Marc may be throwing that all out the window, which will throw Harrow off his game. Like most cult leaders, Harrow maintains control over his followers by dictating reality to them. By doing so, he’s fighting Harrow on Harrow’s terms. What we may be watching, then, is Marc fighting back against Harrow by looking at reality in a different way. As he learned to work with his mental state, Marc discovered he could deal with issues in ways that others could not. But in Lemire and Smallwood’s run, Marc discovers that his different way of approaching the world was itself a gift, a type of special ability. When most creative teams would address Marc’s mental state, they would describe it as broken, as if there was a coherent whole that Marc needed to achieve. One of Lemire and Smallwood’s most important contributions to Moon Knight canon is reframing his mental illness. “Within the pages, you turn the page and you start to see them reflect on each other in a Watchman-esque way.” “Personally, our biggest inspiration was the Lemire and Smallwood run,” directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson tell Den of Geek.
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But readers of the comics will recognize the shift as a direct adaptation of one of the best Moon Knight runs, issues #1-14 of the 2016 series by writer Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood. Even worse, Arthur Harrow appears to be operating the hospital, diagnosing Marc as suffering a mental breakdown.įor viewers of the show, the change seems to come out of nowhere.
In an unbroken one-shot, the camera floats through the space, revealing many of the side characters we’ve seen to be either orderlies and patients, including Layla. When Marc awakes, he finds himself in a clean, white mental hospital. Thirty-five minutes into Moon Knight episode four “The Tomb,” Arthur Harrow shoots Marc and watches him sink into a golden pool of water. And we expected that the show might jump from the Cairo setting of episodes three and four, in the same way it jumped from the London of episodes one and two, but we didn’t think the next location would be a mental hospital. Sure, the show certainly had more mysteries to unravel, including Marc’s connection to Layla’s father and the third personality vexing him and Steven. Hmm, we thought we had it all figured out! We thought Moon Knight had settled into its groove as a globe-trotting adventure series in the vein of Indiana Jones or The Mummy. This article contains spoilers for Marvel’s Moon Knight episode 4.
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