Almost exactly eight months ago, the ninth and final season of CBS’s "How I Met Your Mother" came to its long-awaited conclusion. As the show had promised since the very beginning of the series, the series finale finally showed Ted (Josh Radnor) meeting Tracy (Cristin Milioti), the future mother of his children. It only took 208 episodes and about twelve dozen close calls, but "How I Met Your Mother" did it, finally letting Ted and Tracy meet-cute under a yellow umbrella in the rain.
The story didn’t end there, however. Tracy, a quick montage revealed, has been dead for six years in 2030, and the true point of 2030-era Ted rambling to his increasingly bored children was to test the waters regarding their thoughts on "Aunt Robin," Ted’s longtime off-and-on love interest (Cobie Smulders) with whom Ted was apparently always meant to end up.