How I Met Your Dad protagonist Greta Gerwig gives her opinion of How I Met Your Mother‘s finale, and explains why HIMYD will be different.
In an interview with Vulture, Gerwig, who plays Sally in HIMYD, said that she wept at the ending (the Mother dies, and Ted is seen trying to get back together with Robin after his kids approve), and had pleaded with producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas not to kill off the Mother.
“I just spent the last three weeks with Craig and Carter begging the,” said Gerwig.
“They were working on editing while we were working on writing the new show. And I was like, “You guys, [don’t let her die].” Every time they started talking, I put my fingers in my ears.”
Gerwig also stands in favor of Ted getting together with Robin at the end, despite some debate over whether that development short-changed the series.
“It’s like, yes, I know that Annie Hall is the best ending of all time when they don’t end up together,” said Gerwig.
“But really, in my heart of heart of hearts…”
As for Barney ending up alone, Gerwig thinks that its “appropriate,” since it meant that Bays and Thomas “stayed true to who the people were,” and “never let the story they’re running get bigger than the characters they’re writing.”
Gerwig also says that HIMYD is “going to be different than [HIMYM]” because “the premise of the show is that it’s a young man looking for his true love,” which is a “very different feeling than a young woman looking for her true love.”
If what Greta Gerwig claims is true, then disappointed HIMYM fans may have something to look forward to in HIMYD.
