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In the Name of Khonshu, I will punish you! - Moon Knight thread (MCU)

Man, I don't think there's been weird shit like this since the early episodes of Wandavision and some episodes of Loki.

And the asylum is straight from the comics too! Down to people Marc/Steven knows as patients.

I think this is the first mention of Macedonia since, like, ever, in living pop culture. Yeah sure Mr Great is there but rarely is the mention of the Macedonian empire. Did not expect Alexander thr Great as a superhero but here we are.

There's no way they coulda pull off Marc and Steven without a stupidly good actor. Marc punching Steven for kissing his (their?) wife was great, and so is the hug. And then there's Jake there in the sarcophagus.


Fav episode so far.
 
Hykal94 said:
I think this is the first mention of Macedonia since, like, ever, in living pop culture. Yeah sure Mr Great is there but rarely is the mention of the Macedonian empire. Did not expect Alexander thr Great as a superhero but here we are.
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I dunno about that. Pop culture is kind of obsessed with Alexander the Great.

Also, I can't help but nitpick: every Pharaoh of the Ptolemic Dynasty from Alexander's conquest to Cleopatra and the Roman conquest was Macedonian. So just seeing some Macedonian writing in a tomb doesn't automatically make it Alexander. Also, that's placing Ammit's banishment pretty late in Egyptian history. Alexander lived closer to the modern day than the building of the pyramids. I don't know if that was intentional on the show's part.

Good episode. Eager for more.
 
While I appreciate the emotional rollercoaster that will certainly win Oscar Isaac some acclaim, I'm still not fond when the pre-final episode is mostly turned inward, meaning the final episode needs to put in all the subplots, main plot and climatic acton all needing to be resolved in just 40 minutes. Marc still needs to escape the Field of Reeds and free Khonshu before he can even think of returning to life and fight Harrow and Ammit.

I probably would have cared more if I actually cared for Steven that I already knew to be the fake in response to trauma, so his death(?) felt more like 'Oh thank god!' then 'Oh dear god no!'.
 
I was unreasonably upset at Steven's 'death'. Oscar Isaac acting by himself like 75% of the episode is some really top tier shit. Surprised how Jake is still isn't shown, I legit thought his arrival would tip the scales.

No way they can wrap it up in 40 minutes next episode lol.
 
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Wait, next week's the finale? Huh, thought it'd go on for a bit longer.

I wonder if we'll see the third personality the Moon Knight apparently has? Only gotten hints so far, I think.
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He supposedly already showed up in this episode, the scenes where Marc is all bruised and cut and acting aggressively to Ned Flanders.
 
Yeah, I noticed that! I thought I was going crazy and thinking it was Mark!

Honestly, it's a coin flip whether Jake will make a proper appearance next episode.

e: wait just saw a tweet by the director that it wasn't Jake. could be lying, but you never know.
 
I think it makes a lot of sense for there to have been a third personality in play since the beginning.

Steven seems unlikely to have asked anyone out and Marc definitely didn't do it, and the fights where Steven and Marc black out/wakes up to masses of deaths fit too convieniently with the violence and unhinged nature he/they display with Dr. Flanders.
 
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Well, the show has concluded, and overall I feel it was pretty good. Jake showed up in the stinger!

Wonder how the story shall progress in future tv shows/movie? Presumably via Moon Knight fighting other Egyptian deity and their Avatar, at a guess.
 
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Most of it went well enough but the ending felt quite abrupt, even with the post-credits scene. (not really a spoiler tbh)
 
CallMeIsmail said:
Most of it went well enough but the ending felt quite abrupt, even with the post-credits scene. (not really a spoiler tbh)
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This episode was surprisingly short. Most of them have been 50+ minutes, this one was only 36. Would have been nice to have more of an epilogue to have a better idea of things stand with Marc, Steven and Layla at the end.
 
I loved how
it subverted the trope of "If we kill the bad guy we are as worst as he is. I rolled my eyes when Mark didn't killed Harrow/Ammit. It was so satisfying watching them get killed.
 
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The moment Khonshu said he'd free the two of them, I knew Jake was gonna be his loophole
 
This was a good episode but uh, that is probably vital to watch post credit scene in a while, like legit the episode feels incomplete without it.
 
Kaiju battle in front of the pyramids is something I wasn't expecting to see, but I'm here for it.
 
What the dear fucking Christ is Jake? Every time he comes out, people die brutally. He took a doomed fight, and flipped it in a minute. Marc? Marc's a amateur compared to the force of nature that is Jake Lockley.
 
Wheel of time said:
What the dear fucking Christ is Jake? Every time he comes out, people die brutally. He took a doomed fight, and flipped it in a minute. Marc? Marc's a amateur compared to the force of nature that is Jake Lockley.
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IIRC, people with Dissociative Identity Disorder will often manifest a "protector" alter whose job is to protect the main personality by dealing with the worst situations. Initially one could assume (if one were unfamiliar with the comics) that Stephen was the core personality and Marc the protector. But Marc is the core personality, and Jake is the protector. When the core personality is already a dangerous mercenary, how much more dangerous must the protector alter be? I've heard it suggested that Jake may have been created to absorb all of the abuse that Marc suffered as a child. It's possible that Jake has only ever known cruelty and brutality.
 
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IIRC, people with Dissociative Identity Disorder will often manifest a "protector" alter whose job is to protect the main personality by dealing with the worst situations. Initially one could assume (if one were unfamiliar with the comics) that Stephen was the core personality and Marc the protector. But Marc is the core personality, and Jake is the protector. When the core personality is already a dangerous mercenary, how much more dangerous must the protector alter be? I've heard it suggested that Jake may have been created to absorb all of the abuse that Marc suffered as a child. It's possible that Jake has only ever known cruelty and brutality.
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That doesn't explain the obscene skill at violence. Marc wishes he was as lethal as Jake is. Jake is so good, that while acting as the Avatar of Khonshu, he saved the day in seconds. They were going to lose, Marc and Steven were trapped, and Jake comes out and everyone is dead and fires are everywhere.
 
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That doesn't explain the obscene skill at violence. Marc wishes he was as lethal as Jake is. Jake is so good, that while acting as the Avatar of Khonshu, he saved the day in seconds. They were going to lose, Marc and Steven were trapped, and Jake comes out and everyone is dead and fires are everywhere.
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*shrug* It's impossible to say what happened, since we didn't see it and we don't get to see Marc/Steven ever ask Layla what she saw. The impression I get is that Jake has all of Marc's skill and zero restraint. It's also possible that he's learned to use Moon Knight powers that Marc hasn't.
 
I wonder what is gonna happen with the cult now
that Harrow is dead. But those people that Jake killed seemed to be innocents and Khonshu despite being an ass didn´t seemed like he would order innocent people killed like that.
 
Moon Knight ep 3:

Khonshu: "We need an ironclad case against the bad guy in Egyptian God court."

Also Khonshu: Goes into the court with absolutely nothing.


Man, Khonshu is a dumbass. An obstinate dumbass with no sense of subtlety.
 
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Just finished the show.

Not spoilers exactly, but people who want to avoid having expectations set for them might want to avoid what's below:

Episode 5 was freaking fantastic. Easily some of the best television I've seen in recent memory. I actually teared up ever so slightly, and that barely happens.

Episode 6 was...not a letdown, I enjoyed the ride, but in hindsight it couldn't really compare to the internal focus of "Asylum."

Others have noted how 6 feels a little rushed in its need to speedily tidy up all the plot beats. But if they had to choose between the external gods-and-monsters stuff and the internal struggle of Marc and Steven, I'm glad they went with the latter.
 
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