"How I Met Your Mother" spinoff star Greta Gerwig assured fans "How I Met Your Dad" won't be the same show.
"It's going to be different than the original," Gerwig told Us Weekly. "When the premise of the show is that it's a young man looking for his true love, it's a very different feeling than a young woman looking for her true love. Craig and Carter are making it too, and Emily Spivey is so funny and great. She wrote for SNL for a long time, and wrote the show Up All Night, and I'm in love with her."
As for the "How I Met Your Mother" finale backlash, Gerwig admitted she was team Robin and was thrilled when they ended up together, but wept when "The Mother" died in the show.
"I loved [the ending] so much," she told Us Weekly. "No, I wanted [Ted and Robin] to [end up together]! I'm such a schmaltzy person. It's like, yes, I know that Annie Hall is the best ending of all time when they don't end up together. But really, in my heart of heart of hearts ... I love in When Harry Met Sally when they end up together. I'm a little too corny for the sadder version."
Josh Radnor (Ted Mosby) shared the same sentiment as Gerwig. In an interview with Vulture, Radnor explained why he believes the ending was perfect for ths eries.
"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."
