What if the kids were watching a video Ted made for them before he died for when they were older?
Better not be something like that. :cry
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I figure if they can still nail the heart with speeches like Ted's last night, they won't have a problem casting her. I mean, think about when we first met Victoria. She seemed terrific (although in hindsight, not so much), and certainly Ashley Williams and Josh Radnor had great on-screen chemistry together. I think they can do that with whomever they end up casting.
Honestly, I find it kinda funny the amount of apprehension people seem to have about casting the Mother. It's almost as if they've fallen into the same trap Ted has: being unable to imagine anyone other than the women who've come before (especially Robin), and being unable to see beyond that. (I'm not saying you're doing this, Vivek, but I see it a lot.)
Yep, totally. The big difference there being, we as an audience first accepted them as unique individuals and characters first and later depending on how things panned out embraced those characters as potential girlfriends for Ted. But they were never put on this pedestal and having the title Mother and all the expectation that comes with it right from their introduction. In this case, when they reveal the actress to be the Mother character, it's going to be a scrutiny fest by the fans right from the start, for the actress and for the character. Of course no doubt most fans will eventually start to like her.I think whoever they cast will be able to pull it off. Every time the show has brought someone on that they really WANTED us to like, we have (by and large) liked them. People might cite Stella as an example of someone they didn't like, but in hindsight, I don't think we were meant to, really.
Nice. I noticed your username in one of the comments for the The Time Travelers episode discussion, but no name given for the person who wrote the episode recap, did you write that recent one as well? Either ways, great write up.By the way -- for those interested in all things HIMYM, check out have-you-met-ted.com (if you haven't, already). I post over there frequently, and actually write the episode recaps and some of the other blog posts.
For the longest time (especially during the early seasons) despite all contrary and Future Ted saying otherwise, I secretly did wish Robin was the Mother. I was thinking maybe they will come up with a clever way to trick the audience. Perhaps Future Ted never referred Robin to his kids as Aunt Robin and it was only for the audience or the other way around with another name; just like sometimes how he hid certain facts from his children and narrated stories with changed details. But once they started building the Barney and Robin relationship, I finally started to accept that it had to be someone else.
The first episode ends with Future Ted saying "and that kids is how I met your Aunt Robin" with the kids getting irritated with him. Clearly he's calling her "Aunt Robin" to the kids, and clearly they know "Aunt Robin" to not be their mother.
I almost wonder if hooking her up with Barney is a way for the writers to completely drive home that Robin isn't the mother to some viewers. I think some people still won't buy Robin as not the mother unless the mother and Ted get married on screen, she gives birth on screen, and is shown alive interacting with the kids in 2030 while Robin is also present to distinctly show them to be seperate individuals.
Cool, that's good to know.I've been writing the recaps on the HYMT site since....hmm....Episode 11 of this season? JD started the site, and then Jordan took it over around Season 6 or 7, I think. Maybe midway through S7. Then Jordan got pretty busy (and engaged) during Season 8, and kinda....fell off. I think we went for, like, 4-5 episodes with no official recap, but Ross and I were chiming in a lot on the discussions. For I think maybe Episode 11 or so of this season, I started writing the recaps, so basically anything you see up there since then is me. Ross chimes in at times, too, but usually indicates that it's him writing.
We've had some site issues lately, and it looks like some of the older recaps from this season have gone missing, but hopefully we'll get that and the comments thing fixed soon.
Right, I knew they are not a possibility right from the pilot episode, it was mere wishful thinking on my part.The first episode ends with Future Ted saying "and that kids is how I met your Aunt Robin" with the kids getting irritated with him. Clearly he's calling her "Aunt Robin" to the kids, and clearly they know "Aunt Robin" to not be their mother.
:lolI almost wonder if hooking her up with Barney is a way for the writers to completely drive home that Robin isn't the mother to some viewers. I think some people still won't buy Robin as not the mother unless the mother and Ted get married on screen, she gives birth on screen, and is shown alive interacting with the kids in 2030 while Robin is also present to distinctly show them to be seperate individuals.