Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, and I really hate my family sometimes. This is it, no epithets, no elaborations, (my apologizes to those who want gossip – I do not feel much like gossiping at this moment), so let us move onto this week’s episode of AAA instead. Here… we do not find much improvement, as the titular character, the ex-witch Aggie-poo, already loses one member of her new coven, one missus Hart/Davis. Let us shed a tear for this fallen worthy, and… not much more, because in the greater MCU the good Mistress Sharon was not much more to begin with. Aye, Wanda treated her – in WV – as one of the NPCs’ in her sitcom-based RPG, but the greater MCU… didn’t really treat her any different.
No, indeed, hold the outrage: in WV, the character
was an occasional, albeit a recurring one, and once the WV miniseries ended, we
never saw anything else of her or of her fellow West View denizens. The way
that Wanda treated them – regardless of her own reasons, issues, and mental
state – was abominable, but AAA is not about Wanda, Wanda is off the table due
to her apparent death.
…As the ‘Dr. Strange-2’ movie showed, there are
plenty of Wanda Maximoffs in the multiverse still; some of them are actually
happy mothers (and wives?). A Wanda Maximoff may appear (reappear) in MCU
still, who knows – but what about Agatha?
In WV, Agatha inserted herself into Wanda’s RPG and
waited for the Scarlet Witch to exhaust herself mentally and physically before
bringing her superior skills and experience into play. It was a good plan, but
it failed nonetheless, and Wanda trapped the older witch in a Framework-like
reality of her own.
Framework was a part of AoS portion of the MCU,
which was more of science than of sorcery, but Framework itself was created
with the help of the Darkhold – the same Darkhold that played an important role
in both WV and ‘Dr. Strange-2’; it’s unlikely that any of AoS’ characters will
appear in AAA, but who knows, a fan crossover is always possible. More
importantly, however, that even under the spell that made her an officer of the
law and a protagonist rather than an antagonist, Agatha remained antagonizing,
petty, and selfish. When ‘The Teen’ (TT; might be Billy the Wiccan, Wanda’s gay
son, or might be Nick Scratch, Agatha’s own son in the comics, or might be yet
another MCU OC – who knows?) broke the spell and snapped Agatha back to reality
(in a manner not unlike the Framework, again), she still remained this sort of
person – and so far she doesn’t appear to be changing for the better, either.
Will Agatha change? The world of MCU, her corner of
MCU is as much Neopagan as anything, and-
-and look at the Pinocchio franchise, of all things.
(I know, of all things, but still). In the original novel, the philosophy was
Catholic Christian (and it even reflected in the original animated Disney
film), and so Pinocchio changed himself on the inside and became a better
person, (among other things). In a Soviet spinoff of the novel, (much less
known and widespread in the West, but still), the Pinocchio-counterpart remains
a puppet, but he makes the world (his world) a better place for all but the
villains. In addition, in the more recent Disney remake of the abovementioned-animated
classic, Pinocchio just accepts as to who he is and does not change at all.
Pause. So where does this leave Agatha?
The role of monotheism is downplayed in AAA, but the
fact is that regardless the bracing discussion on the definition of ‘witch’ and
‘witchcraft’, for modern people witches are descendants of the pagan/polytheistic
clergy, and their demons/devils/etc. used to be ‘pagan’ gods. As KAOS and ‘Twilight’
(recently released on Netflix) show, ‘pagan’ culture is alive and well in the
Western society. Moreover, in that culture, a person does not need to change to
be better; they already are good. In this context, Agatha doesn’t need to
change – she just needs to survive Rio, the Salem Seven, and anyone else who’ll
be gunning after her while she’s depowered, (probably not Wanda or Steven
Strange though). If that happens, she will just kill the rest of her new coven;
she will recover her power and move on to newer pastures. The end of this
miniseries. Since aside from Agatha herself we have never met any of those
characters, (Sharon doesn’t count for the abovementioned reasons), and Agatha
herself so far has a bigger reputation than anything, this still could happen –
but whom do we kidding? Agatha will become a better person despite all of the
Neopagan paraphernalia AAA the show is dressed in, and become an important part
in MCU’s next phase. If MCU does not collapse first, that is, but it probably will
not, (events in RL notwithstanding).
…In any case, I probably will not be able to review
and/or discuss the AAA episode 1x04 next week on time, so you have been warned.
Sorry about this. Real life sucks. For now, however, this is it. See you all
soon.
