 7 years... oh and I got my fair share too, if you know what I mean... of course you do, I went in to great detail on all my sexual exploits."

The only bit that resonated with me was the line from the mother "not to live in your stories". It's probably the only true thing said in a long time on the show and could tie in to the reason WHY he's telling this story. That could play out nicely. The mother being dead though... cheap trick IMO.

Turquoise Lagoon

This episode really suggests that the mother is dying, but it seems too obvious and I think it might be a red herring. I'm starting to wonder if Ted is the one who is dying I know Ted is supposed to be the one telling the story but he isn't seen in 2030.
The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

kryogen

For either of them to be dying (Ted or the mother) would not make sense in terms of how the kids have been reacting to the stories all the way through, to name but one reason for why it would be a sucking big donkey dick way to end the show.

FreudianSlippers

Turquoise Lagoon wrote: »

This episode really suggests that the mother is dying, but it seems too obvious and I think it might be a red herring. I'm starting to wonder if Ted is the one who is dying I know Ted is supposed to be the one telling the story but he isn't seen in 2030.
The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

Don't get bogged down in your stories when you're dead Ted. Makes sense.

Turquoise Lagoon

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Don't get bogged down in your stories when you're dead Ted. Makes sense.

Or don't get bogged down in your stories when you still have months or possibly years to live :pac: she could just be encouraging him not to lose hope? Oh I dunno
Il be sad when HIMYM ends but I can't take the suspense anymore

phasers

Turquoise Lagoon wrote: »

The fact Bob Saget has never been credited as the voice of Future Ted Mosby is unusual ..... If Ted passed away but left a detailed and lengthy goodbye for his kids, couldn’t Saget—as an entirely different character—be the one reading that story?

Oh well just my theory

When the show's creators did an AMA on Reddit recently they always referred to Bob Saget's character as 'Narrator', never making reference to the fact that he's supposed to be Ted in the future...

:eek: :pac:

pickarooney

Are the kids not watching a recording of Ted on TV/DVD/Whatever they have in 2030?

Otacon

pickarooney wrote: »

Are the kids not watching a recording of Ted on TV/DVD/Whatever they have in 2030?

But they talk back to him?

Stoopid kids of the future!

pickarooney

Maybe the kids are dead?