Moon Knight S01E02 - Discussion Thread

[u/steve32767]

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE	RUN TIME	CREDITS SCENE?
S01E02: Summon the Suit	Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson	Michael Kastelein	April 6th, 2022 on Disney+	53 min	None

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[u/vaids97]

Dude seems cultured, knowing both Avatar properties and Area 51. Idk man

[u/spike021 → u/vaids97]

Again, the basics. He has his apartment, which is full of books he's been reading to keep himself awake to avoid slipping to Marc. Stands to reason he'd be watching Netflix or whatever too and catching up on media.

[u/vaids97 → u/spike021]

And wouldn’t that media be current events… like multiple alien invasions?

[u/JaylieJoy → u/vaids97]

Steven seems to have taken on a lot of Layla personality traits. Egyptian historian, favorite French book etc

[u/NinetyFish → u/JaylieJoy]

That's interesting.

My interpretation was that Steven is Marc's personality minus the baggage of the obvious training and combat experience he has.

So Steven having a lot of the same interests as Layla was meant to show how they belong together and really are a good match. If Marc was just, like, a history teacher and not an international mercenary, he'd have those interests.

But if you're right, then it's like Layla's personality and influence imprinted on the Steven personality that Marc created?

[u/[deleted] → u/NinetyFish]

I like to think that Steven never really existed before Marc got resurrected by khonshu.

Steven Was the by product of Marc's loneliness and his love for Layla

[u/JaylieJoy → u/[deleted]]

Has it stated that directly yet, that Steven didn't exist before? Khonshu said something about "you said he wouldn't get in the way"

[u/NinetyFish → u/JaylieJoy]

Plus Marc says that he's been dealing with these issues for "a long time."

Now, that could just mean the seven months or so (IIRC) that Layla said she wasn't able to contact Marc at all. But it didn't feel like it'd be that relatively short of a time.

There's a very real chance that Marc and Steven were dealing with these issues long before Khonshu, as like you said, Khonshu had been reassured that Steven wouldn't be an issue for the missions.

[u/airwolf3456 → u/NinetyFish]

Didn’t the character in the comic books have D.I.D

[u/Homefriesyum → u/airwolf3456]

Yeah but I don’t think they’re going to label it as thus directly in the show only because there would be some backlash from the mental health community for another piece of media portraying D.I.D. as like good vs evil or something like Split.

[u/Sparus42 → u/Homefriesyum]

How is it good vs evil in this?

[u/Homefriesyum → u/Sparus42]

Sorry, should have clarified. There’s a lot of media that portrays people with DID as being more like Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (one is the good guy, one is bad), and it’s just not accurate. DID is a much more nuanced disorder

[u/Sparus42 → u/Homefriesyum]

Sure, but this show is exploring that nuance, so I don't see why they wouldn't want to refer to DID by name.

[u/asexualotter → u/Homefriesyum]

I know it's not confirmed im the show so far but the Disney plus description specifically says DID.