#Alice Wu Gulliver

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Agatha All Along + text posts pt 6/?

[zombrifics]

alice wu gulliver appreciation post!!

[vampiregirlsblog]

Haha... When the tables turn.

That wasn't supposed to happen.

[prent1ssjareau]

turns out, it wasn't just Rio who checked Agatha out.

[mrs-pianofandom-98]

Agatha::What scares you the most?

Jen: law suits

Billy: Women

Lilia:The unstoppable marching of time that is slowly guiding us all towards inevitable death

Alice: Lilia.

[earthisaweirdplace]

i love them so much your honor

The coven of chaos is literally a pride flag

[incorrectquotesmcu]

Agatha: Why does everyone assume the worst of me?

Alice: It saves time.

[she1smyscar]

Y'ALL!!!! WHAT IF WE ARE GONNA GET A "Conversations at Home with Agatha All Along" LIKE WE DID WITH WANDAVISION????

[chaoticneutralgood2627]

OK, listen. So I'm absolutely sad about this. Alice deserves to live a long and happy life and I dearly wish she could've had that.

But I genuinely love the direction they went with this for Rio.

Rio is Death. She's an antagonist, as much as there is an antagonist in this show (it seems to be mostly them fighting amongst themselves and fighting themselves and their pasts, the central villain would almost be the Road itself). She's what heroes specifically try to avoid. It would have been so SO easy to just make her the cackling witch that's cold and cruel and doesn't care. Death as The Villain. And she shows up a little bit like that to Agatha.

BUT SHE DOESN'T DO THAT HERE. She collects Alice, as is her job. She's stern-adjacent, immoveable, a Fact. But she is NOT CRUEL. She gives Alice a minute to grieve the life she wanted to live, the life that she doesn't get anymore. But she never, when we see her collecting souls, forces them along or is cruel to them. She's a Fact that cannot be changed, but she's not The Villain that they could have made her.

And especially for a show about witches, that is SO important to me. Because as Lilia and the Maestra say 'Death comes for us all' and I feel like witches are so much more attuned to that. It makes me genuinely happy that she's portrayed this way. Inevitable but as kind as she can be when she's collecting souls to take to whatever is next (she's also feral as fuck, but let me appreciate this specific characterization for now)

It’s time to go. Where? 

[tremordusk]

UH WAIT THEY HAD A MEET UP?!

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!?!

[katerinadeannika]

Notes after watching the full Behind the Scenes of Agatha All Along posted on Nov 13th 2024:

There was no way they could have written an ending for Agatha that did not involve death.

I have been saying this to all the naysayers from the get-go, to all the people making posts about being done or fed up or angry about the ending, or how it makes no sense, or how they should have could have done something different and been fine story wise. The behind the scenes confirmed my point.

The main through line for the entire show was the theme of Death; of Agatha never being able to escape it. Where she both loves and hates death and Death, the concept and the woman. Where she's been running from Death for centuries, but Death came for her son and was always coming for her the second she slowed down.

Every completed trial meant someone would die. Billy created the road based off the rumors and witch lore. And the only rumors out in the witch world were that someone knew someone else's aunt/relative/friend who had undertaken the road and never returned. In reality, that was Agatha's doing. But to Billy, it meant that somehow, the Road took its toll on them. And when the coven traveled it, the Road exacted the same price that Billy expected it to. Death or near death at every trial.

The first trial killed Sharon. The second gave Alice her power back and then Billy almost died (and probably would have if Agatha hadn't pleaded with Rio on his behalf, if the coven hadn't worked together, and if Billy hadn't made the Road with his own powers. Some interesting combo of the all the above). The third trial killed Alice who was trying to save Agatha. And the fourth trial killed Lilia and the Salem Seven.

Jac said she intentionally wrote it where Death was a very real thing that everyone in the show had to come to terms with.

And for Jen Kale, her gift was already dead, and she was supposed to resurrect it and take her own power back. She escaped because after Agatha's trial, the fifth one, someone DID die.

And this time it was Agatha.

Agatha had avoided it every other time by either being saved, or having the rest of the coven as fodder for death.

But in the end, when she could have left once again, she must decide who has to pay the final price for her invention of the Road. The Road that she has used to kill and lure countless witches to their doom over the past few centuries.

She can save the boy she has come to love and mentor after the loss of her son. Or, she can leave once again. And so she makes the final moment of self sacrifice, and chooses the final victim of the Road: Herself

She has been running from Death for centuries.

For Agatha's story to have a thematic ending that wasn't cheap or manufactured, she had to stay true to that through-line. That's how writing works. You find your themes. You write about and explore them. And you have a final consequence that determines if it's a positive arc or a negative arc for your main character.

They chose for Agatha to have a positive arc. A moment of final growth. To end the show on her finally making the right decision, even at the cost of the life she's sustained through countless centuries and via countless deaths.

There was no way the show could have ended any other way.

PS: There is no excuse to hate on it. At all.

It doesn't meet any of the criteria for the 'Bury your gays' trope. It doesn't even end Agatha’s story. But it does provide expertly written, well thought out, thematically poignant endings for all the characters in a way that satisfies their personal journey—throughout the show and the centuries.

And I am so glad they made it, and that it ended how it did. I wouldn’t want it any other way. As a writer. As an editor. As a viewer. And as a lesbian.

Agatha All Along is a masterpiece in TV writing. And I can’t wait for more.

PSS: Watch the Behind the Scenes on youtube that Marvel just posted. It’s super good and includes all sorts of info to help with fic writing and just general understanding of the writing and show creation. Also lots of Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza in interviews!

TLDR: Quit complaining and griping about the ending. It was written beautifully. The reason you got so invested is because of all the heavy death elements throughout that made things mean something. Embrace it. Or find media where you were the target audience. Cause if you couldn’t handle something well written that ends like this, you weren’t the target audience. And that’s okay. But move on before you keep griping and causing issues with the community and the cast.

[ohshitfangirlalert]

Actually, I'm not capable mentally to rewatch AAA from episode 1-9. I just am not strong enough y'all. The therapy bill will be just way too high.

[countrygalbitch]

"I needed you, my coven"

By the way, since Lilia experiences the entire timeline at the same time and not linearly, she's known her coven for her whole entire life, all 450 years of it—even if she doesn't realise it until the end.

They've always been there, because the flow of time is an illusion. They've always been with her. And as she reads her tarot spread, she realises it.

They're her family.

They always have been.

The gaps finally filled it.

She didn't die in a fake reality to save a group she'd known for 24 hours.

She died to save a group whose presence she's felt in her heart for hundreds of years.

Whose presence she lacked, like a memory she couldn't grasp. Nostalgia she couldn't quite place anywhere. Nostalgia for something you've never even had.

Because she had them.

In the future—she always had them.

And she was always going to protect them.

And even in death—

She's still with them.

Still fighting to protect them.

[appropriatelystupid]

[bestwitchsam]

#AgathaAllAlong coven had a reunion on Zoom. X2

[yeetthebottle]

”Agatha is so evil” SHE IS LITERALLY THE PERSONIFICATION OF HEARTBREAK!!! YOU’D TURN OUT A LIL SHITTY AS WELL!!!