Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. In addition, what about AAA? Oh, bother…
First, TT is Willy Kaplan rather than Billy
Maximoff; apparently, the spirit of Billy has merged with Willy (William) and
now the MCU Pokefusion is searching for Wanda’s other boy, i.e. Tommy. (Speed
in the comics). Such a twist, such brilliant writing!.. But, seriously, the way
that AAA has been connecting and attaching itself to WV, showing itself to be
WV’s sequel now, rather than just a spinoff, is impressive – one of the more impressive bits on this week’s
episode, ‘Familiar’. Not that the bar is very high, either, but still…
Aside from the tie-in to WV, ‘Familiar’ reveals that
– drumroll, please – MCU’s Willy/Billy is not just homosexual, but also Jewish!
Given that Judaism is treating its sexual minorities not as favorably as the
modern Western society does, this is ambiguous, and might be one of the reasons
as to why AAA isn’t being showcased by the news/media too much, unlike how WV
had been.
Willy/Billy himself is ambiguous as a character, but
this is not too new – in DC, the Penguin is sometimes shown to have Jewish
roots; Kaley Cuoco’s ‘Harley Quinn’ cartoon and the live-action ‘Gotham’ TV
series had been some of the more prominent ones. The current ‘Penguin’ TV series
does not go there too much, which is fine – it is a crime drama first, and
everything else, including the DC comic elements, second.
In Marvel,
meanwhile, we had the M.O.D.O.K. of Earth-1226, who was also Jewish, and who is
a villain too, not unlike the Penguin, (but in a different style completely).
As it was written before, (now this show ended, after a single season), does
the global Jewish community really need to have ambiguous or outright evil,
characters featuring their faith? Given the RL events in the Middle East right
now, (October 2024), probably not.
…Mind you, what is happening in the Middle East
right now has nothing to do with the post-Protestant neo-pagan Western society
of our times; it is Eastern monotheism, pure and simple: the descendants of
Abraham’s sons, the legitimate Isaac and the discarded Ismail are going to war
once again, and the West… doesn’t really want to get involved; the U.S., whose
own geopolitical interests are at stake there, probably has to do something,
but the elections-2024 are prioritized, and so it doesn’t do anything. The
other Western countries do not even try.
Is what Israel is doing in other countries, (such as
Lebanon) right and proper? Possibly not, but they do not care; their government
certainly does not. Can the other – Western – countries interfere? Quite so,
but it would cost them, and the consequences would be unpredictable as well,
and so they do not. Especially when there is money to be made off the
RF/Ukrainian conflict instead.
Back to AAA, it also… serves as a mirror of the
contemporary Western society, discussed above. The rest of Agatha’s new coven
are gone, one-way or another, (Rio does not count, she got plot armor, most
likely), but neither Willy/Billy nor Agatha herself care about it; they are
going on their journey together regardless.
One might say that TT does not care about Alice and
co. because he only wants to find Tommy. Jolly good; now re-watch the ‘Dr.
Strange 2’ movie to see how well this mindset served Wanda herself in her quest
to find her twins; now, to add insult to injury, AAA shows that at least one of
her own twins has been on the same Earth and plane of reality as she was, and
her entire mess with America Chavez wasn’t as necessary as it appeared to be. Yay.
Agatha, meanwhile, is reprising her role in WV – a witch-opportunist.
She, apparently, had buried the rest
of her new coven, and is now doing with Willy/Billy mostly the same thing that
she tried to do with his mom in WV – stringing him along while waiting to
backstab him as well. Character development for Aggie-poo? That is so funny!
Oh and we have to see Ralph Bohner again, albeit in
a flashback. MCU is really trying to tie AAA to WV. In this, they are
succeeding. What will they do with this success is another question.
For now, however, this is it. See you all soon!
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