I think it would. It would show that Kevin’s development into who he is at the end of the series mattered. He wanted to be a father with a family providing for them and what he got wasn’t that. The build up to Madison and Kevin makes more sense and feels way more natural than Kevin suddenly after six years deciding AGAIN that Sophie is the one.

If I was Sophie I’d be hella pissed with the back and forth.

Plus it seems like Madison/Kevin were the back up plan to Sophie and Kevin and that’s why I think all of her scenes are so short and clipped - they only had so much time with her to film. The actress is in another tv series. She’s barely registering as a character imo. But with Madison there would be a continuous relationship, scenes of them in each others lives for years before Kates wedding (where Sophie is miraculously on her second divorce and is still forever in love with Kevin) and certain scenes, I think filmed before Sophie’s actress became available show what was supposed to be.

I also think there would have been more time to shoot longer more meaningful scenes with Madison as the wife 1. The actress isn’t contracted to another show so they can shoot longer. 2. Madison has been front and center to Rebecca getting sick so she’s seen it from the beginning.

Being there for Kate and Kevin and how seen how it’s affected the whole family especially after so many lines in the series alluded to her being apart of the family. After Kevin blew up on her at the hospital when Kate was giving birth and her saying she wasn’t family, to her becoming pregnant by Kevin and literally being apart of the family. Hell, Randall even told her she was apart of the family and them being there for her wasn’t weird or odd when she was giving birth while waiting for Kevin. Kevin also proposed TWICE. (He doesn’t seem like the type to just do that especially S5 Kevin. Maybe S3 Kevin but not S5 Kevin.) That was emphasized way before she even got pregnant and I always found that scene to be foreshadowing and it was.

I just feel like it’s more impactful that’s she’s been there from the jump than Sophie who has been out of their lives for years and is shoved back into the family six years into Rebecca’s illness. Idk but Sophie feels like an after thought.

Even the scene where Kevin tells Madison he’s taking her off as his emergency contact seems like there’s pieces missing like it was too big of a build up to be just that conversation. Since S5 the build up of Kevison was there and obvious and suddenly there’s an Elijah and Madison accepts his proposal after six months - a man that’s barely on screen when she literally almost jumped into a wedding just months before????

Even the flash forward we got in S5 I believe where Madison tells Kevin she told him “12 times” no boys allowed was acted and shot to show how close, friendly and intimate they were with each other. The way she walked up to him is not a way a married woman with a new baby would walk up to the man who just happened to father her children and wasn’t in love with her.

There’s an obvious shift in S6 regarding Kevin/Madison and I believe for some god awful reason the writers or maybe just Dan wanted everyone watching to believe Sophie was always it.

I just don’t buy it.

At all.

Sorry if this all over the place my brain just vomited words.