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That was surprisingly great. The show lost me last week, but when Marc tell Steven that he is his actual superpower it totally won me back. I also feel like the events of the episode made the pain and horror of the last episode feel worthwhile, which is no easy feat.

I'm glad the third personality wasn't forgotten. The reality is Khonshu is a total manipulative bastard and always has been.

Will there be a season two? The open ending says it's possible, but there was no teaser at the end of the credits promising it either. We'll have to see, I guess. I however would not like to leave things here.

Nevertheless, I was very satisfied with that. *****.

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That was difficult to watch.

Aside from the premise being a bit triggering for me, I found the ideas explored and the idea that Steven was a problem for Mark to work through just morally wrong. Steven isn't a crutch, he's an ideal. And acting like killing him off is balancing the scales is wrongheaded.

Was the drama good, or even great? I would say so. Did I like or enjoy it? Very much not. I have talked about the notions of "good hurts" and "bad hurts" in fiction before, and that was an unambiguously bad one. In its defense, as far as the reality of his awful mother goes, it was at least a truthful one. And sometimes hurts are just hurts and just plain BAD. I acknowledge and concede this, while also saying that that kind of drama isn't my cup of tea and never was. We'll see how next week goes, but I think this episode went a long way towards this show losing me and not ever being able to get me back.

Steven was the one guy who (correctly) told Marc that his brother's death wasn't his fault and that his mother was wrong. Probably the first time he's EVER heard that (even his weak and worthless father probably refused to say it) and I refuse abide by a moral that the first person telling Marc this true thing is the reason his scales are unbalanced. Because it's not true, whether the show thinks it is or not.

Steven also gets points for pointing out Honshu was taking advantage of Marc from the start. Something I had been saying all along, and I refuse to believe somebody speaking that truth is a weakness.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this will be the first Marvel Studios TV show I don't wind up liking. In hindsight, The Falcon And The Winter Soldier doesn't hold up so hot either, but I enjoyed it at the time. I can't even give Moon Knight that much. It's kind of a downer and a bummer. I'm not happy. *.

I think the three personalities may have been telegraphed from the first episode...  I haven't gone back to check, yet, but I noticed something in the end credits today.  When Oscar Isaac's name is shown the photo of him has the face detached from the head with three faces floating in front of the head like masks, something most people would just chalk up to a graphic design choice in the first couple of episodes if it is also there.

I'm enjoying the show but I'm kind of like Fone in that it's going down week by week.  The show feels disconnected from the MCU.  There has been no reference that I've caught to MCU history, no mention of other characters (hero or villain).  I get that the locals are new to the MCU and the other characters have to reason to be there but still seems like there would be someone in the background wearing a t-shirt or a store front or vendor stall with hero knick-knacks... Maybe there is and I've just missed it...  Of course this is, also, the first D+ show to focus on a character that we've never met before though the ads for Ms. Marvel show that that sort of disconnect won't happen in that show...  I dunno...

I find it interesting that the Norse gods are aliens in the MCU but the Egyptian are "real".  I've heard that Zeus is in Love and Thunder which makes me wonder how they approach the Greek pantheon.

I agree with all of this. My interest in the show is waning.