How I Met Your Mother 8.13 Review, "Something New"
rating: 3.5
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In a park, Barney and Robin are smoking the cigars he had been told to put away, when the snobby couple approaches them and had figured out what they had done. They tell Barney and Robin they are in fact now, getting married. This makes Barney and Robin, and Robin says that in a week, they will be "legen....wait for it....married. Legen-married." Back at the house, Lilly wants to know what has prompted Ted to feel the way he does, which shows the week before, when Ted blows off a job interview to help Robin dig up the locket and they sit in the pouring rain holding hands. Ted tells Lilly that he always wants to make her happy, and wants to help her find the locket, in which Lilly tells him she knows where the locket it. That leads to Lilly telling Ted a story of her and Robin in MacLaren's before his wedding to Stella, where Robin is drunk and sad that she won't be able to get Ted back, so they go to the park to dig the locket up in her drunken state (which is why Robin goes back to look for it, she doesn't remember this.) Robin asks Lilly to bury the locket in her butt, then gets her to put it in a box, and then put the box in her butt. This leads Ted to tell Lilly that he has the locket, which has been sitting on his desk all along, and he wants to give it to her as a wedding present. The scene ends with Lilly telling Ted to be careful. The episode fast forwards to 56 hours before the wedding, with Ted putting the locket into a gift box that goes into his backpack, and he exits his apartment, which has been emptied out since he's moving. Barney and Robin are seen leaving their apartment, as they get ready for their wedding weekend. Marshall is being dropped off at the airport by his brother, in which he gets off the phone with Lilly and says he'll see her soon. Marshall's brother says to him, "So I guess you haven't told her about the judgeship," which leads us to believe Marshall isn't passing this up and wants to take the job. The final scene of the episode starts out with scenes of Ted and Lilly driving and Barney and Robin in the back of a limo along with Marshall still in Minnesota, all panning back and forth through head shots....and then the surprise. At a train station, we see a woman walking in furry boots for a few seconds (boots Lilly probably would like to borrow because as she mentions earlier, they're the same size) and then lowers down the yellow umbrella we keep seeing in previous episodes. The same yellow umbrella we've seen her holding, and the one Ted borrows from the nightclub. At the ticket window, the guy in front of her leaves, and we finally have gotten the first look at who the mother is. She walks up to the ticket window and asks for one ticket to Farhampton (Season 8's first episode was entitled, Farhampton), which is where the wedding of Barney and Robin is located. Analysis: We don't catch the name of the name of the mother, but now, we have a face. She's got dark brown hair, which we all knew from the photos of the girl blurred out from the dating site that Ted signed up for years ago. If you look at her really quickly, she almost looks like a younger version of Lilly. According to the credits; she is Cristin Milioti, an unknown actress whose biggest role was playing Catherine Sacrimoni in the HBO series, The Sopranos. She is young enough to be in the class that Ted mistakenly thought was his architecture class at the college he teaches in, and even though this is making an assumption, she looks like she has a bubbly, outgoing personality. The result: she's perfect for Ted. So now, we have four months until Season 9 to wait until they show Barney and Robin getting married, which is where Ted meets his future wife because she is supposed to be playing base in the band. Overall, it was a decent episode with not too much drama throughout the episode, except for Marshall getting accepted to become a judge, which will certainly throw in a wrench to Lilly and Marshall's plan to move to Italy. My money is on Marshall getting the job, because Lilly seems like she would be all right with staying in New York and being around her friends and family as opposed to moving clear across the continent. The ending was a good way to leave the audience with the cliffhanger for the next four months until September. After eight years of waiting, we now know what the mother looks like and what she sounds like. But now, we have to wait for Season 9 to figure out how she gets tied into the plot and the story of how Ted met her.