what's going on to all my mcu fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott
back again breaking down the first episode of the new mcu disney plus series by the name of
moon knight a character i'm vaguely familiar with from the comics but i'm really excited to
learn more about the character in this series we're diving into egyptian gods for diamonds to
the supernatural oscar isaac ethan hawk i'm so excited for this series and i'm really excited
to break down this first episode for you all here in this spoiler review before we get into it make
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below prider moon knight what was your favorite disney plus show that we got from the mcu what
was your kind of understanding of the moonlight character but more importantly once you've seen
this first episode thoughts pros cons what do you think about the performances the greater how does
this connect to the greater mcu is this pre-snap post snap or should say blip what were some things
that you love didn't love and of course will you be back to watch this on a weekly basis let's talk
about all that in the comments below so get into my incitement level my anticipation for the show
if you all have been following this channel for a while especially in the last year
i've covered all the mcu shows some of them i have you know these breakdowns like we're doing today
i have a live after show that i have my co-host amanda and chris which we will be breaking down
moon night every single wednesday today come and join us at 4 30 p.m central time hope you all can
join us but for the most part i've enjoyed these marvel cinematic shows i think for me
loki and wanda vision are my favorite i've enjoyed the other ones but you know those two really kind
of stand out to me but the thing that gets me excited for moon night all those other shows
were established characters yes we got sylvie we got you know wanda vision and the kids and
white vision and we got a new version of captain america new side of bucky we got a new hawkeye but
those were already established characters to a certain degree and we saw just another side
of them right or evolution of the character this is a brand new character and this is also
a new side of the mcu that we really haven't explored which is the super natural which is a
horror fan i'm here for it right and i'm just so excited to learn more about these egyptian gods
are they at all connected to black panther god you know what we got with celestials and
thor that mythology as well as going back to that supernatural comment we already got introduced to
blade of a certain extent with his voice being in the after credits we already met by kid harrington
you know we got a daredevil now we're hopefully bringing back john berthold as the punisher
we're gonna get maybe a you know we're getting this moon night we got a ghost rider i don't know
if you all are familiar with the midnight suns but if that's the end game that we're leading
to with the supernatural you know we already got doctor strange oh yeah i am here for it
so i was really excited for this series and here are my spoiler thoughts about this first episode
just overall impressions before we really break it down as far as an episode one goes i was content
you know i wasn't blown away by this first episode there were some moments i really enjoyed and had
a good time with and it was some other moments i was like ah it's not hidden the way i wanted to
and particularly the mature nature that was kind of given as far as the press news and some of the
stuff from the craziest show oh we're gonna get deep we're gonna push the envelope i didn't really
see that in this first episode again there's many episodes to come but as far as this first episode
go they cut away from a lot of the action they cut away from a lot of the violence which was like
i want to see that but again we'll get into it here in my breakdown but overall
i was content i was okay by this first episode wasn't wow by any way but i'm really excited to
learn more about the characters my big thing but again let me know your first impressions
of the first episode in the comments let's break it all down full spoilers ahead as we meet and
i love when a show and a movie we introduce our villain before we meet our hero and we meet ethan
hawks arthur hero who is our villain of the show and i always love ethan hawk and i find him to
pick this project to be very unique because he is someone i've been following his career for a while
he's very meticulous about the projects and the time he puts into his projects and him committing
to a television series a marvel television series really kind of speaks to me that there's something
in the script and something in the character that really peaked his interest that gets me
very excited but we see his routine very early on drinks his water crushes the water puts that
crushed glass in his shoes and goes about his day very interesting character i'm very excited
to learn more about him we'll obviously talk more about him and his scenes a little bit later on but
first impressions you all excited about ethan hawk as this arthur villain character let me know your
thoughts on that but we meet our villain let's transition over to our hero who is stephen grant
who stephen is a you know mild mannered british individual that works in a gift
shop and he definitely is uh you know not the most uh he doesn't stand up for himself right
we see his boss continuously is just nagging on him he doesn't have many friends he has a golden
human mannequin as someone he you know talks to and tells him all his things that he's
done for the day so a very much a lonely individual and i'll just say in regards to
other stuff that we learned about stephen he brings up his mom a couple times in this episode
and we don't really hear him interacting with her he leaves her a bunch of voicemails and we assume
that she's doing the same thing or is she and that makes me think about you know baron zemo
if you were a member of civil war he would call his you know his wife and kids who we know died in
age of ultron or during that time that the sokovia you know incident happened with ultron i wonder if
steven's doing the same thing if his mom passed away and by her passing that was the breaking
point that's when he had these split personalities or she's existing she's real or mark spector who
we'll talk about later maybe he invented this mom to kind of give this contentment for steven
i guess we'll find out but i want to know from you all do you think the mom exists
is that something you are thinking about let us know your thoughts in the comments but getting
back into routines we see steven's routine every night he you know clips his leg to his bed he
ties up the door he doesn't want to leave the house because apparently he sleepwalks and he
does things that he doesn't remember he has these blackout moments and he doesn't remember anything
from his memories which we'll talk about here in a second but now this leads us to
our kind of big action moment uh besides the ending we have him waking up his open field
we have him finding this this mysterious item in his pocket that's where the guy starts shooting
at him he runs into the town he runs into arthur and seeing him doing his thing for the first time
which again from this scene we learned that you know arthur and this people of the town
worship him look up to him but in particularly him worshiping amid which is a the god associated
with with the dead and known as you know eats hearts and most importantly he judges or this
god judges sinners so that's their big belief system but in particularly that's who arthur
believes in and i wonder if it speaks to him very similar to what we'll talk about with mark spector
and kanju and all that stuff is it someone that he's trying to resurrect he's trying to bring back
the dead something to look forward to but it's in this scene that you know we see arthur points out
stephen or as he knows or you're a mercenary you know he knows him as mark spector this is where we
kind of get that split personality for the first time in the show because it's at this point that
arthur says give me the item i'm not going to ask you again and we see stephen is willingly try to
give him the item but unfortunately kanju and more particularly the other person inside of stephen
aka mark spector no this is something we need we don't want to hand this over and we see the whole
back and forth tug and pull and this is where arthur and his goons collect stephen and this
is where again i was hoping to see the brutality i was hoping to see the fight but we see him
black out and we alluding to mark spectrum the mercenary the hand-to-hand combat expert he
takes out the goons and we see that blood on the floor and blood on the characters but it's like
that's cool but let me see that in action let me get that daredevil type of moment when it's the
blood and the the fighting and the hand-in-hand combat again i know this is the first episode
you want to you know give the the audience a tease but i don't want to tease i want to dive into that
aspect hopefully that's going to be explored more on the show because i really want to dive
deeper into the mature nature of this particular character and hopefully that leads more into what
we can expect to see from a blade what we can expect to see from a daredevil we can expect
to see from punisher on so on and so forth so i hope that's just kind of like you know the jaws
effect let's allude to the monster and then later on we'll show you what the monster can
really do but let me know were you all slightly disappointed and not seen mark spector hand
hand bloody combat let me know your thoughts on that but we go from that sequence we lead into a
i don't see mediocre chase sequence because again we have to remember it's mark or i'm sorry
it's it's steven right it's steven who's doing all this stuff so of course it's gonna not be
action heavy it's not gonna be super cool because steven's not super cool but we see that the car
takes place and we have it where he cuts in and out again with him and mark and mark's obviously
taking out the goons left and right and he's left at the point where the car runs out of gas
he the goons are gonna catch him but then he wakes up he wakes back up in his bed and he's like oh
i guess it was all a dream it was all fake which is so that's going to be an interesting aspect of
the show what really happened what's real is it all made up in his head is it something that's
really taken place and that's something i know the comic book really explores especially the new
interpretation and there's many interpretations of moon knight and mark specter and the different
identities that he has so that for me is something i'm going to keep an eye out for for the rest of
the series but again action wise we get the fight we get the car sequence it was fine it was okay it
was okay again let me know your overall thoughts on all of that stuff but cutting back to steven
he discovers the phone the wall which we've seen in the ads and there's a clip online about that he
calls he sees the number the number calls it's uh layla who's a character i'm really excited to see
her connections because she mentions mark which is the first time that steven's hearing that name
mark they haven't spoken in months and you know it seems to be some type of established
relationship there but then more importantly as far as not only meeting mark in the scene but then
he meets hanzo the moon god and a character that we've obviously have seen in this early episode
it speaks to to stephen it speaks to mark so i'm loving that we're going to get this trio
of characters and how they're gonna all be able to work together to be on the same page i was really
excited to learn more about kanju and what he kind of adds to the mcu what he asks is his dynamic
i'm really excited for all that but getting back into wrapping up the episode steven again meets
arthur at his place of work he gets more into his beliefs of uh ahmed and his beliefs into
all the stuff that it brings and his uh you know the whole scales on his arm he testes he judges
stephen and he says to him you have chaos in you and he lets him go away i'm like that's pretty
why are you letting him go away that was odd but no we see arthur summons this demon-like
creature and it chases him and i don't think i know some people were when we saw the trailer
months and months ago people were alluding to werewolf by night i don't think that was a word of
to my understanding that was just more or less creature from the anubis guy which is the god
of the dead which ties back to ahmed so i wonder if that's what that creature was and how it kind
of comes to be and not necessarily like i said a werewolf but going to the the money shot of the
episode steven runs into the bathroom he's scared he's frightened but this is where he
talks to mark and mark says let me save you let me help you i can get you out of the situation
we see the transformation take place we see mark spector comes out and he's we don't get
the whole full transformation but we see the moon night costume coming to him consume him
we see and it was i'm not gonna lie i was a tidbit underwhelmed by that scene because we
had seen it literally it was leaked like a year ago and then of course they had an advertisement
where we see moon knight punching the the creature that was summoned by arthur and i was just like ah
i seen that and i was hoping that was maybe another angle maybe more to that scene but no
that's the scene and again i know for some people that hasn't seen the mark and they're probably
like oh my gosh that's so cool he transformed he's fighting this werewolf looking thing
this demon that's awesome but for me i'm like yeah i've seen that done that but neither here nor
i don't want to take away from again the coolness of seeing the scene obviously and him transforming
fighting the the monster again i was hoping for more blood more you know some some violence in the
scene but we didn't really get all that again it's just a tease just an episode one for hopefully
what's to come so again overall there are some things that i took away from again oscar isaac
performance was really unique seeing him playing you know steve and seeing him having the moments
with playing mark spector and i hope to learn more about mark and how he got into this situation how
he got tied into uh kanju and how that's gonna all that trio of them together how does layla
fit into that you know arthur and his worshipping of the ahmed god and you know the guy that's known
for judging sinners and all that stuff and how that ties into the greater mcu like i mentioned
the black panther god the celestials thor so on and so forth so i'm excited to learn more about
the greaterness and the the larger nature of the mcu and how moon knight fits into all that which
let me know in the comments timeline wise i didn't see any easter eggs that it lose to okay this is
pre you know thanos snap or if it was after i'm assuming that most of phase four will be after
thanos besides obviously black black widow but i don't know where this falls in timeline again
they have said that this right now is kind of a self-contained show with hints at the mcu there's
rumors that certain characters might appear here you know that i don't really care about
the cameo so much because every single cameo in the mcu the tv show so far besides kang has been
very underwhelming the kingpin one again you can watch my previous reviews to get my thoughts on
all those shows but a lot of the cameos minus kang by jonathan major everything else has been kind of
lackluster so again if we get a blade if we get you know a punisher if we get a daredevil that's
going to be cool but i'm not looking for the show for a big cameo i'm looking for a good show good
performances exploring these characters exploring the the depths of the supernatural and the more
mature stuff of this character so that's what i'm excited to see and i hope that we get marvel
please don't leave me hanging you all have said that this will be a darker show a more mature show
don't just allude to the violence show it to me please make that happen especially now
with parental control i know it's a kid-friendly company but those kids that saw iron man in 2008
they're mature now they've grown up with the mcu so can we get more mature mcu i would appreciate
it as a die hard fan of the mcu but neither here nor there i enjoyed this first episode i wasn't
impressed by it i wasn't wowed by it it isn't breaking new ground per se but i can see how the
show could maybe get into that category but as of right now i'm not you know screaming at the
rooftops is the greatest thing since sliced bread but i'm excited to explore more of this character
and more so excited to explore it with you all so let me know in the comments again pros cons
thoughts theories what do you hope to get from the show what do you hope to get from moon night
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