How I Met Your Mother

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

Okay I'm almost 100% sure now.

Spoiler!

The Mother is going to die sometime after Ted begins telling the story in 2030.

The only reason I'd lean the other way is that they weren't exactly subtle in the episode tonight, if that's the direction they're going they pretty much gave it away.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Jamie

The only reason I'd lean the other way is that they weren't exactly subtle in the episode tonight, if that's the direction they're going they pretty much gave it away.

Spoiler!

I was thinking this too. Because the show prided itself on twists and turns, and they're giving us a layup here. But I've thought about it every which way, and this seems like the only idea that makes sense. The only other possibilities I see are that they lose their daughter, unless it's a story about losing touch with Robin until the end when she dies. But I think either of those would be odd possibilities. If it's the mother, they may be preparing a slow build-up to it so it doesn't just hammer you in the face.

By the way... any significance to the idea that, from what I remember, Bob Saget didn't narrate any of the flashforwards this week? Actually... don't know if he ever has.

[Lex Luthor]

For a show called "How I Met Your Mother", it would be nice if they would actually show the two of them meeting and getting to know each other. Instead they've shown her meeting just about everybody else, they show flash forwards of the two of them as a happily married couple, and they've wasted an entire freaking season building up to a wedding that is the ultimate Deus ex Machina.

I liked every episode of this show until this final season. This season blows. I think the writers are just mailing it in.

[ragedogg69]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

For a show called "How I Met Your Mother", it would be nice if they would actually show the two of them meeting and getting to know each other. Instead they've shown her meeting just about everybody else, they show flash forwards of the two of them as a happily married couple, and they've wasted an entire freaking season building up to a wedding that is the ultimate Deus ex Machina.

I liked every episode of this show until this final season. This season blows. I think the writers are just mailing it in.

There was so much potential lost in cramming the mothers backstory into one single episode this year. For everything they have done wrong this year, I really believe that was their biggest mistake. Now if it is heading where we all think it is heading, we have a new #1 for **** ups this year.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by ragedogg69

There was so much potential lost in cramming the mothers backstory into one single episode this year. For everything they have done wrong this year, I really believe that was their biggest mistake. Now if it is heading where we all think it is heading, we have a new #1 for **** ups this year.

Agree to disagree. Maybe it should have been a 1-hour episode. But it was one of the few times in the last few seasons where they went right for the punch instead of painfully dragging it out. I thought it was one of their best pieces of writing the entire series.