Marvel Studios - Moon Knight series

[chrisstbh]

Oscar is fabulous in this episode, but I have to ask: Who exactly is he stealing the show from? He's the main character!

The hippo.

 

[Spartan Rex]

Most well acted and written Disney plus show so far. I’d like to see a “making of..” for this series on how Oscar filmed some of these scenes with himself and his approach.
Ethan Hawke is killing it as well, also convincing as the sympathetic psychiatrist.
Now if they can just stick the landing.

 

[matticus]

Most well acted and written Disney plus show so far. I’d like to see a “making of..” for this series on how Oscar filmed some of these scenes with himself and his approach.
Ethan Hawke is killing it as well, also convincing as the sympathetic psychiatrist.
Now if they can just stick the landing.

Disney has announced that a new episode of “Marvel Studios: Assembled” based on “Moon Knight” will be coming to Disney+ on Wednesday 11th May 2022.

 

[chrisstbh]

Most well acted and written Disney plus show so far. I’d like to see a “making of..” for this series on how Oscar filmed some of these scenes with himself and his approach.
Ethan Hawke is killing it as well, also convincing as the sympathetic psychiatrist.
Now if they can just stick the landing.

Big CGI sky laser beam coming right up.

 

[Bravomite]

Did not expect that episode to be as good as it was… it actually made me feel emotions more than once. It was unsettling, I expect the same safe formula from the MCU not this. #pray4skybeamfight in the last episode for a return to normality

 

[Spartan Rex]

Big CGI sky laser beam coming right up.

What does that even mean?

So is Marc psychologically healed now?
No more Steven?
It seems unlikely but that was my take away.

 

[choombaz]

Did not expect that episode to be as good as it was… it actually made me feel emotions more than once. It was unsettling, I expect the same safe formula from the MCU not this. #pray4skybeamfight in the last episode for a return to normality

I like that it didn’t provide easy answers, it never resorted to cliches or cheap tactics and made me love Steven and Marc even more.
I’m not someone who cares about awards etc but Oscar needs serious, big time recognition for this. He could have so easily fallen into the obvious traps and he never does.
Even with that ridiculous hippo.

 

[matticus]

So is Marc psychologically healed now?
No more Steven?
It seems unlikely but that was my take away.

Marc created him to deal with the trauma. He is now balanced as of now, but it just opens the door for the Jake Lockley personality to emerge for the finale.

 

[jye4ever]

That has to be one of the best cinematic representations of a psychological exploration I have ever seen that was some deep ****.


Oscar is freaking phenomenal like no joke the dude has some incredible range he definitely brought the feels.

 

[matticus]

 

[Garlador]

Geez…. That was intense.

There was some triggering elements for my wife. It didn’t shy away from the ugly trauma. Had to have a hug session.

Oscar is acting his butt off.

 

[DEADDACK_33]

Moon Knight season finale next Wednesday and DS2 two nights later. Next week is going to be fun

 

[Bleah]

Enjoyable episode but it leaves questions and thoughts for me.

- I still feel the series as a whole is disjointed thematically and with 1 episode left, can Marvel wrap this up in a satisfying way?
- Why is Arthur showing up in this whole cognitive process? Is he somehow trying to manipulate or sabotage Marc's mind further but isn't successful?
- I thought that for the scales to balance, they needed Jake's heart because the whole persona being judged is incomplete. It should have remained unbalanced but now that it seemingly is, he's in the field of reeds. Good as dead.

 

[chrisstbh]

Enjoyable episode but it leaves questions and thoughts for me.

- I still feel the series as a whole is disjointed thematically and with 1 episode left, can Marvel wrap this up in a satisfying way?
- Why is Arthur showing up in this whole cognitive process? Is he somehow trying to manipulate or sabotage Marc's mind further but isn't successful?
- I thought that for the scales to balance, they needed Jake's heart because the whole persona being judged is incomplete. It should have remained unbalanced but now that it seemingly is, he's in the field of reeds. Good as dead.

It’s not actually Harrow, the Hippo already explained that they see it as an asylum because it’s “more easily recognisable” to them but not everyone will. It’s filled with familiar faces and Harrow is their big bad so obviously he’d be the one running the place.

 

[Spartan Rex]

Good articles:
https://toofab.com/2022/04/28/moon-...questions-need-answered-after-shocking-death/https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/moon-knight-episode-5-jake-lockley

 

[The Buffinator]

What does that even mean?

So is Marc psychologically healed now?
No more Steven?
It seems unlikely but that was my take away.

Good articles:
https://toofab.com/2022/04/28/moon-...questions-need-answered-after-shocking-death/https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/moon-knight-episode-5-jake-lockley

My take is similar to the toofab.com author's take, that Marc isn't necessarily healed but rather he'll no longer need the Steven coping mechanism to deal with the childhood traumas he endured (brother's death, mother's blaming him, etc.). I think some of Steven's characteristics/knowledge will be integrated into Marc's personality now, as those were always part of him but he'd compartmentalized them ("assigned" them to Steven as it were).

It seems they still need to deal with the Jake personality (or whoever was killing everyone without either the Marc or Steven identities' knowing or being in control). I don't know the Jake backstory in the comics but I think it would be great if they go VERY dark and it turns out that Marc's mom was (in a way) right to blame Marc for Randall's death and that JAKE was in control when that cave filled with water and he watched his brother die when he could have saved him.

 

[jye4ever]

My take is similar to the toofab.com author's take, that Marc isn't necessarily healed but rather he'll no longer need the Steven coping mechanism to deal with the childhood traumas he endured (brother's death, mother's blaming him, etc.). I think some of Steven's characteristics/knowledge will be integrated into Marc's personality now, as those were always part of him but he'd compartmentalized them ("assigned" them to Steven as it were).

It seems they still need to deal with the Jake personality (or whoever was killing everyone without either the Marc or Steven identities' knowing or being in control). I don't know the Jake backstory in the comics but I think it would be great if they go VERY dark and it turns out that Marc's mom was (in a way) right to blame Marc for Randall's death and that JAKE was in control when that cave filled with water and he watched his brother die when he could have saved him.

I was biting my nails last night thinking the same thing lol

He either let him drown with no attempt to save him or he actually drowned him

 

[The Buffinator]

I was biting my nails last night thinking the same thing lol

He either let him drown with no attempt to save him or he actually drowned him

Sick minds think alike lol...

 

[chrisstbh]

Or he just couldn't save him because he was a kid. His mother told him he was a killer so he became one.

 

[The Buffinator]

Or he just couldn't save him because he was a kid. His mother told him he was a killer so he became one.

His mother being the underlying reason for Marc's becoming a soldier/mercenary makes sense, but it doesn't tie to his and Steven's not knowing about how or why they kept "waking up" amongst a bunch of dead bodies. Maybe Jake had nothing to do with his little brother's death, but from narrative & character development standpoints I think it would be a much more interesting proposition if he did.