goathorn

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1- Is Agatha really able to control her powers?

In episode 7, her not being able to control her powers is made like a whole thing, especially in regards to her relationship with her mother. When Evanora says something along the lines of “I knew your evil the moment you were born" or "I ought to have killed you the moment you left my body" or something like that, it implies that Agatha could use her powers at a very young age, complicating her childhood innocence etc, if that makes sense. All of that meaning and character depth for Agatha and her upbringing and backstory and stuff would be thrown out the window if Agatha really COULD control her powers her powers, and all that Evanora meant was that Agatha was born evil, which is just lazy and overused. However, in episode 8, Agatha is shown to be able to stop taking Billy's powers because he asks her not to take too much. You could argue that she can't control starting to take the powers but she can control stopping, which is a bit ehh.. I don't know how to describe it, it just feels messy and unnecessary. Plus, that means that she could've stopped draining Alice's power at some point in episode 7, which makes her saying that she can't control it just meaningless. I know Agatha's immortality is a big part of her character and I'm not trying to say that all of her actions should have a justifying, tragic backstory behind them or any of that stuff, just that all of that emphasis that was put on Agatha's backstory and mother and stuff in episode 7 would just go to waste if Agatha were to just have been born evil.

I understand the importance of making the audience sympathise with the character only to reveal that the character was tricking them all along, but dedicating a whole *episode* to it? Not only that but then Agatha being able to control her powers wouldn't even have gotten a proper reveal, just something that happens in episode 8 and the only importance that's put on it is the moral question of "Do we trust that Agatha will choose morality over pleasure and power?” and not the revelation that “WTF so Agatha really COULD control it that whole time?”. I think it would be really bad writing for Agatha to have been able to control her powers the whole time, or a big plothole for Agatha to have not been able to control her powers and still somehow do so in episode 8.

2- How exactly DID Agatha die in episode 8?

Some people say it was because she kissed Rio, yk the whole "kiss of death" thing, which is supported by the black stem-things sprouting from her lips across her face as she kisses Rio, but then again, if killing Rio would kill her and she knew this, does this mean that that one episode when Billy got hurt and Agatha was upset and Rio came up to her and comforted her and then Agatha tried to kiss her, Agatha was really trying to kill herself-? Not only is that just a really random thing for Agatha to do all of a sudden with the lack of build up for it but also the show just doesn't treat it like nearly as big of a deal as it would've been if that was the true intention of the scene. Plus, then that would mean that Rio massively underreacted to the action.

Other people say that it was Agatha taking Rio's power that killed her, hence her saying "You know that would kill me" in response to Rio mentioning something about Agatha taking her power in, I think, Alice's episode. But then, the way Agatha's power works is that she can only take someone's powers if they attack her with it first. Rio WASN'T using her power on Agatha then, and yet her green magic stuff appeared around them-? You could argue that Rio WAS using her powers on Agatha and was actually killing her with the KISS, which just brings us back to my first point in which I explained why the "Kiss of Death" theory makes no sense.

You could also argue that Agatha only died because Rio correctly understood that Agatha kissing her meant Agatha accepting the deal and offering herself to her, but then what was the point of the black stuff sprouting from her lips if the kiss had absolutely nothing to do with it?

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