However not solely do the lyrics of the track trace on the present’s Oz-ian ties, however additionally they trace at necessary plot factors we’ll doubtless see. “I stray not from the trail, I maintain its hand in mine” in all probability implies that Agatha might be straying from the trail sooner or later. The trailer exhibits Agatha having personal conversations with Aubrey Plaza’s Rio, who could possibly be influencing her to depart the others behind to assert the prize for herself.
“Primal evening giveth sight, acquainted by thy facet” appears to trace on the position that Billy Kaplan (Joe Locke) can have on this journey. Locke himself instructed Empire that his character is a “acquainted,” “an assistant to the coven.” However whether or not he’s really there to assist them or is as a substitute after the prize on the finish of the highway for himself, and probably his mom Wanda, has nonetheless but to be decided.
The Witches’ Highway was first launched within the 2016 run of Scarlet Witch comics by James Robinson and Chris Visions. On this arc, Wanda travels to the Witches’ Highway, which is a realm solely accessible to sorcerers and practitioners of magic, with the ghost of Agatha on the lookout for the supply of a illness infecting magic.
Primarily based on what we find out about Agatha All Alongside thus far, it looks as if every trial may comprise its personal separate homage, simply as every WandaVision episode paid homage to a special period of sitcoms. Between the haunting Wizard of Oz-esque “Ballad of the Witches’ Highway” written by EGOT winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (who additionally penned the track “Agatha All Alongside” from WandaVision) and the musical entrance the present obtained at D23 this final weekend, it looks as if the present is likely to be leaning into much more of a musical theme than WandaVision. (And with a legend like Patti LuPone within the solid, why wouldn’t you?)
Like WandaVision earlier than it, Agatha All Alongside appears to be like like it is going to be a novel entry into Marvel canon, filled with enjoyable Easter Eggs for each Marvel and pop-culture followers alike. Agatha’s journey down the Witches’ Highway is on the core of the collection, and it is going to be fascinating to see simply what she decides to assert if, or when, she will get to the tip of it.
