CURTAINS!!!

SPOILER ALERT: The following is an article on the How I Met Your Mother series finale. Those who have not watched the series are warned that they are reading this at their own risk and are asked to read this after watching the series irrespective of whether they are victims of the spoiler or not. Further they are encouraged to watch the entire series before returning here.

Point 4 stated below was borrowed from quora.

As the scene of Ted standing in front of Robin’s house, holding the blue French horn, subsided and the words How I Met Your Mother came up, I was on the verge of tears. The one-hour long epic finale had taken me to the edge of break point. Now at this point if someone had even patted me, I would have broken down. This was despite the fact that the finale was already spoilt for me thanks to my friend. Luckily, it had reduced the impact of the entire series by only 15% and that of the finale by only 5%. Had the finale not been spoilt for me, I would have cried like a baby whose toy was forcibly taken away from it and would not have made it to my GATE examination the following morning. Such was the state I was in that my mind had accepted what I had just seen but my heart lay there lifeless, repeatedly stabbed throughout the entire finale. That night I could not sleep. My heart forced my mind to think of all the good times Ted and Tracy could have had before her premature death due to illness. My heart would not just accept the fact that she had died. My heart wanted the happily ever after for Ted because Ted had suffered a lot in all the eight years shown in the series. He was rejected many times, left at the altar, saw his true love marry his best friend where he was the best man. That episode where Robin and Ted talk at the beach was heavy. I could see the pain in Ted’s eyes. I sympathized with him during the episode that was set against a cold evening in April 2013, 45 days before he met Tracy, "The Time Travelers". He deserved something really good, something that was worth the pain he had endured in the 8 years before that. He got that. He got a woman who had shared all his interests, who laughed at his jokes but only for 11 years. Add to that the mother was shown only in the eighth season finale. She was beautiful and had become a member of the gang only in the finale. Also at the halfway stage of the episode we see Robin and Lily having a conversation where Robin, teary-eyed, tells the gang it’s no longer as it used to be and explaining her feelings. The episode also fast forwarded 17 years of the gang members’ lives. I wanted to see some more of them. My heart could not process them in its ailing condition. The following day I joined quora and wikia for the sole purpose of reading people’s opinion. Some had even posted alternate endings on wikia that would make them cheerful. Later I talked to my best friend who had watched the series already and he told me the same. He wanted Tracy to be alive and a happily ever after. He told me of Team Tracy and Team Robin and the fact that the crew was ready to shoot a different ending following fan outburst. He lived his sophomore and junior years of engineering in his apartment alone. He said that during the times he watched the series, his entire house would echo with the voices of the gang. Added to this he had a close friends circle that had three boys and two girls. He was also aware of the spoiler before beginning to watch the series. He too felt gloomy but he did not cry. If I had been in his situation I would have roamed in the streets crying. At this point, my heart was bleeding, unstoppable. It was as if I would sink into a state of mental breakdown. Someone had to step in.

ENTER MY MIND

My mind could take it no longer. All the way it had been cheering up my heart in the hope that it would digest the truth, but in vain. My mind gave excellent reasons why I must return to normal.

1. First and foremost it is fiction. NO WAY!!! The gang is an integral part of my life. How dare you speak like that you son of a beech!!!

2. Second life is cruel. If sickness takes away your spouse’s life there is nothing much you can do. There will be something a lot worse. You have got to accept it. There is no way out.

3. It is a creation of the writers Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. Their script! Their rules! If you watched eight seasons without ever raising an eyebrow then learn to accept the finale as well. This is what makes a script Legen-wait for it-dary!!! Legendary!!! Also the writers knew that the mother was dead right from the pilot episode. Take it as a consolation if you want. Else drop it.

4. The title is How I Met Your Mother not How I lived Happily Ever After with your Mother. They met. She died. Move on!

5.  As for seeing some more of the gang, they themselves had decided to meet on all important occasions. Ted and Tracy’s lives are not more important to show than the gang itself. Thus they showed only the moments the gang had met.

6. This was the best of all the reasons given by my mind. Remember the episode “How your mother met me”. We saw how Tracy discovered her lover Max died and could not date for some time later. We even see that she misses him 8 years after his death when she talks to him looking at the sky just before Robin and Barney’s wedding. Even though she mouthed I am moving on, she rejected Louis. Max was Tracy’s first love (or that is what we can interpret from the series). Similarly Ted’s first true love (again from limited information available in the series) is Robin. Its time to reunite the pairs. The writers had two simple steps to accomplish it:

a. Let Robin and Barney get divorced citing incompatibility issues.

b. Kill the mother quoting illness.

Tracy and Max reunited in heaven. Ted and Robin start dating again. Genius!!! All the four are happy. If they are happy, so should you be!!!

Not Good Enough!!!

The next I know I am writing a blog post which will be read in the future by you. I figured out it would be best to pour out my heart so that the burden can lessen.

It has not yet unburdened. However hard I try, I am reminded of this by my ringtone, the title song, which I had thought was cool (and still is) during the fourth season. This is beginning to haunt me instead.

EUREKA!!!

As Ted says, in the episode Happily Ever After of season 4, rather than swallowing your anger or throwing it in someone’s face, the best idea is to simply let it go, so you can move on. I am going to do the same. The next semester starts tomorrow. I have to finish this final semester to complete the eight-semester marathon I am pursuing: Engineering. I have also taken up a novel. Hopefully it works as it did for him, only to see his wife die…..CUT THE CRAP!!! LET IT GO!!!