And who knows, by the end, we may see Oscar Issac “standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at him!”
Oh, good, it sounds like they’re staying true to the original comics!
And today I learned that Tom Holland is British. Had no freakin’ idea.
So, Moon Knight is the first Marvel series I’ve started watching one week at a time. All the other series I’ve binged a month or two late. Not sure if that was a good decision or not. I have no clue what’s going on, but I loved every minute of it and can’t wait until next week.
I’ve been watching After Life, where Ricky Gervais plays a bumbling, depressed Brit… and Steven (“with a V!”) sounded just like him.
Even the overuse of colloquialisms like “Yeah, cheers” is a match for Gervais and the Londoners I know.
I don’t think it will be quite like that, this is Disney after all.
Isn’t that a the deleted scene from X-Men Apocalypse ?
“An accident involving a space laser and three quarters of a ton of un-popped popcorn,” definitely sounds like the origin story to a Silver Age villain.
I loved the first episode. The whole progression of the introduction was spot-on perfect.
Yes, definitely over the top, but I think that’s what the direction was going for–a female version of Peter Parker’s boss.
Yeah, I agree - that was not a case of over-the-top acting. I think she did exactly what they wanted her to, but for me it was just too much. I blame the writing there.
If you think she was an over-the-top boss, you’ve had excellent luck in your jobs. Steven is chronically late and wants to talk to museum visitors instead of doing his actual job of working in the gift shop. I assume he’s only still employed because it’s so difficult to fire someone in the UK.
Yes - Steven is a likable character, but definitely not a model employee.
which, unfortunately, takes a couple of watches of the episode to fully pull that together.
I was amused by how his bit with the poster was not his job on two levels. It’s not his job because he works the gift shop, and is not a tour guide - but even if he were a tour guide, it still wouldn’t be his job, because that’s advertising, not guiding tours. Plus the combination of cluelessness (his manager, I’m pretty sure, is just the gift shop manager - she’s not in a position to do anything about the poster, either) naivety (the posters being right doesn’t matter) and arrogance (he works in a building full of Egyptologists, but thinks he’s the first one to notice that there’s only seven gods on the poster), and his manager is really being remarkable patient with this guy, and that’s before you get to how bad he appears to be at his actual job.
I thought the first episode was brilliant. 
It’s partly because I was born and brought up in London, so I recognise many locations - but also as a student I worked menial jobs where nobody gave me any respect.
However the big reasons are two fold:
- I had (logically) almost no idea what was going on
- I felt (emotionally) that I understood everything
It was filmed in Budapest.
Aha! (And Slovenia + Jordan.as well)
The reason I mentioned London is that there’s a brief shot of a London bus (exterior and interior) and also the production cunningly represents the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London (using the Fine Arts Museum in Budapest.)
So episode two gives us a little more depth to Marc Spector, including his wife, Layla, who was mentioned in the first episode.
It’s interesting that no one can see the jackals except him, but they can see the way the physical world interacts with them, such as when they get wet or something.
I really liked the episode, and I want a Moon Knight suit. Not the caped one, but the white suit with the mask.
Arthur and his community really don’t seem that bad on the surface. I’m interested in seeing where the show is going.
I think we got some pretty good clues as to what’s going on so far. Marc and Layla were likely executed at the dig site, and he made a deal with Konshu to resurrect them both in exchange for becoming his avatar. It would explain why Konshu feels entitled to her as his avatar if Marc betrays him.
Steven is pretty clearly a new alter created out of Marc’s self-loathing - the scene with Layla basically shows that he’s an extreme and simplistic opposite; non-violent, vegan poetry fan who gets along with his mother.
Arthur Harrow seems to be doing a Rorschach. The character in Watchmen went rogue after a case went horribly wrong, and Harrow seems to have become frustrated with having to wait until after innocents have been hurt and killed to mete out Konshu’s justice. He says Konshu lies, but the truth is people flock to the one that says what they want to hear. Ammit is likely building a doomsday cult using his desire to prevent evil.
Apparently Turkey is review-bombing Moon Knight after a mention of the Armenian genocide. Of course, this is making more people aware of it, so not the best tactic.
Not as crazy about ep 2 as 1. Too much goofy chasing. Konshu’s floating head looks more silly than scary. Two jerks of gods …
But still worth sticking with.
So something happened and is happening that either or both made Steven a bit braver (see his standing up to Harrow’s storyline and willing to punch) and Marc a bit less self-loathing that the wall between is less strong and that Steve could call a Mask like version of the suite?
Does Steve’s mother exist?
I’m hoping they do something interesting with the precog would you kill baby Hitler line.