AAA, Season Finale - Oct 31

 Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about the AAA season finale… and what did we just watch?

On the baseline, AAA did what an MCU show (or any other instalment for that matter) does – it moved the MCU universe forwards: now, both Billy and Tommy are alive (in a manner of speaking), and Billy is going forth in order to rejoin/reconnect with his twin. Fair enough, (though I never figured out as to why Wanda v. 2.0 had to be a homosexual male – since the comics. MCU likes to twist things, so it could have made ‘Billy’ into ‘Billie’ – instead it made him Jewish. How clever, really – but we talked about this before, so let us not do it now). Where does it leave the titular character?

Ah yes, Agatha. AAA made her its’ titular character, and it made Agatha even less likeable than before. Again, it all comes down to religious values: in monotheistic faiths, (especially the Abrahamic ones), redemption of a villain is a big deal; in polytheistic faiths – not so much. Witches and witchcraft root in the latter religions, and so AAA was a polytheistic TV show, where redemption isn’t required – and so Agatha remained unapologetically evil, killing Lillia, and Sharon, and Alice – and not caring about these acts at all. Bully for her, but Disney/MCU operates in RL; it sucks, true, but it is also dominantly monotheistic still, and so leaving Agatha a main character and a villain might’ve been too much, so…

…So Disney/MCU downplayed AAA a lot – because of the above, (and the homosexuality theme too, let’s be honest), in favor of the ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ film, (and rightly so), in favor of the ‘Venom 3’ film now too – even Disney/MCU itself didn’t like AAA whatsoever all this time, and so the only reason they seemed to make it at all is to introduce several same-sex characters – Agatha and Rio, (though as Death, does Rio even have a set gender?), as well as Billy/Willy. Since this is Disney/MCU, this same-sex angle was also downplayed and did not really feature in the AAA S1 either. Disney/MCU managed to annoy both sides of the equation, put otherwise. The last time Disney achieved this was a while ago, with an attempt to reboot the Buzz Lightyear franchise – but this is another story.

For now though, this is it. Of all the Disney/MCU pieces that I have seen so far, AAA was the worst one, (for me, at any rate). See you all soon – and hopefully with a different, (preferably better), subject of discussion as well!