At the halfway point of the Disney Plus limited series,Moon KnightEpisode 3 continues what has been a ridiculously fast-paced show. This time around Marc, Steven, and Khonshu have traveled to Egypt to stop Arthur Harrow from getting what he wants. That namely is to find a sarcophagus that would help him find andeventually release Ammit, the god he works for who wants to judge the world. Unsurprisingly, Harrow continues to stay one step ahead of the trio of personalities that are all encapsulated in one body. Though it appears that the three are starting to learn how to co-exist once again after something happened that led to a kind of imbalance that caused the problems that were shown in the premiere episode ofMoon Knight.
Since the beginning of theDisney Plusseries, there have been some action sequences that hinted at a kind of Indiana Jones feel to the show and that’s fully embraced in Episode 3. Near the top of the show, Marc is shown running and jumping on the rooftops of an Egyptian village apparently looking for someone who can tell him where the sarcophagus is that is at the center of the episode. He eventually finds the man, though a group of thugs found him first and killed him before Marc could speak to him.
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Once he runs across the knife-wielding enemies a fight that is quite reminiscent of the famous fight in Indiana Jones when he takes on a villain who really enjoys showing off his knife skills by shooting him. That idea is adapted inthis episode ofMoon Knightwhen one of the baddies tries to intimidate Marc by … licking his knife. Rather than being intimidated, Spector takes the opportunity to punch the thug in the face and basically take control of the fight from there. Speaking of control, the fight also shows the trick that was shown off the most in the show’s first episode, where Marc/Steven encounters a kind of time jump and this particular time jump tends to be when the biggest bloodiest fights are carried out.
This is also the period of time when yet another mystery is injected intoMoon Knightand one that seems like it will need to be answered before the show wraps its six-episode run. While the first episode hinted that when the most violent action was being carried out it was Marc Spector that was dealing out punishment, he seems to swear it wasn’t and isn’t. In fact, after waking up as he’s stabbing a combatant, he blames the stabbing on Steven, who in turn swears that it wasn’t him that did it. That would seem to hint that there is a third personality that is able to control of the body and doesn’t have any qualms about killing.
Those who haveread theMoon Knightcomicslikely know who this third personality is though it appears that he’s been changed up a bit in the same way that Steven Grant has in order to pull the Disney Plus show off. In the comics, the Steven Grant that readers know is actually a very rich man, as opposed to a harried and haunted gift shop employee. It appears this third personality is going to show himself to be bloodthirsty and uncaring about harming other people. Just why there’s a need for this third character is a bit hazy. It appears that Disney and or Marvel want to make sure that the audience knows that it wasn’t Marc Spector that was taking people down with ruthless efficiency so that he can be viewed as a hero. But the show seemed to be doing fine when Marc was a kind of antihero so this particular addition seems both needless and more than a little lame.
The show also took some interesting liberties with how Marc and Steven interact that make the mystery of the third person all the more confusing. The two main personalities are now talking to each other quite often and are even cooperating to one degree or another when it comes to control of the body. This isn’t the first time this is how a comic book show has portrayed personality disorders before.Doom Patrolfor one, has one of the main characters often talk and argue with her many personalities. It’s a little odd for this particular show considering it wasn’t that long ago that Steven didn’t have any idea he was one of many personalities.
The hangup of how quickly the personalities seem to be working as a team aside, it was quite a bit of fun to see Steven and Marc hand off the body during different parts of the show. There was one particular scene when the Moon Knight character had put on his cloaked suit and was fighting multiple baddies at the sarcophagus. At first, Steven wanted to take over and the suit immediatelyturned into Mr. Knight, further showing how their personalities even have their own uniforms.
When the fight became too much for Steven, he handed the body back to Mark who finished the battle. That battle also showed just how muchdamage Moon Knight can takeas he had several spears run through him and it seemed as if they didn’t bother him all that much. That was of course explained away a bit earlier in the episode when Khonshu said his powers were a “shield of healing.”
In the episode as a whole, the action took center stage more than it had in any of the otherinstallments ofMoon Knight. It was a far cry from the season premiere that avoided showing any fights with the flash-forwards. The show did seem to sacrifice story for that action and hurried through a few plot points, like the meeting of the other Egyptian gods and their avatars. It does appear some blanks will be filled in next week, but as with the other episodes, the show, on the whole, felt like it was rushing through the plot in order to get somewhereMoon Knighthasn’t gotten to just yet.
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