Marshall and Lily may have fallen in love in college, and the tenure of their relationship gave them years to have crazy sex, develop the ability to communicate using only their minds, and come up with a roster of saccharine nicknames. It was the shallowest, if not easiest, answer to Ted’s lifelong quest for love that “How I Met Your Mother” possibly could have arrived at.Īnd Ted had a remarkable example to follow and to aspire to in Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segal) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan). ![]() The whole frame of the story was an excuse to reunite Ted with the woman he has spent so many years leaving behind: Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). But it was definitely jarring to learn that the Mother was, as one of my guestbloggers joked in a more positive assessment of the show four years ago, a MacGuffin - a goal he chased for 208 episodes, only for us to find out she was only a plot device. It was not quite a surprise when we learned, as many had predicted, that their happiness was cut short by her illness and death. ![]() ![]() After a rocky beginning to its finale, we finally got to see the joys of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) and Tracy (Cristin Milioti), the woman who would become his wife, together: getting pregnant, going to robot wrestling matches, and seeing each other on their wedding day. ![]() “How I Met Your Mother” almost pulled something special off.
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