If I had a nickel for every time Llewellyn Watts made a discovery about his birth family during episode 15 of a season, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened 3 times.
WAIT NO YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN GET IT THO cuz when you think about it way too hard Watts having a gambling problem and losing all his money to a bad bet in 1902 is actually so interesting.
Like. Have you considered the fact that 1902 was the same year that Daniel Marks was brutally murdered? And that in all likelihood the gambling thing started when he was lost in grief after losing his little brother? After he failed to protect him?
And have you considered the fact that in the season 12 finale when John gets shot and Watts blames himself for it, his first instinct is to go to a bar and place a stupid little plinko ball on the same exact spot on the board over and over and over again? All so that he can somehow discern how much he actually has control over (and can be blamed for) and how much of what happens is just cruel, unpredictable fate... based on a children's game?? Have you considered the fact that he was literally just compulsively testing the parameters of luck? I mean, what even is gambling if not that??? I barely feel like I'm clutching at straws at all here, it's kinda crazy
That moment when you do the math and realize Mrs. Young (Mrs. Marks? weird how she has a different last name than her kids) had to have died AT LATEST when Hubert and Daniel were only seventeen.
And here I thought that story couldn't get any sadder.....
I showed my work below the cut btw if you don't believe me
The numbers I'm using:
From 10x15 Hades Hath No Fury:
"You've been living here for 5 years and you haven't looked for me?"
"Mrs. Young had died. I didn't know where to start."
From 12x07 Brother's Keeper:
"But [Nigel Baker] still lost four years of his life."
Also from 12x07 Brother's Keeper:
"The victim was this man. Daniel Marks, 20 years old."
I'm also going by the assumption that every season spans about a year which, based on the clues we've had as to what year it is throughout the series, seems fairly accurate.
Season 12 - Season 10 = 2 seasons = 2 years
4 years in season 12 - 2 years/seasons = 2 years since Daniel's murder in season 10
5 years - 2 years = 3 years between Mrs. Young having died and Daniel's murder
20 years old - 3 years = 17 years old when Mrs. Young had died
Obviously, with Hades Hath No Fury being a later episode number than Brother's Keeper, and all these numbers being estimates, it's not like it's impossible for Daniel and Hubert to have just barely turned 18 before her death. But still.... Damn. And it seems rather unlikely, given that Clarissa would've had to return to Toronto directly after her death for that to be the case.
