Stop That With: Your Awesomeness (requested by anon)
“Look, I have feelings for you, Barney.”
“Robin, you’re the most awesome person I’ve ever met”
Barney & Robin
Spoilers for Barney’s wedding on HIMYM!
Question: Will we definitely learn in the HIMYM season finale who Barney is marrying? —Doug
Ausiello: Yes. And that’s not the only precious piece of intel we’ll uncover during the flash-forward. “There’s a huge thing we’re going to learn going back to the future wedding day,” teases Bays. “I don’t want to say what it is though.”
HIMYM SPOILERS!
Question: Any news on how long Kal Penn is sticking around on How I Met Your Mother? – Monica
Ausiello: I don’t think much longer. Exec producer Craig Thomas says an upcoming episode will find Robin realizing that “the waters don’t run as deep with Kevin as they do with Barney.” Or, for that matter, Ted, who come February will be forced to deal with his unresolved feelings for Robin. “Stuff happens that makes Ted and Robin question their living arrangements,” adds fellow EP Carter Bays. “When they broke up back in Season 2 they asked themselves the question, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ Robin thought she’d be living [overseas]. And now it’s five years later and she is still in this apartment, exactly where she was when Ted asked that question. There’s an episode where they literally do the five-year reassessment off that one line in their breakup in Season 2.”
Watch With Kristin: How I Met Your Mother Bosses Reveal "Barney and Robin Are Not Doomed!"
Barney and Robin Are Not Doomed: Let the angels sing, and the haters weep! Everything that HIMYM’s big bosses said about Barney and Robin during this lunch leads me to believe this couple is the endgame. (There, I said it. And yes, I have completely fangirled out on you.) Now, I should also point out that in the current season finale, we will find out whom Barney marries (and it will be a flash-forward to the future). It’s certainly not a slam-dunk that it’s Robin, but it sure sounds like Carter and Craig are planning on Barney and Robin in the end.
When I asked Craig and Carter whether Barney and Robin cannot end up together because he wants kids and we know she does not want them, and does not have them, they were quick to defend the show’s fan-favorite coupling.
“We don’t look at that as a singular deal-breaker for Barney and Robin at all,” Craig says, pointing out that “Barney wants to have kids in a very hypothetical sense. He thinks having kids will be cool. He made fun of that baby for pooping in its diaper. He may not be totally ready to be a dad. Barney, deep down, doesn’t know what he wants.”
Adds Carter: “Barney and Robin are so in love…They are doomed as a relationship in some ways because they are both so messed up. But part of this show is them taking themselves apart and rebuilding themselves. We’re seeing them learn how to move past everything that screwed them up in the past and make this work for real.”
Barney: Can you believe we almost…
Robin: I know.
Barney: Good thing we didn’t.
Robin: Yeah, I mean not long after that, you got together with Nora.
Barney: And you met Kevin.
Robin: Yeah, disaster averted.
Barney: Exactly, it would have ruined everything.
