Anonymous asked: himym is not stupid ;)
Oh boy are you ever wrong.
The beauty of early How I Met Your Mother is that it was a story about the journey we take to find the people with whom we were meant to be with — but without the bullshit of fate or God or god. Ted’s story was not about discovering the person that he will spend the rest of his life with (contrary to the title of the show); it is about coming to the realization that life is a journey and that we are meant to share it with the people we care about. If we do that — if we strive, in all things, to be with those that we love and those that love us back — it does not matter if we ever find the girl who lost her yellow umbrella, because she is not a person and she certainly is not the missing piece of our heart.
And that’s the crux of the matter. The mystery of who the Mother will be is a false one, because there is nothing that we can do solve it and worse, there is no answer yet. It will be dragged out across seasons with scattered hints and red herrings that eventually will lead to a revelation that mean absolutely nothing, because we will be treated to this nonsense notion that two hearts were fated to connect and spend eternity together. The whole idea that the show was originally pursuing was how Ted learns that love is something we make not something that we find. Each “clue” that is left, each piece of dramatic irony takes away from that core conceit of the show.
How I Met Your Mother is Cougartown. The difference is that HIMYM was once beautiful. And that makes what is masquerading as it all the worse.
