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Madoka's power argument is troubling. She's clearly nothing special in the power department in most of the previous timelines.
The argument that it's tied to your wish holds no water since QB clearly feels her potential in this current timeline, and the last one. I'm not even going to bother trying to argue how Mami knew Madoka's potential, other than saying it's entirely possible that Mami's comment had nothing to do with Madoka's power, and instead was a comment on her potential to being a force of justice seeking out witches to destroy, but that sounds weak even to me.
The argument that it's additive, possibly a side effect of the time loop, where the power keeps adding to itself every time Homura resets the timeline also holds no water. It'd mean everyone's power would do the same right? Or, at the very least, it'd mean Sayaka's would (the only other person who would have only been turned into a magical girl during the time frame of each time reset; Mami/Kyoko were prior to the start point of the time loop). She's already a weakling in this timeline. Should we accept that she's even weaker in the previous ones? Though I could definitely see this being a minor issue that is simply glossed over if this argument ends up being true.
It's also possible there's a difference between potential and actual power. It's possible she's been potentially ridiculous in strength in every timeline. It's just the previous one in which she actually realizes that potential. I dislike this one as well, as I'd like to think if she was capable of killing the Walpurgis in one hit in any of the timelines, she'd have done so. She seemed pretty darn serious in all of them.
I dunno. It bugs. If I had to guess, I'd go with the additive theory, even if there are issues with how it should have effected other magical girls, specifically, Sayaka. Never mind that if that's how it works, QB's race would seemingly just keep resetting time to harvest the perfect magical girls in every case.
Still, it's obvious SOMETHING is residual in this time reset. I'm pretty sure the static Madoka had concerning Homura in episode 9 is supposed to show us this. I almost thought it was to make us realize Madoka was already technically a magical girl since she'd been one in the previous timeline, than I realized that didn't work since Sayaka had been one as well, and she had to be made one again in this one (though one could argue the only thing that matters is the first timeline, where Sayaka wasn't, but Madoka was-but that has nothing to do with the theory behind Madoka's super strong potential power). So, it's possible the hints of there being residual effects from the previous timelines are, indeed, supposed to support the idea that Madoka's power is additive. Gah. We'll see.
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