I can't rewrite this season but if it was up to me, I'd still have the Umbrellas sacrificing themselves to save the timeline and at the end we see the Umbrellas still alive, but they're all living different lives and perhaps with varied ages to show that its not their existence that caused the timeline to get fucked up, but the marigold that started everything.
The Umbrellas were always meant to exist and live, but it was the marigold that caused the timeline getting muddled and disrupted their existence. Without it, the Umbrellas (and every other kids that were created by the marigold) were able to be born and live their lifes normally like they were always meant to.
Would it still have a lot of plotholes? Yes. Would it make sense? Perhaps not but at least its better than what they implied with the ending which is very upsetting and dangerous the longer you think about it.
Btw friendly reminder that the anime cut the scene where after jumping off the sinking ship Mitchell and Hawthorne encountered James L. - the Guild's top-level's secretary that the pm killed at the end of season 1 -... Only to find out it was actually his corpse standing tall, eviscerated and filled with lemon bombs, complete with graphic depiction of his face splitting open and lemon bombs rolling off it
Ayoooo thanks for pointing that out Guardian! The flames get larger with his rise in emotional tension/rage. Bro can commit arson just by being upset 💀
They ask us, "How's it feel to be God's favorite?"
I say, "We don't know, we've never known different"
I'm seeing red, I'm seeing blood, I'm seeing visions
I'm seeing something not too far off in the distance
And the babies are dressed up in a big, big man suit
Happy, happy people happy to ignore the issue
And I know you don't wanna hear it, I know you don't wanna know
So don't worry about it, all our names will be in the vote
--I Looked the Future in the Eyes, It's Mine by Sofia Isella
"I felt like I had something that my father wanted to take from me. I had something he didn’t have, and he wanted it. I felt that way sometimes with other men later in my life. That they were trying to take something from me." - The Incest Diary
one of my worst personal habits is that whenever i get any kind of warning for horror/explicit content i always build it up in my mind as way more graphic than it actually is so when i finally check out the thing i was warned about for real i'm pretty much always like "wait that's it???"