“Moon Knight” Takes Control of Disney+
By Rizwan Khan
By Rizwan Khan
The iconic Marvel hero from the comics finally joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe in six episode series “Moon Knight,” which started streaming on Disney+ on March 30.
The show follows a friendly gift shop employee, Steven Grant, played by Oscar Isaac, who is trying to convince his boss to let him become a tour guide. However, unfortunately for him his life starts to get weird. Through a series of blackouts and mental episodes, Steven learns that he shares his body with another personality named Marc Specter. He also learns that they serve the moon god, Khonshu,played by F. Murray Abraham. Together they learn to work together against Arthur Harrow, played by Ethan Hawke, former avatar of Khonshu, who plans to release the Egyptian god Ammit into the world.
I really enjoy this series. It has great action sequences and is a lot darker than other Marvel projects. There is a certain sequence in a tomb that has a horror aspect to it and some of the action scenes show a little more of the fight than usual. It also does a great job of playing games with your mind and it is very hard to predict what’s going to happen next. In that aspect it reminds me of “WandaVision,” how it’s hard to figure out what’s going to happen next and whether things were actually happening or if they were just in Steven’s head.
Ethan Truong, 9, enjoys the series so far and likes the villain. He also enjoys how it’s darker than other Marvel projects.
“I like how they make the villain someone you can sympathize with. Marvel does a good job with that. You understand their plan but you also know the flaws too,” says Truong. “The show has great action too. I really enjoyed watching Marc taking down people with his crescent darts.”
I also like the main antagonist, Arthur Harrow. He plans on releasing Ammit into the world because she will eradicate all evil people before they do the evil deeds so the rest of the world can live in peace. The plan reminds me of how in “Captain America: Winter Soldier,” S.H.I.E.L.D. (actually Hydra) planned to release the Insight Helicarriers so that they could take down bad people before they could commit crimes. It also reminds me of how in the movie “Minority Report” there are these people who can predict murders so police can capture the murderers before they kill someone. In both of these movies these plans failed because the villains would manage to use the system to their own advantage and because the idea of punishing someone before they do something wrong is not right. As much as you sympathize with the plan, you know it’s wrong. Harrow talks about the people that Ammit will get rid of as a diseased limb that needs to be amputated, but those people also include children so that’s where Steven and Marc draw their line.
Freshman Aidan Placensia liked how comic accurate Marc’s origin was and enjoyed Moon Knight’s suit.
“I am surprised how Marc has almost the exact same origin as the comics, where his partner kills a bunch of archaeologists and when Marc fights him, he gets killed and revived by Khonshu. Maybe later in the series we might meet his former partner. I also believe that this series might slightly be connected to Black Panther because Bast, the panther god, might be connected to the other Egyptian gods,” said Placensia.
I really love the series and would recommend it. It has lots of great action and is great at making you wonder what is going to happen next. It plays lots of games with your mind and the characters are also great. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
“Moon Knight” is currently streaming on Disney+.
The show follows a friendly gift shop employee, Steven Grant, played by Oscar Isaac, who is trying to convince his boss to let him become a tour guide. However, unfortunately for him his life starts to get weird. Through a series of blackouts and mental episodes, Steven learns that he shares his body with another personality named Marc Specter. He also learns that they serve the moon god, Khonshu,played by F. Murray Abraham. Together they learn to work together against Arthur Harrow, played by Ethan Hawke, former avatar of Khonshu, who plans to release the Egyptian god Ammit into the world.
I really enjoy this series. It has great action sequences and is a lot darker than other Marvel projects. There is a certain sequence in a tomb that has a horror aspect to it and some of the action scenes show a little more of the fight than usual. It also does a great job of playing games with your mind and it is very hard to predict what’s going to happen next. In that aspect it reminds me of “WandaVision,” how it’s hard to figure out what’s going to happen next and whether things were actually happening or if they were just in Steven’s head.
Ethan Truong, 9, enjoys the series so far and likes the villain. He also enjoys how it’s darker than other Marvel projects.
“I like how they make the villain someone you can sympathize with. Marvel does a good job with that. You understand their plan but you also know the flaws too,” says Truong. “The show has great action too. I really enjoyed watching Marc taking down people with his crescent darts.”
I also like the main antagonist, Arthur Harrow. He plans on releasing Ammit into the world because she will eradicate all evil people before they do the evil deeds so the rest of the world can live in peace. The plan reminds me of how in “Captain America: Winter Soldier,” S.H.I.E.L.D. (actually Hydra) planned to release the Insight Helicarriers so that they could take down bad people before they could commit crimes. It also reminds me of how in the movie “Minority Report” there are these people who can predict murders so police can capture the murderers before they kill someone. In both of these movies these plans failed because the villains would manage to use the system to their own advantage and because the idea of punishing someone before they do something wrong is not right. As much as you sympathize with the plan, you know it’s wrong. Harrow talks about the people that Ammit will get rid of as a diseased limb that needs to be amputated, but those people also include children so that’s where Steven and Marc draw their line.
Freshman Aidan Placensia liked how comic accurate Marc’s origin was and enjoyed Moon Knight’s suit.
“I am surprised how Marc has almost the exact same origin as the comics, where his partner kills a bunch of archaeologists and when Marc fights him, he gets killed and revived by Khonshu. Maybe later in the series we might meet his former partner. I also believe that this series might slightly be connected to Black Panther because Bast, the panther god, might be connected to the other Egyptian gods,” said Placensia.
I really love the series and would recommend it. It has lots of great action and is great at making you wonder what is going to happen next. It plays lots of games with your mind and the characters are also great. I can’t wait to see what happens next.
“Moon Knight” is currently streaming on Disney+.