still not okay with it. end the whole series with the umbrella scene and I am happy AF.
The show wasn't about your happiness, sw. It was about Ted's.
the show was supposed to be about how Ted met the mother of his children you eff. Also he was pretty damn happy at the end of that scene.
The show was about Ted telling his kids how he met their mother. She had dies 6 years earlier. Why would he sit them down 6 years later? Oh, hey, I know, he wanted to tell them a long story where he talked about Aunt Robyn alot. He told them that story because he was ready to move on.
Exactly.
Ted, as any parent would, loved his kids more than anyone or anything. I'm sure dating after the death of a spouse is difficult beyond belief. He wanted to assure to them that him dating Robin (or anyone else) did not take away from how much he loved their Mother.
This.
The other thing, too, was that she shared her story about Max and how she won the lottery with him, but then she asked him to move on so she could be happy. A day later, she met Ted.
A couple of episodes later, Ted and the mother said they shared all of their stories with each other and were "an old married couple". So, he knew about Max.
I firmly believe if Ted could have picked, he would have picked the mother. I really do. But she died young, and like she moved on from Max, he needed to move on. It just so happened to be that the major love of his live, outside of his wife, regretted leaving him, and they could finally subside each other's loneliness together.
I guess I'm a little more understanding on this because his wife died appx. 11 years after they met, and my wife came down with cancer 11 years after we met. I took that last scene pretty hard because of the parallels. Had things turned out a different way for us, I would probably have been in Ted's shoes as a single guy with two kids. So, I guess I can kind of relate to it in a way, and I understand it a little better. I'd never love another woman as much as I love my wife, but I couldn't have lived the rest of my life by myself. I know I couldn't have. It would have been too depressing.
It's not meant to be a classic love story. It was meant to be a real love story. And the juxtaposition was the fact that Ted wanted this classic love, but life would never give that to him the way a hopeless romantic would want that.
