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I'm not really a fan of these types of episodes, where they stop the plot and use almost or the whole run time on the back story for one of the side characters. It's fine for a show with multiple seasons planned and a good number of episodes per season but for a mini series, it really feels like they're filling time where it could be better utilized to move the plot forward.
The episode itself was fine but I feel like it could have been very shortened and told as a pre-cursor to the next trial. Quickly show Billy posses William Campell's body and the sigil, we got the rest already. It feels like they're spoon feeding us info that we could have worked out in way less time. I guess another reason it annoyed me so much is because there is another show I'm watching that just did an episode like this one, also a miniseries, lol.
Yeah, the internet sucks because of people that are dicks and love to post and spoil stuff for people. That's why I don't and never did have a Twitter and I avoid Facebook and YouTube like the plague if something new comes out that I didn't get a chance to see straight away. Because I know some a-hole is gonna spoil it.
Brandon Wiesner
2024-10-19 06:18:30 +0000 UTC
Did I hear you right, about them retconning that Agatha killed the dog.
Agatha did kill the dog.
She said so in Wandavision.
Patrick - Excelsior
2024-10-19 00:15:57 +0000 UTC
This was actually a pretty good episode, but I apparently needed to watch it a second time, in watching your reaction, to fully understand or like it.
I must not have been looking at the screen when Lilia was writing on the little tablet; so I completely missed that she was the one to create the sigil and misinterpreted a lot of the rest of the episode. I thought Billy had gotten the sigil somewhere just in the course of being interest in wicca or something; and that he was intentionally using it to conceal his identity. I'm glad that wasn't the case.
I still stand by my comment on the last episode feeling like filler. So much of the plot was all over the place, just to set up the reveal at the end; which didn't seem very well connected to the rest of the episode.
The fact this episode was so much longer was good. There were even a few times I thought the episode had reached the end, only for it to keep going. At one point I thought it was wrapping up, only to see there was another 15 minutes left.
Given that this episode was longer and the last one was so short, I feel like they could have found a way to split this episode's plot across the two episodes and had a better lead up to the conclusion with Lilia, Alice all seemingly dead and the reveal of "Teen" being Billy Maximoff.
Alice, Mrs. Hart and especially Jen were really shoehorned into this episode. Lilia was worked in slightly better, given the importance of being behind the sigil, but it still felt a little convenient she was at his bar mitzvah.
My point though in my comment on the last episode, about Jen and Lilia being in a trance was, to me it didn't seem like Billy was the one controlling them, because they were coming after him; which prompted him to throw them in the tar or mud or whatever.
I don't know; I saw that episode at least two or three times, between watching it on my own and then again with the reactions; and I still couldn't follow what was happening or why. Whereas this episode eventually made more sense. No doubt I probably missed something with the last episode.
Billy and Agatha really should consider that if Agatha could pull herself out of the muck, Jen and Lilia might too...
Stargazer1682
2024-10-18 17:09:33 +0000 UTC
I apparently saw the same spoiler; couched as a "theory." Which seemed a little far fetched at the time I read it.
Then, as soon as they got on the road, I was like, "fuck, they're going to get into a car crash and one of the twins take him over... π€¦ββοΈ"
Stargazer1682
2024-10-18 16:24:37 +0000 UTC
First, i'm sorry that you got spoiled on stuff, it sucks. I have complicated feelings about this episode, I know why narratively it was needed to see Billy's backstory, but when it's only 9 episodes in a season i feel like they should have found a way to intertwine it with present things a little more, especially considering how rushed the last ep felt at times. One of my many, many reasons why i think tv shows should be no less than at least 16 episodes in a season.
Kazz (Charmed4lifekaren)
2024-10-18 07:12:48 +0000 UTC
I fully appreciate the frustration of being spoiled like that. I was watching one series and a new half-season of episodes had just come out - it was out for maybe a day, when I go onto YouTube, and in my feed was a video from Entertainment Tonight - which I don't even subscribe to - entitled " Exclusive on SPOILER's death" or something along those line, but it literally said "spoiler" - but then the thumbnail showed the picture of the person who died! Like, are you fucking kidding me??
That pissed me off. Still does.