HIMYM: How About A Bet On the Series Finale?

I was watching How I Met Your Mother, my favorite TV show of all time (next to F.R.I.E.N.D.S. of course), and in today's episode, the show was back on Ted and Robin's on-again-off-again relationship. I was like... 'Againnn???'. The show is supposed to be about Ted telling the story of how he met his children's Mother yet the storyline seems to focus too much on Ted and Robin. I'm not a woman, but if I'm the Mother, I would be pretty pissed at Ted for telling my children again and again about how he was crazy for another woman. Wouldn’t you?

I wonder how the writers would write the final season and finally the season finale. I think it will be pretty tough since it is now already season 6 but the Mother has yet to make any significant appearances in the storyline. As of now we have no idea how long the show will last; whether we have to wait another season or another 4 seasons to discover who the Mother really is. But if I own the show, I would spend at least one entire season just to focus on the storyline of Ted and the Mother just to be fair to the poor woman.

With the way the show ran for the past six seasons, then putting myself in the shoes of the writer of the season finale, I can only come up with two scenarios. First scenario is obviously the expected finale: Ted married Mother and Robin either ended up with Barney or nobody at all to be the ultimate career woman, or died.

Second scenario is crazier but is my twisted choice… IF I own the show: Ted married Mother, had their two children… but then tragedy struck when the Mother died for whatever reasons; OR, they could be divorced but however, in the end Ted ended up with Robin.

This may or may not make sense looking back to two previous episodes from previous seasons. In one of the earlier episodes, there was a crayon painting of Robin holding hands with the children with something like ‘We Love Aunt Robin’ with a heart-shape in it. There was also one episode where Ted, Lily and Marshal were enjoying… ‘sandwich’, and Ted remarked: “Where’s my wife?”, and it made me think that it’s possible that Wife and Mother are two separate people. Whatever it is, it's already too obvious that Ted and Robin are in love with each other.

You see, the identity of the Mother is as good as anybody’s guess. But if you care to scour the internet, you will see that I’m not the only one who thinks that Robin somehow will ultimately end up with Ted even if she’s not the Mother. One of them was cheeky enough to paint the scenario of Ted narrating to the children "... and that is when Aunt Robin became your Mom". Hilarious.

I love the show. How about a bet? :)