Marc and Steven search through their memories to find their truth or become left behind.Marc and Steven search through their memories to find their truth or become left behind.Marc and Steven search through their memories to find their truth or become left behind.
- Layla El-Faouly
- (credit only)
- Khonshu
- (voice)
- Taweret
- (voice)
- Young Marc
- (as Carlos Sanchez)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAbdullah El-Faouly is the MCU version of Abdul Faoul, known in the Marvel comics as the Egyptian archaeologist and superhero the Scarlet Scarab.
- GoofsIn the memory where Marc walks away from Wendy Spector's Shiva, Marc is shown tucking away the flask he is drinking from into his jacket. The following shot shows the flask is still in his right hand as he is crossing the street towards Steven.
- Quotes
Marc Spector: What the hell are you?
Khonshu: I am the god Khonshu, in search of a warrior.
Marc Spector: A warrior. Well, good luck with that.
Khonshu: To be my hands, my eyes, my vengeance. To be my final words against the evildoers. To bind your very being to me and eradicate only the worst, those who deserve it. Do you want death or do you want life?
Marc Spector: I don't know.
Khonshu: Your mind, I feel it. Fractured. Broken. Most fascinating. You are a worthy candidate to serve me during this time. In exchange for your life, do you swear to protect the travelers of the night and bring my vengeance to those who would do them harm?
Marc Spector: ...Yes.
Khonshu: Then rise. Rise, and live again! As my fist of vengeance! As my Moon Knight!
- Crazy creditsAt the director's credits, the moon is seen shining over the Field of Reeds.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 20 Marvel Moments That Left Us Speechless (2023)
- SoundtracksMas Alla Del Sol
Arranged and Performed by Manuel Bonilla
Courtesy of Heaven Music Group
This penultimate episode, much like the penultimate episode of WandaVision takes us to the childhood and past life of our protagonist through their memories, and just like Wanda's, Marc's childhood and origin are as tragic and depressing as it gets.
I really like this introspection episode of our character(s) as we get to know who really Marc and Steven are, which one is the original, and the reason Marc joined the military and became Moon Knight.
Oscar Isaac and Oscar Isaac have been phenomenal in every episode so far, but I think this is their best performance yet. Of course, there are other actors in here too but the majority of the episode revolves around this character. (I guess you can say that about all the other episodes too, but this one has more screen-time for Oscar)
Aside from all of it's good parts and great acting though, I kinda wanted a little bit more from the memories and "we're doing flashbacks but we call it a memory recalling session so it doesn't seem like a flashback even though it's totally flashback", you know what I mean? I wanted to see more memories, and also more from the memories they showed and didn't show the whole thing.
And there's also another thing about the third alter that bothered me but I can't say anything about it without spoiling it, so there's that too.
The thing that happened at the end was very surprising too. I'd be way more surprised if it's permanent, because it's a good character development in my opinion, but I won't be shocked if they don't reverse it in the next episode.
I also gotta mention again, that these episodes feel like they need 3 or 4 episodes each to truly use their material's potential and not cram everything in just 45 minutes, you know what I mean? Like the whole psych ward thing could've been a whole half-a-season story arc but we get only one episode, or the whole Marc's past could've been a season in itself, but Disney says only 6 episodes so they have to cram everything they have into it. So I would've been more happy if they did more things with the memories, but the episode is still great and the writers and directors did a good job with the time and episode limit they were given.
Overall, a really well-paced, well-acted, well-written, and visually stunning episode and a deeper look inside Marc Spector's mind. This character and his story had a really big potential for more episodes and more seasons, but it is fine what they've done with the 6-episode limit they had to work with.
- MamadNobari97
- Apr 27, 2022
Details
- Runtime47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix