Recently re-watched Masters of All Time. Now aside from geeking out over Clockworkâs only other appearance (oh why must I so love a character who only appeared in the entire series for about 20 minutes tops?)âŚ
(Also heâs very frowny this episode. Must be upset that Danny just came to see him to cheat time, instead of coming over for tea or something. Clockwork, you might just need to get out a bit moreâŚ)
So, aside from that, it occurred to me to think about the lack of children Vlad and Maddie had. I decided it was probably a symptom of the loveless marriage theyâre in. I also decided it made the reset button more tolerable, because otherwise there would uncomfortable issues raised about killing alternate timeline children.
Then I got to the part where Dannyâs strapped to Maddieâs table, and noticed something.
When Danny tells her that heâs her son, sheâs merely shocked. When he adds that heâs hers and Jack Fentonâs son, she then narrows her eyes and calls him a liar.
She doesnât call him a liar until itâs plainly impossible by everything she knows, is my point. Which means that her shock, but not disbelief, at the idea of having a ghost son may have been because she lost a child in this verse.
And⌠I donât know what to do with that inference. Did Maddie have a miscarriage in this world? Or worse, did Vlad passive-aggressively bully her into an abortion? Did she get an abortion herself, deciding she didnât want to bring a child into a loveless marriage? Or was the child an attempt by both at making the marriage work by bringing a child into it, only to have it fracture further when that didnât work?
And I thought this timeline couldnât be sadderâŚ
