After nine years How I Met Your Mother has finally come to an end. Over the course of the long series viewers still don’t know how Ted’s agonising hunt for the mother would finally pan out. His search seemed to come to an end when all signs pointed to the woman asking for “One ticket to Farhampton, please”, in order to attend Robin and Barney’s wedding.
How I met your Mother fans breathed a sigh of relief that Ted would finally be able to come to the end of the longest tale a father has ever told his children.
The episode “Vesuvius” changed all that again, as it became clear that the mother may have died, leading Ted to tell the story in the first place. The death of The Mother has angered some fans, who had waited nine long years to meet her, only for her to die within a few episodes.
We can agree it was a shock to discover that Ted’s happily ever after wouldn’t be quite as we had hoped, but ultimately the show was about him finding the mother of his children. Life doesn’t always work out how we expect it and HIMYM is sort of a testament to this. At the end of the day, The Mother may have been the mother, but it turns out that Robin was The One from the beginning.
