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Maddigan's Quest was a fantasy-based television series set in a post-apocalyptic future, based on an original concept by Margaret Mahy and developed for television by Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang. The show was aired in the UK, New Zealand, the USA and Australia in early 2006, and in Russia in 2008.Early in the 22nd century, the world underwent a vast and rapid change. The tectonic plates began to shift and rapidly changed the face of the planet, becoming known as the 'Great Chaos'. As a result of these events, the population of Earth plummeted and the governments of the world collapsed. What is left is largely a Scavenger World, where slavery is not uncommon and bandits roam the roads. Only a few cities are left, and of those, fewer still have managed to maintain any kind of order.Maddigan’s Quest follows the circus troupe ‘Maddigan’s Fantasia’, who come from the city of Solis. Each year, the Fantasia leave Solis to perform and earn a living, but this year is different: they have been set the task of obtaining a new Solar Converter– the only power source in Solis– to replace the existing one, which is failing. At the centre of this quest is 14-year-old Garland, the final member of the Maddigan family line.During the Fantasia's journey, two boys and their baby sister appear from the future. They reveal that they were sent to help the Fantasia in their task; in the original timeline, the troupe was wiped out by scavenger attacks and at the Winter Solstice, the solar converter failed and a dictator known as the Nennog took control of the city, over time reducing it to a radioactive hellhole. But while the younger brother, Eden, seems to be a blessing to the performers with his ability to do magic, something's wrong with his older brother Timon- a dark secret which threatens the Fantasia, their mission, and the future of Solis itself.Sadly the show's fandom was never large, and while there are some isolated fanfics out there, it is now largely unknown. However, the show received a small boost in popularity after several cast members were reunited in Power Rangers RPM.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: In comparison to other kids' shows, which don't usually feature mind-altering drugs, child labour, sexual slavery (including a trade in children), various attempts at infanticide, and cannibalism. Of course, it's explained that the potency of said mind-altering substances is proportional to the level of imagination one has.
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Daddy's Girl
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Daddy's Girl: Lilith.
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The Witch Hunter
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The Witch Hunter
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Chekhov's Gun
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Boomer. Both his drum-beating abilities and, after Bird Boys, his ability to fly. See Greentown and every episode following "Bird Boys". His acquired wings count as Chekhov's Gun as well.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Garland and Lilith. One of the villains refers to them as "singing girl and fighting girl". Though in saying that, Garland wears dresses and can be quite feminine, but is still a tomboy in comparison to the totally girly Lilith.
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Deceased Parents Are the Best
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Deceased Parents Are the Best: Played with. Garland idolises Ferdie, sometimes to Maddie's detriment. Eden strongly believes in what his parents fought for, but Timon considers their actions idiotic, and a kind of abandonment.
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Circus Brat
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Circus Brat: Garland, Boomer and Lilith.
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Arrow Catch
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Arrow Catch: Maska's speciality.
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Immortality Immorality
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Immortality Immorality
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"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
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"I Know You're In There Somewhere" Fight: The climax of the finale between Garland and Timon, who has now fully changed into his Nennog-like form.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: especially given the Unresolved Sexual Tension.
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Stylistic Suck
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Stylistic Suck: Although Olivia Tennet sings pretty well as Lilith, the other members of Maddigan's Fantasia would rather not hear her sing.
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Hidden in Plain Sight
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Hidden in Plain Sight: After the first convoy to retrieve the Solar Converter went missing, the Fantasia were chosen because they travel from Solis every year, and so wouldn't be noticed by any spies.
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Kid from the Future
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Kids From The Future: Whether or not the siblings will survive the changes to the future is something that frequently comes up, particularly in the latter half of the series.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Lilith. Taken to Scrappy levels.
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Trapped by Gambling Debts
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Trapped by Gambling Debts: Part of the plan to frame Yves for stealing the solar converter involves making it look like he sold it in order to pay off his (admittedly very real) gambling debts.
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Evil Makes You Ugly
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Evil Makes You Ugly
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Always Second Best
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Always Second Best: Poor Boomer...
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Timon and Garland. When there was still talk of a second series, one of the fans' primary concerns was whether or not they would actually get together this time round. Belligerent Sexual Tension: Goneril and Tane.
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Timon's copy of the diary doesn't change when events begin to alter, and it's heavily implied that he and his siblings remember both timelines when they return to their own time at the end.
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Troubled Backstory Flashback
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Troubled Backstory Flashback: Timon's nightmare.
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Eden is claustrophobic and causes him great discomfort in Tunnellers where he is completely underground for most of the episode. His claustrophobia also turns up in Gramth and Witch Finder.
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Conveniently an Orphan
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Conveniently an Orphan
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Parent with New Paramour
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Parent with New Paramour: Garland does not like Yves getting closer to her mother. Timon exploits this like woah.
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Bio-Augmentation
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Bio-Augmentation: What the Nennog does to himself and Timon. Evil Makes You Ugly Immortality Immorality
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Evil Uncle
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Evil Uncle: The Nennog to Timon, Eden and Jewel.
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Face–Monster Turn
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Face–Monster Turn: Timon; it's later revealed that the Nennog injected him with his DNA before Timon and the others went to the past. The change begins some time in between Tunnellers and Off The Map, where the Nennog activates it fully, making Timon a Mole and giving him superhuman abilities. It's not pretty- although Staking the Loved One is narrowly averted, because Garland's nice like that.
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Meaningful Echo
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Meaningful Echo: The city of Newton's slogan is "Knowledge is strength." Timon reveals that Bolek becomes the Nennog's chief geneticist, thus partly responsible for his rise to power. When Timon reluctantly rescues him from the toxic waste dump which was his fort, he tells him to remember that "knowledge isn't always strength".
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Viewers Are Goldfish
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Viewers Are Goldfish: After Newton, the flashback section at the start included the fact that the Fantasia had managed to get the solar converter for several episodes. Apparently the fact that various people were fighting over it wasn't enough to let us remember it on our own.
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Unwitting Pawn
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Unwitting Pawn: Timon (see Face–Monster Turn above), although just how unwitting he is is up for debate...
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Goneril and Tane.
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Supernatural Aid
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Supernatural Aid: The Silver Girl, to Garland. Unfortunately, her invisibility to everyone else makes her something of a Cassandra.
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No One Gets Left Behind
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No One Gets Left Behind: Part of the 'Fantasia Way', invoked by a horrified Garland when Yves and Maddie suggest abandoning the sick in Plague, and again on Timon's behalf in Laketown, although he eventually convinces the others to leave him behind.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Bunging It, Hero: Garland goes back in time with Timon and Eden to try to correct the timelines so that Ferdy survives the attack on the caravan by the Road Rats. The outcome has Ferdy sacrificing himself to keep the Road Rats away from the caravan, thus dying anyway. She still does not suspect that Timon is under the Nennog's control and burns the map, thus causing significant delays in the Fantasia's journey- they go from reaching Laketown six weeks away from Solstice to five days. Nice job making it worse for the Fantasia, Garland.
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Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage: Garland agrees to marry the child of the Sultan in the episode "Off The Map" to keep the solar converter away from pirates. Thankfully, it gets subverted in the end.
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Middle Child Syndrome
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Middle Child Syndrome: Inverted- it's Timon who's jealous of Eden.
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Alternate Universe
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Alternate Universe: At the end, it is revealed that the Silver Girl is in fact Jewel, trapped between possible futures.
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Promoted to Love Interest
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Promoted to Love Interest: In the book, Nye and Byrna are twins. In the series, they're a couple.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Ferdie
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Timey-Wimey Ball
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Timey-Wimey Ball: And how. The third-to-last episode has Garland meddling with the time-streams in the attempt to save her father's life, catapulting everyone into a much darker (though not entirely hopeless) future. It also means that most of the show never actually happened, at least not in the way that we saw it unfold on-screen.
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Child Mage
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Child Mage: Eden
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong
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Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The reason why Eden and Timon came back.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: The Nennog
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Leitmotif
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Leitmotif: Several. The opening theme often reappears during an important moment in the show. Lilith's "Rainbow" song. The Tunnelers also have their own theme song. After Boomer gets his wings from the Bird Boys, he gets his own leitmotif.
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It's Personal
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It's Personal: If you're a dictatorial overlord, whatever you do, don't let Timon and Eden anywhere near your child slaves, else they might just end up toppling your regime...
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MacGuffin
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The MacGuffin: Eden's talisman. After various people spend most of the series chasing it, it's revealed to be Jewel, not the necklace.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Averted in most cases. The adults are good fighters and generally make sensible decisions (not to mention being the only ones able to drive the trucks). However, because of the Kid Heroes premise, they also have to be side-lined quite often so the kids can take centre-stage — but again, the show is quite good at finding reasons to justify this. (For example, in one episode the Fantasia has to cross a lake; the adults go in the first raft with the Solar Converter, trying to draw attention to themselves; only for Ozul and Maska to target the kids instead).
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Secret Diary: Garland's original diary was found by rebels from the future Solis, who gave it to Timon as a way of knowing how to prevent the Nennog's takeover.
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Boomer. Both his drum-beating abilities and, after Bird Boys, his ability to fly. See Greentown and every episode following "Bird Boys". His acquired wings count as Chekhov's Gun as well. Garland. She practices tightrope walking in the first episode and ends up using the wires at the top of Solis Tower to escape from Ozul and Maska.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap! / Oh, No... Not Again!: The Fantasia's reaction to whenever Lilith offers to sing. (See "Tunnellers".)
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I Cannot Self-Terminate
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I Cannot Self-Terminate: Timon to Garland, then to the Fantasia at large, after only just stopping himself from murdering Jewel. The answer's no, though Boomer seems to approve of the idea...
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Sweet Tooth
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Sweet Tooth: Lilith, again. Her love for sweets even gets her into trouble (see STRIHC above).
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Genius Bruiser
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Genius Bruiser: Bannister. Crosses with Badass Bookworm.
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Don't Split Us Up
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Don't Split Us Up: Timon and Eden risk death by plague to stay with Jewel.
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The Nicknamer
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The Nicknamer: Maska (though he's not exactly creative with it, referring to Boomer, Lilith and Garland as Annoying Boy, Singing Girl and Fighting Girl respectively). Boomer calls him Metal Man.
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Boring Return Journey
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Boring Return Journey: Averted. The Fantasia reach Newton and retrieve the Solar Converter at the mid-point of the series, and the journey home is just as strange and dangerous (if not more so).
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What The Hell, Hero?: Played with. Lilith, after getting hit with a tomato, gets upset at Garland for laughing at her. Later on, Garland saves Bolek after Timon tries to kill him, reminding Timon that he's risking Eden and Jewel's lives as well as his own.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: After being found loitering outside of a candy shop by Gramth child catchers, Lilith, being the Daddy's Girl that she is, tries to get out of capture for not having an "exemption card" by invoking the fact that her father Yves is one of the troupe's leaders. The results are quite predictable.
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Terminally Dependent Society
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Terminally Dependent Society: Played with Solis, as the city is dependent on solar energy—more specifically, the solar converter.
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Musicalis Interruptus
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Musicalis Interruptus: In the episode "Gramth", Lilith tries singing her "Rainbow" song, but gets interrupted each time. It becomes a kind of Running Gag throughout the episode as she never gets to finish her song.
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Hand Wave
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Of course, it's explained that the potency of said mind-altering substances is proportional to the level of imagination one has.
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Bad Future
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Bad Future / Crapsack World: The future Solis.
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Star-Crossed Lovers
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Garland and Timon. Saving the future means being separated from each other forever, as he returns to his time or possibly is wiped from existence all together.
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Climbing Climax
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Climbing Climax: The series ends with a confrontation at the top of Solis tower, leading to Disney Villain Deaths for Ozul and Maska.
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Promotion to Parent
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Promotion to Parent: Played straight with Timon in episode one, then averted when Goneril steps in to look after Jewel and Eden.
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20 Minutes into the Future
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20 Minutes into the Future: Newton
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Never a Self-Made Woman
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Never A Self M Ade Woman: When Maddie's authority is challenged, she backs it up on the basis that she's Ferdie's wife and Garland's mother. Garland herself repeatedly insists that she should also have authority based on the fact that she's Ferdie's daughter and 'the last true Maddigan' (Maddie is not impressed).
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Dark and Troubled Past
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Dark and Troubled Past: Timon, Eden and Jewel (although, being a baby, the latter isn't terribly affected by it). Conveniently an Orphan It's Personal: If you're a dictatorial overlord, whatever you do, don't let Timon and Eden anywhere near your child slaves, else they might just end up toppling your regime... Promotion to Parent: Played straight with Timon in episode one, then averted when Goneril steps in to look after Jewel and Eden. Troubled Backstory Flashback: Timon's nightmare.
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