The next publish accommodates SPOILERS for Moon Knight Episode 4.
Many of the first three episodes of Moon Knight had been extraordinarily predictable. Following the template of numerous Moon Knight Marvel comics, it reveals the title character to be an especially mentally unwell man, one torn between a number of identities, together with the mercenary Marc Spector, the meek museum worker Steven Grant, and the magical warrior Moon Knight. All of them come into battle with a cult that worships the Egyptian god Ammit, and chase quite a lot of mystic MacGuffins world wide. It’s Batman meets Id meets Indiana Jones. And little or no of it was stunning.
Not less than till the top of Episode 4.
Searching by means of Ammit’s tomb, Oscar Isaac’s Marc Spector is shot by Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the chief of the Ammit cult. After which… he dies! The top!
Okay, not the top. Moments later, Marc Spector is seemingly alive by some means, and locked away in some type of psychiatric hospital. Each different character seen on the present can also be within the asylum; Hawke’s Harrow is now his therapist, for instance, whereas the hospital orderlies had been beforehand seen because the cops who had been investigating the incident at Steven Grant’s museum.
Again and again there are echoes of the three episodes that got here earlier than; there’s a Rubix dice, one of many scarab toys that was initially seen within the museum present store, a cupcake trolley just like the cupcake truck Steven used to flee from the Ammit cult within the first episode, and so forth.
The episode, titled “The Tomb,” ends on a cliffhanger, with Marc discovering Steven in an Egyptian sarcophagus — for the second, no less than, they’re two distinct folks as an alternative of two personalities sharing a single physique — after which bumping into an anthropomorphic hippo wearing historical Egyptian garb. Aaaaaand roll credit.
A variety of this materials is taken from author Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood’s current run of Moon Knight comics, the place the title character wakes up in an insane asylum with no reminiscence of how he bought there, These comics might provide the reply to the query of precisely what is occurring in these scenes on the Moon Knight TV present, or the sequence might take the story in a completely totally different path.
The entire present may very well be a figment of Marc’s creativeness — or of Steven’s, or a 3rd character all collectively. Or the hunt for Ammit’s tomb may very well be actual, and Marc might have truly died, and the hospital is an odd kind of afterlife or purgatory for his soul. (Keep in mind: Marc Spector died as soon as already; that’s how he turned Moon Knight within the first place. So he might die and get resurrected once more.) Or your complete asylum may very well be some type of manipulation by Harrow and his cult, utilizing a few of their god’s energy (and possibly some psychotropic medicine).
From my perspective, it actually doesn’t matter the place the present goes from right here, as a result of this alone made issues way more fascinating than the extra formulaic treasure hunt of the sooner episodes. For as soon as, I can’t predict the place Moon Knight goes. With a weekly episodic story, that needs to be a part of the enjoyable.
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