Name: Life as it is | How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
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So I came across this quote by an American psychiatrist by the name of Morgan Scott Peck and it goes like this

Adverbs of degree

I can't help but totally agree on this and I think anyone who is old enough must have had

Experiences that edified them about the complexities of life. A revelation that sometimes life does not make sense

Now you know what else reminds this to me

Created by Carter Bays and grant Thomas. This show is beautiful. It is romantic. It is funny as hell and also very intimate

I don't think I'll be able to express my love towards it with just words. Oh wait, there is one

The show was much more than friends or families or love and relationships

It certainly was much more than how he meets the mother. All in all it was about life in its complications

which is pretty obvious as the whole structure of the show and each episode is about this middle-aged man

He learned along the way that being said the show is filled with life lessons

and this kind of storytelling gives the writers and the directors much room for being both funny and emotional

Number of times we got episodes which are so painstakingly

funny like the pineapple incident or slap bet

and the other times we got episodes that showed us the moments of

Misery and despair at losing someone or something like bad news or the symphony of illumination

The point is How I Met Your Mother is not a joke machine of the Big Bang Theory and friends

The writers felt a responsibility to show not just the goodie good stuff

But also two gloomy parts of life by going the distance breaking all the conventional rules of a traditional sitcom

People take no time in comparing How I Met Your Mother with friends or Big Bang Theory just like I did there

I'm such a hypocrite but honestly How I Met Your Mother is very very different from these two both in the

designing principle of the show but also in the Technicalities

Now bear with me when I say that How I Met Your Mother is not a better sitcom than friends

Because it's not just a sitcom while a sitcom is a situational comedy which it is

But it has tons of elements of romantic comedy and drama thrown in between which makes it so much different

To completely understand this difference watch the pilot from all three of these shows and you'll notice one big

Difference in how I Met Your Mother and that is the extreme use of editing which is where the rhythm of the show comes from

I mean it's crazy. But this also makes the show much more dynamic than the others

Also, you cannot follow the show without visuals because a lot of the jokes comes from the editing unlike Big Bang Theory or friends and

Because of this editing the show is also not shot in a traditional way in front of a studio audience with one camera setup

So in a way how I Met Your Mother creates something

different in a familiar form and I am thankful for that because we got some great episodes like The Time Traveller's

To subway wars or the play book just to name a few which wouldn't have been possible without the editing

This dude is talking about time-traveling and weird shit while claiming that How I Met Your Mother is about life

Well, then you don't understand what the show is trying to tell you

This is the underlying reoccurring theme of the show

and this is what I meant when I said that How I Met Your Mother is about life as it is and

This is the truth that there is no certainty in life. There is no formula to live anything can happen at any time

Now this isn't true just for the tragic moments the indifferent ubiquitous uncertainty of life can also bring happiness

Let's take Barney a womanizer who uses plays from his playbook to sleep with women , who knew he could ever fall in love with Robin ?

Or who knew that Ted's stupid drunk decisions will bring him close to the love of his life

But what sticks are the heart-rending moments like why is Ted left at the altar

Even though he did absolutely nothing wrong or why Marshalls dad died or Tracy's boyfriend died

There is no story logic behind this but life logic because these things happen in life people just don't want to talk about it

This is also reflected on the characters apart from being well developed. These characters are also

Unpredictable, there is no hard logic as we see some things about these characters that never change

But sometimes they do and the show never focuses on anything

exclusive which makes them seem all do real it is as if we're watching real people going through a part of their life and

In life some people change some people don't. In life , there is no perfect script things always change

sometimes the universe will stand out of its way to help you while the other times it very

Unsympathetically conspires against you and the show kept this as an underlying principle right from the beginning up till the finale.

Oh Yes, let's talk about the finale the episode "last forever" got aired on 31st

March of 2014 and people went absolutely crazy on this

The ending was extremely polarizing either someone absolutely loved it or someone absolutely hated it which happened to be the majority in this case

Now there have been many shows before How I Met Your Mother with a touching

Twisty ending and they weren't received by the audience as badly as this so why now

Did we started hating such endings? It's simple. Yep, this motherfufuuu. I'm just kidding

I love this show .You see friends was the greatest success for the sitcom genre and when it ended

Civilization was at the point of extinction people were like, oh my god. There's no point living anymore

The thing is people needed another show Naay another friends and next year

They got it, which even helped the show to gain more viewers over time, but there was one problem

It wasn't Friends. Now that is the worst thing that can happen to a show

so in a way friends assisted the show but also hindered it

people had this crazy expectations that the show will follow the same formula as friends a.k.a. the happily ever after

which it didn't , but expectations aren't bad as a matter of fact the show teased us with this happily ever after with

everything they got. I mean seriously the name of the show is How I Met Your Mother which means he will

eventually meet the mother which means that it is going to be a happy ending. And the same is with Barney and Robin

we saw the relationship grow up from season to season to the point that we know they absolutely love each other

But then life happened as it always does and this is what the show was all about

About the saddest moments juxtaposed with the happiest ones

Think about it every great moment is either preceded or followed by a tragic one

Remember the finale of the first season the point the show made it clear. What's it about

It is not about the mother. It is about all the other things the sweet and sour life has to offer

This has been the case throughout the show and thus the finale and why shouldn't it be why should a finale

deviate from the ultimate theme of the show instead

It should confirm it and that's what how might your mother does

It tells us that life has chapters and at last there is always an ending

But the ending isn't something you thought about or something

you plan on doing some things are not in your control and it's not something most of us like to face, but for

Everything beautiful the ending will always be the worst

Like their friendship or the marriage or the love story or even the show?

But does that mean that all of this didn't matter?

You see part of the premise of the show was that "Does something has to last forever to have value ?"

So the love, the special moments, the memories between these people don't matter because now it's gone

No, I think that it's such a depressing way to think

I feel that there is something magical about two people coming together to take a shot at it

Against all the odds let alone Barney and Robin

They got the hints along the way that it is gonna be hard for this marriage to survive

They still got married because they love each other so much so that they're willing to ignore everything

and that is worth some value even if it didn't work out