How It's About To End

The one-hour series finale of "How I Met Your Mother" airs tonight.  Now that Robin and Barney are married, we are finally going to see Ted meet his future wife.  Then we'll learn how they got married.  We'll learn Mrs. Mosby's name.  We'll learn about the sixteen years that follow, leading up to the year 2030.  And we'll learn if The Mother is . . . alive or dead in 2030. 

Sorry to be a bummer, but that is one of the theories about Cristin Milioti's as-yet unnamed character.  The idea is that Ted is telling his kids in 2030 how he met their mother because she has just died, and he's hoping that they appreciate how much Mom and Dad loved each other while Mom was alive.  Pure speculation; series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas have only said that the last two episodes, according to Bays, are "less about the running jokes of the show and more just about these characters and the reality of their lives."  Well, we've seen the first of the last two episodes, now comes the second.  We know this much: It features a scene with future Ted that was filmed in the second season (2006-07), before the actors playing the kids grew up, so Bays and Thomas have long known how they're ending it. Bays says, "This is the ending we've been heading toward. It says everything that we've wanted to say about showing the complete picture of what it means to love somebody."

It's too bad I won't get to see any of it tonight.

WHAT??????  Relax, ladies and gents, though it turns out that I have an assignment for my job that requires me to be out of the house tonight, so I can't watch it along with the rest of you Himymaniacs, I will in fact tape the finale so I can watch it first thing tomorrow.  Yes, I still use a VCR.  So what?  I don't know about a DVR, but I know that when you watch something on On Demand, you can't zip through the commercials like you can with videotape. Sometimes old school is the best way to go. 

Back tomorrow for my final thoughts on the show.