How I Met Your Mother (and How She Left Me)

 By Dana and Valeria 

When you're watching a TV show, the last thing you expect at the beginning is to know the end of it, but that's something this sitcom made clear in the first seconds of the first episode. We knew that Ted Mosby, the protagonist, ended up having children and a happy marriage with their mother. However, the show lasted nine seasons. Maybe you could wonder how this happened, and it's because we didn't know who the mother was until the last season. 

 

To start, we get to know Ted, who is described as a romantic guy dreaming of having a family and finding true love. In the very first episode, it is shown that his friends try to help him by introducing him to girls, especially at a bar. 

 

Then he meets Robin, who, for most of the audience, looked like his perfect partner, at least initially. In this episode, they go on a date, where they see a blue French horn that they both love. She has to leave for work, but he surprises her by showing up at her place with the blue French horn, stolen for her. 

 

As comedy advances, it becomes more and more apparent that they are incompatible. Mainly, it's because they have different life goals. She is woman-centered in her job, doesn't want children, and enjoys violent entertainment, while he is a sensitive guy dreaming about having a family. 

 

But we finally get to know the mother, Tracy, who had lots of expectations placed upon her but managed to overcome them perfectly. It all made sense. Ted's friend Barney married Robin. If you ask me, they were the perfect match, sharing the same vision of life and similar goals. Ted married Tracy, and Marshall and Lily were as perfect as usual. 

 

However, in the last minutes of the last episode, they managed to ruin everything. To start, when Ted and Tracy finally marry, in less than a minute, it turns out that she dies of an illness. Then Barney and Robin have a divorce because they don't love each other anymore. And to finish the mess, Ted's children tell him to ask Robin out again, without caring at any moment of the memory of their mother. 

 

It was a long way to say that Robin and Ted would end up together even if they were total opposites. And Barney having a daughter who magically fixes him to be a decent guy just added to this list of unnatural occurrences. 

The show ended how it started, and it was for the worst. So, now we will finish that sitcom in a better way. 

 

Let's imagine that Barney and Robin never get divorced because Robin dies first. Probably, when she became a famous reporter, she talked about some dangerous gang that murdered her in a settling of accounts. That's why Barney lost all his confidence and became a faithful follower of the church, fearful of death and the punishments of sin. He began to be a model citizen, the opposite to what he used to be. 

Throughout all this, Tracy would still be alive, and more alive than ever, since she would realize that Ted Mosby is the worst thing that happened to the world. Although they call him a good guy, he can lie and manipulate a dozen women, uses their emotions and weaknesses against them, ruin their friendships, and do things behind their backs without thinking for a moment about their feelings, all to satisfy his childish fantasy of a happy married life. 

 

She would leave Ted, knowing that she is too good for him and that he deserved to be with someone as great as her. It would be then that he would realize that he lost a wonderful woman by acting like a good guy but being a jerk. Then he would get depressed and try to go to Marshall and Lily, but due to his successful family and professional life, they wouldn't have time for his hypocritical friend Ted. 

 

Then he would drag himself to Barney, who, being a good Christian, would give him shelter in his house, where he would become a poor boy who lives regretting the life he could have had and what a waste it was to always think about another girl even though he was married. They would both live a single life, dying together in the process when Ted forgot to turn off the gas outlet on the stove. His cremated remains would be as insignificant as they were. 

 

But Tracy would be great, as usual. She would form a band that would become famous, make a living from her music, and find a man who would respect her and love her for who she is, after getting to know her well and not just because it is the only thing within his reach (like Ted did with every girl he met). They would be happy together, respecting the memory of her late husband but enjoying life anyway. 

And that is the end we wanted to see.