Last night’s season finale of How I Met Your Mother was called “The Leap”, and I thought it was pretty good. There was finally some forward progress in all the season-long story arcs, and though the Barney/Robin stuff didn’t turn out quite as I had hoped, it wasn’t bad, all things considered.
– I like the fact that Ted is going to be a college professor. That is the perfect job for him because he’s so pompous and douche-y anyway. We’ve all had teachers like Ted, haven’t we?
– So the mother is a student? Some people I know were bothered by this, because of the icky connotations that brings up, but I didn’t take it to mean that Ted was preying on an impressionable 18-year-old girl. He could be teaching a graduate course, in which case the students would be older. And there are so many non-traditional students these days, adults switching careers in their 30s or whatever, that there’s no reason to assume the worst about this scenario.
– I hated that Barney would be turned off by Robin as soon as she said she loved him too. That just makes it seem like he’s more turned on by the chase than anything else, which isn’t supposed to be the case with Robin. In that respect, I’m glad she was just “pulling a Mosby”. But overall, I was actually hoping for a serious conversation between these two. That being said, Barney’s “Maybe I you’re worth the trouble” speech in the hospital room was good, as was the look Robin gave Barney before he jumped across to the other rooftop.
– Lilly and Marshall got stuck on the backburner again. I wonder how long Jason Segel is going to stay on the show when he’s given such lame storylines all the time. You’d think he’d just go off and make movies full-time or something.
Anyway, as I said, the ep as a whole was pretty good. I’m glad we weren’t left with much of a cliffhanger this time around. I’ll definitely be back for Season 5!