November 8, 2024 • 10 mins
Agatha All Along is over. Was it the best Marvel show to date? Did the finale measure up? Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Just got through watching the last two episodes of Agatha
All Along. This was the two part series finale.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Drop.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Does it still hold up? Do I still think it's
one of the best Marvel shows? All right, let's talk
about it. I know I've been a big advocate for
Agatha all along so far. I enjoyed a lot of
the episodes. It was a fun ride. There was a
lot of great things there. But I'm just gonna get
to it. These last two episodes disappointed me. Episode it
starts out with a serious tone Death approaching Alice and
(00:28):
telling her, Hey, it's your time.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's go pack it up. We're out of here.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The show continues on show and what's currently happening with
the rest of the Covenant, which is just Jen, Agatha,
and Billy at this point. And this is already where
the show starts getting a little crammed for me. They
kind of just glaze over what really happened to Lilyan
and say that she took the Salem seven with her.
What they've been building up the Salem seven from the
first episode? And you mean they tell me they just
disappear or die or get taken off screen. This can't
(00:53):
be serious, right, it just seems like we got like
a time jump or time skip that later on we
never get filled in, We never get that information back,
We never see what happened. This, of course, leads him
again into another room with another trial, and we don't
know whose trial this one is, because it's like they're
all just waking up in the morgue. But we come
to find out that Agatha is the one who bound
(01:14):
gen big surprise. There kind of suspected it after everything
that was going on, but it could have been a
shocker to some people. Of Course, jen is furious and
Billy is shocked because Agatha did something horrible once again.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
At this point, I don't know why anyone's.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Surprised, but Jenen finds a way to unbound herself with
a spell and get her powers back, in which case
she disappears. She's out of there now it's just Billy
and Agatha left. Agatha strikes a deal with her ex,
which is Death, that she'll get Billy to turn himself
over to her because he's not supposed to be around
and he'll just keep reincarnating himself, and she doesn't want
him to reincarnate Tommy, which is his brother and that's
(01:48):
his whole goal here, So Adatha kind of helps him
along in finding Tommy and also reincarnating him to some
boy's body who's dying from drowning. I'm sure this will
have big implications later. I hope they continue on this,
but for the most part, this threat is kind of
just ended here for now. Death aka Rio Filing catches
up with Agatha and she wants her dead person. It's
(02:11):
either Agatha or Billy. She was supposed to give a
Billy and she initially did it, so Death starts to
basically just whoop on her for a good five minutes.
This battle is super anti climactic. I knew they were
gonna have to face each other at some point. No,
I didn't want any secret invasion, super battle, nothing of
that level. Cgifest but I just felt it wasn't a
(02:32):
lot there in the battle.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It wasn't a lot in the fight.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
The dialogue was just very generic. It wasn't any big
revelations here. It was just a basic fight that you
would catch on like a CW show or something.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It really really was underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That wasn't until Billy showed up in full wicking costume.
I guess you can say this is a full wicking costume,
and it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But he showed up and he joined in the battle,
in which case, of course, they couldn't win is death.
Someone had to give themselves up. He decided to give
himself up after having sympathy for Agatha that he realized
Agatha planned that all along, or did she, because then
she turned herself in to be killed and Billy got free.
This whole thing happened. I still felt like, where are
they going this? Because although the fight scene and everything
(03:15):
that transpired seemed a little bit crammed and rushed, they
still man used to draw out this one scene way
too long. I mean, we had slow mot shots left
and right of just grass and just added the leg
on the ground. You could have had a lot better
use of the time. Maybe it really just brought the
show down for me a lot. So this is where
I say that the writers so far have been amazing
(03:36):
and great. But I don't know what happened here. I
don't know if it was they had to take things
out or put things in. There were rumors going around
that King might have been involved at some point. I
don't know if that's true, but it definitely feels like
something was missing here. It definitely feels like something was
taken out. I don't know what it was, but it
just feels like they're missing something.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Billy moves on.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He gets back to his room and he thinks about
everything that transpired at The Witch's Real It, starts to
look around his room and understand that everything he's seen
and did in The Witch's Road was stuffed from around
his room. He started realizing he pulled the Wanda Kaisa
so saying type of thing and just started grabbing things
from his room and manifesting them. I thought that was
pretty cool, you know. I liked things like that, little
(04:16):
callbacks and whatnot, but it still just did it hit
strongly to me. I mean, we did this in Wanda Vision,
we did this in Agatha the first episode, Like, how
many times are we going to rely on this? We
created this reality thing. I'll be honest, I'm just a
little bit over it and not too surprised by it
at this point, but that's how they chose to end
the eighth and penultimate episode. And if I wasn't binging
(04:38):
the next episode at this point, I might have still
had high hopes and expected them to finish with a
big grand finale, but of course they released them together,
which was an.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Interesting thing to do.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I guess they wanted to pair it up to end
in Halloween final episode, series and season finale, I think
at this point. And it starts out with Agatha in
the seventeen hundreds giving birth.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
To her son, Nicholas Scrat.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
One thing I could say about the eighth episode is
it kept a serious tone throughout, and this episode starts
out just intense and serious with the pregnancy and birth scene.
I was not disappointed with this scene in particular. I
was not disappointed with them having a flashback and so
what was going on. But to be honest, I felt
like this part of the show probably could have came
in the eighth episode and left all the fighting and
(05:22):
stuff in the knife. But you'll see why more as
I continue talking. Agatha ends up asking Death not to
take her son. She says she's not able to do that,
but what she can do is give her more time.
So we see throughout six years her and her son
are pulling cons on witches and taking their powers for
what reason.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Maybe I missed it, but I think she's just trying
to power herself up, maybe to save her son. I
don't know, but eventually it seems a little. Nicholas's kind
of tired of killing witches. He doesn't really understand what's
going on, and one night while they're sleep, death comes
for him.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This sets out of the off. Now I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I did have a small little slither I hope here
that Mephisto still was involved somewhere, being how they dropped
that hint back in an episode one or two. It
was it was just Rio. It was just death that
took him. I don't know if they're going to add
more to it at some point, but hey, this was
the time. We keep getting Rick rolled with this Mefisto thing.
It's like he's just a comedy joke meme at this point.
(06:18):
It's like a tease to the fans or a joke
between the fans and the creators to just drop his
name and say, ha ha ha, he's not gonna be there.
We're never going to do it, which hurt a little bit,
but I didn't have my hopes that high up. And
Agata continues on her spree of killing and taking which's powers.
I guess out of spite anger. I really don't know why.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
She continues to do this in such a malicious way.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It just seems like she was just set off and
our motivations well seemed never really was a great person
to begin with, so I guess that's just her. After
this part of the episode, which does seem a little
brighter and filmed a little different from the rest of
the show, just transfers right back into Billy in his
room and added the appearing as a ghost. They have
some words about who killed who, which is responsible for what,
(07:01):
and who's death and who's alive, And it wasn't really
that exciting. It really started to feel like Charmed or
one of the Ghostbusters episodes that weren't great. It just
didn't do much for me here and maybe some people
loved it, but I did it. I had so much
helpe for the show. I loved it. I loved the
writing going through, I loved all the build up, and
(07:23):
I kind of feel like they just dropped the ball
on a lot of things towards the end. The show
ends with Agatha and Billy saying they're teaming up and
they're gonna find Tommy. She's a ghost, like we knew
eventually she probably should be, and they walk off the
end no post credit scene. I was flipping through hoping
there was a post credit scene, hoping they'd give us
something else to hold on too, But that was just it.
(07:45):
To be honest, I enjoyed the show. I enjoyed the
lead up. There might have been one episode in the
first six seven that I didn't really like that much,
but for the most part, I enjoyed all the episodes.
The finale didn't measure up to me. It didn't measure
up at all. I feel like they dropped the ball
in a lot of things. The fight with Death was
just bland. We didn't really get to see Death be death.
(08:05):
I guess they wanted to save on the budget, so
we got Aubrey Plaza, which I don't mind, but it
would have been great to see her full deaft out
for a period of time. We got Wicked in full costume,
and we got to see his powers all cool and stuff,
but it wasn't much there either. I don't really feel
like I want to see much more from him. They
didn't tease or bring me anything that I say. Man,
(08:27):
I need to see that man. I care about him
finding Tommy and Agatha as it goes, it is cool,
but really, where are they gonna do with this? Where
are we going with this? I feel like they really
dropped the ball with the death fight. Jen's characters storyline
just kind of dissipated with no real ending here. The
Mephisto teasing and dropping was just terrible to me. You
could have left it out. I guess it was a
(08:48):
joke on us the fans. The Salem seven build up,
just to completely drop them off screen to me was
though worst thing.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I feel like maybe they.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Could have just added a whole noother episode with them
in it. These characters have so much potential. Why even
name dropped them and put them in there and these
cloaks and things. Just to completely drop that storyline?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
To me, that hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It was something that I feel like they could have
expanded on and it would have been great. It just
maybe it wasn't enough time. I don't know, but a
lot of things in this final episodes didn't really wrap
up neatly to me. The story of the fighting and
everything that was going on was kind of weak. The
Nicholas Scratch story to me, he just got taken by death.
I wish there was more there. That was kind of weak.
They kind of made it seem like Agatha had something
(09:33):
to do with it and it was a big thing
going on, and it really just wasn't. Everything just kind
of felt flat. So we did get to see Catherine
Han and Albi Plaza kissed for some reason. I guess
some people wanted to see that. Overall, this series was
on track to be in one of my favorite Marvel series,
but with this finale it dropped down significantly. I'm gonna
give a score for the whole entire series, and I'm
(09:54):
gonna say it's a six point five. It could have
been a seven or a seven point five if they
just would have ended it right, and if they would
have thrown them at Fisto even a teaser at the end,
and if they would have had to sail them seven
full fledged, if we could have had some type of
Wicke in battle with them, it could have pushed it
to an eight or eight.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Because so many good things were done during the season,
but those last two episodes were just tell me what
you guys think, drop ale like a comment. I may
be alone on this one. Some people might agree I'm
really curious to see. That's my review of added the
All Along Series finale and the whole season
Just got through watching the last two episodes of Agatha
All Along. This was the two part series finale.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Drop.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Does it still hold up? Do I still think it's
one of the best Marvel shows? All right, let's talk
about it. I know I've been a big advocate for
Agatha all along so far. I enjoyed a lot of
the episodes. It was a fun ride. There was a
lot of great things there. But I'm just gonna get
to it. These last two episodes disappointed me. Episode it
starts out with a serious tone Death approaching Alice and
(00:28):
telling her, Hey, it's your time.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Let's go pack it up. We're out of here.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
The show continues on show and what's currently happening with
the rest of the Covenant, which is just Jen, Agatha,
and Billy at this point. And this is already where
the show starts getting a little crammed for me. They
kind of just glaze over what really happened to Lilyan
and say that she took the Salem seven with her.
What they've been building up the Salem seven from the
first episode? And you mean they tell me they just
disappear or die or get taken off screen. This can't
(00:53):
be serious, right, it just seems like we got like
a time jump or time skip that later on we
never get filled in, We never get that information back,
We never see what happened. This, of course, leads him
again into another room with another trial, and we don't
know whose trial this one is, because it's like they're
all just waking up in the morgue. But we come
to find out that Agatha is the one who bound
(01:14):
gen big surprise. There kind of suspected it after everything
that was going on, but it could have been a
shocker to some people. Of Course, jen is furious and
Billy is shocked because Agatha did something horrible once again.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
At this point, I don't know why anyone's.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Surprised, but Jenen finds a way to unbound herself with
a spell and get her powers back, in which case
she disappears. She's out of there now it's just Billy
and Agatha left. Agatha strikes a deal with her ex,
which is Death, that she'll get Billy to turn himself
over to her because he's not supposed to be around
and he'll just keep reincarnating himself, and she doesn't want
him to reincarnate Tommy, which is his brother and that's
(01:48):
his whole goal here, So Adatha kind of helps him
along in finding Tommy and also reincarnating him to some
boy's body who's dying from drowning. I'm sure this will
have big implications later. I hope they continue on this,
but for the most part, this threat is kind of
just ended here for now. Death aka Rio Filing catches
up with Agatha and she wants her dead person. It's
(02:11):
either Agatha or Billy. She was supposed to give a
Billy and she initially did it, so Death starts to
basically just whoop on her for a good five minutes.
This battle is super anti climactic. I knew they were
gonna have to face each other at some point. No,
I didn't want any secret invasion, super battle, nothing of
that level. Cgifest but I just felt it wasn't a
(02:32):
lot there in the battle.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It wasn't a lot in the fight.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
The dialogue was just very generic. It wasn't any big
revelations here. It was just a basic fight that you
would catch on like a CW show or something.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It really really was underwhelming.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
That wasn't until Billy showed up in full wicking costume.
I guess you can say this is a full wicking costume,
and it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I'm not mad at it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But he showed up and he joined in the battle,
in which case, of course, they couldn't win is death.
Someone had to give themselves up. He decided to give
himself up after having sympathy for Agatha that he realized
Agatha planned that all along, or did she, because then
she turned herself in to be killed and Billy got free.
This whole thing happened. I still felt like, where are
they going this? Because although the fight scene and everything
(03:15):
that transpired seemed a little bit crammed and rushed, they
still man used to draw out this one scene way
too long. I mean, we had slow mot shots left
and right of just grass and just added the leg
on the ground. You could have had a lot better
use of the time. Maybe it really just brought the
show down for me a lot. So this is where
I say that the writers so far have been amazing
(03:36):
and great. But I don't know what happened here. I
don't know if it was they had to take things
out or put things in. There were rumors going around
that King might have been involved at some point. I
don't know if that's true, but it definitely feels like
something was missing here. It definitely feels like something was
taken out. I don't know what it was, but it
just feels like they're missing something.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Billy moves on.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He gets back to his room and he thinks about
everything that transpired at The Witch's Real It, starts to
look around his room and understand that everything he's seen
and did in The Witch's Road was stuffed from around
his room. He started realizing he pulled the Wanda Kaisa
so saying type of thing and just started grabbing things
from his room and manifesting them. I thought that was
pretty cool, you know. I liked things like that, little
(04:16):
callbacks and whatnot, but it still just did it hit
strongly to me. I mean, we did this in Wanda Vision,
we did this in Agatha the first episode, Like, how
many times are we going to rely on this? We
created this reality thing. I'll be honest, I'm just a
little bit over it and not too surprised by it
at this point, but that's how they chose to end
the eighth and penultimate episode. And if I wasn't binging
(04:38):
the next episode at this point, I might have still
had high hopes and expected them to finish with a
big grand finale, but of course they released them together,
which was an.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Interesting thing to do.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I guess they wanted to pair it up to end
in Halloween final episode, series and season finale, I think
at this point. And it starts out with Agatha in
the seventeen hundreds giving birth.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
To her son, Nicholas Scrat.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
One thing I could say about the eighth episode is
it kept a serious tone throughout, and this episode starts
out just intense and serious with the pregnancy and birth scene.
I was not disappointed with this scene in particular. I
was not disappointed with them having a flashback and so
what was going on. But to be honest, I felt
like this part of the show probably could have came
in the eighth episode and left all the fighting and
(05:22):
stuff in the knife. But you'll see why more as
I continue talking. Agatha ends up asking Death not to
take her son. She says she's not able to do that,
but what she can do is give her more time.
So we see throughout six years her and her son
are pulling cons on witches and taking their powers for
what reason.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Maybe I missed it, but I think she's just trying
to power herself up, maybe to save her son. I
don't know, but eventually it seems a little. Nicholas's kind
of tired of killing witches. He doesn't really understand what's
going on, and one night while they're sleep, death comes
for him.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
This sets out of the off. Now I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I did have a small little slither I hope here
that Mephisto still was involved somewhere, being how they dropped
that hint back in an episode one or two. It
was it was just Rio. It was just death that
took him. I don't know if they're going to add
more to it at some point, but hey, this was
the time. We keep getting Rick rolled with this Mefisto thing.
It's like he's just a comedy joke meme at this point.
(06:18):
It's like a tease to the fans or a joke
between the fans and the creators to just drop his
name and say, ha ha ha, he's not gonna be there.
We're never going to do it, which hurt a little bit,
but I didn't have my hopes that high up. And
Agata continues on her spree of killing and taking which's powers.
I guess out of spite anger. I really don't know why.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
She continues to do this in such a malicious way.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It just seems like she was just set off and
our motivations well seemed never really was a great person
to begin with, so I guess that's just her. After
this part of the episode, which does seem a little
brighter and filmed a little different from the rest of
the show, just transfers right back into Billy in his
room and added the appearing as a ghost. They have
some words about who killed who, which is responsible for what,
(07:01):
and who's death and who's alive, And it wasn't really
that exciting. It really started to feel like Charmed or
one of the Ghostbusters episodes that weren't great. It just
didn't do much for me here and maybe some people
loved it, but I did it. I had so much
helpe for the show. I loved it. I loved the
writing going through, I loved all the build up, and
(07:23):
I kind of feel like they just dropped the ball
on a lot of things towards the end. The show
ends with Agatha and Billy saying they're teaming up and
they're gonna find Tommy. She's a ghost, like we knew
eventually she probably should be, and they walk off the
end no post credit scene. I was flipping through hoping
there was a post credit scene, hoping they'd give us
something else to hold on too, But that was just it.
(07:45):
To be honest, I enjoyed the show. I enjoyed the
lead up. There might have been one episode in the
first six seven that I didn't really like that much,
but for the most part, I enjoyed all the episodes.
The finale didn't measure up to me. It didn't measure
up at all. I feel like they dropped the ball
in a lot of things. The fight with Death was
just bland. We didn't really get to see Death be death.
(08:05):
I guess they wanted to save on the budget, so
we got Aubrey Plaza, which I don't mind, but it
would have been great to see her full deaft out
for a period of time. We got Wicked in full costume,
and we got to see his powers all cool and stuff,
but it wasn't much there either. I don't really feel
like I want to see much more from him. They
didn't tease or bring me anything that I say. Man,
(08:27):
I need to see that man. I care about him
finding Tommy and Agatha as it goes, it is cool,
but really, where are they gonna do with this? Where
are we going with this? I feel like they really
dropped the ball with the death fight. Jen's characters storyline
just kind of dissipated with no real ending here. The
Mephisto teasing and dropping was just terrible to me. You
could have left it out. I guess it was a
(08:48):
joke on us the fans. The Salem seven build up,
just to completely drop them off screen to me was
though worst thing.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I feel like maybe they.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Could have just added a whole noother episode with them
in it. These characters have so much potential. Why even
name dropped them and put them in there and these
cloaks and things. Just to completely drop that storyline?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
To me, that hurt.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It was something that I feel like they could have
expanded on and it would have been great. It just
maybe it wasn't enough time. I don't know, but a
lot of things in this final episodes didn't really wrap
up neatly to me. The story of the fighting and
everything that was going on was kind of weak. The
Nicholas Scratch story to me, he just got taken by death.
I wish there was more there. That was kind of weak.
They kind of made it seem like Agatha had something
(09:33):
to do with it and it was a big thing
going on, and it really just wasn't. Everything just kind
of felt flat. So we did get to see Catherine
Han and Albi Plaza kissed for some reason. I guess
some people wanted to see that. Overall, this series was
on track to be in one of my favorite Marvel series,
but with this finale it dropped down significantly. I'm gonna
give a score for the whole entire series, and I'm
(09:54):
gonna say it's a six point five. It could have
been a seven or a seven point five if they
just would have ended it right, and if they would
have thrown them at Fisto even a teaser at the end,
and if they would have had to sail them seven
full fledged, if we could have had some type of
Wicke in battle with them, it could have pushed it
to an eight or eight.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Because so many good things were done during the season,
but those last two episodes were just tell me what
you guys think, drop ale like a comment. I may
be alone on this one. Some people might agree I'm
really curious to see. That's my review of added the
All Along Series finale and the whole season
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