Also, I only see the idea being attacked, not the person. It’s okay to attack the idea, just don’t make it personal.
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what pre spec was actually right for moon knight?
other than moon knight #2
Was that really pre-spec when it was a spoiler? And everyone of us knew it’d be short lived and to sell before the show even premiered?
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Ammit/Ammut Savage Sword of Conan 196 all though didn’t amount to much a $30-$50 book
I still don’t get how Layla is the Scarlet Scarab her outfit is white and her wings aren’t the wings of a beetle.
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Ha ha. Yeah. Sun king…. nope. Midnight Man…. not even the same. Werewolf…. not quite. Randall…. won’t even go there. The spec was so off for this show. Thanks KCC!
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Shouldn’t Layla look hippo-ish? If she was the avatar of the Hippo, how does that equate to Scarlet Scarab? She should have had a huge sumo suit and been blue, lol.
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Didn’t she say something to the effect that if she became her avatar, she chose her look?..or was that in my mind. I know Layla said she was in charge of how long she would be the avatar. I need to go back and watch it but I’m feeling lazy.
“We looked at all the classic villains. There were a couple that we really talked about; Stained Glass Scarlet, Sun King, Zodiac… Different characters like that. No one really kind of fit the parameters of the story we were telling, so we just decide ‘You know what, we can just introduce a guy, and we’ll grab a name from comics’. Marvel gave me a list of every villain whose ever appeared in a Moon Knight comic. I just went through and went like, ‘Arthur Harrow, that sounds like a cool villain name, let’s go with that.’”
Just imagine how good it would have been if they put ANY thought into the show…
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Fixed it for ya…
“Just imagine how good it would have been if they had put Moon Knight into the show…”
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I just picked a random name from a list of Moon Knight villains……WOW who hired this guy.
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Marvel was very supportive!
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I liked the show despite its faults and am the biggest Moon Knight fan here besides @agentpoyo and am unsure what he thought. I know some die-hard MK fans hated the show, according to some Moon Knight fan groups I am in. Opinion was quite split.
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I really enjoyed the show. Not so impressed with the different characters when there were already plenty that could have been used, but it was at least Moon Knight and I hope to see more.
I’m a fan too. I only have 3 long boxes of him though.
I thought it started REALLY strong and finished strong, with a few meh episodes in the middle. Overall, it was good. I’m not going to complain about much in the MCU, though. Even the not as good stuff has been pretty entertaining. Keep it coming, Marvel.
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I have yet to watch it. Was waiting for all the episodes to come out to binge them all but have yet to take the time to dedicate binge watching them. Soon hopefully!
For first three episodes Steven was almost unbearably obnoxious. After they brought Marc into the picture the show became an enjoyable watch. This seems like a symptom of the Disney+ weekly release formula more broadly, though. If they have 6 45 minute episodes, they need to stretch the story over those run times and weekly breaks. All totaled these mini series are 6 hour movies. That’s a lot of space to fill if you’re hard up for story beats. WandaVision had dead spots, so did Falcon, Loki, and Book of Boba Fett. The teams behind the shows end up writing for the end of episode Cliff-hangers and most of the pay-offs are lame in the next episode. We didn’t really need a week between seeing a giant hippo and then learning that her name was Teweret. You can figure that one out from context (Konshu’s a giant personified bird, got it, the gods are animals). These types of build ups and let downs just make things feel contrived and undermine the confidence the viewer has in the narrative. How many times can you cry wolf with a cliff-hanger? Personally, I’d rather see a tight three episodes than a loose 6.
Not being steeped in Moon Knight comics history, I had the benefit of not being bogged down by expectations.
It did seem like some cinematic elements of Memento, Shutter Island, and Fight Club kind of got watered down into a cocktail for Marc’s condition. There again, all Marvel movies tend to borrow from the zeitgeist and realign those elements into a mass appeal sort of formula, so I’m not surprised.
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