#ted mobsy

[rorfromhell]

[quotabletv]

You probably want to feel bad for your old man at this point in the story. Well, don't. Not every night has a happy ending. But all of it's important.

Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother

[gabi-arzamendia]

I blame you Ted Mosby

Lying in my bed, thinking what to do. It's just one of those moments where you don't really know whether you think this way or the situation made you change your mind.

"I don´t know" seems to be all I can say. I hate that. It´s like all the voices in your head can't and won't shut up.

Has someone ever returned to your life, and stayed? Was it worth it?

So I blame you Ted. For making me believe in Robin, that person who will always be there, present. Even when you are over them, when you truly truly can live without them, when the ugly, late night crying part is over.

Someone has returned to my life and I am scared. There are a million questions that I can't answer and I'm scared.

I can live without you, but I rather do it with you.

And I blame you Ted, for making me believe in that one true love.

[youngjae-wild-and-free]

Give advice and then turn around to do the exact opposite.

summary of HIMYM

[youngjae-wild-and-free]

Search for the yellow umbrella, but in the end, just steal the blue french horn.

an ancient poverb or HIMYM series

[lovetheblazer]

I think the part of the HIMYM finale that I'm the most upset by is how they ruined the promise of the relationship between Ted and The Mother, something we've been building to for nine years. It's literally in the title. When we first see Ted in the pilot, he's young and a hopeless romantic who believes in the idea of love but has no understanding of what true love is. He's latches on to the instant attraction and chemistry with each new girl and throws himself into the relationship head first. Marshall literally sums it all up in the finale when he says “Why does he keep doing this? He meets them, he likes them way too much and goes way too big too soon and ends up blowing it. I can't take this anymore. He's fallen in love so many times.” It's all about the speeches and big romantic gestures but it always falls flat because Ted falls in love with the idea of these women, not the women themselves. He doesn't see them as individuals with hopes and dreams and desires and insecurities and flaws. He projects what he's been searching for onto the women and then over time, the scales are lifted from his eyes. That's when he starts to see the real woman underneath and he often runs screaming in the opposite direction. We saw it first with Robin, then Victoria, Stella, and Zoe. All these women were important to Ted and I'm sure he had genuine feelings for them, but his brain was always searching for the fairytale romance that he'd imagined for himself, full of the signs and destiny and little coincidences that he always thought would lead him to the one.

The Mother's own story also goes along with this theme, especially throughout “How Your Mother Met Me.” She's basically introduced as someone who already had her one great love story with Max and now isn't even sure what the future holds for her. She breaks up with a great guy because while she knows she needs to move on, she also knows it's not going to be with him. She goes to Barney and Robin's wedding with an open heart, but also zero expectations. Ted walks into the wedding in much the same place. He's ready to move forward with his life in Chicago and he passes on his first chance to meet The Mother even though, at first glance, she has so many of the qualities that Ted's always said he wanted in a woman. Ted's been trying too hard and caring too much all along and that's his fatal flaw (also one of the things that makes him so endearing as a character, but that's a separate post). So of course, he finds the right woman at last when he finally gets out of his own way by just being real instead of trying to force a romantic encounter. Through their first conversation, we find out just how much the fates had been conspiring all along to bring them together and how they found each other at precisely the moment when both of them are finally ready for real, grown up love and all the complications and messiness that come along with it.

Sadly by the end of the finale, the seven year stretch it took Ted and The Mother to get married seems more like a metaphor for the HIMYM creators' inability to commit to the idea of Ted with one woman than anything else. The whole finale lacked urgency even as it was trying to tie up this one last epic story with the gang, show everyone how Ted at last met the Mother, and get to the story's conclusion, many years in their future, when at last the kids get to the end of the long, winding story that explains just how Ted met their mother. Almost every decision that was made in the last 20 minutes of the episode seemed to insist on tearing down the foundation that this show had built. If you asked the creators, I think they would probably tell you one overarching theme of this show is about not just focusing on the destination, but appreciating the journey. Yet the title of the show itself seems to suggest that the destination actually is important, albeit not the only thing that matters. But even if it's just about the journey, Ted married a woman, loved her dearly, and had two children with her. It took him close to ten years to meet anyone that he could sustain a relationship with for that long, someone he could have a real, adult relationship with, and someone who he committed to love, honor, and cherish until her dying day. It's not his fault that her final moment came much sooner than we were expecting, but it was a cheap shot to the gut to have such a significant moment in the romantic life of a character we spent nine years rooting for happen entirely off screen, without preamble. We didn't even get confirmation that she did indeed die until the last scene with Ted's children.

I won't even get into how gross it feels that these kids lost their mother and Ted lost the supposed love of his life and that to cope, he starts telling this long story that's supposed to be how he finally met the one aka the Mother of his children but instead focuses on Robin. That the kids immediately see through that and think it's cute that Ted's been telling them this long story as a way to see if they will be okay with him dating Aunt Robin is just ludicrous. Sure, kids can lose parents and move on. Of course, they still want their dad to be happy and all that. Maybe they'd even willingly bless a new, tentative relationship between Ted and Robin. But still, it was a manipulative bait and switch. We, the viewers, as well as those kids, were told we were getting one story and we got something else entirely. It infuriates me to think of those teenagers sitting there, waiting to hear one last story about their dad and the love of his life, the mother they love and miss dearly. Especially because what they got instead was one very long, incredibly inappropriate story about how it has always been about Aunt Robin and whatever happened with Ted and the Mother was only a footnote. It's no small miracle the ghost of the Mother didn't rise out of the grave and smack Ted in the face for being that insensitive a douchebag in front of his own kids.

I'll always think Ted and Robin was the wrong move as everything about their past relationship and Ted's late in life self discovery have shown us that they did not have a particularly functional relationship, and surely not one that would survive something like twenty years of pining for each other. Not to mention that while I'm sure Aunt Robin is someone the kids know and possibly even love, are we to believe that she and Ted shack up and she goes from a high-stakes career journalist who can't stay in one country or maintain a marriage with Barney for even a few years to a stay at home housewife and stepmom to two teenage kids?

The worst part about the whole finale is seeing how the creators had all the raw ingredients for an incredible final episode and yet they just blew them all up on what feels like a whim. You simply don't cast someone like Cristin Milioti who is such a lovely, talented actor and who has such natural chemistry with Josh Radnor if this was the story you were planning to tell all along. You don't give the audience a glimpse of just how perfect Ted and the Mother are for one another in theory and how great they are together in reality and then throw it all away. Because if you do that, you force people to question not just the destination, but also the journey they took to get there and the characters they've loved along the way. And worst of all, you tarnish the memory of something that was once truly great.

[jcpostsobsessions]

How I Met Your Mother: T.M

Sadly this show ends tonight, nine long, funny, crazy, wonderful, happy, and sad years come to a close. I just want to say, I love the mother and I'm so glad Ted found her and in the years they had together, they loved each other, had 2 children and in all those years, Ted spent every living moment dedicating his love to her, even when she got sick. With knowing that Ted truly loved ONLY the Mother gave me peace when Ted said she died. Because their love was pure, it wasn't tainted with Robin (like all of Ted's past loves). And so while it pains me that Tracy is gone, I'm glad Ted was happy and they shared a happy life together. I agreed with Penny, the story was always ABOUT Robin because it started with Robin so it made sense to end it with her. After the mothers death, Ted can finally love again with Robin, the one who could've been. It did suck that Robin and Barney's "epic" struggle ended in divorce, but not a shocker because I knew it wouldn't work out. I went along with it since they were getting married, but after the wedding and we saw a glimpse of their life, I knew they wouldn't last. And with Barney having a child, still can't believe it was accidental, but glad that he's devoting his entire life and love for his daughter. And for Lily and Marshall, glad they've worked it out, Marshall is living his dream. Not quite sure about Lily tho. And finally, I enjoyed the series, enjoyed the characters and loved that the finale was a glimpse of another story that probably won't get told, but be forever lived on.

[arthurschampion]

I wish Ted Mosby and the gang an amazing 'Last Forever', but I'm gonna miss them like hell.