*charlie*

Hear me out, imagine if Maddie had to spend the next few episodes trying to adjust to not having her voice, while processing the trauma. The doctor in that episode says she would probably not have her voice for a while. The audience has to watch as she struggles with the attack along with the pregnancy and maybe even Chimney being in the lab. The scene where she lost sight of Jee would have been far more impactful of the audience watched Maddie struggling and when Jee goes missing thing of the fucking stomach dropping moment when we believe that there is all hope lost, then shit, she's got her voice and Jee is OK, all is right with the world... then bam... lab arc.

One thing I will die on the hill off, Buck should have struggled with discovering he is a saviour baby, his whole childhood was shattered, his family lied to him... c'mon, I'm not the only one who things that one conversation with his family and a therapy session with his folks is gonna make it all ok. In my opinion, it would have been a little more realistic and more interesting watching him struggle with the weight of it throughout S4, and it comes to it's peak when the factory fire happens. Us as the audience has been watching Buck struggle with having his world completely flipped, in the factory fire we then watch as he pushes past everything. He overcomes his fears and issues, by just being Buck (and it would have been eeeevvvveeeennnn better if he cut off his parents at this point as well, just saying).