It's no question that the How I Met Your Mother series finale was controversial among watchers and critics and now it seems that Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are going to please those who didn't like their original ending by putting on an alternate "happy ending" in the home video release of the final season of How I met your mother.

The finale of How I met your mother made some fans of the show feel more like they wasted time by investing themselves by watching the show from season one. Audiences spent 9 seasons watching Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) grow up and out of his childish fantasies to find the woman he was really meant for only to have her die from some unnamed illness so that, year's later, Ted could regress back to his 20s and end up with Robin (Cobie Smulders). Nevertheless, it appears there's a bit of light on the horizon.

According to Deadline, the Season 9 DVD set will include an alternate "happy" ending. Creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas had apparently contemplated a different conclusion during the run which will make its way onto the DVD as an extra. The adjusted end won't involve any additional footage, but will instead work everything they'd shot into a different turnout. Producers and 20th Century Fox TV declined to comment on any specifics but the source described this alternate conclusion as a "happy ending."

From what was presented in the finale, this means that Ted's alternate reality could go a couple of different ways. One could be that the mother still dies, but Ted considers Tracey the love of his life and remains a widower forever, which isn't very happy at all. Or, Tracey lives happily ever with Ted and their kids. Of course, those are just the two most obvious possibilities - and it'll be interesting to see what the producers consider "happy" in their alternate conclusion.