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WARNING: If you haven’t apparent tonight’s alternation afterpiece of How I Met Your Mother, you’ve apparently already been baby by Twitter. But in case you haven’t, there are spoilers in this article. So don’t apprehend if you don’t appetite to apperceive what happens.
["400px"]Friends, we’ve been told an incredible, nine-year adventure — the adventure of how Ted Mosby met the Mother of his children…
then the Mother died and he concluded up with Robin because she afar Barney three years afterwards they got married. Seriously.
Look, I would accept bang bet on the actuality that the alternation afterpiece of How I Met Your Mother was activity to accept twists and turns and reveals. But I feel like I was aloof hit by a bus, Barney-style.
It will booty me days, weeks, and possibly years to array through the this finale properly. Maybe I’ll address a book alleged How I Met My Manic Depression. Until then, let’s get on with with this epitomize business.
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Fittingly, we began the adventure with a anamnesis to September 2005, back some babe from the third-world assistant republic alleged Canada (literally never heard of that place…) approved to abduct Barney Stinson’s wingman, Ted Mosby. This Canadian was alleged Roxanne Robin. She was beginning to New York, beginning to the art of wingmandom (it’s a word) and attractive for some friends. Luckily, she had begin herself in the appropriate booth, in the appropriate bar, in the best burghal in the world. “Once you’re in, you’re in for life,” Lily told her with a smile. Alone rule, warned Lily to her dudes: “Robin’s my new best friend. Nobody bangs her…There’s alone one way I’d let one of you accept sex with her…The alone way you’re accustomed to angle up with her is if you ally her.”
Flash-forward to the wedding, area Barney and Robin were afresh hitched, and Ted was aggravating to accomplish a apple-pie breach because his move to Chicago was still a thing. But authoritative a apple-pie breach from Barney wasn’t easy. For one, Barney was assertive that he had a abundant babe for Ted to meet. One aftermost bold of Haaaaaave You Met Ted?, he said. But Ted had to go, so Barney absitively they had to say goodbye properly.
They stepped alfresco for one aftermost acquisition of the bar gang. It’s been a “major pleasure,” said Ted to Robin, with a salute. (Of course.) Lily bawled her eyes out. Heck, I bawled my eyes out. And Barney? He aggregate with Ted a high-five that would answer throughout eternity. A high-five that independent all the high-fives from the accomplished and all the high-fives that could anytime possibly booty place. One epic, hand-injuring high-five alleged a High Infinity. It was account it.
With that, Ted set off for the train, area we apperceive his adventure took a above turn. Alone the absolute moment — Ted’s aboriginal chat with the Mother — was not article we’d see appropriate away. In fact, we’d absolutely accept to…waitforit.
["400px"]Instead, we jumped to 2015, area Ted was discussing with Robin and Barney his diplomacy for his bells to the Mother. It complex a hot air balloon. And a castle. Because, Ted. All absurd diplomacy were put on hold, however, back the Mother barged into the bar with burning news. She couldn’t ally Ted in September, she said — by then, she clarified, she wouldn’t fit into her dress. Yup, she was accepting a boob job she was pregnant.
At this point, Barney and Robin were able-bodied into their affiliated life, and, we abstruse aggregate was great. Really, great. No, honestly, it was great. Except not at all. Abundant of their troubles stemmed from the actuality that Robin was traveling a lot for her job and Barney was disturbing with the distance. Allotment of me capital Barney to man up and accord with his wife’s success. Another allotment of me…no. I’m lying. There was alone that part. Barney had acquired or should have. Their issues were artlessly a bang in the road. They angry out, however, to be a tire-popping pot hole.
Months later, the assemblage aggregate to accommodated Ted’s new babe and amend anniversary added on their lives. Marshall was already afresh alive in accumulated law and miserable, Lily was abundant afresh (Barney was the aboriginal to notice) and, oh yeah, Barney and Robin were divorced. Not accepting divorced. Already divorced. Done. For good. I’ll accept it: I was crushed. But added on that later.
Plot-wise, this annulment afflicted everything, and what followed were easily some of the hardest account of How I Met Your Mother I’ve anytime watched.
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You see, afterwards Barney and Robin divorced, admitting their affiance to break in blow and be there for the “big moments,” as Lily declared them, things changed.
Newly single-again Barney changed to his playboy ways, but to those about him, the old tricks had accident their charm. Additionally, seeing Barney hitting on women and Ted with his admirable wife accepted too abundant for Robin. In a battle with a actual abundant Lily in the abandoned accommodation during a Halloween/Farewell Accommodation affair (yes, she and Marshall absitively they had to move), Robin accepted that the “gang” was no best a “gang” she could be around. “Do you apperceive who the assemblage is to me, Lily? Here’s what the assemblage is: The assemblage is a affiliated brace who I never see anymore about to accept a third kid, it’s my ex-husband hitting on abandoned cops appropriate in advanced of me and it’s the guy I apparently should accept concluded up with with the admirable mother of his child. Who in their appropriate apperception would alarm that accumulation of bodies ‘the gang’?”
Lily took that account absolutely how I did in the moment — accord over. But that wasn’t the case, Robin swore. “We’ll consistently be friends, it’s aloof never activity to be how it was. It can’t be. And that doesn’t accept to be a sad thing.”
Except it is. And Robin aloof Daggered my heart. (Pun intended.)
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Lily stood in her white bang apparel in the abandoned apartment, stunned, with tears alive bottomward her face. Dead mother included, this was the affliction gut-punch of the hour.
But here’s where, in reflection, I’ll accept that Robin was right: Things can’t break the aforementioned forever. They aren’t meant to break the same.
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