How I Met Your Father Just Fixed HIMYM’s Ted & Robin Ending
Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father Season 1.
The original How I Met Your Mother ending has always been controversial among viewers, but How I Met Your Father just went a long way to fixing the original finale’s biggest mistake. After the successful 9-season run of How I Met Your Mother, there was near immediate talk of a spin-off. However, it took nearly a decade for How I Met Your Father to be released, but it seems like it might have been worth the wait.
In the How I Met Your Mother finale, it is revealed that the mother, Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti) has actually died by the time that Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor/Bob Saget) started telling his kids the story. The purpose of the story was not really to explain how Ted met their mother, but rather to explain that while he had always loved their mother and she was perfect, he was considering dating Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) at this point. This caused two major problems for some viewers: first, it felt like a bait and switch and that Ted’s relationship with the mother was not held as important enough, and second, that it was a betrayal of Robin’s character who had continually pushed that she didn’t want to settle down and have kids.
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A large part of the problem with How I Met Your Mother’s ending for Robin came from the fact that the two-part finale had to tell years of her life experience in a relatively short space of time while also focusing on other characters. Robin needed more time to show her change in attitude and the way that, while she had loved her time traveling, she regretted all the things that she had missed out on while working as a jet-setting journalist. How
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