Streaming : Moon Knight

[Pierre]

I can only assume that series 2 is already greenlit, or he’s going to turn up in a future movie as they have invested a lot of time in fleshing him out. Really there’s been very little of the actual “Moon Knight” in it so far.

[General Maximus]

So you are presumably going to end up with a first season (more of a mini series) of poor story telling, a weak character and a super hero that you haven't really seen even though they have had the opportunity to plan and develop a fully fleshed out character to establish in the first season?

Doesn't sound like a particularly good series to me.

Nothing Ive read or heard about it in the last few weeks makes me regret giving up on it after episode 1.

[General Maximus]

Me too. I gave up after ep 2. After all the chastising i get i am waiting for someone to say "do you know Max, you were right".

Originally Posted by General Maximus

Me too. I gave up after ep 2. After all the chastising i get i am waiting for someone to say "do you know Max, you were right".

[General Maximus]

I did not know we could embed gifs. You have no idea how many times I have wanted to do it.

Well I’m really enjoying it. Dissociative personality disorder is at the heart of this story and that by its nature is confusing. Simply laying it all out in the first episode would have been a missed opportunity and might have trivialised it.

This week’s episode explored the confusion of the sufferer and presented multiple realities, each of which seemed plausible while we were in them. Cleverly, by introducing us to Steven first, when it is finally confirmed that it is he, and not Mark, that’s the alter-ego, the writers have left us struggling with the idea that this character we’ve been following for weeks now isn’t “real”.

A couple of throwaway lines mid-episode about planes of existence and untethered consciousness have likely also left a pathway open into the multiverse which seems to be at the heart of MCU phase 4.

I’m looking forward to next week.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

Me too. I gave up after ep 2. After all the chastising i get i am waiting for someone to say "do you know Max, you were right".

Well you won’t be hearing it from me.

[admars]

I agree, it's a refreshing change to start to learn about the character as he starts to learn about himself, rather than standard vigilante origin story, and yes, the twist was a nice touch, about who is "real".

What I find most confusing about it, is why someone who doesn't like it continues to show so much interest in it?

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by admars

What I find most confusing about it, is why someone who doesn't like it continues to show so much interest in it?

Because when other people start moaning as well i like to prove a point that i was right to start off with

Originally Posted by General Maximus

Because when other people start moaning as well i like to prove a point that i was right to start off with

It doesn’t mean you’re right … it just means you’re not the only one who always orders the egg and chips

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Originally Posted by admars

I agree, it's a refreshing change to start to learn about the character as he starts to learn about himself, rather than standard vigilante origin story, and yes, the twist was a nice touch, about who is "real".

What I find most confusing about it, is why someone who doesn't like it continues to show so much interest in it?

They’ve played a blinder, really. We meet Steven first, and when we meet Mark he’s the face in the mirror who seems violent and a bit crazy and demands control of the body. Steven is English and living in London while Mark is American. We struggle with the idea that Steven isn’t real because he has been framed as real throughout the whole story. Then in the latest episode the psychiatric ward is the hallucination, scenes in an American home are all just disjointed memory and ancient Egyptian mythology - in this case Taweret on a boat in the desert - is their here-and-now reality. They made us care about Steven, be suspicious of Mark and suffer the confusion of trying to separate reality from fantasy. Altogether an utterly different approach to what you normally get when the condition traditionally called schizophrenia is tackled in film and TV, where the whole thing is typically played either for laughs (e.g. Me, Myself and Irene) or lazily portrays the emerging personality as strange or violent.

[cimt]

I enjoyed it me. I think it may of worked better as a movie or even just 3 episodes. It could of told the same story in less time without losing anything important. I can certainly see a second season or an appearance in another MCU property coming though.

[General Maximus]

I am sure i read somewhere it was a standalone series and there would only be these 6 eps. I think the showrunners are hoping the now established character gets incorporated into the MCU.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I am sure i read somewhere it was a standalone series and there would only be these 6 eps. I think the showrunners are hoping the now established character gets incorporated into the MCU.

It was originally slated as a Miniseries so I doubt there will be a season 2.

[General Maximus]

Yeah, i have just been looking into it. Oscar Isaac signed a 6 episode contract which is now up. I can't remember a time when a tv series and actors were out of contract and the network has gone back and made them sign new contracts. Not for a series i have watched anyway. $$$$$$

Originally Posted by General Maximus

I can't remember a time when a tv series and actors were out of contract and the network has gone back and made them sign new contracts. Not for a series i have watched anyway.

Lucifer.