Moon Knight
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This is not necessarily a bad thing!
If Marvel Studios wants to make television, we should let them make television.
It should be episodic.
It should be goofy and heartbreaking all at once.
If its good enough for Peeta and Katniss, its good enough for us.
Real: Taweret, her boat, and her scales.Tomb Buster,the film that inspired Steven Grant.
Randall Roro Spectors, Wendys, and, for the moment, Marcs deaths.
Marcs dissociative identity disorderandhis relationship with Khonshu.
Not real: Putnam Medical Facility (at least not this version of it).
Stevens loving relationship with his mother.
Whats going on, basically, is this: Arthur Harrow shot Marc in the chest and he died.
That doesnt make sense, he says, because Im not dead.
Am I … am I?
(Lets hope this doesnt mean Marc actually has been dead thewholetime.
My noodle couldnt handle that.)
The work to balance the scales continues there but in the form of a more traditionalish therapy session.
Marcs really hard on himself.
A big clue that the hospital is not real, by the way?
Harrows diploma has no signature or name of the alleged institution.
Thank goodness Steven has better attention to detail than Marc.
When he finds himself opposite the bad doctor, hes not buying it for a second.
The trauma dump of an episode tells us pretty much everything there is to know about Marc Spectors past.
When he was a little boy, his brother Randall died when they were on a hike together.
His mother became depressed and abusive, blaming him for her sons death and abusing him emotionally and physically.
To cope, Marc created a brave alter named Steven whose mother loved him.
Then came the mission that resulted in the death of Laylas father and Marcs rebirth thanks to Khonshu.
Then, two months before the start of the series, Marcs mother, Wendy, died.
He went to Chicago for her shiva but couldnt bring himself to go inside.
Steven emerged again, and ever since then, Marc has had trouble controlling his dissociative identity disorder.
Thats also around the time he left Layla.
the Gates of Osiris.
The sand zombies hop onboard, and a fight breaks out.
One of them takes Marc down with them, and then Steven sacrifices himself to protect him.Noooooo!
!Au revoir to our favorite Anglophile.
All he had to do was let Steven go … which makes logical sense but still feels rude.
Whats going to happen next?
Marccan, in theory, go back to the upper world through the Gates of Osiris.
He may need to first appeal to the God of the Underworld, but its notimpossible.
Theres just one additional issue.
We have seen Osiriss Avatar on the show.
He was present at the Ennead gathering inepisode three.
His name is Selim, and hes played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner).
But the last we saw Selim, he seemed to be on Harrow and Ammits side.
Thats quite a pickle for ol Marc.
See you at the finale!
Out of Orbit
Marc mentions that his commanding officer, Bushman, hired him as a mercenary.
Raul Bushman is a Marvel Comics character and, eventually, one of Moon Knights enemies.
Putnam is also the name of the psychiatric hospital where Marc is first interned in the comics.
TheTomb Busterposter in young Marcs room has a couple of Easter eggs.
Other names, like Nicola Penny, are surely just jokes.
Is it possible we have seen Jake Lockley already and just havent realized it yet?
Isaacs accent was doing somethingdifferentin the episodes first scene with Ethan Hawke.
Plus theres blood on his face and a Band-Aid on his nose.
We dont see that in any other scene.
Isaac is certainly capable.
