'How I Met Your Mother' Gears Up For Finale, Fans Wait Anxiously
In two episode's time we'll have the last ever episode of How I Met Your Mother. It has been a long and undulating road for the hit CBS sitcom but the upcoming 31st March will hopefully give the series' devoted fans the finale they deserve.
The HIMYM team's final outing will cap nine seasons, which is a pretty impressive feat: "I feel grateful that we all managed to get to the finish line. It's not every show that gets to run nine years and end on its own terms," says co-creator Carter Bays, who, has helped guide the show to its long-planned ending.
"A very practical decision Craig and I made was to have as much crying in the finale as possible, so that there's very little acting involved," he added, via USA Today.
Did u miss Ted's 1st kiss w The Mother? Watch the sweet moment from last night's #HIMYM: http://t.co/nFufgxC2RH pic.twitter.com/yN6fB9Mei1
— HIMYM (@HIMYM_CBS) March 18, 2014Monday's episode revealed the futures of several minor characters: limo driver Ranjit makes some clever stock choices and now owns the company, turns our Blahblah's name is Carol, Sandy Rivers' questionable office behaviour lost him his job in America but not in Moscow where he has since been working, and Scooter married a Lily lookalike after meeting her in a love-at-first-sight moment at work.
Amidst the comedy and hilariously quotable scenes, the series hasn't shied away from addressing the emotionally tougher side of life, for example: Robin's infertility. That's why fans were whipped into a worried fluster recently when they were lead to believe that the Mother character (Cristin Milioti) is dead in 2030 when Ted is telling his kids the story.
Alyson Hannigan [Centre] Likened The Legacy Of 'HIMYM' To 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer.'
Without giving anything away, the cast have dismissed the rumours but this still hasn't stopped viewers from fretting that they won't get their triumphant "Ross and Rachel" finale. The season so far has mainly focussed on Barney and Robin's wedding weekend, which will be played out in next week's episode. That will leave the following Monday's finale open for something truly surprising as Ted takes a time trip from 2013 to 2030.
More: Josh Radnor on the How I Met Your Mother finale. Josh Radnor, AKA Ted, seems pretty confident that the show will be wrapped up neatly but admits he'd have liked more time: "I think if you asked everyone, they'd say, 'We're happy with the ninth season.' I was a little on the fence about whether we should do it, although when we started discussing ending at the eighth season, I felt like that's not enough time to wrap this thing up."
Josh Radnor [R] Has Assured Fans The Finale Will Be Worth It.
However the show decides to end, the cast are pretty confident that HIMYM will leave a pretty strong legacy. Alyson Hannigan compared the show's legacy to that of her earlier series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I feel like people will appreciate how great it was years from now. With the way technology is nowadays, you just put a binge on TV shows, this is a really good show for that. It's already starting to happen," she said.