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Runaways: Season 2 spoilers below.

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Well, like I said, I'm pretty sure I could be wrong, and it could just be that the inciting incident happens prior to the series, but Episode 105 is the only present-day instance we see of this occurring, then fast-forward to 211 where... Well, let's just say it's clear months have passed. Even more so by 213.

Though after doing a quick Google search, it seems like art is imitating life and we can likely ignore this. I'm onto Episode 13 now, just starting, and yeah, I know what you're talking about. I won't try to discuss this without spoiling, I'll just make this a message with spoiler alerts above and below.

When it was revealed that Leslie was pregnant, I did think, "Oh, did they add that storyline because Annie Wersching was pregnant?" Just because I happened to have been looking up when the show was being filmed (because I saw that October phone date and thought, "Surely there's no way they were filming in October," and had to check) and had seen about her pregnancy.

I've only done my notes up to the end of Episode 9, but the thing is, at the end of Episode 9, it is fairly firmly no later than January 18th. I haven't done notes for the subsequent episodes yet, but it certainly didn't seem like there was much of a gap. Maybe there's a possible gap but if there is, I doubt it could be particularly long.

Assuming there is no way for it to be later than January, I don't think that's too much a problem. It does seem like she's a few months pregnant. She's been able to hide it from people until now (she does wear a lot of loose clothing), but once she stops trying to hide it, it's reasonably pronounced. It seems like about 4 months on in Episodes 10-12.

But there's a few assumptions we can make:

DaenerysTheMadKhal58 wrote: So I've finished Runaways S2. I wanted to talk about a couple of things:

Episode 11 is set the day after episode 10, and Molly says her birthday was "yesterday", so Episode 10 occurs during Molly's birthdate (and the episode covers a single day). It's unlikely, but if we ever get Molly's birthdate we would know when exactly that episode takes place.

The next thing is the spoiler @Edward Zachary Sunrose mentioned, so if you haven't seen the whole season, please don't read below:

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There isn't anywhere I can see in the season where there could be a big time jump. All the episodes happen right after the other, so to me it seems like the season ends in late January or early February. In episode 13 Leslie looks like she's been pregnant for at least 3 months, probably more. If the baby was concieved on December 11th, that would put the episode at around March to April. So either the baby was conceived some time before S1 or it's growing faster because it's half-alien? Or maybe it's twins?

There's not really anything pointing to the baby being conceived on Dec. 11th as far as I know, not even a flashback to the episode on the recaps, so I think it should be safe. Yeah, I don't think the baby necessarily has to have been conceived after Andre's sacrifice. If the baby was conceived around late September/early October-ish, Jonah would only be 5/6 of the way between sacrifices, so maybe he was still just about capable of sleeping with Leslie. I don't think it's twins because Susan say "baby", and while she might have got it wrong, it seems that she has special knowledge about it. There's also a couple of other options, though there are some complications with them. Really, there's two options I guess, at least that I can think of. Either Jonah was capable of sleeping with Leslie in late September/early October, or it's a significantly faster gestation due to the baby being half-alien and Leslie does know it's Jonah's when she has that conversation with Frank. It's enough wiggle room I feel, they're both plausible enough.
 * As DaenerysTheMadKhal58 says, could be a faster gestation due to the baby being half-alien - which would also explain why the bump seems to become more pronounced quite fast.
 * However, her conversation with Frank suggests that she's not sure if it's Frank's or Jonah's, which would suggest it's not a faster pregnancy, otherwise she would know.
 * Although, that said, it also kind of seems like she knows it is Jonah's and is just easing Frank into the news. Or the way she answers him seems like it might even just basically be her softly telling him, "Yeah, it's not yours, it's Jonah's".
 * There is also the possibility that it's Frank's, which would put no earliest possible date on the conception.
 * However, if Leslie is unsure about whose child it is, then this is still reliant on Jonah anyway and doesn't really make a difference to the problem, because it has to be possible for her to have conceived the baby with either Jonah or Frank at about the same time. So again, it would either have to be a few months since December or we would have to assume that Jonah was capable back in September/October.
 * Also, I would assume that it will be revealed in Season 3 or whatever that the baby is half-alien. There's not much story to tell if it's just Frank's.

Runaways: Season 2 spoilers above.

For those of you who celebrate it, I hope you had a good Christmas. I'll post my Runaways: Season 2 notes now.