Hey everyone, I'm The Canadian Lad and in today's video I am gonna explain why
Moon Knight is the best Marvel series on Disney+ and how this show literally has no scenes that you
could call a "filler" or a"wasted opportunity" I know the popular opinion will always rank
Loki as the best Marvel series so far but Loki has been a fan-favorite since the first Thor movie.
But Moon Knight was literally considered to be a knock off
of Batman and so it wouldn't be fair to judge these two shows on the same scale.
But despite that, if any series even comes close to Loki, it's Moon Knight.
In fact I'll even go as far as saying if Moon Knight was a movie instead of a show,
I'd keep it in the same bracket as Avengers: Infinity War,
one of the best Marvel movies ever made, that went above and beyond everyone's expectation.
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Alright, so lemme throw in my first
most outrageous claim about Moon Knight that might upset some of the viewers.
Moon Knight is what wokeness should look when done correctly.
Or in nicer words, Moon Knight is what true progress looks like when it's been
handled with passion and proper research. This show gave us a strong male character
while at the same time developing a strong female character for the future.
It didn't look forced at all. In fact, I've seen men cheering
for Layla just as loud as they were cheering for Marc Spector or Steven!
And that's what happens when you introduce a female character who is strong on her own
without punching down on the opposite gender. A female superhero should be cheered for
because she's good at something, not because she's trying to beat Men who do the same job.
Layla in the final episode becomes the Scarlet Scarab.
Now, although Scarlet Scarab is originally a male character in the comics but in the MCU,
it's now a female. But show me one person
who complained about this. You'll find no one! And why is that? It's because Layla has been
written as a strong female character right from the get go, without giving her any hidden agenda.
Her goals in life were simple: Stand out for yourself, hold onto the teachings she
received from her father and finish off what her father had started.
There were no hidden motives igniting her missions in life.
She wasn't focused on becoming better than Marc Spector, nor did she seek attention.
She didn't demand respect just because she's a woman, she earned it, just like it should
be for anyone regardless of their genders. Layla didn't magically learn to fight villains
after she got the powers of the Hippo Goddess. She was already better at hand-to-hand combats
than Steven and was almost the same as Marc Spector.
So when someone who is as trained and learned as she is, it wasn't difficult for us as the audience
to accept her new role as the Scarlet Scarab. We wanted her to win just as much
as we wanted Marc Spector to win. It wasn't a competition but a companionship.
Now, let's jump on the second reason why I think Moon Knight
is one of the best shows Marvel has ever made.
This show in general took care of a really complicated subject matter aka Mental Health
but didn't try to victimize it. Marc Spector literally says in
Episode 3 that his feelings aren't at stake here, but something bigger!
So a hero, who is unwell, who doesn't even know who he is half the time, is not trying
to play the victim card and get attention. Instead, he wants to bring attention to the
antagonist and admits that "Yes, he does need help but punish the bad guy first".
The show perfectly summed up how people with mental illness must also be taken seriously.
Just because they're not mentally stable all the time, doesn't mean all their claims are fake!
We got to see how helpless someone can feel when they're having to deal with such a level
of mental disorder and not once did we see Marc asking someone to have pity on him!
He's unstable but not weak, he has chaos in him but wants order in the world.
And a character written that way is bound to win over the audience.
Now, the 3rd reason is the perfect balance between Marc and Layla.
Marc protected Layla when he knew Layla needed help and Layla
protected him when she felt the same. It's a show about Moon Knight and Layla
didn't overshadow it with her presence. While at the same time, the writers and
director Mohamed Diab made sure to not fill it with over masculinity, ignoring Layla's arc.
There was a fine balance between the two characters.
For example in Endgame when all the female superheroes come together,
Okoye says "Captain Marvel's got help". And the help she gets is from all female
superheroes and that's why it looked forced. I mean, what's the problem if a man wants
to help a woman? Is that a bad thing? We shouldn't overcompensate so much that
we lose the touch of reality! And that's why Moon Knight's
progressive story is so perfect! Here we saw Marc using his cape to
protect Layla from being shot, while Layla protecting Steven at all cost.
The show never tried to uplift one character by punching down on the other.
And as I mentioned, this show has no "filler" scenes, so what exactly do I mean by that?
It means this show had no scenes that weren't there if not for a reason.
Every single scene, every single conversation from episode 1 to episode 6, everything was
either paid off or had some meaning behind it. We were shown a conversation in episode 1 between
Steven and a random lady, even though we don't quite understand what's happening,
but as the story unfolds, the answer to our question starts becoming more apparent.
And another thing that the writers did really well with this one is that they didn't
try to dumb it down for the general audience. Something that the MCU is guilty of over-doing.
For example, we learned in Episode 1 that Steven doesn't remember asking out this lady.
And throughout the series we learn about Marc Spector who is
incredibly loyal to Layla, his wife. So we as an audience who have been
following the show and connecting each dots we're given, we automatically figured out "it must be
Jake Lockley who asked out this lady on a date" But the show never says it, they just leave it
for the audience to interpret it their own way. And what this does is it engages the audience in a
journey rather than just watching a 6 hours show! When the audience figures out something on their
own without having it shoved down their throats, it gives some sort of satisfaction that you
wouldn't get otherwise. It also shows the
respect you have for the audience. And no, I'm not talking about huge cliffhangers,
which Marvel pretty much does all the time. Cliffhangers usually get answered or revealed
in the next movie or show, so that's different. But what happened in Moon Knight is there were
things that weren't explained to us verbally but we were given all the dots to connect ourselves,
so that we can draw our own conclusion. In other words, the writers never tried
to spoon feed the plot to us, they trusted that we'd figure.
Now, the very last reason why I think this show was great, is because this show spent Zero seconds
trying to introduce a character for the future. They only introduced characters they needed
in this one, and didn't try to put an inside joke about the Eternals.
One of the reasons Iron Man 1 was such a massive hit was because it never tried to tell
you a story of someone other than Tony Stark. Characters like Tony Stark, Doctor Strange or
Marc Spector, who have so much dynamic in their characters, shouldn't have to rely on the already
established heroes to win over the audience. And that's exactly what the
writers made sure to do. And this is why the video is titled the
way it's titled. Please let me know if you agree with my opinions as I tried to give you as many
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