The season eight finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was
supposed to show us the wedding that we’d been waiting to see for almost three
years, but it didn’t. What it did show us was ‘the mother’—a face that we’ve
been waiting to see for eight years. Here’s how that went down, along with all
the questions that I have about the forthcoming ninth and final season of the
show…
In the episodes leading up to the HOW I MET YOUR
MOTHER season eight finale, almost everything was understandably about Robin
and Barney’s big wedding—the wedding planner, the bachelor party, the bonding
with in-laws, the ‘something old’ and finally the ‘something new’. I had fun
watching these episodes, not because they were excellently written or anything,
but because they gave longtime fans of the show, like me, a lot to enjoy. And
while that maybe one of the few things that are still awesome about the show,
it works perfectly fine for me. The show has reached a point where it doesn’t
have to be great; it just has to give me elements of these amazingly developed
characters that I have grown to love and enjoy over the last eight years. And
while an episode like the ‘bro-mitzvah’ wasn’t ‘ha-ha’ funny throughout, it was
funny to see Barney at the receiving end of a scheme put together by the
others. Of course, seeing former guest stars like Frances Conroy (as Barney’s
mom) and Becki Newton (as Quinn) return to the show was the icing on the cake.

Moving on with the finale, I was disappointed to not see
a wedding! Wedding episodes are always so much fun, and especially when we’ve
waited for this one for almost three years! In the season six premiere, they
first teased us with the line that would soon become so annoying: ‘a little
ways down the road…’ That was when they showed us that there was going to be a
wedding, but whose, we didn’t know. In the season six finale, they revealed
that it would be Barney’s wedding, but to whom (Nora or Robin), we didn’t know.
In the season seven premiere, they further teased us over who the bride was,
and in the season seven finale, again ‘a little ways down the road…’, they
revealed that it would be Robin. In the midst of all of that, they explored the
Ted-Robin-Barney love triangle and they revealed that ‘the mother’ would be at
the Robin-Barney wedding, as a part of the band. In the season eight premiere,
they showed us Ted at the Farhampton station after the wedding, and ‘the
mother’ was there with her (now iconic) yellow umbrella, but there was no
interaction between them. So finally, I was expecting something of the wedding
in the season eight finale, even if that didn’t include the actual first
meeting between Ted and ‘the mother’, but I guess now they’re making us wait
for three years to end before we see the big wedding! However, with all these
hints and teasers of the wedding, over the years, I’m sure the writers will
have a field day over finally filling all the blanks and give us the whole
picture of the wedding. I know that I will enjoy seeing that whole picture. And
that’s what’ll make the season nine premiere very interesting to watch.
But now that Ted will finally meet the mother at the
wedding, I hope the writers not only fill in the blanks they left around the
wedding storyline, but even the blanks that they left in the teasers they’ve
given us over the last eight seasons—like ‘the mother’ being at that St
Patrick’s Day party, when we first saw the yellow umbrella, or ‘the mother’
being in the classroom on Ted’s first day as a professor, and so many others
that I can’t remember right now. I also wonder if Rachel Bilson will return to
reprise her role as Cindy in the season nine premiere, in which they’ll
hopefully show us the wedding. She’s in the band that’s going to perform at the
wedding along with ‘the mother’. And we first learnt that Cindy was ‘the
mother’s’ roommate back when Ted was with Cindy.

What are your thoughts on ‘the mother’ of revelations?
Do you have any thoughts on the casting of ‘the mother’ or any expectations of
how ‘the mother’ will become a part of the group in the ninth season? Share
your views here!
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