My HIMYM Finale

I need to write something about it.

I waited for hours for the finale of all finales to start yesterday. As I don't live in the US, it wasn't that easy to watch it with the rest of the world. I had an eye on Jeopardy! in the meantime and thanks to a countless number of ads I know exactly who's the democratic candidate you should vote for in Pennsylvania, go Tom!

It's 2 am finally and HIMYM starts, for the very last time.

The video quality is shitty and it lags every 2 minutes, which causes me something very close to a nervous breakdown. I am well aware I'm in the middle of the night, so I keep calm and try to focus on what Carter & Craig had prepared for all the fans.

I even miss a bit of the first part, but then it is quite okay. And it is just beautiful.

I've read a lot of negative comments today on the Internet and I have to say I don't know exactly how I feel about the finale. The only thing I know is that it didn't disappoint me. And here the spoiler part comes, so if you haven't seen the finale yet, you may not want to read this. Really, you don't want to. Go make (or smoke?) a sandwich someplace else.

I've hoped for Robin and Ted to be together since the show started. I had temperature, I was in high school and I didn't know anything about life (more or less like today), yet I did want them to be a couple. Truth is I felt immediately really close to Robin in the way she is and in the way she commits to achieving her job dream. Casually, her final goal is mine too, as I've always wanted to become a journalist and travel the world. Ted is way more concerned about settling down and starting a family. All the blue French horns in the world are of little use for two people who want such different things in life and they eventually break up.

And that's when I started hoping.

You may think I'm a bit of a dreamer (read idiot) to think that the girl who's introduced to us like "Aunt Robin" would become the other half of the Mosby universe in the end, but I wanted to believe, like Marshall did with Nessie.

So, yes, I liked the finale. I even cried a bit while watching. I was glad, despite the fact it was a bit unfair and melancholic. So is life, but that doesn't mean sadness should prevent you to enjoy the ride. I don't agree with some of the disappointed fans who think that the show should have ended at season 2, if the writers wanted Robin and Ted to be together. The timing between them wasn't just right. Robin is the one who said "Timing's a bitch" and it really was that way for her and Ted.

I love the way they stay friends anyway, yet we all know it is way more than that. Especially for Ted. He doesn't hide he is around the corner waiting for her to be ready, yet I think their friendship is real. He's always been there for her, like no one else has. And then, when she has doubts on her wedding day with Barney and confesses Ted maybe she should be with him, Ted pushes her away. She deserves that a bit, honestly. I'd say it is kind of Aldrin justice.

And she does deserve to see Ted's happiness with The Mother. At this point, he is ready for someone else, for a new perspective in life. Ted isn't the same person anymore, but neither is Robin. While he's enjoying his happy years with Tracy (now we finally know her name!), Robin and Barney split up and she gets away from the gang, leaving a brokenhearted Lily and becoming a very famous reporter. She and Ted both have experiences meanwhile, they both find new places, new people, they both just live, like the rest of the group. And I wouldn't call that "pointless".

I'm a HIMYM lover, but I'm not blind. The show quality got worse in the last two seasons. I guess Carter Bays and Craig Thomas had some troubles in carrying on a TV show they wrote taking inspiration from their own lives while they were just playing for The Solids and not knowing it would get that successful. The show is undeniably long, but it is funny all the time. Focusing on Barney and Robin's wedding for a whole season was maybe a tricky choice for such a brief relationship. I guess it was just another way of throwing us off about the finale and it did work out.

I didn't like the fact we've seen so little of The Mother during season 9. We should probably have seen more of her with Ted. The Mother is the most perfect girl on this Earth to become Mrs Mosby. Tracy and Ted have so many things in common and I believe the love they share is damn real. I don't think Ted doesn't love her because of Robin. I think he loves The Girl With The Yellow Umbrella just for that.

After all the heartbreaks in his life he needs someone to be the other half of a perfect pair. That's why I think her death is the only possible way for such a big love to end. And that's why I think getting divorced is the right way for Barney and Robin to break up, instead. They were in love yet not so compatible like Ted and The Mother and they realize that before you can say "Legendary".

There are different kinds of love in life, let's face that. None of them is unique, none of them lasts forever. Robin and Ted's isn't perfect and easy. It's just a kind of love which takes time to get right. It's mature and I guess it'll be long-lasting because of all the years it took to become real. In 2030, when Ted begins to tell the whole story to his kids, he and Robin are 50 something (and still no wrinkles, wow!). It's high time for these two old guys to enjoy their right timing for once. They have my blessing.