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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 332106" data-attributes="member: 23">Moon Knight The Tomb / Asylum / Gods And MonstersAnd there we go. In two sittings, Moon Knight has begun and ended.It’s refreshing to have a series this short after watching 13-episode seasons that sometimes ran upwards of an hour per episode. Not only is Moon Knight shorter by episode length, a good chunk of that time is devoted to the end credits: compared with the Netflix shows, the crews here appear to be legion. Not that it feels that much more premium, really.There was some really good stuff in these episodes. In particular, the subjective storytelling around Marc/Steven’s dissociative identity disorder. The extent to which the viewer is on Marc/Steven’s level, questioning reality is actually quite unsettling. This aspect of the series was far and away the best for me. The “locked in a psychiatric hospital nightmare” is a cliche of film noir, thriller, drama and horror genres, but it’s a cliche for a good reason and the fact that we were seeing things through Marc/Steven’s eyes made it more powerful.The more unreal sequences, such as the talking hippo and the flying boat, I found myself accepting more than not, because of what they represented. The embodiment of a space to revisit past events to find balance made it palatable enough to get past the fact that it felt like watching a Pixar film (and not one of their better ones at that).The series has many failings, but perhaps one of the key ones is the lack of a strong antagonist. Ethan Hawke might be a “name”, but I doubt he’d have been cast if not. He lacked gravitas and there was nothing about his character that was compelling or even particularly interest. On the contrary, his habit of peppering his speech with “OK?” and “right?” during the psychiatric hospital scenes became an irritant and undermined the tension.Incidentally, I was delighted to see that the hospital was called the Sienkiewicz Psychiatric Hospital. He was one of my favourite Marvel artists during the Eighties, thanks to his work on The New Mutants and his glorious painted covers for other titles like Dazzler. Even though I never read Moon Knight, I know he was one of the artists who was key in shaping that title’s visuals, so it’s good to see him get some recognition.Perhaps the most telling thing I can say about my experience of watching is that some fourteen hours on from watching the final episode I’m already struggling to remember many details of the series itself and how it ended. That said, it’s far from the worst of the MCU. There were some elements I thought were really good and, thanks to its brevity, it was easy to watch and never outstayed its welcome. But it certainly helped that I went in with expectations fairly low.Also, the amnesiac alter ego thing strongly reminded me (to begin with) of early issues of Ms. Marvel where a similar device was briefly employed and Carol Danvers not even realising that she was a super heroine. Speaking of things Ms. Marvel, I suspected that the girl who asked Layla if she was an Egyptian superhero could be Kamala Khan. Looking at IMDb suggests otherwise, but it would have been a nice tie-in (albeit I don't know what she would be doing in Egypt). The moment seemed to suggest a deep significance, but I suppose an Egyptian superhero is significant enough.</blockquote>

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