How I Met Your Mother: 10 Ways The Finale Totally Lived Up To Expectations

On March 31st, How I Met Your Mother came to an end after a nine year run to contend with Friends and Cheers for a place in the sitcom history books. Many theories had been circulated throughout its airing as to the identity of The Mother, the mysterious figure about whom the whole story was meant to concern, while we watched Ted go through doomed relationship after doomed relationship, struggling to find the happiness that he so clearly deserved. From Karen and Natalie before the show's beginning, to Robin, Victoria, Stella, Zoey, Jeanette and countless others, Ted has been searching for a woman to be the mother to his children for nine years, and a year ago, at the end of Season 8, we finally saw her - Tracy McConnell - buying a train ticket to Robin and Barney's wedding, where she would meet her future husband. Since then, throughout Season 9, we have been given glimpses into their future, rightly giving the fans more than just the story of how Ted and The Mother meet, and showing how they fall in love and revisit the place where they met in 2013. But now it had to come to an end, full-circle, with the couple finally meeting for the first time, ending the story that Ted has been telling his children in 2030 all this time. Whether you liked the twisty finale or not, it's undeniable that How I Met Your Mother delivered on its nine year wait to see Ted and The Mother finally together, and wrap up all of the story-lines that occurred along the way, giving everyone of the main characters a solid end. As we had already seen in the series, Marshall ends up a Supreme Court Judge with Lily by his side and (at least) three children, and the other characters are all given final, life-long stories in this final double-episode. And here, in chronological order, is how it delivered on everything else...