At least I was right about getting answers in this episode.

I think after episode 4 we were almost convinced that MoonKnight couldn’t get any crazier, but lord were we wrong. Episode 5 had me feel just about every emotion there was to feel, along with answering endless questions, some that I think we even forgot we wanted the answer to. One thing is for sure, I am shocked we are now upon the conclusion, as I feel I only just really began to understand the full extent of the show. I mean I felt that way in episodes 3 and 4 until the last ten minutes turned everything on its’ head. But now I think I have it and we are at the finale already. The win I take from all of this is that I should be going into episode 6 without questions right? I wish, but don’t worry, we have an entire episode here for your listening pleasure to really cover what we found out in this latest episode and what we still want to know. You can listen by either following the button below or clicking directly on the link!

I think starting this blog post off with the most prominent aspect of this episode is the best tactic here since so much happened and there’s plenty to talk about. That being said, I want to talk about Marc’s childhood and especially everything that happened with his mother. I know from the very first episode we talked a little about his mom since Steven seemed to be on the phone with her often in the beginning. We knew there was a story and then Layla confirmed it in I believe episode 3. But I don’t think a single one of us thought that his mom would blame him for his brother’s death and begin to abuse him throughout his childhood. Losing a sibling is hard enough, let alone without a parent blaming you for it and changing your entire relationship with them. It is such a dark storyline that I don’t think we have really ever seen before in the MCU and is so true to things that could be happening in someone’s life right now. In the podcast, we compared the situation to that of a movie, which at the time we couldn’t recall the name of. If you are interested in watching it, the movie is called Ordinary People and it actually has a semi-similar storyline to Marcs’.

Since we are talking about the traumatic events of this episode, let’s talk about the fact we have finally gotten concrete proof about who is the one who has the alters. So we see that Marc’s brain made Steven to escape from the abuse from his mother, which goes back to what I was speaking about very early on about DID, as it is typically caused by trauma in childhood. I did think that it was pretty interesting that we didn’t really see much on how his brother’s death impacted him or the fact that he also almost died that day. Clearly his brother meant a lot to him, as they shared a love for the film that Steven’s name later came from. Regardless, one thing I did find a little weird is that Marc was 100% aware of Steven’s existence his whole life and felt that he had control over him. This does answer a question we posed a little while ago about on how Marc sort of hid from Layla his DID, but it is inaccurate that someone with DID would at all times be aware of their alters (especially in childhood). Taylor also pointed out that it was strange his parents (or his dad) never seemed to notice, but Marvel seems to be wanting us to believe Marc used Steven as an escape until their lives bled to close into each other and he lost control of that.

It wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t talk about the fact that the therapy session with Dr. Harrow is a great way to show the main treatment for DID, which is integration of all the alters. All around, it was also just a really powerful moment, seeing Oscar Isaac play these two characters back to back and work through such moving moments. But as we speak of these two characters, we have to question if this is the end of Steven all together. Have the alters been integrated? Personally, I want to say yes, since I think Steven’s purpose was to accept Marc and allow him to understand his past is not his fault. While I adore him, I think he served his purpose for Marc’s life and bringing him back is not as needed for Marc’s character development going forward.

I want to point out something many fans have begun to point out already with other shows and films and we have now seen it in Moonknight. That something is the color purple being the color of phase 4. Now it could just be a color running throughout for the sake of continuity, however, Marvel never really just ‘does’ something just to do it. If you need a reminder on where the color purple has been seen before, I promise I have you. The first example is Agatha’s powers in WandaVision, then Zemo’s hood appears purple in TFAWS, and Loki was of course the scene between him and Sylvie plus Kang’s robe and the opening of the Multiverse. Hawkeye was obviously purple in general, then the cracks in NWH were all purple. Now we have seen it on Moonknight and the latest MoM trailer shows some purple magic as well. To give some background the color purple can signify wisdom, bravery, and spirituality and in the MCU, the color purple has usually been tied to the power stone. Where all of this could all fit in each of these works or what it could mean altogether is unknown, but try to keep your eye out for more purple as we move forward.

Another huge moment this episode is seeing the story finally unfold on Marc’s past leading up to becoming MoonKnight and how that happened. This was another big win for us, learning that the night of Layla’s dad’s murder was the same night that Marc nearly lost his life and met Khonshu. But the fact that Khonshu took advantage of a man who was ready to die puts a much darker turn to Marc’s powers. It also allows us to know why Marc seems to hate working for Khonshu so much. It is very likely that when Marc releases Khonshu, he will make a deal to continue being MoonKnight with less of an impact from Khonshu himself.

Before I reach our final point, I want to briefly discuss the concept of what is real and what isn’t. As of right now, we technically still don’t know if Marc is dead and going through an entire inner journey or has been essentially hallucinating all of this in a mental hospital. For the sake of the show and superhero, he is definetely dead and somehow about to come back to life, but it doesn’t negate that we went on quite a wild ride. I don’t know how Marc’s rebirth will work, but I want to think Layla maybe managed to free Khonshu so that Marc can heal himself. It would also help, since there is so much to resolve in this final episode and freeing Khonshu is still on that list currently.

Okay, I know this is the world’s longest blog post since probably the WandaVision era, but I want to wrap it up by talking about my good man Jake. We obviously didn’t get him (or did we?) this episode, but we may have gotten a little something. Now in the podcast episode, Taylor refers to a clue about Jake and I go off on one I thought she was talking about but was totally wrong. But turns out, there was possibly a hint to Jake and to make it easy, I attached a Tiktok here to show you the scene. Now my best bet is Jake is still coming and will be the alter Marc adopts going forward. This may be our first sighting of him, which would be fitting as Steven exited this episode as well. Just some food for thought for everyone until the series finale.

As I just mentioned it, we are at the series finale of MoonKnight this week, wrapping up yet another great Marvel TV show. But we also have the much anticipated MoM premiering this week as well. Naturally, we will be covering both of these and trying to get the content out as quickly as possible so you hear all our thoughts following both of these big moments. We will have a full episode covering both and a possible second one coming next week to cover the rest of MoM (if needed, but I feel like we will) so keep an eye out as Marvel just blew your mind, so let’s talk about it.

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