“How I Met Your Mother” creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas finally decided how the series would wrap up in 2006 (via US Weekly), filming key scenes involving Ted’s (Radnor) children (David Henrie, Lyndsy Fonseca) for the show’s eventual finale. What the duo didn’t know in the mid 2000’s was how they would get to the conclusion, which sees Ted telling his children that he would like to pursue Robin (Smulders) with their blessings.
After a healthy amount of “will-they-won’t-they,” Season 4 of “How I Met Your Mother” wrapped up with Barney (Harris) and Robin finally getting together. The two eventually break up in Season 5, fracturing their relationship, before getting back together in Season 8, deciding to get married. In a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” thread, Bays and Thomas were asked when they decided to make the decision of having Robin and Barney get married. “Between seasons five and six,” they wrote. “Season six was when we really locked in on what the endgame would be.”
“How I Met Your Mother” fans on social media largely agree that Robin and Barney should have stayed together but it’s interesting to see that their eventual separation was planned well in advance. The buildup to their relationship, especially between the events of Season 6 and 8, feels all the more deliberate now, knowing that the writers had the most of the endgame planned years in advance.
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