#we're the ones who get to question whether he's billy or nicholas
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aparticularbandit · 29 days ago
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Also like - to talk about the brilliance of Jac's writing here.
Jac knew we, the viewers, who found casting calls and are up on our Marvel lore, would know Teen was Billy. Like - it was brought up in interviews, and they avoided it, but we KNEW he was Billy. We knew!
So Jac had the mammoth task of telling a story where she could Red Herring Teen into potentially being someone else enough that even though we knew he was Billy, we might also think he was Nicholas.
I've mentioned this before as masterful storytelling and interacting with fan expectations.
But Jac goes a step farther by having our main character, Agatha herself, going through this same problem. She doesn't know he's Billy, but she knows he can't be Nicholas, he can't be her son. But there's enough there for her to hope that he might be hers, only to be hit firmly with what she already knew.
Jac isn't just playing with fan expectations. She's using them to take fans on the same exact journey that Agatha herself is on.
And that is fantastic.
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