HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER Must be Stopped!

Let me start off by saying I LOVE How I Met Your Mother. It is one of my favorite shows on TV right now, and this season is one of its best. Having said that, this show needs to end. The very concept of the show is such that it needs to have an ending. It is a show about how Ted meets his future wife, or more accurately, how he becomes the man ready to meet his future wife. Because of this, we know the show must win one of two ways. Either it ends with him simply MEETING the mother or, more likely, it ends with the wedding of Ted and the aforementioned wife.

The fact of the matter is, it's getting hard to be invested in Ted as a character until this woman is met. Take this current season for example. It's hard, if not impossible to get invested in the relationship between Ted and Zoey. We knew from the beginning that this relationship was doomed, since we have been told exactly when and where the meeting will take place. For those who missed that information, we were told the relationship is doomed at the end of the episode "Garbage Island". In fact its impossible to get invested in any relationship Ted is in since we know it's doomed.

What's been nice about this season, though, is that we have been able to see the characters grow and mature a lot. Barney in particular is almost unrecognizable from who he was in season one. This has been very interesting and entertaining to watch and I'm excited to see where Barney and Marshall in particular end up.

Which brings me to this. For those too lazy to click a link, How I Met Your Mother has been renewed for two more seasons. Now this may not necessarily be a bad thing. If they can write toward a finale, it will be great. The problem I have is that THIS season has felt like it's building toward a finale. I could very easily see it ending after one more season, but two seems too be stretching it to the point of breaking. Again, if the writers and show runners have a clear idea of where these next two seasons are headed, you will hear no complaints from me. What worries me is if they run out of good stories to tell. I think all the fans can agree that season five was a misstep, and that's the future I foresee if there is no solid end date. Side note, I do not want to see Marshall and Lily have a baby on the show. I don't think they can have compelling or relatable stories about them with a baby.

I love this show, and I will be sad to see it go. But I would rather see it end on a high note then come to hate what it has become. I hope the next two seasons are the best we've seen, and I hope for the best from all these actors. Eight years will have been a long time to spend with these characters, and I only want to keep being a part of their world. Please don't let me down How I Met Your Mother.