stronger together

Patti Lupone

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Aubrey Plaza

Ok so I need to clear some things up with you all or at least get some things off my chest about how this show ended.

Why did Agatha have to die?

Aside from Marvels apparent love for killing witches, if you’re going to kill off your explicitly lesbian/queer main character then there better be good reason for it. How many times have we seen the same trope over and over again with no happy ending for the lesbian couple and mostly ending with one dying. It’s overdone and unless there’s a d*mn good reason to back it up then don’t do it. Now, here’s my take.

Rio said it was Agatha or Billy. We know that there are rumors that Agatha exchanged Nicholas for the darkhold and very heavy implication that there was some kind of sacrifice that she had to make that ended up losing her son (re: Billy saying “is this how Nicholas died?”). Then when we actually saw what happened it just seemed like Rio gave Nicholas 6 years to live and then the time finally came to get him and that was it - no sacrifice, no struggle. Unless I missed something. So why did Agatha have to die then? I assumed it would have been like she sacrificed Nicholas because she was going to die and she was allowed to keep living because of it or something (idk). But that would have made sense if then Rio finally tracked her down like “it’s your time”. But that didn’t seem to be the case at all.

I’ve heard people saying that it was her or Billy because Billy is wrongly inhabiting a dead body (fair - he should’ve done with Rio) and that Rio gave her the option to come with her because she was “hiding” Billy. But not in episode 1? Why did Rio spend years tracking down Agatha before Billy even came into the picture? What was her original motive for wanting to kill Agatha? It doesn’t make sense to me.

ALSO - why did Lilia use some of her last words to protect Agatha by telling her how to save her own life? Why did Billy give up some of his power to her? All of that for her to just suddenly change her mind? Like sorry but “is this how Nicholas died?” *kills herself* when we then saw that that was not even how Nicholas died??