Wynterwolf

At least it looks like Disney is allowing some proactive statements, instead of pretending the racist attacks don't exist.

I suspect this might be partly related to Owen being in public around a lot of other people, and Haja being alone in an alley. I doubt that all Inquisitors have that ability (and I don't think all Jedi did either), so she might not want her co-workers to know she can do that. So maybe she uses it sparingly and in places where she isn't seen. If Haja says anything about it, who would believe him?

Google is your friend. Leia (and therefore also Luke) was 19 in ANH, and 22 three years later in ESB when the romantic relationship started between Han and Leia. Age difference is not a factor in whether a romantic relationship between two consenting adults is creepy or not, the relationship dynamic is. But I don't think that's related to this series since this Leia won't consider a romantic relationship with Han for another 12 years.

This article explains the timeline.

I'm not Jewish so I think it's more appropriate for me to link to other voices with more insight than me: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Storytellers make choices. That's their job. Those choices are always going to affect different members of the audience in different ways, I like to learn from people who have a different perspective from mine.

Exactly. Plus there was no intention here of making her "more interesting", this was just a short-hand narrative device to minimize & sidestep the inconvenient canon fact that the character is Jewish and that his faith was an integral part of his canon story in the comics. Except his DID predates him meeting Khonshu by decades so one has nothing to do with the other. His DID complicates his life in general, which includes his affiliation with Khonshu, but they are being presented here as completely separate things. All of the alters are real people, and all of them have their own experiences, that the other alters may or may not be aware of. But everything that's happened to them is real (in the context of a super hero show). This episode with it's depiction of the asylum is within the system's mind & the limbo between death and life that Tawaret inhabits, so isn't real in a physical sense, but that's separate from what the system has experienced in the 'real world'.

Unless... the way Marc's face kept changing to having a broken nose and then not was a signal that Marc and Jake were switching without it being obvious, but Steven was still somehow outside and separate from them. So you could be exactly right about Steven being accepted into the whole with the other alters, so to speak (I apologize if that's bad terminology, I'm not sure how else to say it). The mother dying seemed to change things between the alters and that was when Steven started waking up in strange places.

I suspect it's because that backstory for what caused Marc's DID is entirely made up for this show, and is completely different from the comic. They obviously didn't want to deal more than just superficially with Marc being Jewish, so they had to invent a whole new trauma for him (in the comics it was related to anti-Semitic violence. And his father, whom he had a complicated relationship with, was a Rabbi). So I doubt if they had much time to flesh out this backstory and just went with parental abuse = trauma and didn't think much deeper about it. I'm glad to see the discussion of little Marc and little Steven! That confused me too and I'm still not sure what they meant to imply there since there wasn't any hint at all that any alter other than Steven received that beating. So I'm still confused by that. Outside of the stellar acting, I think this is the first ep that has disappointed me. It felt almost like a random bottle episode when we've only got 6 eps to tell this story. I’m also just not a fan of Very Special Episodes dealing with characterization like it’s a separate thing and not part of the plot. They could have slowly revealed a lot of this throughout the other eps, then at least some of the action here could have also been used to move the plot along. But as a showcase for Oscar to shine, it was gold. But with Disney's aversion to "spoilers" it feels like they've taken that to ridiculous extremes to the point where they aren't even telling a story anymore. I feel like I'm sitting in a waiting room, looking at the interesting pictures hanging on the wall, before being let into the finale next week when all the "twists" will be revealed. The only thing I feel like I have to noodle over is why did they show that third sarcophagus last week, but then never even hint at the third alter in this ep once. At first I thought the scales were messed up because they weren't all there, but that obviously wasn't the case. So yeah, I don't know... I guess I'll just wait for next week?

Yes, he totally did. LOL. For kissing Layla. For a minute I also thought Marc had taken over their body, but then Steven started geeking out and I knew they hadn’t switched.

Yes! I did too, but like you I didn't think that would be why she'd be there. I also like this bit from that article: And it says she is sometimes thought to be Osiris' mother, which given his Avatar's role in the trial proceedings, could also be significant. And that third sarcophagus has to be I can't wait!!!

Based on what I quickly googled, I suspect your last comment likely answers your prior one. From here. And since she also seems to be associated with rebirth and rejuvenation in her association with protecting new life and children, that seems to fit. Plus she seems to be kind of the polar opposite of Ammit, so she'll probably be sympathetic to their goal. This ep was wild and I love it! The interplay between Marc and Steven is really fascinating, and I love how we are learning more about Marc as Steven does. I generally detest romantic triangles, but this is definitely not a typical triangle (understatement!!). And I could definitely see this evolving more where Steven becomes Marc's wing man, because I think deep down Steven realizes that Marc needs Layla in a way that he doesn't. And kudos to the acting from all three of them!!

Also, now that it's fairly clear that there is a third alter and that he may have killed people (without us knowing anything about the context from his POV), I can't stress enough how harmful the 'evil alter' trope is to real, actual people with DID. Abled people believing that people with mental illness are dangerous has gotten more disabled people killed that you can imagine, and abled people are astronomically more dangerous to disabled people than the other way around (but you'd never know that from news or entertainment media). Just something to please keep in mind as this plays out.

Yes, you're right. I did watch it again on a different screen and he does have it with him, but he seems to just casually hook it on his arm to get it out of the way when he reaches out to touch the man to kill him. He doesn't appear to use it they way he did previously (his own bit of theatrics maybe?). So it still seems like he might not need it to kill people, he just wants people to think he does. But we shall see...

Gold guy is based on the comics character Bertrand Crawley. It's too soon to tell if he'll be more than just a sounding board for Steven, but I suspect he will eventually.