Whew! Lots of stuff to digest in this one, so if you haven't watched it, probably skip this.
So we get the first utterance of "The Scarlet Witch". We get Agatha's origin story in Salem, which may lead to New Salem from the comics. She dabbled with dark magic much like Kasillius (sp) in Dr. Strange. This dark magic is so powerful that her own coven (and mother) tried to end her. You saw the witches wither up and die, not sure if she stole their life force which allows Agatha to keep a youthful appearance. In the comics she was an Aunt May type looking person.
This episode almost sets up Agatha in a potential mentor role, except for the fact that she looks like she is going to kill her kids at the end. Agatha manipulated certain events because she wanted to find out how Wanda was doing all this amazing magic. She realized that Wanda doesn't know, then takes her on a tour of all her misery. We see the episode where the twins stare down the Stark bomb, and Agatha tells her she was using her probability magic (which is one of her big powers from the comics). She then goes to the Hydra testing site, and there we see the Mind Stone, and in the vision of the Mind Stone we see a glimpse of her future in the traditional Scarlet Witch outfit.
We see her falling in love with the Vision, and she says something about "That's not how these shows end". It'll be interesting to see if her show ends with happiness, or further tragedy (banking on the latter). We see that the Director of SWORD was setting her up, trying to get her to unwittingly power up Vision after they tried a million times to reanimate him. Then used the footage to frame her for stealing the body. Which means I was right after all (not that it matters
) that she created that version of the Vision in the Hex. When he tried to leave the Hex, it pulled him back in. Agatha confirmed that she has the power of creation (at least in the Hex) and not just manipulation, that's how she created the kids as well. With the credit scene showing the cold emotionless Vision from the comics, I'm guessing I was wrong (for now) that her kids and the created Vision being able to live in the real world. The kids and the Vision come back in the comics, so I think they can reappear somewhere down the line.
Agatha seems afraid of the Scarlet Witch because she's a "myth" and can't comprehend her power. She's the first one to realize truly how powerful SW is. I wonder if she may end up in a mentor role after this to help her harness her magical abilities like in the comics.
I was expecting some kind of proclamation that would introduce mutants to the world, unlocking their innate abilities like her innate abilities were. Agatha said without the mind stone, her abilities would have just died off, but because of the mind stone they were amplified. That might be a way to explain mutants, that people had dormant abilities that perhaps she unlocks around the world. Or perhaps it's just a nice fan moment like Fietro (was right about this not being the Fox Quiksilver as well
) and we won't get the mutant proclamation. I still think somehow we will get something like the reverse "No more mutants".
Did think it was interesting that Agatha said necromancy was off limits (or at least if something comes back, it would be gross), otherwise Scarlet Witch would have that card to play of "Oops, friend died, lemme bring them back". There need to be constraints on these beings that are too powerful.
Didn't get even a glimpse of Monica, who was confronted by Fietro at the end of the prior episode. Gotta figure she'll be involved in the fight against the reanimated Vision. It also wasn't clear about the note in the car when she left SWORD. At first I thought someone left it in her car, but it was opened which kind of implies that she was the one to open and read it. I'm guessing she got the letter from the Vision and then went to visit the site they were going to build their future on, and then her instincts kicked in to overcome the nothingness she felt and created the world for her. Once she saw Vision in the 1950s, she was like "I'm rolling with it".
Great series and will be sad to see it end next week. I think we will get future updates in the next Dr. Strange movie, but this was just top quality from start to next to finish.