I saw the original last night, and while I understand why Jacques felt like he needed to edit rewrite, I frankly don't feel it was necessary and has taken away from some of the context for whatever follows and was a better joke.
1. The title "Yougenics" no longer makes sense.
2. While the "Claire can't have kids" thing did cross my mind, it was a side thought, and in no way did I believe it to be the punchline. My first and primary thought was, "Wow, what is Marten's mom doing? What the...She's a bit off her nut, isn't she. The wedding must be getting to her, bad." It sets up that Veronica is going a bit loopy at the moment.
3. The reason I don't feel the current rewrite version is as good is because it's essentially a retelling of the same joke from the break-up arc. More importantly because it's was pre-established that Veronica is like that in general, it gives us a baseline. When comparing the original version, where she's coming out swing'n for grandchildren, to the "boyfriend material" thing it seems pretty tame and not at all out there. It's that she's essentially saying "I want you and my son to have children, tonight!" that is far enough from the norm that it's comedic and give's us an idea for just how off base Veronica's feeling right now.
I realize that this is essentially me telling Jeph how to do his art, and their's been enough of that going around that I don't wanna pile on, but I mean this only as constructive criticism, nothing more. For the most part I highly respect everything Mr. Jacques has done and how far he's come, and that he has every right to tell me and every other "fan" to kindly fuck off if we don't appreciate it, but I felt that because the re-edit was made
because he was afraid of offending or hurting others I needed to speak my piece.
P.S.
WARNING, SHIPPING ACCIDENT AHEAD
Everyone seems to be either neutral or for "Maire", but where's the Clen/Svaire's? I don't know about y'all, but I wanna see Sven come back, and I feel like a relationship between those two would work for the direction of character development he's gone through. Like many others, I'm a fan of redemption stories: The Return of the Jedi, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Pinocchio. I feel like an arc where Sven takes things slow, as Claire would want to do (probably), and falls for someone who is so far from any of the previous women he'd been with is a great idea.