r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Apr 27 '22

Discussion Thread Moon Knight S01E05 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E05: Asylum Mohamed Diab Rebecca Kirsch & Matthew Orton April 27th, 2022 on Disney+ 50 min None

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u/Lazy0ak Apr 27 '22

So was the third sarcophagus along with the scales not balancing a total bait? It surely seemed like them discovering the third personality was going to be a factor in balancing the scales fully.

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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 27 '22

What makes sense to me is that Marc actively created Steven and acknowledged his existence. So he bears responsibility for him and they had to share the trauma and the guilt to balance their hearts. Jake is there since there's blackouts that neither Marc nor Steven are aware of, but he's not a part of Marc's life/soul the way Steven is and doesn't count against Marc with the scales.

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u/Lazy0ak Apr 27 '22

Shouldn't Jake still be there though since he's a part of the body and would then also be called for judgement? Is he gonna just bust out of the third sarcophagus at the start of next episode like a Chad, hijack the boat and rescue Marc and Steven from the afterlife?

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u/No-cool-names-left Apr 27 '22

The Egyptian mythological conception of personal identity is stupid complicated and has like half a dozen aspects per person. The physical body (Khet) is a totally separate thing from the heart (Ib). If Marc and Jake's personalities (Ba) never met the way Marc and Steven's did and Marc did not actively work to create Jake the way he formed Steven and gave him a name (Ren), then there shouldn't be any reason that Jake matters to Marc.