In a season that has seen the end of a couple of different television dynasties, I feel like it is difficult to judge finales objectively. Tonight, I saw Jack Bauer say “Dammit Chloe” for the last time (You know, until the movie). Previously, it was a different Jack laying down his life so his friends could escape. It doesn’t even need to be a series finale to set heights high, as seen by last week’s Grey’s Anatomy. With How I Met Your Mother, the theme wasn’t necessarily about answering a bunch of mythological questions (In this case, who the mother is), but in growing the characters and putting them in a better place. For a fairly uneventful thirty minutes, “Doppelganger” was a surprisingly satisfying episode.
Lily and Marshal, despite several mis-starts (in this episode alone), will finally start their family. Who would have thought Barney would have been secretly working to get the baby-making train on track? I’m looking forward to seeing Lily as a mother next year, as I’ve said, a little purpose will do her character some good.
We’ve been hearing about these doppelgangers now off and on all season. To be honest, I haven’t found it to be the funniest of storylines, other than Stripper Lily (Because who doesn’t love any Alyson Hannigan doppelganger ??). Frankly, Mustache Marshal and the others just didn’t exactly give me the giggles. In the end, though, I liked where the story eventually took us. It wasn’t about the laughs, but about the point that Ted made to Robin. We all eventually become people who just look like who we used to be. Thankfully, that’s how the whole “Job in Chicago” storyline ended, because until then, it felt eerily similar to the “Job in Japan” we’ve seen before.
I completely called wrong Ted and Robin actually having the wherewithal (or, the sight of Ted’s blonde mistake) not to hook up. I’ve been predicting, though not so publicly, that despite all of the mentions of Aunt Robin, that we might just find out that our favorite former Canadian Pop Star might actually be the titular mother. Alas, to be wrong, eh? I guess we might get that answer one of the days.
Notes & Quotes
Clacked by Ivey West 
on May 25, 2010 @ 08:29 EST5EDT
