Top 10 Times You Missed Foreshadowing Details on HIMYM
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Date: 2023-11-20
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matariki
Tbh the mother's death - and only that - would have been a good conclusion, if only that would have made Ted evolve as a character, the way ALL OF THEM did.
If that tragic death had made him change and we'd have seen it, like for instance - a good change - he'd stop being so picky for women, or so insisting on the whole soulmate thing, or creepy, or even maybe something like living alone for awhile AND being at peace with it.
Even a bad change would have been good, like maybe Ted meets someone, she meets NONE of his criteria, and he still marries her, because what he actually most wants after such a terrible loss is not to be alone - and this, kids, is how I met your step mother.
But no, Ted doesn't change at all, and his crappy attitude during the entire series gets rewarded - at the end, he gets the girl he'd wanted since the beginning, who is shown as lonely and miserable with her dogs, exactly the way she'd be in Ted's mind as a single woman in her 40s, and Tracy is only a stepping stone towards Robin and Ted being - urgh - endgame.
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Tbh the mother's death - and only that - would have been a good conclusion, if only that would have made Ted evolve as a character, the way ALL OF THEM did.
If that tragic death had made him change and we'd have seen it, like for instance - a good change - he'd stop being so picky for women, or so insisting on the whole soulmate thing, or creepy, or even maybe something like living alone for awhile AND being at peace with it.
Even a bad change would have been good, like maybe Ted meets someone, she meets NONE of his criteria, and he still marries her, because what he actually most wants after such a terrible loss is not to be alone - and this, kids, is how I met your step mother.
But no, Ted doesn't change at all, and his crappy attitude during the entire series gets rewarded - at the end, he gets the girl he'd wanted since the beginning, who is shown as lonely and miserable with her dogs, exactly the way she'd be in Ted's mind as a single woman in her 40s, and Tracy is only a stepping stone towards Robin and Ted being - urgh - endgame.
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Shirish
If they would have just made the last season's 10 episodes about Barney and Robin's wedding, and then focusing the latter episodes on Ted and Tracy and then then building up the spark between Ted and Robin, then we wouldn't have hated the series finale. They just focused the whole season around their wedding, only for them to break up in 15 mins, have Barney revert back to his womanizing days, undoing his character development until he had the baby. They made Robin, a strong independent character jealous of Ted and Tracy and have her leave the group, not because she loved Ted, but because she was jealous seeing how she could have had what Tracy has. And then use the mother's death as a plot device at the last moment to have Ted and Robin back together.
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If they would have just made the last season's 10 episodes about Barney and Robin's wedding, and then focusing the latter episodes on Ted and Tracy and then then building up the spark between Ted and Robin, then we wouldn't have hated the series finale. They just focused the whole season around their wedding, only for them to break up in 15 mins, have Barney revert back to his womanizing days, undoing his character development until he had the baby. They made Robin, a strong independent character jealous of Ted and Tracy and have her leave the group, not because she loved Ted, but because she was jealous seeing how she could have had what Tracy has. And then use the mother's death as a plot device at the last moment to have Ted and Robin back together.
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Joe
Um, the #1 piece of foreshadowing that everyone missed was the endgame of the story. And that foreshadowing started in the very first episode.
Older Ted started by telling us that this was the story of how he met their mom. Everything in the first episode leads up to this moment when Ted pulls the bait-and-switch:
And thats how I Metyour Aunt Robin.
He then proceeds to tell his kids nine years worth of stories that mostly have nothing to do with the titular mom, but a lot to do with their Aunt Robin. The kids even helpfully point this out to everyone, including their dad.
Of course Ted and Robin trying again was going to be the endgame of the story.
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Um, the #1 piece of foreshadowing that everyone missed was the endgame of the story. And that foreshadowing started in the very first episode.
Older Ted started by telling us that this was the story of how he met their mom. Everything in the first episode leads up to this moment when Ted pulls the bait-and-switch:
And thats how I Metyour Aunt Robin.
He then proceeds to tell his kids nine years worth of stories that mostly have nothing to do with the titular mom, but a lot to do with their Aunt Robin. The kids even helpfully point this out to everyone, including their dad.
Of course Ted and Robin trying again was going to be the endgame of the story.
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Keisha
Tbh could have accepted Tracey dying, Barney and Robin divorcing and even Ted and Robin backsliding as otp by the end. But what made the finale truly nonsense to me was the kids so happily encouraging Robin and Ted to get back together. Their mother died when they were kids and they're reacting like this is some fun juicy gossip there just wasn't enough heart in their performance or the direction for them in that scene/reveal. I lost my mom as a teenager, it's a unique pain you never truly get over. So the way they are just so chill about it makes it seem forced. Making it even less relatable for the ending.
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Tbh could have accepted Tracey dying, Barney and Robin divorcing and even Ted and Robin backsliding as otp by the end. But what made the finale truly nonsense to me was the kids so happily encouraging Robin and Ted to get back together. Their mother died when they were kids and they're reacting like this is some fun juicy gossip there just wasn't enough heart in their performance or the direction for them in that scene/reveal. I lost my mom as a teenager, it's a unique pain you never truly get over. So the way they are just so chill about it makes it seem forced. Making it even less relatable for the ending.
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Johnny
I actually found the twist before the ending, i just finished the show for the first time a few weeks and you miss the biggest teasing to the mothers fate, when lily and marshall do that quizz to see who would take care of their children in case they die, ted said that he would use a crocodile pupet to tell the kid that he lost his parents, out of no where the camera changes to his future kids with him showing them that pupet and asking if they remember it. the toy that he would use to inform lily and marshall kids of their demise. i had to pause the episode because i was in shock!
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I actually found the twist before the ending, i just finished the show for the first time a few weeks and you miss the biggest teasing to the mothers fate, when lily and marshall do that quizz to see who would take care of their children in case they die, ted said that he would use a crocodile pupet to tell the kid that he lost his parents, out of no where the camera changes to his future kids with him showing them that pupet and asking if they remember it. the toy that he would use to inform lily and marshall kids of their demise. i had to pause the episode because i was in shock!
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Kratik
It wasn't that the Idea for the ending was bad ironically on paper it's a great ending specially with all the hints we were provided and since it was concrete ending from the start
But it was actually the time given to each concept of the ending was mismanaged which led to misconceptions for casual viewers, the chemistry between Barney and Robbin their character growth and the portrayal of the character of mother and the fact how well written it was considering all the hype build up to it is what made people hate the ending
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It wasn't that the Idea for the ending was bad ironically on paper it's a great ending specially with all the hints we were provided and since it was concrete ending from the start
But it was actually the time given to each concept of the ending was mismanaged which led to misconceptions for casual viewers, the chemistry between Barney and Robbin their character growth and the portrayal of the character of mother and the fact how well written it was considering all the hype build up to it is what made people hate the ending
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Yogesh
every creator wants to be christopher nolan. and they forget that sometimes keeping it simple is the best thing to do. Simple things writers missed are:
1. Tracy and ted go on couple of dates, fall in love, have fights, stick together, get married, have kids,
2. Barney and Robin's marriage was great fir couple of years then then started to fall apart. They file divorce. Then realised they still in love and get back together.
P. S. Yellow umbrella is more romantic than blue horn.
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every creator wants to be christopher nolan. and they forget that sometimes keeping it simple is the best thing to do. Simple things writers missed are:
1. Tracy and ted go on couple of dates, fall in love, have fights, stick together, get married, have kids,
2. Barney and Robin's marriage was great fir couple of years then then started to fall apart. They file divorce. Then realised they still in love and get back together.
P. S. Yellow umbrella is more romantic than blue horn.
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Jacob
Another thing that may have been foreshadowing the mother's fate was when he imagined if the woman who left him at the alter hadn't, in that imagine spot with the blonde kids she shows up to give her two-cents on the story. Dude spent like nine years telling this story to his kids, a story that's purportedly about how he met their mother, if she were still around in their lives I guarantee she'd have shown up at some point in the process to comment on SOMETHING.
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Another thing that may have been foreshadowing the mother's fate was when he imagined if the woman who left him at the alter hadn't, in that imagine spot with the blonde kids she shows up to give her two-cents on the story. Dude spent like nine years telling this story to his kids, a story that's purportedly about how he met their mother, if she were still around in their lives I guarantee she'd have shown up at some point in the process to comment on SOMETHING.
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advita
if this helps any ted-tracy shippers (like me, the original deleted scene after the last scene in the finale shows robin and ted meeting at a cafe or smn where they clear up a lot of stuff, ted says he has learnt to be happy and they both move on, meaning they DONT end up together. deleting that scene just ended up creating a crappy scenario where ted was in love with robin all along and simply settled for tracy, and that it was robin who was the one all along.
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if this helps any ted-tracy shippers (like me, the original deleted scene after the last scene in the finale shows robin and ted meeting at a cafe or smn where they clear up a lot of stuff, ted says he has learnt to be happy and they both move on, meaning they DONT end up together. deleting that scene just ended up creating a crappy scenario where ted was in love with robin all along and simply settled for tracy, and that it was robin who was the one all along.
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Ken
Missed forshadowing details.
#1) The title of the show. The title says that the story is Ted's (I) and that the mother is a goal, NOT a co-protagonist. It's Ted's story alone.
#2) In How I Met Everyone Else 2030 Ted describes how long-standing couples develop a set way of telling the story of how they met before we see Marshall and Lily tell their story. 2030 Ted is telling the story alone, frequently meandering, and clearly not in a set way.
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Missed forshadowing details.
#1) The title of the show. The title says that the story is Ted's (I) and that the mother is a goal, NOT a co-protagonist. It's Ted's story alone.
#2) In How I Met Everyone Else 2030 Ted describes how long-standing couples develop a set way of telling the story of how they met before we see Marshall and Lily tell their story. 2030 Ted is telling the story alone, frequently meandering, and clearly not in a set way.
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Gil
People miss out on why the ending of this one is hated. It's fine that the mother died, people die. The unforgivable thing was using it as an excuse to get Robin and Ted back together. Also, deatroying Robin & Barney in a 3 minute scene, after convincing us for an entire season that they can overcome any difficulty (a marriage problem? I guess we cant deal with it) That was nasty.
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People miss out on why the ending of this one is hated. It's fine that the mother died, people die. The unforgivable thing was using it as an excuse to get Robin and Ted back together. Also, deatroying Robin & Barney in a 3 minute scene, after convincing us for an entire season that they can overcome any difficulty (a marriage problem? I guess we cant deal with it) That was nasty.
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Michael
What about when Ted runs out of stories to tell Tracy? I feel like at that point she already died and Ted was imagining having that conversation with her as a way to cope with his grieving. Also, when she said what mother wouldnt be at their childs wedding? And he starts to get emotional. I think its because she already passed away.
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What about when Ted runs out of stories to tell Tracy? I feel like at that point she already died and Ted was imagining having that conversation with her as a way to cope with his grieving. Also, when she said what mother wouldnt be at their childs wedding? And he starts to get emotional. I think its because she already passed away.
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rcoh4
There were hints that she might be dead but the time traveler episode is what gave it away for me personally. I still hated that ended because they made Robin the worst fit for ted after 9 seasons and Tracy was perfect. Which is the reason for the backlash and why they felt the need to make an alternate ending the true ending.
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There were hints that she might be dead but the time traveler episode is what gave it away for me personally. I still hated that ended because they made Robin the worst fit for ted after 9 seasons and Tracy was perfect. Which is the reason for the backlash and why they felt the need to make an alternate ending the true ending.
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SpazzModius
Oh theres one i noticed in season 1. When Victoria leaves for Germany, she says if we are single in the future lets give it another try, to which ted jokingly replies even if we arent foreshadowing how he ends up trying to get back with her while shes engaged to Klaus and she leaves Klaus for him.
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Oh theres one i noticed in season 1. When Victoria leaves for Germany, she says if we are single in the future lets give it another try, to which ted jokingly replies even if we arent foreshadowing how he ends up trying to get back with her while shes engaged to Klaus and she leaves Klaus for him.
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Jeremy
I figured out she was dead a few a seasons before the end.
Her being dead was the entire reason he was telling them the story.
I thought it was obvious, and I was honestly surprised at the fan reaction.
It seems to me if you were surprised by her death, you weren't paying much attention.
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I figured out she was dead a few a seasons before the end.
Her being dead was the entire reason he was telling them the story.
I thought it was obvious, and I was honestly surprised at the fan reaction.
It seems to me if you were surprised by her death, you weren't paying much attention.
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Praharsh
himym ended so long ago. it was a sitcom in which i really connected with the characters and im still pissed 8 years later abt tracy's fate.
the two times it was forshadowed in farhampton when theyre old and the 45 days speech i was shook like that cant be it
i will never get over it
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himym ended so long ago. it was a sitcom in which i really connected with the characters and im still pissed 8 years later abt tracy's fate.
the two times it was forshadowed in farhampton when theyre old and the 45 days speech i was shook like that cant be it
i will never get over it
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Rishi
In the episode where marshal reveals that in order for him to fantasize about other women he first has to kill Lily in the fantasy
He further adds how Lily dies of a disease that cant be cured, after they had spent some good time
This is what exactly happens in teds story
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In the episode where marshal reveals that in order for him to fantasize about other women he first has to kill Lily in the fantasy
He further adds how Lily dies of a disease that cant be cured, after they had spent some good time
This is what exactly happens in teds story
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Robert
I did pick up on many of the clues since the whole framework of the story parallels my father's talk with me a month after my mother died. The similarities and the numerous stark differences make this series one of the most profound shows I've ever viewed from beginning to end.
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I did pick up on many of the clues since the whole framework of the story parallels my father's talk with me a month after my mother died. The similarities and the numerous stark differences make this series one of the most profound shows I've ever viewed from beginning to end.
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victoria
it's not a foreshadowing i guess, but i always thought that Ted's ending was the same as what Marshall imagined before fantasizing about being with other women (only a good amount of years after Lily's death. He only gets to end with Robin 6 years after Tracy died.
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it's not a foreshadowing i guess, but i always thought that Ted's ending was the same as what Marshall imagined before fantasizing about being with other women (only a good amount of years after Lily's death. He only gets to end with Robin 6 years after Tracy died.
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Julie
Lets all be honest, Ted and Robin broke up again after a few months. The whole thing was clearly just like the lobster situation, where Robin couldnt have Ted, so she wanted him again. In my mind, they broke up again and Ted went to find someone compatible to him.
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Lets all be honest, Ted and Robin broke up again after a few months. The whole thing was clearly just like the lobster situation, where Robin couldnt have Ted, so she wanted him again. In my mind, they broke up again and Ted went to find someone compatible to him.
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Kabir
I actually loved the ending. Maybe bcoz when I watched it for the 1st time I just binged it within a month or two. It made sense that Ted and Robbin would end up together. But if we are to span the series out through 9 years it might seem otherwise.
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I actually loved the ending. Maybe bcoz when I watched it for the 1st time I just binged it within a month or two. It made sense that Ted and Robbin would end up together. But if we are to span the series out through 9 years it might seem otherwise.
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William
That Tracy thing wasnt foreshadowing. The plan was for Victoria to be the mother when that episode aired. The mother became named Tracy at the end of the series because everyone thought they had figured it out so the writers just went with it.
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That Tracy thing wasnt foreshadowing. The plan was for Victoria to be the mother when that episode aired. The mother became named Tracy at the end of the series because everyone thought they had figured it out so the writers just went with it.
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DomiNathan
There is one more hint I didn't think as foreshadowing in the Game Night Episode near the end the narration you never know how it ends or a similar statement and on the word ends you see Ted and Robin kiss so that could be foreshadowing
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There is one more hint I didn't think as foreshadowing in the Game Night Episode near the end the narration you never know how it ends or a similar statement and on the word ends you see Ted and Robin kiss so that could be foreshadowing
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Rachel
Rubbish, barney and Robin didn't get divorced but it was a surprise plan to the others so they can have a second wedding in hawaii, all I say barney and Robin forever and they were pulling a barney prank on the others to get their way
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Rubbish, barney and Robin didn't get divorced but it was a surprise plan to the others so they can have a second wedding in hawaii, all I say barney and Robin forever and they were pulling a barney prank on the others to get their way
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Mike
The scene where tracey's shoes walk into frame. The scene with The when of it is still a little while down the road, however the where of it The song that plays is called: The funeral which adds a whole different demention to the scene
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The scene where tracey's shoes walk into frame. The scene with The when of it is still a little while down the road, however the where of it The song that plays is called: The funeral which adds a whole different demention to the scene
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kinkinproductions
I love the part where ted says the first time the mother heard the shelfish joke she laughed then in how your mother met me she laughs in his econ 305 class. i know its not foreshadowing per say but still a cute call back
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I love the part where ted says the first time the mother heard the shelfish joke she laughed then in how your mother met me she laughs in his econ 305 class. i know its not foreshadowing per say but still a cute call back
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Jason
One of the clues that isnt really talked about in the flash forward scene in farhampton is that the music playing is a song called the funeral. The one with the German word for almost but not quite then the flash forward.
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One of the clues that isnt really talked about in the flash forward scene in farhampton is that the music playing is a song called the funeral. The one with the German word for almost but not quite then the flash forward.
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Nadia
We should've known Tracy was dead. When Ted talks about his happily ever after with Stella, she came in and interrupted the story, asking if he wasn't done yet whereas in reality, his story goes on without incident
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We should've known Tracy was dead. When Ted talks about his happily ever after with Stella, she came in and interrupted the story, asking if he wasn't done yet whereas in reality, his story goes on without incident
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Bobrob1597
What mother wouldnt come to her daughters wedding? -Tracy. Upon saying that Ted chokes up and Tracy tries to comfort him. Foreshadowing that they both knew she wouldnt live long enough to see Pennys wedding.
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What mother wouldnt come to her daughters wedding? -Tracy. Upon saying that Ted chokes up and Tracy tries to comfort him. Foreshadowing that they both knew she wouldnt live long enough to see Pennys wedding.
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Max
That Love in the time of cholera book detail is so smart. Never knew nor picked it up. The ending was literally right there. I guess some fans are just way smarter than others to look deep into this and discover it
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That Love in the time of cholera book detail is so smart. Never knew nor picked it up. The ending was literally right there. I guess some fans are just way smarter than others to look deep into this and discover it
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