There WERE so many references to Aunt Robin and how involved she was in the kids' lives. I do remember that.
I haven't watched this show recently. So is this the last season?

I have some vague memory of reading or hearing that the writers always knew how the story was going to end (just not when), so they always wrote with the end in mind. It would make some sense that the mom dies, I guess, because it gives a reason for him telling the kids about her.

It makes sense to have the mother die. Then the series ends with the original fivesome, just like it began.

Wow - is there a dissertation in the future that will 'decode' all of the foreshadowing of the tragic ending of HIMYM?

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Anonymous wrote:I think she is going to die. Why else would Ted be telling the kids how they met in the first place? Why wouldn't the mom be there telling them too? There were definitely several signs and I feel like they made her look tired and defeated in this episode. Plus they killed off her first fiance, I felt like that was a weird thing to do. Also what about the reference they made of the kids doing so many thing with Robin, maybe she steps up and becomes a huge part of the kids lives after the mother goes.

But I think you could be right re Robin. Does anyone remember the episode where Robin found out that she cannot have kids? Yet didn't the episode hint at something else? I didn't see last night's episode--am a season behind. But I recently saw an episode where they initially made it seem like Robin & Barney were talking about adopting kids, but it was a fake out.

Now that I think about it--they always show scenes of Lily and Marshall in their 50s/60s, but never Ted all grey. Or am I wrong? I can only think of beach house scenes, but those didn't actually happen.

Didn't they show a scene earlier this season with Lily, Marshall, and Ted all back at college dropping off at least one of their kids? Note, the mother wasn't there.

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Anonymous wrote:I think she is going to die. Why else would Ted be telling the kids how they met in the first place? Why wouldn't the mom be there telling them too? There were definitely several signs and I feel like they made her look tired and defeated in this episode. Plus they killed off her first fiance, I felt like that was a weird thing to do. Also what about the reference they made of the kids doing so many thing with Robin, maybe she steps up and becomes a huge part of the kids lives after the mother goes.

But I think you could be right re Robin. Does anyone remember the episode where Robin found out that she cannot have kids? Yet didn't the episode hint at something else? I didn't see last night's episode--am a season behind. But I recently saw an episode where they initially made it seem like Robin & Barney were talking about adopting kids, but it was a fake out.

Now that I think about it--they always show scenes of Lily and Marshall in their 50s/60s, but never Ted all grey. Or am I wrong? I can only think of beach house scenes, but those didn't actually happen.

They ended the infertility episode with Robin never did have kids but she was never alone. Or something like that. I guess maybe the mother could be in the hospital and that's why he is telling the kids this story. At the end all the characters will go and visit the mother in the hospital and she ends up making it through.

Anonymous wrote:Dude. It's not The Mother who dies. It's Ted, and these stories are either (1) Ted on his deathbed, or (2) a video he made for his kids. Calling it.

Oooh. Interesting. Definitely a possibility.

Anonymous wrote:I think she is going to die. Why else would Ted be telling the kids how they met in the first place? Why wouldn't the mom be there telling them too? There were definitely several signs and I feel like they made her look tired and defeated in this episode. Plus they killed off her first fiance, I felt like that was a weird thing to do. Also what about the reference they made of the kids doing so many thing with Robin, maybe she steps up and becomes a huge part of the kids lives after the mother goes.

But I think you could be right re Robin. Does anyone remember the episode where Robin found out that she cannot have kids? Yet didn't the episode hint at something else? I didn't see last night's episode--am a season behind. But I recently saw an episode where they initially made it seem like Robin & Barney were talking about adopting kids, but it was a fake out.

Now that I think about it--they always show scenes of Lily and Marshall in their 50s/60s, but never Ted all grey. Or am I wrong? I can only think of beach house scenes, but those didn't actually happen.

I think she is going to die. Why else would Ted be telling the kids how they met in the first place? Why wouldn't the mom be there telling them too? There were definitely several signs and I feel like they made her look tired and defeated in this episode. Plus they killed off her first fiance, I felt like that was a weird thing to do. Also what about the reference they made of the kids doing so many thing with Robin, maybe she steps up and becomes a huge part of the kids lives after the mother goes.

Which one is Ted? The mush-faced lawyer or the other mushy brown-haired guy? I'm assuming not the promiscuous blond guy.

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Anonymous wrote:Dude. It's not The Mother who dies. It's Ted, and these stories are either (1) Ted on his deathbed, or (2) a video he made for his kids. Calling it.

ooh, this is a good theory. all along the scenes with the kids have just been them on the couch, listening to the dad, which I always thought was kinda strange (i.e. he's never talking to hem in the park or a restaurant or on vacation). it would totally make sense that these are all videos he made.

But I swear I've heard the kids talking to the dad and him responding. I think it really sucks to kill off a main character. The whole show will be tinged with the death forever after...

Sort of a tangent, but I'm a physician and when we teach how to run a code or trauma, we never have the fake patient die bc it completely takes away from the education - and the focus suddenly shifts to coping/how to tell the family/how you feel and whatever educational point you were trying to make (medication Y for heart condition X) is entirely lost. Unless, you want the whole session to be about death and dying, in which case, you make your simulated patient die.

Anonymous wrote:Dude. It's not The Mother who dies. It's Ted, and these stories are either (1) Ted on his deathbed, or (2) a video he made for his kids. Calling it.

ooh, this is a good theory. all along the scenes with the kids have just been them on the couch, listening to the dad, which I always thought was kinda strange (i.e. he's never talking to hem in the park or a restaurant or on vacation). it would totally make sense that these are all videos he made.

That episode was a punch in the gut. I caught it one sign before DH did.

Thanks, HIMYM, for getting us through our 20s, for being the voice of our single/newly married years...and reminding us it all can fall apart...

Sadly, it took me several minutes after the episode ended to realize they were hinting the mom would die. I hope it's a fake out.

Dude. It's not The Mother who dies. It's Ted, and these stories are either (1) Ted on his deathbed, or (2) a video he made for his kids. Calling it.