I look at it this way, if she was so gung ho to marry this guy, she never would have shown up with Ted in the first place, in her wedding dress no less. I think she was looking for an out and Ted gave her one.
It's funny that the people I have the biggest disagreements with on the forum, are probably the people I would like the best if I met them at a meet or something. I think there's a certain amount of respect between debaters. I find it fun and fascinating to argue points of view with people who don't agree with me. You're a good dude
I think this is a bit of a flaw in the show. They've thrown us for so many loops throughout the course of the show that even when something appears to be Robin & Barney's wedding, people think its something else.
Then again, sometimes if it looks like a duck it's just a duck.
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.
And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.
Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?
I don't think it's been officially confirmed but I believe that's the assumption. I relieve Segel's been ready to leave for his movie career for quite some time.
And if not they're really going to have to address the mother one way or another next season. Keep in mind they recently did a "flash forward" to three years from now and Ted's had his daughter. If we keep with the timelines you'd have to imagine that the pregnancy would take place in the 2014-15 season, so unless they want to spring a, "So I knocked your mom up and we had to get married, and that's how I met your mother," surprise on us, we're going to have to meet the mother next season for any kind of realistic courtship.
Does that make sense or is that nonsensical rambling?
Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.
In the flashback to Ted remembering the time they helped Lilly shoplift beer, when they drove up in their old POS car, you could hear 500 Miles playing. That was a callback to the episode about that car and how the tape player was busted and had a cassette single of that song stuck in there so that was all they could listen to.
Saw Segel on one of the talk shows and he showed that clip, except it was a blooper and when he was supposed to peel out and take off, he stalled it out.
Makes perfect sense. They've spent seven seasons drilling into us that Ted is a romantic and that he's looking for "the one" and that he wants to get married and settle down. There's no way he then just knocks up some girl and decides to get married on a whim to someone he hasn't had a long courtship with.
Let's take this a little further. The flash forward episode ran in April, which would presume the baby was born in February 2015 (to account for sweeps and everything), and the mother would announce she's pregnant in May 2014 (again, sweeps). So let's say the latest Ted got married was that May 2014 date and the mother announces she's pregnant there. Then the question becomes what is the shortest courtship possible for Ted and the mother before they get married? If we keep going with the sweeps theme, they'd get engaged either in November 2013 or February 2014. That means if we meet the mother in next season's finale, they'd be dating for a year before they got married/announced they were pregnant (not unreasonable at his age). So even if next season isn't the end of the series, unless they stop moving with the current calendar (a BS move), the mother would almost have to be introduced one way or another sometime next year.
I know I'm probably over analyzing this, but work isn't tremendously exciting right now.
Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?
[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]
Only if you believe that the show must end when the mother is revealed. I don't think it has to. There have been many episodes that didn't advance the "how I met your mother" story. By your logic, do those episodes not exist?
[Note that I said that the show doesn't have to end when the mother is revealed, not that the show won't end at that point.]
The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.
The discussion above is that there's only one season left. I wasn't making a point about what they're going to do during that season, other than the point that, if that's true, they're going to have to deviate from the near-real-time timeline if they're going to show us things that happen after May of 2013.
I was supremely let down when they revealed the bride was Robin. My wife and I really liked Quinn, she seemed to be a perfect match for Barney. I hate when TV shows do this, spend a bunch of episodes building up a character so the audience likes them, and then ditch them in 1 episode. I assume we'll see some of Quinn next season, but who knows. I'm over Ted & Robin, and Barney & Robin. I don't mind Victoria, but I hate that Ted is back in a relationship that we know goes nowhere.
Okay. The people who make the show said it was Barney's wedding in an article. Ain't spoilerizing that cause it is about this episode.
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