How I Met Your Father Avoids HIMYM’s Ted & Victoria Mistake
Warning: SPOILERS for HIMYF episode 1.
Sophie’s date moves away in How I Met Your Father episode 1, but the series makes the right decision to avoid Ted and Victoria’s HIMYM season 1 mistake. In addition to How I Met Your Father featuring in-universe connections, Easter eggs, and a spin on HIMYM’s core storytelling device and premise, the spinoff also repeats a few key character dynamics from the original series within its first episode alone. From Sophie and Jesse having a Ted-Robin connection, Jesse and Sid a Ted-Marshall friendship, to Jesse and Ellen taking Barney and James’ confusing sibling gag, How I Met Your Father is riddled with parallels to How I Met Your Mother’s characters. While the larger storylines will likely mirror each other as well, episode 1 strategically avoided repeating Ted and Victoria’s early relationship mistake with Sophie and Ian.
The end of How I Met Your Father's pilot episode sees Sophie go to the airport to tell Ian that she wants to try to make a long-distance relationship work, but he says it would be too hard with a 14-hour time difference and without service for weeks on end. Considering Sophie and Ian had only met once, it seems that Ian made the right decision to not risk a tumultuous start to their relationship. Instead, Ian says there’s hope for them in the future, but not while he’s all the way in Australia for work. While this is crushing for Sophie, she’s also avoiding the mistake that Ted and Victoria made in HIMYM season 1 that led to their break-up.
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