johntfs

I've yet to see the full episode, but honestly, I'm glad that Kamala isn't the usual deceptive child-hero sociopath. I like that lying to her friends and family is hard and painful for her so she's bad at it.

That said, they did have a small after credits scene in the first episode. Also, Pakistani-Muslim weddings are awesome and we as a world need to see more of them to bring joy into our cold, dead hearts.

The "scenic route" was a hidden tunnel. Reva probably figured that anyone going through the tunnel would be heading for the port area and got there first.

If there is a bright center of the historical accuracy universe, Matthew Reilly lives in the point furthest from. This is the same guy who had the "signature weapon" of the Special Air Service be "liquid nitrogen grenades."

We're not specifically told but probably not. Presumably in that universe and a bunch of other ones, Ultron decided to give his Vision a functional penis and testicles. Or Vision got turned into a "real boy."

Am I an asshole for wondering why Strange never asked Wanda, "I know you want your children, but do they have to be versions of those specific children? I mean, figure there's a whole bunch of cute kids right here on this world that would really like to get adopted by a loving super-witch goddess mom."

At the very end of WandaVision we see Wanda, in astral form, studying the Darkhold when she hears her children calling to her for help. So we know (or should know) that at that point the evil book is screwing with her mind and tempting her. The horrible truth is that Wanda did learn the lessons of Westview. It's why she was studying the Darkhold in the first place. She wanted to get full, conscious control of her power so something like Westview wouldn't happen again. We've talked about "What If?" Here's one. "What If Thanos obtained all six Infinity Stones and used them to become a superhero?" What "supervillain" could be any kind of challenge to "Super-Thanos?" That's the situation we have with Scarlet Witch. As of the start of the movie there's no power that can really compete with or challenge her. We see what happens to those who try ("What mouth?") In the end the only person who can stop the Scarlet Witch is herself. But even if the Scarlet Witch is truly dead, Wanda, at least a Wanda, lives on. And there's plenty of story space to explore for that character.

Well, figure if she has a supehero name Layla's time as an avatar of Taweret seems less temporary and more indefinite unless/until somebody changes their mind.

Brief? Temporary? Unless you saw something that I did not, as far as I could tell Layla will likely be on Team Taweret going forward. Layla didn't want to be Khonshu's avatar because Khonshu is an arrogant, domineering asshole of a god. Taweret is kind of the opposite of that.

So the rest of the show could happen and/or he knew that if Harrow didn't find the statue on him, he'd go after Layla and kill her too. Marc cared more about Layla than about stopping Ammit/Harrow. She was already pushing things by sneaking on the trucks with the other cultists and Harrow. Trying to get a gun would probably have gotten her found out and killed. Screw it, Taweret's a god. If she wants to grant her avatar the ability to fly that's fine by me. Whatever Adorable Hippo Goddess wants, Adorable Hippo Goddess should get. Figure two main things. First Jake seems to be considerably more vicious/violent than even Marc so figure Moon Knight Jake is likely killing those cultists is some ugly, horribly violent ways unsuitable for a PG-13 Disney+ show. Second I thought it was kind of bold to just do one more "Jake kills everybody" cut to beat Harrow. Finally, the second and third episodes, which were the ones with the most superhero action were honestly the least interesting to me. The show really took off in the final three plus the first one with Steven trying to figure out WTF was going on.

Yes, the show cleverly side-stepped Marc being Jewish by making sure to show him wearing a yarmulke outside his own home during his mother's funeral reception. The story line with Marc's mother wasn't about disrespecting Judaism, it was about respecting DID in addition to, yes, simplifying and focusing the narrative. DID is highly unlikely to be triggered by some one-time event (like getting beaten by anti-Semites). It's much more likely to arise out of an ongoing intolerable situation like physical, emotional and psychological abuse and neglect at the hands of his mother. You want to use the anti-Semite thing? Okay. Who are they? Why did they go after Marc in particular? What was it about that attack that caused Marc's DID? What happened to the anti-Semites? Are they still around? You can let something like that play out over the years and decades of a comic book's run, but the Moon Knight show has six episodes and unless you want to refocus the plot of the show on Marc fighting Neo-Nazis that broke his mind, there's probably not enough room to cram all that stuff in there. The abuse story line is cleaner and frankly smarter because it focuses the story directly onto the three people who were broken by Marc's brother's death: his mother who was consumed by grief and blame, Marc who is drowning in grief and guilt while being the target of his mother's toxic emotions and his father, who was apparently paralyzed by his love for his wife and remaing son to the point that he never got help for the former and never intervened to protect the latter. The story gives the audience a visceral, immediately understandable reason for Marc's DID: he created another (or two or more) persona(s) because he could not trust the two people closest to him, his parents, to nurture and protect him.

Would you rather women be heroes, victims and supporting ornaments only to male characters? Looking back over the MCU most of the "bad guys" have, in fact, been guys. Villainous part are generally considered to be the "fun" meatier roles. Should women be denied those roles in service to some false "female empowerment" narrative?

Just rewatched that part on Amazon and that sawback was supposed to be done by the end of Round 2. Meanwhile, throughout Round 1 the judges kept commenting that machetes needed to be thin and light, presumably because anyone using them aside from Jason Vorhees will be using them four hours on end to cut through stuff.

Did I miss something in the initial parameters? Because I thought the smiths were supposed to have the sawback put in before the end of the first round and two smiths (the finalists) didn't do that.

I suspect that Anubis is in the statue prison. The kid was really good, especially being able to do a decent British accent.

Next week is going to either be a giant mess or just a slobber-knocker of an episode. Lots to do.

Steven Grant

What date would that be and using which calendar? Gregorian? Julian? Roman? Khonshu wouldn't know those things. He only knows the night sky, so he showed them that night sky.

Not surprising. I'm a straight CiS male but Oscar Isaac as Steven does make me carefully consider the question in greater depth.

Not necessarily. If I'm a jewel thief, I don't necessarily need to know the history/legends behind whatever thingie I'm swiping. I just need to know where it is and how to defeat whatever security protects it. She probably knows some stuff but if Moon Knight somehow crossed over with The Mummy, Layla would be able to identify the Book of the Dead and find a buyer for it. Steven would be the one who'd be able to understand the spells and send Imhotep back to sleep.

Yep, if only everyone everywhere acted in a calm, compassionate, perfectly logical way all problems would be completely solved and we'd all be living in paradise.

Maybe not necessary but "Hey! I got your thingie!" while holding up said thingie is probably a better immediate distraction than "Hey, I might possibly perhaps know where your thingie is. Or not." Marc probably didn't ask out the museum girl because Marc clearly has a very different accent than Steven. It would be funny if Layla dumped Marc in favor of Steven. Hey, MCU, can we get some cloning chambers up in this bitch? Meanwhile since Marc/Steven is in Egypt and they don't have the Scarab, figure Steven/Mr. Knight will be coming out a lot more because Steven will likely be the one to have to figure out where Ammit's tomb is.

To distract the bad guys from Steven with the thing they really wanted with the expectation that she could get through to Steven to get him to summon the suit and smoke the lot of them if it came to that.

Figure there's going to be a lot more action set-pieces featuring Marc in upcoming episodes. They don't need to re-visit episode one. You could argue that Steven isn't "real" but I think it's a BS argument. With the Ammit handshake I think we have something like proof that Steven is a real soul to the point that his presence confused Ammit into retreat.

There's six episodes. I don't want to spend one of them just to see the other side of this first episode. I like the way it went with poor Steven doing his best, blacking out and finding some problems lethally solved. I also liked Hawke doing the judgement thing to Steven and then clearly being freaked out himself. And the most evil, terrifying villain in the MCU is clearly Donna, the mean gift shop boss.