SPOILER WARNING: This story comprises foremost plot particulars from Episode 8 and 9 of “Agatha All Alongside,” in the mean time 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 vitality had been certain for 100 years, and Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka Girl Dying, wound up amassing (virtually) the entire our our bodies she wished.
Nevertheless nearly none of it unfolded at face price. Plainly the Witches’ Freeway isn’t precise, the Ballad means nothing, Tommy’s whereabouts keep unknown, Jennifer was fully unsuitable about who was answerable for binding her, and Nicholas’ tragic future had nothing to do with the Darkhold or Mephisto. (Most certainly. Further on this later.)
The sleight-of-hand behind these revelations savvily evoked a sort of narrative witchcraft, and the best way we rely on sorcery to uncover the fact hidden behind the veil of our expectations. Properly, some people’s expectations. In the event you occur to’re the kind of viewer who delights in combing by the net for fan theories — or hypothesizing just a few of your private — then you definitely 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 various intriguing questions regarding 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 likelihood, 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 keep nothing” again and again to Agatha’s face. As quickly as she’s 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 areas 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 aside from the 2022 Disney+ specific “Werewolf by Night time time.” Nevertheless given her affection for Billy — and her apparently cosmic reference to Agatha — Jennifer could merely pop up as soon as extra shortly.
Billy created the Witches’ Freeway
Very like how Billy’s mother Wanda was unwittingly answerable for fabricating the sitcom world of “WandaVision” as an answer to flee her grief, it appears that 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 residence, the Ouija board horror residence, the fairy story fort — acquired 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 though Agatha components 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 along with her son
The vast majority of “Maiden Mother Crone” was spent dramatizing Agatha’s life collectively along 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’s going to present her is additional 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 become 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 vitality — 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 additional extremely efficient stress, like, say, Mephisto — the Marvel comics villain who seems to perpetually haunt the Maximoff family. Speaking of haunting…
Agatha gives her life to protect Billy — and to haunt him, too
Of their remaining confrontation with Rio, Billy volunteers his life to avoid wasting a number of Agatha’s — and Agatha gladly accepts it, until Billy asks Agatha telepathically if that’s how Nicholas died. The memory is adequate to make Agatha perceive she’s going to save Billy’s life in the best way by 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. In its place, she returns to Billy, who simply isn’t solely the son she on no account had, nonetheless the companion in magic she could 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 a 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 one to love him! He’s purchased no one!” (Inside the comics, Tommy — reincarnated as Tommy Shepherd — does actually 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 may be picked up each throughout the upcoming Imaginative and prescient sequence with Paul Bettany or eventually between now and the following two “Avengers” movies — provided that Tommy, a.okay.a. Velocity, is an integral part of the Youthful Avengers throughout the comics.
