By: Robert Murphy
(May contain some
spoilers, you have been warned)
Like many of you out there, I tuned in each week for many
fall shows but none excited me more than the final season to the show How I Met Your Mother and Barney and
Robin prepare to tie the knot and get married. On top of this we finally get to
meet the long speculated and hinted at mother and the future Mrs. Mosby that
Ted’s been looking for since the first season. All of it comes together in a
series of misadventures in Farhampton during Barney and Robin’s wedding weekend
with many family dramas, shocking reveals and glass shattering so let’s dig
right in.
For starters I loved the show through all it’s seasons and
for the most part this final one as well but looking at it as a whole it has
many issues to it for me that came together once I watched the shows final
episode that I’ll talk about later. The whole season takes place as I said in
Farhampton over a very long weekend, episodes sort of take place at different
parts of each day leading up to the wedding. Now while this is a bit of stretch,
it is exceedingly well done with the classic How I Met Your Mother humor we have seen before. Perhaps one of my
favorite characters of this season had to be Lilly (Alyson Hannigan) who has always been a fiery character but even more so this season with her new
affinity for breaking glasses with her bare hands when she is angry. Then there
was our newest character, the mother, Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti) was a
great addition to the show and performed amazingly. Initially when she was
first introduced last season I wasn’t a fan but as she started to appear in
various episodes throughout the show I fell in love with her as a character,
funny, spunky and weird just like her future husband.
The mother in fact appears in many of my favorite episodes
of the final season especially when they involved going back to her past and
moments where Ted came into her life. Some of these moments include when her
roommate Cindy told her all about Ted Mosby after her date with him and finding
out all his quirks and then finding out she’s just as quirky. Another moment
similar to this happens when Tracy
is on the train to Farhampton and helps Lilly out when she’s freaking out about
not seeing baby Marvin in weeks. This gives us more insight about her and how
much her and Ted are alike, specifically when Lilly recounts how she hates
Ted’s driving gloves and finding out she has her own pair of driving gloves
just like them. The mother perhaps makes up many of my favorite moments
throughout this final season and saves most of it for me.
Now many of you who have seen the concluding episode to the
show may be wondering what I have to say about it and I fall under the category
of not agreeing with the decision the writers made. Many people have there
opinions on it and I just couldn’t go for it mainly because it debunks the
whole final season of the show and this is where I find all my fault with it as
a whole. Needless to say that the main focus of the last season was all about
the wedding of Robin and Barney but the last episode completely contradicts
that in a matter of seconds and makes all the build up not worth it. What I
mean by this is that everybody has their happy endings one minute and its
thrown upside down the next, the new happy couple is married and starts their
lives, Ted has his new wife and will have kids on its way and then Lily and
Marshall are well still the same which is happily together but then a monkey
wrench is thrown in and it all changes. I look forward to buying the DVD
version of the series and seeing the alternate ending that the writers have
said will be on there and hopefully being satisfied with the other way the show
could of went.
In conclusion, if things had ended differently I could of
really loved this last season of How I
Met Your Mother but it didn’t, now I tried my hardest to explain myself
without spoiling it and hopefully you’ll see what I mean when you watch it for
yourself. It was the fact the I felt 90% of what the last season was all about
had gotten thrown away once we find out what happens in the end and you know
what I don’t like what happens with Ted either who gives a final voice over in
the end to conclude everything with his kids (bet they need to go to the
bathroom after sitting there so long.) What I did like about the show though
was the mother and finally getting her story in all of this, getting to know
her and how she ticks all leading till the moment she meets Ted.
Good:
- Still have your solid laughs we’ve always had in the show
- Tracy McConnell beat my expectations to a pulp with her
great performance as the mother
Bad:
- The final episode was ultimately a disappointment for me as it
undoes everything that the final season was about in my eyes
- The finale was already written before the rest of the
season so I feel that everything was plopped in so you can just get to the
end
Scully Rating: 6.0 out of 10
