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listen let me know if i was only one tearing up watching this episode man i mean this was
mind-bending this was just tugging at the heart strings might be the most emotional episode of a
disney plus show that i've ever seen i'm gonna put it up there i don't know between this and
the wanda vision one i don't know let me know you guys thoughts this is a fantastic episode
i was not expecting to get this emotional connected especially to stephen but we're
going to get into it but i want to know your thoughts in the comments and
what happens in next week's finale how do we figure this out how do we end this series let's
talk about it in the comments but before we get into my thoughts just a friendly reminder
i'm pre-recording this i've had a pretty chaotic day so by the time this video is out we would have
already had our live stream really breaking down this fifth episode myself and amanda and chris
we also will be talking about cinemacon disney news this stuff going on with the spider-man
verse all the stuff going on with dr strange so definitely check out that stream if you didn't
too if you didn't get a chance to i'll leave the link in the description this video but look
let's get into my thoughts on this fifth episode just my initial impressions like i mentioned i
think between this episode and i want to say it was episode eight or might have been seven seven
or eight i think it was eight of wand division when we see wanda talking the vision about grief
about her tragedies what she went through and just kind of going through that traumatic pass that was
very emotionally connected and that was like the most emotions i've had in the disney plus show but
i think this episode might be there with it and it's kind of funny that this is the second to last
episode and it was the most emotional same with wanda um wow i mean this just i've been saying it
all season oscar isaac has been fantastic but the writing in this episode the traumatic stuff we see
mark what he went through as a child the abuse how he created stephen how jacob might be in this in
this scenario or jake lockley there's a lot to dive into and let's get into it are you already
do you have your box of tissues let's get into the recap here full spoilers ahead as we open
the episode with a woman yelling at a young boy that is all his fault we're gonna get to him his
relationship with his mother which was absolutely heartbreaking but in this moment here we cut to
mark being told by dr hero that his brain is like a pendulum he goes back and forth there's a lot
of trauma that's going on in his life and he created what he called organizing principles
which again kind of helps him go throughout these traumatic events that he went through especially
as a kid and again when we get to those scenes i'm gonna try not to cry because it was very emotional
but getting back into the conversation as mark has this i don't know if you all noticed it was
a slightly different tone or pitch in mark's voice again we've been hinting at a third personality
we didn't get the reveal i assume it's gonna come next week if at all again assuming that it's jake
could be another character uh that moon knight has created but i'm assuming we might have saw
jake in that moment and i think jay comes out when there is physicality involved inflicted on mark i
think we'll talk about that a little bit later but let me know if you all caught that kind of
different accent that we got from mark talking to dr hero we see that they mark they knock mark out
which enables him to go back to the room with mark stephen and the hippopotamus this is where
we get the explanation of the realm of duet and the underworld and this is where torowet mentions
a little black panther knot there we got a couple black panther knights and a couple other episodes
of this series but she talks about the central plane which again i wonder if there is any other
connective tissues or connective ties to the black panther universe and i don't know will a
moon knight appear in a black panther 2 or future movies of of black panther that would be pretty
cool let me know your thoughts on that easter egg as we get back into the conversation mark opens
the doors to the underworld headed to the land of reeves if their life is balanced and she takes
their hearts she puts it on scales and their mission in this episode is to find the balance
in their life unfortunately that balance involves one of these personalities being on the dooms and
we'll talk about that in a second but time to balance their hearts as their hearts aren't full
they're incomplete and it's time to reveal their truths as we see a particular scene of one of the
personalities standing in the street but they're not aware of what that scene is so a little bit
later in the episode we go into this area where we see a bunch of dead people which again this
show the last two episodes have touched on the horror supernatural elements which i really
appreciate but all of these bodies are the victims of vengeance of moon night of what mark has been
told by kanju to take out these people that were evil that were bad and just seeing their faces and
a little bit later when we see the sand faces coming apart i really give this show kudos to
attempting to push the envelope it didn't go all the way to those daredevil moments that i was
expecting from this series it kind of really goes to that more mature nature of these characters
but i'm appreciating them taking the steps and hopefully these steps lead to future supernatural
steps for a blade for a you know ghost rider and all the other supernatural characters in mcu
we're getting there and i appreciate it but let's get back into the conversation
as we see a little boy which stephen follows and leaves mark behind and this is where we find out
about mark's past as a young boy as we break down this scene here we see that mark and his
brother randall enter a cave and unfortunately his brother dies in this cave he's drowned and
this is where we really see the disconnect between mark stephen and their mother because his mother
blames him for everything that just happened and losing her son she blames him for everything we
see this kind of montage of throughout the years mark's mom and steven's mom
she just ignores him she's abandoned him again she puts all the blame on this young man's shoulders
he didn't try to kill his kid it's just kids being kids and unfortunately that accident happened but
it fractured their relationship which in turn fractured what actually is going on internally
with mark and we'll get to the creation of stephen here in a bit but we see mark leaving as a teen
as steven doesn't remember any of this side of his mother we head back to what happened to lila's dad
as we got a little bit of that conversation last week that it was bushman which is is involved in
the comics was the kind of partner of mark spector he got greedy he took advantage of
situations killed all the the people there including try to attempt to kill mark and
this is where we talk about origins this is where kanju manipulates takes advantage of mark spector
and has him as we see mark kind of crawling up to the temples he's gonna take his own life and this
is where we see kanju come in and tell him i can spare your life i can give you another purpose
i can make you the hands of vengeance do you vow to me and this when we see mark accepts this new
vow to become the vengeance of kanju and we go into a really beautiful scene here in regards to
seeing the underworld number one i didn't mention it earlier we're on the boat and the purples and
the sand the visual effects were beautiful in this scene but getting back to the actual scene here
there's fear in the underworld and there's a lot of unbalancing going on and we see that the
hippo god is trying to steer this ship and try to get things going and she we see mark and stephen
convinces her hey we can we need to get back we need to stop what our men's doing and what uh
what arthur is doing can you help us out and she's trying to say you know help them at the same time
says hey you need to figure out the truth once we do that we can get things solved so now it's
time to go to go back and find out what exactly happened to get mark to snap to really create
these personalities this is where things get tough now as we get back into that behind the door
we see that mark doesn't want steven to see what's behind that door and he snaps we see him head back
to hero's office they have a conversation we see that hero convinces mark to allow stephen in and
this is where we get into the actual scene we see the origins of stephen while their mom is trying
to break into the room he has made up this in his head in regards to a def like a defense mechanism
this is where mark creates stephen and we see his mom comes in she has the belt and this is where i
think we get i mentioned how i think we got jake a little bit earlier in episode but i think it's
in this moment because we see stephen comes out he sees the movie poster he adds the british accent
but we don't see if it's steven the one that's getting abused i think that's where jake's
coming in i think jake is the character that endures the pain that was put upon
stephen mark and jake is that person that does that and again it's not verified it's
not confirmed but i think that's where jake comes in he's the one that takes on all that stuff and
again just my little bit of knowledge of jake's in the comments he's the one that's on the streets
he's the one that's kind of hearing all the local stuff so they're adding a little bit more layers
and i'm not saying there's more layers in the comments but they're adding this kind
of sensibility to the character if this theory of mine is to be true that jake is the one that takes
the abuse let me know what you all think about that mark explains why he created stephen and
reveals that their mother is not alive and this is where stephen snaps goes back into heroes office
he gets into the conversation that this is why they ended up in the mental ward because stephen
couldn't just bear the idea of losing his mom but he had a different perception he had a different
experience with the mom he witnessed all the good stuff whenever there was any between him and his
mom he doesn't remember any of the bad stuff which they go back into the memory and this
is the moment where we see mark was the one in the streets he couldn't go inside of his mom's
shiva we see him crying in the streets and this is where stephen pops up doesn't know where he
is he tries to call his mom and this is the point where i was getting teary-eyed because not to get
too involved in my personal life but i have had someone very close to me uh i'll just say i had a
really great relationship with my mom she's still here uh you know on earth but we we definitely
don't have the same type of relationship and the reason i kind of related to that is because again
just kind of imagining the good side of a person you love the bad side and it's just kind of all
kind of hit me at once and just seeing steven go through that and creating that defense mechanism
is this a powerful moment it's one of the most powerful moments in the mcu again i got a little
teary-eyed i have no shame in that let me know where you all were at that emotional point and
just seeing and i have been kind of critical on stephen i haven't been the biggest fan of steven
but it's in this moment in a moment a little bit later he's a great character i'm not gonna lie
they built the respect for me i'm a steven fan but let's get back into the actual conversation
before we get all teary-eyed they don't make it in time and the souls are being collected
as mark fights we see stephen kind of comes in the baseball bat i don't know again knowing that
jake has some connections to wearing baseball caps and and all that stuff i don't know if that
is an illusion or easter egg to uh jake but we see that they take steven steps up takes out all the
the lost souls which by the way the look of the sand coming off their face he helps them but then
one more law soul comes aboard tries to take down mark and this is where stephen sacrificed
himself pushes them off they fall off the boat unfortunately this is where the balancing happens
is the balance between what's going on that's because mark has now he didn't want to but we see
steven's loss in the sand and the dunes and he's in prison he's locked in there i don't think we're
gonna get stephen again which if you would have said that three or four episodes ago i wanna play
yes take stephen away i'm not a fan of him but now i'm like damn i want more steven that really kind
of got to me there as we end the episode with the balancing occurring and we see mark has arrived to
the field of reeds which where do we go now with everything being balanced we know that
the hippo god told him that once you go there you can live there for eternity and happiness
so i'm assuming we're gonna see mark trying to convince you know to go back to the to the to the
world and to take on arthur and try to stop ahmed from coming back and get our you know big battle
which i assume to happen next week what does that mean for mark is steven no longer there is jake
gonna take and replace the steven is he going to create some other personality to replace steven
how are we going to end i don't know but i have a feeling i'm just going to be honest just based
on the previous other shows it's gonna be a big battle but i hope that the emotional residence
stays within next week's finale because a lot of the finales to me cgi fest fight mcu stuff
the stuff i love don't get me wrong especially for someone that's been calling for action this
entire series but now that i'm so emotionally involved and so connected in this narrative
i hope that the action of cgi doesn't over or undercook or underwhelm the emotional resonant
that we got from this episode so i really do hope we get some action don't get me wrong but i hope
that they still are able to emotionally wrap up this phenomenal emotional story so that's
my thoughts on the episode let me know yours in the comments pros cons thoughts and theories and
what you all hope to see in the season finale and we're not getting a season two apparently
when will we see moonlight again how will things end we'll find out next week again just a friendly
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