NOTE: The show’s been finished for over ten years, but if you are watching it for the first time, don’t read this as it spoils some parts of the last season.<\/em><\/p>\n I had this to say after the series finale:<\/p>\n March 31, 2014 Only, I never went back and said more.\u00a0 Lately, YouTube has been showing me short clips of HIMYM<\/em> and I was reminded that Cristin Milioti played the Mother well before her Emmy-winning performance on The Penguin<\/em>. (And, wow, two very different characters!)<\/p>\n I was invested in the show as it aired, and after watching a few of those clips I went back and found that the series was on Hulu, and watched four episodes of season 9, their last.<\/p>\n I was bowled over by Milioti’s performance, and the way that she and Ted were perfect together was a joy to watch, especially recalling all of the near misses before they met on the train platform in Milioti’s standout episode 16, “How Your Mother Met Me.”<\/p>\n Watching their near-misses and meet-cute encapsulated reminds me a bit of the opening of Up<\/em>, when we witness one of the greatest love stories ever, and then we get the rest of the movie.\u00a0 That’s more appropriate than I first realized, as in HIMYM<\/em> we see years of loving moments with Ted and Tracy only to find out she died of an unspecified illness.<\/p>\n The show’s creators always intended the ending they left us with (even filming the kids’ parts years before).\u00a0 I don’t know if I would still call the ending “satisfying.”\u00a0 I do know that Ted was incredibly lucky to have found his true love.\u00a0 In my fifties, having watched many relationships around me, I realize that the kind of do-over Ted and Robin get is something incredibly rare and precious.\u00a0 Maybe I’d be happier with the ending if that came through just a little more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOTE: The show’s been finished for over ten years, but if you are watching it for the first time, don’t read this as it spoils some parts of the last season. I had this to say after the series finale: March 31, 2014 Shared with Your friends OMG HIMYM. Strangely satisfying. Will say more later … Continue reading “How I Met Your Mother<\/i> (2005-2014)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShared with Your friends<\/em>
\nOMG HIMYM. Strangely satisfying. Will say more later out of respect for those who couldn’t watch it tonight.<\/p>\n