Moon Knight, new Disney Plus Marvel show

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"Eye of Horus, please"

That particular rug pull has been done a bunch of times, but this one is unusual

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for not really trying to pretend the asylum is real.

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They're really building up the mystery third persona. I hope it's not leading to some deus ex machina ending (I know there are actual gods involved, but that wouldn't make it any better).

It's upsetting me that the Egyptian god has an American accent. Otherwise, it's good.

Yeah, that's a bit naff. Like everyone in the olden times, he should have an RP English accent.

[Bad Ambassador]

I'm halfway through and not really enjoying this at all. There's so much fantasy stuff thrown at the audience from the start, with no baseline of reality. Our viewpoint character has multiple personalities, both of which have superhero alter egos, chats with an Egyptian god and is played by a great actor, yet still manages to be boring and not very likeable. The stakes are vague and uninteresting. It apparently is just a one-off, so it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier felt like a route march in a big empty circle, but this feels like the first real dud of the Disney+ series.

[Dr Rock]

I'm enjoying this quite a bit, but there's very little Moon Knight is there. In the old Hulk TV show Hulk was guaranteed to show up twice per episode.

[kalowski]

They're really building up the mystery third persona.

Do you mean a third personality "inside" Stephen/Marc? I'm sure there is.

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Do you think this personality was in the other sarcophagus in the hospital?

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[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

That's what I took that scene to mean.

[Huxleys Babkins]

Hippo Woman is my favourite new TV character since Doctor Who's Dog Man.

[Lord Mandrake]

Ep5 Is hands down the best episode of Marvel tv yet and Oscar Issac will win an Emmy, get that clipped.

[C_Larence]

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Might be misunderstanding something, but why did Steven only have pleasant memories of his mum when he was invented specifically to take the brunt of her abuse?

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[Lord Mandrake]

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Might be misunderstanding something, but why did Steven only have pleasant memories of his mum when he was invented specifically to take the brunt of her abuse?

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Can't say I fully understand the 'Alter' system but he appears to be maybe a 'gatekeeper' that just buries everything and is perhaps in denial even during the abuse. ie; "It's not my mum!"

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[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Yes, that was all rather confusing.

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I'm no psychologist, but it seems like the personalities are the wrong way around. Tough guy Marc should be the fake one, conjured up to defend the more passive and innocent Steven. The show even tells us that Steven's creation was inspired by the fearless hero of their favourite film, so why is Steven so weedy?

Also, Steven has spent a lot of the series resenting Marc's existence. It seems like it would have been more emotionally satisfying to have him finally realise how much Marc has done for him in their shared life. That could also be the moment that they balance the scales.

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[Bad Ambassador]

Very bold for the fifth episode of a six-part series to not advance the plot one iota, but instead treat reveals of the bleeding obvious as though they were great revelations.

For all the claims of how amazing and Christopher Nolany the episode was, it reminded me of nothing more than

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Life on Mars and the episode of Buffy where she's in an asylum and only thinks she's a Slayer.

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[Butchers Blind]

It did feel a bit pop psychology by numbers, but the numbers were the wrong way round.

[bakabaka]

Ep5 Is hands down the best episode of Marvel tv yet and Oscar Issac will win an Emmy, get that clipped.

I'd put series 1 and most of series 2 of Legion above it, if only because of all the clichés in Moon Knight.

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And getting the characters the wrong way round, as everyone else says, otherwise how come Steven suffers the abuse but Marc remembers it all? I assumed that the secondary character was created to protect the main one, but if one suffers physically and the other one mentally, what is the benefit?

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[Ant Farm Keyboard]

Why no crossover episode with young Captain Picard and his mother?

[Lord Mandrake]

I'd put series 1 and most of series 2 of Legion above it, if only because of all the clichés in Moon Knight.

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And getting the characters the wrong way round, as everyone else says, otherwise how come Steven suffers the abuse but Marc remembers it all? I assumed that the secondary character was created to protect the main one, but if one suffers physically and the other one mentally, what is the benefit?

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Yeah I meant the Disney ones. Legion is operating on a different level but the comparisons are inevitable.

[Lord Mandrake]

The alter confusion is probably going to be cleared up

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by Jake - whom I'm quite confident was in the episode even though it seems to have gone over most peoples heads

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[C_Larence]

Actually his third alter is Reed Richards/Mephisto

[Glebe]

I've only watched the first two episodes but it's fairly action-packed and cinematic so far.

[Dr Rock]

The last episode - was it possible to wrap everything up in some kind of satisfactory way? Yes. It was pretty fucking good.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Do he and his friend Dinosaur Man work together to foil the machinations of the evil Sky Rake?

[Dr Rock]

Make sure you watch after the credits

[elliszeroed]

Thought this was great.

Interestingly, in the comics, the different identities were originally just alias', until at some point they became alternate personalities.

Link to CBR about Moon Knight's alias' origins

[Mister Six]

Is this worth watching if I'm bored of Marvel and don't know anything about Moon Knight, but would like to watch a quality action-adventure type show?

[Dr Rock]

Watch the first episode, it's very well put together, you'll be intrigued. Then after that it starts to get weird then more weird. It's not really like any other Marvel thing.

[C_Larence]

That was shit. Glad they interrupted the action so a young girl could ask

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Layla if she was an "Egyptian superhero"

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just to make sure nobody missed how great and diverse Marvel is.

To clarify, my issue is with how clunky and shoehorned in it was, not that there is an Egyptian superhero, same as the scene in Endgame with all the female superheroes.

[Alberon]

Not bad at all, perfectly fine. But going by how badly shows like the two live action Star Treks are fucking up this isn't as easy as it looks.

There are rumblings of a second season. If there is

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the third persona has to be the antagonist. No idea how that'd work, but he has to be.

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[bakabaka]

Particularly liked the 'Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital'*

_{*Bill Sienkewicz (pronounced 'St. Kevitch') was the original Moon Knight artist who loved loonies like Moon Knight and Legion. The original mad scratchy Marvel artist.}

7/10 - Would watch second series.

[Mister Six]

Watch the first episode, it's very well put together, you'll be intrigued. Then after that it starts to get weird then more weird. It's not really like any other Marvel thing.

Cheers, I like Doom Patrol and loved Legion until it went up its own arse so this sounds promising.

[Lord Mandrake]

That was shit. Glad they interrupted the action so a young girl could ask

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Layla if she was an "Egyptian superhero"

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just to make sure nobody missed how great and diverse Marvel is.

To clarify, my issue is with how clunky and shoehorned in it was, not that there is an Egyptian superhero, same as the scene in Endgame with all the female superheroes.

Yeah maybe, I don't know how else you reveal that in such a brisk finale.

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Abdul El Fouly/The Scarlet Scarab was a villian and Egyptian nationalist in the comics. It resolved her accent at least.

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Hope they do more it was a good time and Oscar Issac was superb.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

All the punching was fun, but I'm not sure there was much actual plot in the finale. The expected thing would be that Marc and Steven learning to accept each other would give them the strength to save the day. Formulaic, maybe, but narratively satisfying. Instead, neither of them are really involved in beating Harrow. WandaVision may have ballsed things up on a thematic level, but at least the climactic fight was resolved in a clever way.