HIMYF Learned From HIMYM’s Ending Mistake
Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father episode 2.
In its opening episode, How I Met Your Father already proved that it has learned from How I Met Your Mother’s controversial ending. The ultimate ending of How I Met Your Mother was narratively the only one that made sense. However, choices made in the early seasons and the long run of the show meant that many viewers felt cheated by the series finale.
In the original How I Met Your Mother, the very first episode set up the conceit of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor, with Bob Saget voicing the older Ted) telling his children the story of how he met their mother. That first episode focuses on the character of Robin (Cobie Smulders) as a love interest only to have a twist ending revealing that she was not in fact the mother. It took until the How I Met Your Mother season 8 finale for the mother, Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti) to be shown on screen, and the series finale revealed that in the future she died and Ted got together with Robin. With so much of the series focusing on Ted’s relationship to Robin, the end felt cheap to many viewers.
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In How I Met Your Father episode 1, the new series made it clear that it would not repeat this bait and switch mistake. Instead of setting up a love interest and then yanking them away, the series sets up the identity of the father as a mystery to be solved. The future Sophie (Kim Cattrall) categorically states that she met the father that night while providing a montage of four candidates to the viewer: Charlie (Tim Ainsley), Jesse (Christopher Lowell), Sid (Suraj Sharma), and Ian (Daniel Augustin). While viewers might have a favorite that they hope turns out
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