r/PantheonShow • u/CrayZee100 • 5d ago
Question Why didn’t Maddie integrate herself into the “Happiest Ending” simulation? Spoiler
Ik that God Maddie wanted to make a simulation to save Dave and to find out how Caspian knew about how long it would take, but why didn‘t God Maddie integrate herself and Caspian into the show simulation, the happiest ending simulation, and wipe their memories of the whole simulation thing? Why did she go back to the beginning?
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u/CompassionWheel 5d ago
Maybe another Maddie will
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u/LittleBoyCutYourHair 5d ago
A version of her almost certainly did. I think a lot of times what genuinely makes us the happiest isn't what we think would make us the happiest. Something gets lost or feels off. The perspective we gain through trials and tribulations, pain and heartache, helps us appreciate what we have more and helps create that "Happiest Ending." Maddie spent millennia looking for answers, for more, probably trying to figure things out, fix things, give herself that ending. And then she realized what was really important to her and what wasn't. An eternity of loneliness, searching for a way to make it all "right" or enjoy the ride and time they had–all of it, for better or worse. Cody and Laurie could've had a happiest ending, but it wouldn't be Laurie. And maybe at some point, it wouldn't be Cody. We all dream of what a happy ending could be, but sometimes presented with it, there's a loss of depth and meaning, feeling and connection.
At least, that's how I feel when I look at why she ultimately chose what she did. I'm sure she got a glimpse of what that ending could look like, and it wasn't it. We probably didn't see it or we didn't see the version of Maddie who chose it. This is our Maddie.
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u/LuminousGrue 5d ago
Better question is why was Caspian so eager to relive his childhood of gaslighting and psychological torture destined to become a copy of temu Steve Jobs
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u/Serfixalot 5d ago
Haha yeah in like 5 seconds lol. Great ending though, one of the best in TV. I’ve watched the whole series once but the finale 100x times. So good. It’s really the whole show.
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u/INFP-Dude 5d ago
Would have been better for Caspian to challenge Maddie right then and there and convince her to go into the happy ending simulation together instead. I mean, she basically abandoned her parents and her son, just to relive her traumatic past with Caspain? I never understood that point.
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u/Serfixalot 5d ago
It think you have to see it as there are still some Maddies(millions prolly), and in this particular iteration of herself, it’s the most recent version and also the only one that comes up with the solution at the same time that Caspian protected.
She pretty much admits it when she says “Maybe that Maddie watching this… “
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u/ATinyLittleHedgehog 5d ago
She didn’t just want the outcome, she wanted the life where it all worked out.
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u/Serfixalot 5d ago
Perhaps the version of Maddie we see at the end isn’t Maddie at all, or is one of billions, one from each sphere she created. Because in the spheres she obviously tried the same tactic to get to the “new” present or past(however you want to think).
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u/oxidisedrust 5d ago
I think she will, unless the world she chose has a similar outcome. If it doesn't it's basically a grandiose suicide
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u/No-Economics-8239 5d ago
She's the immortal creator god of her own Pantheon. Asking 'why didn't she' seems to be a focus on a tiny slice of what Maddie might have done. The show is just one series of events plus two cameos of the future. The rest of her existence is potentially whatever she wants it to be. Perhaps finding her 'Happiest Ending' is exactly what she is doing.
Why is she exploring her past at all? Her very distant past, at this point. How many simulations has she already lived through before the events of the show? Who are we to decide how she should spend her immortality?