So they are going to release the last two episodes of the final season of How I Met Your Mother tonight.
It’s crazy, though such things never end. This time that year a few friends of mine talked about this show and I wasn’t sure it was my thing until I watched the first episode. I always believed it was a good deed done, until today when I see its end. This stupid show is so stupid, I fail to understand. I mean Robin dates two best friends on and off, multiple times, this pervert Barney, dude banged 200 women and counting until he married Robin, Ted is so stuck up all the time, Marshal, well you’ve been a good guy, just slap Barney already! And Lily, smart bitchass, let’s just admit you alter things to your benefit. And I need not mention how you got a Robily or a Lilobin as the mother and not someone from the past, I was not even mad, just super atrociously humungous mad. Yet I love every bit of it. And now it’s ending, I mean no.
Over the years the seasons have had a roller coaster ride, the viewership saw its highs and lows with every new episode. I am not an obsessive fan. Neither could I always watch an episode the day it came out nor do I have a blue French horn hung on my wall, or the precious Bro Code or posters of Robin Sparkles.
I feel weird because there was a time every episode made so much sense, the direction, the within-episode-time-travel, that ridiculously accurate comic timing, and then it caught a loop, repeatedly doing the same thing, I lost interest but couldn’t convince myself to abstain from watching it. The last season, unraveling every bit, made me feel guilty for not craving for it in the off air or the sabbatical time. I also, once, put the theme song and Robin’s ‘let to the mall’ as the ringtone when a close friend called.
An old best friend who made me laugh and taught me things, we grew older and our interests chose different directions, a random ‘ Hey’ once in a while till a time when we didn’t speak at all. And then something caught my attention, we started to speak again, he reminded me of the old times, I was starting to connect and suddenly he leaves a long letter with all the secrets and chooses to never speak again, and his pre-announced death arrives, immortal though, he departs.
You actors, each one of you, I don’t care what projects I see you next in, you people will always be what you were here, so don’t try hard. And Robin, you were Robin in Avengers too, Barney, keep doing all the smurfsy things but you’ll be this awesome guy in a suit.
The best and the worst moments had a place in almost every initial and last episode, but a few that I can recall-
When Barney sets that Canadian thingy for Robin on their rehearsal dinner night, retarded. It was so good.
When Robin tells her story to her kids, that’s ends in revelation of her inability to have children, devastating! I can’t recall more. I don’t want to.
I don’t think I am watching the episode tonight, not until I am ready to let go.
There is so much more, yet I’ll save it. Aah, I am so not ready, not tonight.
Dual Cheers 