Showing posts with label Moon Knight (Disney). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon Knight (Disney). Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 6


6. Gods and Monsters
Harrow retrieves Ammit’s ushabti from Marc’s corpse and frees the goddess. Layla pursues them on her own and gets an offer from Taweret to become her avatar. She sneaks into the pyramid and frees Khonshu while Ammit (Saba Mubarak), with Harrow as her new avatar, strikes the Ennead one by one. Despite a stark warning from Taweret, Marc abandons the Field of Reeds and comes back for Steven. The two are freed by an enchanted glow and cross the gates of Osiris back to their body just in time to rendezvous with Layla, now Taweret’s superpowered avatar, and team up against Harrow/Ammit. After almost losing, the duo imprison Ammit in Harrow’s body. Marc/Steven refuse to kill him/her and demand liberty from Khonshu, which he seemingly grants them. As the two live in the illusion of harmonious co-existence, they black out. Harrow is dragged out of the asylum and shoved into a limousine where Khonshu awaits. The god then introduces him to his friend Jake Lockley (Oscar Isaac), who immediately guns him down.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 5


5. Asylum
Taweret breaks the news to Marc/Steven that they are actually quite dead and that her ship en route to the gates of Osiris is usually visualized by the deceased as something familiar to them. In the case of Marc/Steven, it’s an asylum. Their hearts are weighed and fail to achieve the balance required for them to enter paradise. Taweret suggests they go back in and process their memories in an effort to correctly tip the scales. Steven takes a trip down memory lane and finds out the hard way how he, as an alternate personality, has been created by Marc as a defense mechanism for the childhood trauma he had to endure after being blamed for the accidental death of his younger brother and consequently getting abused verbally and physically by his mother. Marc/Steven forgive one another. Their scales are finally balanced, but not until they are attacked by the ghosts of their past, dragging Steven down with them on the sand. Marc wakes up in a field of reeds, the equivalent of paradise in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 4


4. The Tomb
With Khonshu in absentia, Layla and Steven/Marc have to go on their own to find Ammit’s tomb. They are separated by the attack of a mummy who has been giving Harrow’s men a tough time at the venue. Harrow stumbles upon Layla and drops some hints about Marc’s involvement in her father’s death. Steven finds the tomb which turns out to be that of Alexander the Great, who is revealed to have been Ammit’s last avatar. He finds the goddess’ ushabti in his skeleton as Layla rendezvous with him, their confrontation being cut short by the arrival of Harrow and his men. With neither Khonshu nor the suit at his disposal, Marc is shot twice in the chest, his body plunging down a pool as a hidden Layla watches in terror. He then wakes up in an asylum managed by Harrow’s men with Harrow himself being his psychiatrist. Marc finds Steven trapped in a sarcophagus and frees him. As they try to escape, they are greeted by the Egyptian hippo goddess Taweret (Antonia Salib) at the door.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 3


3. The Friendly Type
Layla fakes an Egyptian passport and follows Marc to Cairo, where he always falls one step behind Harrow, who has already located Ammit’s tomb via the scarab beetle. Marc convinces Khonshu to get the upper tier pantheon of Egyptian gods to interfere through a trial via their own avatars inside the Pyramid of Giza, where they declare Harrow’s innocence. The Marc/Khonshu tandem gets unexpected sympathy and aid from Yatzil (Diana Bermudez), the avatar of the goddess Hathor, who points them towards the direction of a sarcophagus that contains clues to the tomb’s location. Marc/Steven and Layla team-up and end up at the compound of antiquities collector Anton Mogart (Gaspard Ulliel), where they manage to retrieve the pieces of cloth mapping out a constellation, but not until after some violence brought about by Harrow’s arrival. Khonshu uses his last trick of realigning the night sky to what it was 2000 years ago, leading to Layla pinpointing the exact coordinates before he is banished in stone by the pantheon.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 2


2. Summon the Suit
Steven Grant is sacked from his job after footage of him fighting an invisible enemy at the museum is dismissed as a plea for psychiatric help. He then discovers a storage room with a stashed bag full of money, an American passport in Marc Spector’s name, and a flying scarab beetle, as Marc demands that he relinquishes control of the host body to him. He then casually runs into Layla (May Calamawy), an Egyptian adventurer who introduces herself as the soon-to-be-divorced wife of Marc Spector. As Steven is kidnapped by Harrow and his men, the latter shows the former how his cult operates and highlights the difference between the brand of justice that Khonshu (Karim El Hakim/F. Murray Abraham) and Ammit espouse. He also reveals that he used to be Khonshu’s Avatar and that the Egyptian god is a liar. A ruckus ensues allowing a new personality, Mr. Knight, to surface. Harrow gains possession of the scarab beetle necessary to resurrect Ammit. Marc is taken by Khonshu to Egypt for a preemptive strike.

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Moon Knight: Episode 1


1. The Goldfish Problem
London giftshop clerk Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) works in an Egyptology Museum selling souvenirs, even though he really wants to be a tour guide given his affinity with the topic. Every night he sleeps chained to his bed and with sand surrounding his sleeping spot, while the main door is sealed with duct tape. Nevertheless, he still finds himself waking up in odd places, being chased by weird men with the emblem of the Egyptian goddess Ammit tattooed on their forearm. One of them is Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the leader of her cult in pursuit of Grant’s scarab beetle. As he finds himself falling prey to mythological creatures from ancient Egypt, Grant realizes, with the aid of a strange phone call from an unknown woman who derides his fake British accent, that he is suffering from dissociative identity disorder. One of his identities, Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac), surfaces when they are under threat, transforming into a masked superhero known as Moon Knight, Egyptian god Khonshu's avatar on Earth.

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