There She Is: HIMYM Season Finale

There we have it. There she is.
And yet, only a network like CBS can give us so many answers and leave us with so many more questions. All at once.
I’m sitting here in my living room in shock.
I don’t know whether or not to be excited or wary.
I feel a lot of both.

This has been the fullest half hour in recent memory.

When Marshall visits his mother for a week in Minnesota with Marvin, he spends the days assuring Lily his mother won’t make good on her idle threats to change their plans to move to Rome.
He never expected he’d be the person behind the plot twist.

Towards the end of the trip, he receives an offer for a last-minute Judgeship opening in NYC. Bent on the hard decision, we leave off discovering Marshall accepted the title; and hasn’t told Lily. If Lily’s free to pursue the highlight of her career, so is Marshall—but a year away from Marvin?
“Your Honor?”

Ted finishes the repairs on the house—only to break the news to Lily that he’s moving to Chicago after the wedding and, once again, to confess that he’s moving because he can’t stay in New York while he feels the way he does for Robin.
Moving on isn’t the same as letting go. But that’s okay.
Although he puts his wise words at risk, damning the Universe last episode, when he learns the locket Robin so searched for (and found…drunk) had been with him the whole time. I’m iffy about the locket being a gift. Hope he gets to Farhamption station in enough time.

And now to break down the plot twists in consecutive order, because I can’t process them properly without screaming:

1. TED HAS THE LOCKET.

2. MARSHALL IS A JUDGE.

3. WE SAW THE MOTHER WITH BOOTS AND THE UMBRELLA AT FARHAMPTON STATION.

4. AAAAHHH.

This season is just about legen…wait for it…married.

Droppin' Science, Son

When the group isn’t fighting, they seemed to poke the ribs of a lot of people—women, the lethargic, gymnasts.
Okay, the latter was kind of funny.

Besides discovering Sheldon is a bit misogynistic (and may or may not have a soymilk breakthrough), the Bert and Ernie of the fourth-floor apartment end up fighting over each other’s behavior. Leonard claims he’s had enough and makes plans to move in with Penny. Sure, there isn’t anything Penny doesn’t like about the guy—but not being ready, just for the plain anxiety and fear that comes with not being ready, is a reason. One Leonard, for all his good (if not wine-muddled) intentions, didn’t clearly see.

Howard isn’t brewing any trouble in paradise when he convinces Raj to go check on his mother before he leaves for Vegas with Bernie. Raj agrees to go, despite harshing his Saturday night bliss, though he finds himself in Wolowitz’s PJs soon enough. Who else thought a dinner and chocolate-chip cheesecake would be so beguiling?

And who’s as taken as I am with the pass-through by the mother in the kitchen? Don’t think we didn’t notice—she’s taller than I imagined. Wears more color, too. And that hair!

Meanwhile, Sheldon experiences Penny’s issues on the flipside when Amy comes to Leonard’s conclusion: that there’s no viable reason why she isn’t a good roommate match for Sheldon. Sheldon, like Penny, feels thwarted by the pace, except his own meddling leads to an all-and-out between the four of them. Talk about big bangs.

Amy and Sheldon end the episode on a fighting note, but I can’t get over Sheldon’s bewildered—and scared?—expression when Amy shouts at him. I wish they had resolved their tiff. Sheldon does move slowly, and did hurt Amy with his inaccurate timing, but she didn’t give him room to talk it out in her huff.
If a resolution doesn’t happen in the next episode, I hope it happens in the interim. Relationships take work.

We’ll see if they pick this sword up where they left it, next Thursday.