Moon Knight - SPOILERS

[Stalker0]

Yeah, it's hard to have both free will and predestination. I agree that I expected more of a philosophical battle there since they can't both be right.

If Ammit does have foresight instead of predestination, we don't have a conflict....if foresight can be wrong.

Really good episode, I too was delightedly surprised that Ammit was exactly as she seemed, no plot twist, no hidden scheme. Just straight up "this is what I believe, and this is what I'm going to do". I also really liked Harrow at the end, when she said he was imbalanced, he just straight up said "alright I'm ready to die". He was a true believer, and as evil as you might think he was, he was no hypocrite.

Alright, Layla go beat up falcon and take his stuff, your my new favorite!

 

[Rabulias]

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.

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

Hmmm... I agree that I think Gus died while Marc was out of town. How did they find another single-finned goldfish?

Also, Steven noticed time skips, and other odd things indicating Marc's activities, and the both of them have noticed the blackouts when neither one of them was in control. If they were really in control of the body, and Jake and Khonshu were still moonlighting ("moonknighting?"), I think they would notice more and more blackout incidents and get to the bottom of it.

I am wondering now if the last scene with Marc and Steven (and the goldfish) is some other dreamscape where they are kept by Khonshu now that Jake is in control. Putting them into some illusionary reality to keep them happy and out of the way seems like just the ticket.

Have I mentioned I want a second season of this?

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.

Looking back at it, Taweret only had Marc's and Steven's hearts and tried to balance them. Jake (and presumably his heart) was still locked away in the sarcophagus.
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I was also pleased to see a variation on my prediction come true, with Marc/Steven getting back in control to find all the bad guys dealt with around them.

Disney/Marvel, I really want season 2!

 

[pukunui]

Are people forgetting that Khonshu isn't really a good guy?

I am wondering now if the last scene with Marc and Steven (and the goldfish) is some other dreamscape where they are kept by Khonshu now that Jake is in control. Putting them into some illusionary reality to keep them happy and out of the way seems like just the ticket.

That's an interesting theory!

Let's hope we get a season 2 (and sooner rather than later - like we know we're getting a season 2 of Loki but we have no idea when ...).

 

[Richards]

Season 2 of Loki is already out and has gotten really good reviews...unfortunately, that was in a different "variant" reality from this one. Bummer for us, I know.

Johnathan

 

[Zaukrie]

Really hated that ending. Not that it was a real ending....I didn't much care for the last three so that much.... Not that I hated the non super stuff, I liked the idea....I didn't like the actual content. Oh well. They can't all be my cup of tea

 

[Zaukrie]

To be clear, I like it more now that Ive seen the end credit scene, which really really really should have been part of the show....
I really liked our new Egyptian hero also.

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't right for me

 

[BRayne]

Laylas an entirely new character created for the show, so (maybe) theyve taken an old hero moniker and applied it to Layla - the only connection is that the characters are Egyptian

Well the original Scarlet Scarab is Dr. Abdul Faoul, and Layla's father, who called her "little scarab", was named Dr. Abdallah El-Faouly.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The death of Osiris was unsatisfying though, especially as he’s god of death and ressurection!

I'm pretty sure it was only avatars that where killed, not the gods themselves.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

A quick search turned up "Scarlet Scarab."

Yeah, she had a scarab logo on her chest.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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?

Or maybe the memory acquired the dead bird after Marc met Khonshu? Memory isn't a video camera, our experiences change it.