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I stumbled onto the AV Club comments page for this episode and agree with the general sentiment that the surprise reveal of Robin as the bride is lame (and they've pulled this countless times before) since it means the whole last series or so worth may as well not have happened for Barney. It's just a way of spinning the wheels for a while longer without really getting anywhere.
I really wish they'd wound the show up a few seasons back - that's not to say they're not still coming up with funny stuff, just that it's obvious that they've been stalling for time until the end for a while now. The Victoria thing is bullshit for the same reason - the audience knows that's not going anywhere, so watching it will just be turgid.
Oh, and they totally worked out who the mother must be in the comments there. I hadn't even thought of that.
Ted meets the mother at the wedding. The Wedding is between Barney and Robin. How would the mother be at the wedding as a guest but not be someone Ted has met before if she is from Robin or Barney's guest list?
Barney invites Jerry and his whole family, including his half-sister that he has never met. Both Barney and Ted meet her for the first time at the wedding.
She was off to college when he went to Jerry's home for the first time, which means she could have been in college when Ted was in the Econ class instead of the Architecture class. Rachael Bilson's character was in that class, as was the mother, and it might make sense that the two were roommates because they were taking similar classes. Since we know the roommate is the mother, but never met the roommate, she could definitely be Barney's sister.
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That's actually why it is very likely Barney's sister. We've been strongly led to believe (if not outright told) the mother is Rachel Bilson's roommate. Rachel Bilson was a (grad, perhaps?, I don't remember specifically) student at Ted's university. The Mother was in Ted's first class, at that university.
Wouldn't it be totally plausible, given all that, that Barney's sister, who is in school, is roommates with Bilson, and therefore, the Mother?
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So in other words: Aunt Robin is actually their Aunt.
'n I was all like:
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Who's Jerry?
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Was he a priest? Fuck, this is harder to keep track of than Lost.
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And there she is. There is no other reason why that part is in the episode.
It looks like one of those youtube clips which is completely off the mark and 100% speculative but I was convinced when I saw it for the first time.
Oh and the Barney - Robin wedding was something I've assumed would have happened by the end because idiots who watch these kinds of sitcoms watch them to have all the characters tied off nicely every time. When they started them dating in the first place it was on the basis that they could do a quick ending to the series if they needed to. The series was then renewed for one or two more seasons, I think, when they decided to break them up then.
More comedy, less melodrama from false dawns. I hated the season ending. Watching programmes like this is a real seller for someone like me who doesn't think long term relationships ever work. Ted, being the series centrepiece is depicted as being flakey and non-commital to what he wants when it suits the writers. He's actually contradicted what he is looking for way too often to be believeable. But then I slap myself and remind myself that it's light entertainment and they can do what the hell they want with what they create.
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Just saw the finale. Agreed with the wheel-spinning--even if Robin ends up with Barney, can't we believe in the Quin plot for a while and see her as a whole character instead of a functionary? Bad, lazy ending on their part. I like Victoria but it's the same problem--they've told us she's not the mother either. That sister plot is ridiculous--I never would have thought of that but now I can't see how it's anything else.
Worst of all, now I want to watch another season.
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Yeah, it's not bad that Barney doesn't marry Quinn but it might not have been the right time to reveal it's Robin.
They've used this cheap ploy before ("That's how I met...your aunt Robin") to the extent that we've gone from talking about diminishing returns to zero returns. I get the idea that they want to show the journey to the wife rather than focus on the mystery, but this was a pretty ham-fisted way to create interest. Incidentally, it worked.
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Mickey wrote:
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Yeah, it's not bad that Barney doesn't marry Quinn but it might not have been the right time to reveal it's Robin.
They've used this cheap ploy before ("That's how I met...your aunt Robin") to the extent that we've gone from talking about diminishing returns to zero returns. I get the idea that they want to show the journey to the wife rather than focus on the mystery, but this was a pretty ham-fisted way to create interest. Incidentally, it worked.
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