Moon Knight - SPOILERS

[wicked cool]

can someone explain why they ended up back in the sylum and why the DR was bleeding?

 

[Tonguez]

can someone explain why they ended up back in the sylum and why the DR was bleeding?

For the bleeding you’ll need to rewatch the start of episode 1 - call back to that ‘villain signature’

afaik - the Asylum at the end was Harrows delusion not Marcs, Marc realised that and so was able to remove himself from it.

The asylum in the stinger Im unsure if that was real world or not…

 

[pukunui]

I was just a little disappointed that we didn’t see Layla with Marc/Steven at the end. She is their wife after all, and now that Marc is “free” from Khonshu, he should feel free to get back together with her, right?

What was the significance of there being two goldfish?

 

[MarkB]

I was just a little disappointed that we didn’t see Layla with Marc/Steven at the end. She is their wife after all, and now that Marc is “free” from Khonshu, he should feel free to get back together with her, right?

Which doesn't mean she's free to get back together with him. She has a whole new life now, and no doubt it's going to take some time for her to come to terms with it.

What was the significance of there being two goldfish?

The goldfish was replaced during one of Steven's early blackouts. Having them both there is symbolic of Marc and Steven now coexisting.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

most would know of the Ennead

Most who? People in general? I very much doubt it.

 

[pukunui]

Which doesn't mean she's free to get back together with him. She has a whole new life now, and no doubt it's going to take some time for her to come to terms with it.

Maybe. That’s assuming she’s still Taweret’s avatar.

I was just hoping for some resolution of the Marc-Layla-Steven love triangle. I mean, it's obvious Layla still cares for Marc, and he still cares for her, and Layla and Steven are totally in love over their shared Egyptian geekiness, so it would be fun to see them explore the dynamic of how you love and have a relationship with someone with DID, especially now that Steven and Marc are happily sharing the body instead of fighting over it. Hopefully if we get a season 2, this is something they'll explore there (or in a Layla as Taweret's avatar spin-off).

The goldfish was replaced during one of Steven's early blackouts. Having them both there is symbolic of Marc and Steven now coexisting.

I had assumed that Gus the one-finned goldfish had died from lack of food while Marc/Steven was in Switzerland.

That said, maybe Gus and/or his one fin were just a figment of Steven's imagination - a memory of the one-finned fish his little brother had drawn on the day he died.

Speaking of which - the dead bird that Steven sees outside the cave in that memory ... is the implication there that Khonshu has been passively observing Marc for his entire life, or is it that Khonshu subtly manipulated Marc into insisting that it would be OK to go into the cave, knowing that it would cause Roro's death and push Marc down the path to becoming his avatar?

 

[Ryujin]

Which doesn't mean she's free to get back together with him. She has a whole new life now, and no doubt it's going to take some time for her to come to terms with it.

The goldfish was replaced during one of Steven's early blackouts. Having them both there is symbolic of Marc and Steven now coexisting.

Maybe. Or maybe it's as simple as, "OK, who bought the OTHER goldfish?"

 

[Tonguez]

Most who? People in general? I very much doubt it.

Um, maybe read the whole sentence?

amateur Egyptology was a big geekdom up to the 1960s and most would know of the Ennead

its referring to amateur Egyptology geeks, of which there are a lot…

 

[Ryujin]

Um, maybe read the whole sentence?

its referring to amateur Egyptology geeks, of which there are a lot…

There was a bit of a resurgence in the late '60s/early '70s too, because of von Daniken.

 

[pukunui]

The death scene of the god of death and resurrection should be unsatisfying, because it's not permanent.

The question I have is: did the gods die or just their avatars? Was it a similar situation to killing Ammit by killing Harrow while she's inside him?

(As an aside, when Layla was searching for Khonshu's ushabti, I was thinking "She should just smash them all! Release all the gods and cause a whole lot of chaos!")

Why not a Spanish speaking assassin? Isaac speaks fluent Spanish.

While "Jake Lockley" isn't a very Spanish name, I'm guessing that, like Steven, this persona is modeled on a movie character or something. I still think Jake is the part of Marc that has internalized all his mother's violence.

I also don't see how Marc could balance his heart while Jake was still locked away inside. I'll call that a bit of a plot hole, like how he created Steven to shield himself from his mother's violence and yet Marc is the one who remembers it, not Steven.