
SPOILER WARNING: This story accommodates principal plot particulars from Episode 8 and 9 of “Agatha All Alongside,” in the meanwhile streaming on Disney+.
Agatha Harkness, the coven-less witch, and Billy Maximoff, the son of the Scarlet Witch, reached the highest of the Witches’ Freeway throughout the two-part finale of “Agatha All Alongside” — and it little or no was as a result of it first appeared.
The episodes — titled “Adjust to Me My Pal / To Glory on the End” and “Maiden Mother Crone” — revealed the fact of how the Witches’ Freeway was created, who wrote the Ballad that conjured it into being, and what truly occurred to Agatha’s son Nicholas Scratch. Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) helped Billy (Joe Locke) discover his twin brother Tommy, Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata) discovered how her power had been certain for 100 years, and Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka Lady Dying, wound up amassing (virtually) the entire our our bodies she wished.
Nevertheless nearly none of it unfolded at face price. It appears that evidently the Witches’ Freeway isn’t precise, the Ballad means nothing, Tommy’s whereabouts keep unknown, Jennifer was fully unsuitable about who was chargeable for binding her, and Nicholas’ tragic future had nothing to do with the Darkhold or Mephisto. (Probably. Further on this later.)
The sleight-of-hand behind these revelations savvily evoked a sort of narrative witchcraft, and the way in which we depend on sorcery to uncover the fact hidden behind the veil of our expectations. Properly, some people’s expectations. If you happen to occur to’re the kind of viewer who delights in combing by the online for fan theories — or hypothesizing just a few of your private — then you definately definately’ve doable encountered some, if not all, of the twists in these remaining episodes upfront. And however “Agatha All Alongside” nonetheless dramatized them with such wit and consideration that it felt gratifying, comparatively than disappointing, to be taught these theories had been proper.
Aside from, the resolutions on this story moreover provoke a variety of intriguing questions in regards to the future for Billy, Agatha, Jennifer and Rio. Listed below are the principle highlights:
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Jennifer discovers that Agatha certain her
Whereas caught throughout the remaining trial, Jennifer learns that, comparatively than a nefarious Boston obstetrician, she was certain, by probability, by Agatha whereas she was passing by the city. Outraged, Jennifer immediately snatches a lock of Agatha’s hair and performs the unbinding ritual, which principally consists of her repeating “You preserve nothing” again and again to Agatha’s face. As quickly as she is going to get her powers once more, Jennifer disappears; the following we see her, she’s climbing out of the underside merely exterior of Westview, and flying off into places unknown.
Her future all through the MCU is fuzzy; throughout the comics, she crosses paths with Doctor Uncommon, nonetheless she don’t truly intersect with each different MCU characters of phrase other than the 2022 Disney+ explicit “Werewolf by Evening time.” Nevertheless given her affection for Billy — and her apparently cosmic reference to Agatha — Jennifer might merely pop up as soon as extra rapidly.
Billy created the Witches’ Freeway
Very like how Billy’s mother Wanda was unwittingly chargeable for fabricating the sitcom world of “WandaVision” as an answer to flee her grief, evidently Billy was so decided for an answer to find his brother Tommy that he summoned the entire thing of the Witches’ Freeway himself. All the details — the Nancy Myers seashore house, the Ouija board horror house, the fairy story fort — obtained right here from pop-culture particulars riddled spherical Billy’s impeccably tidy mattress room. To Billy’s horror, that signifies that the lethal nature of the trials, which consequence within the deaths of Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice (Ali Ahn) and Lilia (Patti LuPone), was his doing, too.
This presents some fascinating wrinkles for Billy’s future throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He truly is as extremely efficient, and as dangerous, as his mother, and the guilt he carries for the deaths of his coven (even if Agatha elements out that she killed Alice, and that Lilia chosen to die) will doable hover over how Billy chooses to coach his magic transferring forward.
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Agatha wrote the Ballad collectively together with her son
The vast majority of “Maiden Mother Crone” was spent dramatizing Agatha’s life collectively together with her son, Nicholas, throughout the 1750s. When Rio appears as Agatha is within the midst of giving begin to him, Agatha pleads for her son’s life; Rio says that all she is going to present her is further time, nonetheless she doesn’t say for a manner prolonged. For the following six years, Agatha makes use of Nicholas in her cons to steal the life-force from completely different witches, and they also write a music collectively about strolling alongside “the winding freeway” that lastly turns into “the witches’ freeway,” the place it begins to develop into a legend. Lastly, Rio takes Nicholas’ life throughout the night time time, by an unspecified sickness (by the highest, he seems sickly and has a foreboding cough). Agatha is left devastated and additional eager than ever to control completely different witches (now using the Ballad as bait) into draining their power — one different occasion of how “Agatha All Alongside” explores the “trick” in “magic trick.”
There are, nonetheless, nonetheless some unanswered questions on Nicholas. When he’s born, Agatha remarks about how she made him “from scratch” comparatively than by the use of a spell or incantation — nonetheless who fathered Nicholas, if he was fathered the least bit, stays unknown. Equally, it’s unclear whether or not or not Rio acts on her private accord or from directives by a further extremely efficient stress, like, say, Mephisto — the Marvel comics villain who seems to perpetually haunt the Maximoff family. Speaking of haunting…
Agatha provides her life to protect Billy — and to haunt him, too
Of their remaining confrontation with Rio, Billy volunteers his life to save lots of a lot of Agatha’s — and Agatha gladly accepts it, until Billy asks Agatha telepathically if that’s how Nicholas died. The memory is enough to make Agatha perceive she is going to save Billy’s life in the way in which during which she couldn’t save Nicholas’ — since Rio took him throughout the night time time, she on no account even purchased to say goodbye. She kisses Rio, falls to the underside and dies.
Nevertheless — Joyful Halloween! — she comes once more as a ghost, nonetheless unable to go on to the afterlife to face Nicholas. As a substitute, she returns to Billy, who simply isn’t solely the son she on no account had, nonetheless the companion in magic she might on no account protect.
Tommy is alive — nonetheless in a horrible life
In “Adjust to Me My Pal / To Glory on the End,” Agatha helps Billy be part of with Tommy’s spirit and place him right into a model new physique. Nevertheless not like Billy, Tommy’s new life is a harsh one: The physique he inhabits drowned in a cruel swimming pool prank, and Billy realizes in a panic that “there’s no person to love him! He’s purchased no person!” (Inside the comics, Tommy — reincarnated as Tommy Shepherd — does definitely lead an unforgiving life sooner than he reunites with Billy.)
On the end of the sequence, ghost Agatha and Billy set out into the world to go looking out Tommy, a storyline one expects is likely to be picked up each throughout the upcoming Imaginative and prescient sequence with Paul Bettany or ultimately between now and the following two “Avengers” movies — given that Tommy, a.okay.a. Velocity, is an integral part of the Youthful Avengers throughout the comics.