The "How I Met Your Mother" series finale left many confused as to why after nine seasons of teasing fans about the yellow umbrella, Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) would end up with the blue French horn.
In an interview with Vulture, Radnor made his case as to why the finale was a fitting end to the HIMYM story line after nine years. Radnor explained the ending wasn't necessarily a shocker for him, as the creators of the show had already brought up the twist ending early on.
"They had mentioned to me the twist about the mother in the first season, and I kind of put it out of my head," Radnor told Vulture. "I didn't know if they would actually want to come back to it and do that, especially after Cristin [Milioti], because she was so wonderful and the fans seemed to really take to her. So I asked them 'Are you guys still doing that?' And they said yeah."
Radnor also revealed the show creators intentionally made it easy for viewers to pick up that something bad was going to happen to The Mother and Ted was going to end up with Robin. There were hints throughout the show, like Ted's big speech to The Mother in "The Time Travelers."
"It's not that people cracked some code," Radnor told Vulture. "They were laying that in, so that it would be discussed and slightly less jarring for people.
It wasn't this big surprise ending. They wanted it to feel justified."
As for the title "How I Met Your Mother," Radnor felt it was always "a bit of a fake-out." During his interview with Vulture, he explained the show was more about the journey than the destination and he was a fan of the ending.
"There are so many opinions floating around," Radnor said. "There have always been people that thought that Barney and Robin were perfect together, there have always been people that thought it didn't make sense. There are people that wanted Ted and Robin to be together. There are people that thought they didn't work together. So I just feel that part of the divisiveness and part of the anger and also part of the enthusiasm all speaks to something really great."
"I think if you're going do something new and bold and daring, you're going to upset some people and you're gonna thrill others," he added. "I think it's better to do that than try to have some homogenized, safe ending that was never really what the show was. The show was always bold and daring and questioning assumptions and leading you where you thought you didn't want to go, but realized at the end that that was where you belonged."
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