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elliott back again breaking down episode four of moon night which means we got two episodes left
and speaking of left the way that they left us at the end of this episode where do we go
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middle is it your least favorite out of the four and speaking of four let's break down this fourth
episode together from your favorite moments least favorite moments your thoughts on how they handled
the horror elements the romance the adventure and of course that ending was it all made up
this whole time was mark in this mental facility is it the afterlife is it something else entirely
let's talk thoughts theories and predictions about this fourth episode and of course what
you all hope to see in next week's episode in the comments below so get into my thoughts here
just first impressions for me i think episode 4 might be my fourth favorite episode of the four
so far i think i have episode two three and one above that now i'm not saying that this was a
terrible episode i enjoyed the horror elements i enjoyed the adventure of course the ending's
gonna leave a lot to be discussed and theories and we'll get into all that here in this review but
totally speaking it just didn't really work for me it felt kind of inconsistent and also the romance
between lila and steven just doesn't feel it feel forced if i'm being honest and we'll get into
more of my thoughts and pros and cons but this episode was just okay let me know your thoughts
in the comments and of course just a quick plug if you all don't know but we go live every single
wednesday diving deeper into the episode and i hope you all can join us today i'm going to
leave that link in the description it'll be 5 p.m central time we'll have a live discussion diving
deeper into this fourth episode so come and join us today but let's get into the breakdown full
spoilers ahead as we open the episode with where we ended which is seeing kanju getting placed into
this imprisonment now the first thing that came to my mind i'm sitting there counting there's
none other gods there which begs the question who are those other gods and what happened to
them and will they be released which speaking of release let's go ahead and free kanji asap but
i wonder will they be released by the end of this season let me know your thoughts on that but
getting back into lila who can fit for her own she takes out arthur's men and this is where stephen
wakes up and i guess stephen and mark have this in common they like to lie to lyla as he tells her
you know me and mark we made a decision we came to an agreement once kanji is off the table that
means monk's going to go bye-bye and she's like you know that does sound like something mark would
do not let me know that he's gonna be gone now so she says you know what let's go ahead and team up
together me and you stephen can figure this out on our own which i'm not gonna lie i 100 miss the
fact that we didn't get moon night we didn't get mr night and we still don't know who that third
identity is so that was some things that i really wish that we got more of in this episode i know it
wasn't night time i know kanju is in prison but i hope that they go ahead again hashtag free konju
asap so we can get more moon night mr night and eventually find out who that third identity is but
getting into one of the things that i definitely was not a fan of marvel in their romance
department it seems so forced all the time the only romance that i genuinely buy in the mcu is
what we get number one is steve and peggy from there i would say tony and pepper you know mj
and peter and i would say peter quill and more was fine but everyone else to me just feels so
like flat and feels forced especially so we just set the scene up here they make their
way to the tomb we have lyla saying oh you smell like mark like does the same body but neither here
she acknowledges that but then we see that she's going in the kiss like first and foremost what
any of this why is any of this romantic to any of you all out there like why is she now she wants
to kiss him where they're about to put their lives on the line to define this tomb to save the world
it felt so misplaced and it felt out of place if you ask me but we see you know stephen being the
bumbling nervous individual he stops her and says out of nervousness marx just wants to protect you
from kanju and that's why he's pushing you away because kanji wants to use you for an avatar
and she's like why why does he do this that and the other and then ultimately they kiss i'm like
at what point at all is this romantic ladies and gentlemen again it felt very forced to me i guess
i might be the only one that feels that way i i like layla as a character but the romance and the
chemistry between mark and her and stephen this to me just i know it's meant to feel force or not
feel forced but meant to feel kind of awkward between her and stephen because steven's an
awkward individual but i'm just not buying the chemistry between all three of them as a trio
from being honest but hey i might be on an island on that let me know your thoughts on all that did
it feel a little force i think it did but let's move on as they discover the eye of horus which
is important because as they mentioned horus is the protector of the afterlife which i think
that's where stephen and mark is and we'll get to that a little bit later but as they move on they
ultimately do find and discover ahmed and as they further move on as a horror fan this is the best
element of this episode this was the supernatural this was the horror moment that i've been waiting
for kevin feige and the producers and the creators of the show said hey there were moments where we
were shooting these these episodes and we want to pull you know are we going to go further are we
going to push that envelope well they definitely push it now by no means is this a rated r
scene but this is easily the most horrific scene that we've gotten in the mcu as we see
the protectors of the tomb carving up cutting up one of arthur's man i mean he literally pulls out
i want to say their kidney their heart something internally and puts it in the little uh case there
that was creepy but more importantly it was awesome for my horror fans out there it reminded
me so much of like the descent and also like the last of us the way like the little clicky noise
they make easily one of my favorite moments in the entire series and the best moment of the show was
seeing that creature protector cutting up that man and just setting the tone and the atmosphere
kudos to the directors setting that in the episode but this is where we get the creature spot stem
they unfortunately get split up we see yet again layla she can defend for herself and
again a really cool moment and pretty graphic moment when she stabs the creature in the eye
with the flare and she pushes them over the ledge really cool moment again there are moments that
i enjoy but again the forced romance and also getting back into just kind of the tone of this
episode just kind of felt a little bit off but meanwhile while that's going on we see that steven
comes across the lost tomb of alexander the great which as that is being discovered we cut back to
lila having a conversation with arthur and as i mentioned last week i had theorized knowing some
of the stuff that goes on the comics that yes mark was there when those archaeologists got murdered
you know brutally executed but he wasn't a trigger man as you know we see arthur telling lila that
you know when i checked his skills that he was the reason of your father's death being a part of the
team so immediately lila's upset she wants answers we see while that's going on stephen opens the
tomb of alexander goes into its mouth and he finds the actual uh imprisonment he finds a med and they
have them they finally have them in their position in possession and this is obviously where again
there's a time and a place lila you kiss steven out of nowhere going to this adventure and now you
want to confront him or i should say confront mark about the death of your father take that outside
go ahead get the mission go on to the mission but she wants to have the conversation she confronts
you know this is where stephen allows mark to have the conversation and this is very similar
to the comic books as we see mark tells her yes i was there i didn't kill your dad i actually tried
to save your dad and the other archaeologist but it was my business partner that got greedy that
went ahead and killed them and ultimately tried to kill me which is very spot for spot pace for page
for what actually happens in the comics as you all may or may not know but in this moment his partner
he's referring to goes by the name of raul bushman who is one of the oldest nemesis in the comics now
i think we're gonna get that flashback i think we're gonna actually see that scene and i also
think that bushman will make an appearance in the show not just from a flashback perspective
but in the comics he's also resurrected brought back so i think bushman will be a
character now it's only two episodes left but i imagine we're gonna get either that scene as a
flashback and also see maybe like a post credit that bushman's still alive and still out there
looking for his vengeance let me know what you all thought about that reveal and do you think
it was if you're just like me lila take that elsewhere we can handle this after we get what
we're here for but it's in this moment that arthur and his men they they find them he talks about the
freedom and how does it feel to be free from kanju and you have a decision mark and mark we know him
to be go out in in the blaze of glory he takes the acts that he finds kills some of arthur's men but
ultimately he ends up being shot in the chest and you know we see arthur say i can't help those that
don't want to be free don't want to want to help themselves and this is where we see him fall into
the water and i think him falling into the water going back to horus he is in the afterlife i don't
and this is where we cut to again it's important to note that lila has a mid so i think that she's
going to go ahead and escape and they're going to be chasing after her but it's important that she
has what they're looking for as far as the journey there but i think it's safe to say that you know
the big question is this reality is it in his head was he in this mental facility this whole time
i personally think again he's in the afterlife and i think that in this afterlife he's going
to have to come to terms with stephen mark working together but also they're going to
probably discover who that third personality is a la jake a lot a new creative personality i think
they're gonna all have to work together because if you've noticed in the previous three episodes
when mark and steven work together they work you know really good together you know when we saw him
using the tomb and giving uh mark the information they're gonna have to come together and find their
way out of this afterlife or have someone help them out of this afterlife but i think
they're not an immense facility it is an afterlife but let's go ahead and play with what the show has
given us if he is indeed in a mental facility we see that this is where mark is watching this movie
and it's like an indiana jones movie and this is where we see the stephen grant as a smart
individual which you know we know that steven's a smart individual so he created this character in
his mind we see that he has a moon knight action figure we also see the individuals within the show
being placed into this mental facility whether it's lila whether it's the police officers we see
that his golden friend is there we see that the cops are there so all the stuff again we're like
oh so the cops you know they're the leaders they're the the people that are giving them
the pills so it makes sense that they're in that position lila his romance so you're like oh okay
i'm not gonna lie again i don't think it's in it's all i don't think they're in a men's facility this
is the afterlife but it did remind me a lot of legion if you all ever watch legion which was
fantastic dan stevens was so great in that show it did give me some of those vibes there but this is
where we see arthur is the doctor of uh mark and this remark is looking around the office and he
notices the painting which he was found in episode one in that small village he sees the egyptian
gods and he also sees the cane and this is where we see marcus having like a mental breakdown like
this isn't real i know what all went down was in reality i'm not in my head he has this kind of
moment he freaks out arthur's trying to calm him down we often see that mark escapes his office
and this is where mark finds stephen in a tomb and they see each other they meet each other for
the first time person in person which i thought that seems kind of cool whenever we get like
the same actor playing themselves in a scene you and again just speaking to the performance that
is one thing that has been extremely consistent of the show oscar isaac's performance is like
emmy worthy winning that award when it comes to that time of the year but they asked each other
okay what was the last thing you remember stephen that he says he confirms i remember getting
shot and this is where i don't know if you all notice when they're running out of that room
they run past another tomb i think that tomb has the third identity a la jake or another character
but we end the episode on them running into the hippo god tort which i believe is the hippo god
and we see towards saying hi and they're both screaming freaking out end of the episode so again
taking away the things i enjoy that horror element with that creature cutting that guy up was very
cool and is just seeing the creepy scene of lila and that creature fighting was was a highlight for
me as well as the adventure of the journey the mummy indiana jones vibe that this episode had
and again just playing into the whole mind-bending episode breaking conversational piece of was this
made up the whole time i can see the appeal but i personally think no he's not in a mental facility
he's in his own head dealing with his his you know frustrations his life his regrets we might
even get a scene where their mother is in there we might get a scene where there is you know kanju
in the flesh is there i don't know the actual actors there frank murray so we might get those
moments of like coming to grips with we have to work together as a unit to get things done
and i don't know there's rumors out there that bruce banner might make an appearance
in the show which would make sense considering that bruce banner is someone that deals with
the personality of bruce and hulk and them being professor hulk which i'm not a fan of but
i can see maybe bruce maybe being involved in this show if not i'm okay with that but overall again
the relationship feels forced to me the the tonal shifts in this episode kind of felt inconsistent
but again those are just my thoughts i enjoyed it for the most part but it's just not my favorite
out of the four it's my least favorite of the four but i still think that by episode five and six
we're gonna get some pretty cool things number one the third identity kanju freeing him asap
and obviously seeing how they're gonna take out arthur and all that different stuff that
we have ahead so again let me know your favorite moments least favorite moments and your thoughts
theories and predictions about this episode and what you all hope to see in the weeks ahead again
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