Another Side of ‘Moon Knight’ Emerges in Marvel Show Season One Finale

Warning: The following review contains major spoilers for the season one finale. moon knight “Episode 6” and also Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

There is a moment in the end of the first season of Disney + / Marvel’s moon knight when good boy God Khonshu (F. Murray Abraham) tells bad girl God Ammit (Sofa Danu) in the midst of their battle, “I only punish those who have chosen evil!”.

Clearly, Khonshu forgot to mention the unsuspecting Disney+ viewers who have been lost in what is arguably Marvel’s most confusing series to date.

In that great multiverse thread that Marvel has set up between last year’s movies like Spider-Man: No Way Home and tv series Wanda Vision Y Loki, the studio has gone beyond those pristine, measured orchestral movements to pronounce Byzantine chaos when it comes to storytelling. Despite the exuberant production value of Moon Knight, With its exotic settings, gripping action, and heavy use of standards (the finale opens with Earl Grant’s sublime tune “The End (of a Rainbow)”), the story was indeed a walk between alternate realities and DID’s dissociative identity disorder. a poor man. . At times, it felt like Marvel was trying to put their own spin on it. Mr Robot, but even that was significantly smarter and more attractive.

And, yes, this labyrinthine narrative teases the coming weekend. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. While that does indeed connect, natch, to wandavision, and winks to no way home, it’s so in and out, and in and out, that you lose track of what’s right plot-wise.

And throughout all of this, where the hell is the multiverse’s newest villain, Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror? I know I know moon knight it’s not connected to the grand motif of the multiverse being established (at least at this point). But can we get some cameos from Kang? Anywhere?

Improv guru Del Close used to lecture his students to perform their comedy at the peak of their intelligence, but when Marvel plays for the 1% who really know who these comic book characters are, what hope is there, Disney, in cross these projects? beyond the faithful to a larger audience? Should doctor strange twoThe opening gross is lower than expected ($160M+ domestic, $300M WW), it’s just because the shuffle that occurs in the sequel doesn’t play out at all. As for the complexities in the Disney+/Marvel series, maybe that’s part of the streamer’s algorithm: confusing and scaring viewers to the point where they need to continually rewatch episodes.

The latest example of Marvel keeping the general population of chumps in the dark, is in the first epilogue of Doctor strange in the multiverse of madness where a female action star appears as a new superheroine colleague of Doctor Strange (We’ll let Google tell you who she is.) While these precious antics delight fans, how about Marvel, we call a duck a duck and they just tell us who the hell she is and why her cameo is so important? All it takes is a few more seconds of dialogue.

This brings us to tonight’s grabber in the coda of Moon Knight. We learn that the superhero has a third personality, in addition to Marc Spector and Steven Grant (both played by Oscar Isaac) and we see that it is Jake Lockley. Who is he? He is a gruff taxi driver (seen here tonight behind the wheel of a Rolls Royce) who is highly connected in the criminal underworld. He is just another personality that Moon Knight/Khonshu can draw from.

Essentially, the character reveal indicates that there will surely be a second season of Moon Knight.

Essentially, Khonshu wins in the season one finale. In the epilogue, we see that Ethan Hawke’s cult leader, Arthur Harrow (who has been Ammit’s avatar), is banished to the Asylum realm where Steven and Marc have been imprisoned towards the latter part of this season. Harrow, in a wheelchair, is wheeled by Harrow into the Rolls Royce. Harrow sits in the back seat where he is sitting across from Khonshu. God never had plans to take an avatar on Marc’s wife, Layla (May Calamawy), rather it seems she had Jake in her arsenal.

At the beginning of the episode, Harrow unties the alligator Goddess Ammit. All season long, Harrow has been wielding her purple stone staff, reminiscent of the destructive infinity stones we saw in Guardians of the Galaxy, and color-wise, a nod to the power of Agatha Harkness. Ammit, of course, wants to keep Khonshu in check. Khonshu appears to Layla at the tomb where Harrow is doing all his magical and fun business with Ammit. Khonshu needs an avatar, but Layla is not a possession game.

Cut to Marc standing in the fields of the golden universe, a place where Sting would feel at home. Hippo Tawaret (Antonia Salib) tells Marc that his other personality, Steven, is gone and to enjoy his peace. Marc finds Steven frozen in the desert and thaws him out. We then see Marc resurrected in the water, in the time realm of Cairo, where Khonshu and Ammit are at war. Marc and Steven retrieve the Moon Knight suit, which means there is more hope for the world. The two negotiate with Khonshu and he agrees to release them both after they suffocate Ammit. In the midst of this, Layla becomes Tauret’s avatar, becoming a winged Wonder Woman-like heroine who later fights alongside Moon Knight against Harrow. Both Marc/Steven and Layla are no match for the mighty Harrow, and there is extensive tug-of-war between the trio. Harrow strikes Moon Knight with his purple wand and tells him that if Ammit had stayed to rule, young Randall’s (Marc’s younger brother) life would have been saved and his family would have been happy.

This fight results in Harrow having the upper hand as he stands on top of Moon Knight, thrusting his purple staff into his chest. But then the superhero has a blackout. Marc comes to with the broken cane in his hands and Harrow dead. Layla and Steven/Marc take Harrow’s body to a grave to weave a spell and tie Ammit to Harrow’s body. Her chant puts Ammit back on Harrow, who warns, “You can never hold me back, I’ll never stop.” Khonshu wants Marc to kill Harrow/Ammit, but he shows mercy. “If you want them dead, do it yourself,” Marc tells Khonshu.

There is a rut where Steven/Marc wake up in the asylum, still a patient of Harrow’s psychiatrist. But somehow, the two have the mental advantage when the episode ends with Marc/Steven waking up in the latter’s flat in London; his foot still glued to the bed. All this before the events of the epilogue of the end, described above, take place.

Of course, what brought the duo back to London was Marc’s emphatic command to Khonshu: “Now set us free!”

Amen, Marc, you speak for all of us.