Cristin Milioti — who was recently introduced this season as the titular mother on “HIMYM” — won’t be playing role in the new series.
“I almost wish we could use her. She’s good enough to do it, she’s good enough to carry a series,” Thomas said. “But the thing that’s most important to us is that ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has its own ending, and then that’s it. April 28 at 9 p.m. is the end of ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ that’s the end of the story. It’s contained, it’s done. And then in the fall, if we succeed with the spinoff, we will have to make our case to the audience in a whole new way, with a whole new world, with whole new characters. And that feels right; we want to honor ‘How I Met Your Mother’ with the cleanest ending possible. And then, should [the spinoff] go forward, that will have to earn the love again in a new way and just be its own charming, different thing.”
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“Beyond just changing one word in the title, there is a twist and it makes it a totally different show,” Bays added.
As for the upcoming 200th episode, the pair was reluctant to divulge specifics, but Thomas promised that it will be “unlike any we’ve done before.”
“I think one of the proudest things of Season 9 and especially the 200th episode is that it’s an episode unlike any we’ve ever done before, in a season unlike any we’ve ever done before,” Thomas said. “It’s a new trick we’re showing, a new trick in episode 200 that we ever could have done in any other season. And to me, more than anything else, episode 200 is why we did Season 9. If you could epitomize it in one 21-minute capsule, this is why we did Season 9, and you’ll see what I mean when you see it.”
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“I almost wish we could use her. She’s good enough to do it, she’s good enough to carry a series,” Thomas said. “But the thing that’s most important to us is that ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has its own ending, and then that’s it. April 28 at 9 p.m. is the end of ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ that’s the end of the story. It’s contained, it’s done. And then in the fall, if we succeed with the spinoff, we will have to make our case to the audience in a whole new way, with a whole new world, with whole new characters. And that feels right; we want to honor ‘How I Met Your Mother’ with the cleanest ending possible. And then, should [the spinoff] go forward, that will have to earn the love again in a new way and just be its own charming, different thing.”
Also read: CBS Orders Pilot From ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Producer
“Beyond just changing one word in the title, there is a twist and it makes it a totally different show,” Bays added.
As for the upcoming 200th episode, the pair was reluctant to divulge specifics, but Thomas promised that it will be “unlike any we’ve done before.”
“I think one of the proudest things of Season 9 and especially the 200th episode is that it’s an episode unlike any we’ve ever done before, in a season unlike any we’ve ever done before,” Thomas said. “It’s a new trick we’re showing, a new trick in episode 200 that we ever could have done in any other season. And to me, more than anything else, episode 200 is why we did Season 9. If you could epitomize it in one 21-minute capsule, this is why we did Season 9, and you’ll see what I mean when you see it.”
Read more at TheWrap Online
