This episode of Agatha all along, was a lot to take in, I mean not just emotionally, but also in terms of what the concept of time means in the MCU.
If we cast our mind back to Endgame, we will remember that one scene where Thor and Rocket go back in time along with all the other Avengers, in order to conduct the time-heist, During the heist, Thor meets his mother who by that point in his life he had lost.
Frigga told Thor that she was raised by witches, she sees with more than eyes, and then goes on to identifying him as his future self.
And then in Loki season 2, we see Loki slip through time in the TVA, and while yes, that was partly caused by Kang, or at least weaponized by him, whether it was caused by him is debatable, but the fact remains that Loki was doing it on his own, and Kang was using a Tempad to do the same.
So it would seem that Loki, was trained in the ways of the witches by Frigga and his ability to timeslip is a witch ability, although it does seem that witches are born and not trained, as is implied by this line in WandaVision
Now, on the one hand this means that at least one witch is Forged, the way it is said also implies that witches being Forged or made is at the very least, a highly uncommon and unusual occurrence.
So it would seem that Loki is in part at least a Divination witch who sees time out of order just Like Lilia does, except in Loki's case he was able to control it in a very short span of time after learning he even had the ability.
I would also like to mention that it seems that going through the Tempad door of he who remains into the wrong point of a TVA at a point in time that the universe is Branching seems to be the reason behind why Loki began to timeslip, because of his weird position in time. It is like it awakened a Latent ability in him.
And so we come ton Lillia Calderu, the Divination witch whose consciousness slips through time all the time(HAHA) and we get the most meaningful and revealing episode ever.
Even though on its surface it is very simple and still sticks to the Formula of this series.
We go to the next Trial, we learn a little about whoever's Trial it is, i.e. their backstory, and the person is forced to confront some demon of the past, all the while the back drop is some decade's classic horror story.
And the story is basically: Billy and Agatha make it to the next Trial, Lillia and Jen make their way from under the swamp, choosing to not take the way out of the Witches road, and do a tarot card reading to progress.
But that is the Genius of this show, see overly complicated plots, hard to understand concepts only serve to complicate something, turning the audience off, however, too simplistic is predictable and therefore boring, a good story takes a simplistic story and adds weight to it, like this one does.
Anyone can understand the Heroes journey, but it is the Details, the characters that give it meaning and connect the Audience to it.
The episode does a very good job of connecting us to Lillia Calderu before giving her the most meaningful death possible, sacrificing herself to save her Coven.
And it also... tells us the most interesting revelation.
Something which those of us who saw the toy leaks already knew, but it is good to make it official innit.
The path forward for Lillia
The first Green Witch.
Rio Vidal.
Is Death.
or should I say mistress Death, as she is known in the comics.
Ah yes, the sexy skeleton woman who manipulates Comic Thanos into loving her so that he would kill half the Universe for her, yeah, Comic Thanos was just a Nihilist who was in Love with Death, quite literally, and he did all of it to woo her.
However it seems Death like any woman only wants someone who really wants her, others are just playthings to her.
And who wants to die more than our very own Merc with a Mouth, specifically cause his life sucks and he can never Die, thanks to an amazing healing factor and a curse done by a very jealous Thanos, Deadpool.
Yeah she is a whole thing in the Comics, I am surprised they didn't do her sooner, considering the end credits scene of the Avengers 2012 had the other mention Thanos Courting Death.
But she is here now, the Toy leaks win again.
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