I love that you’re all “we don’t know the facts” in the same post as assuming the nature of the joke and guessing at Palmer’s sense of humor.

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Woman. You can just say woman. “Female” is so weird.

I mean, an entire production was shut down. People lost their jobs. It might be a little important.

We actually got Jake in this episode, and he’d fit with your thought - when Marc is zapped back to Harrow’s office he shows up with a bandage on his nose and traces of blood. He speaks differently, has a different, tougher accent, and his attitude is way more aggressive.

On that trauma part, that’s like not at all how fucking trauma works. To the degree that I’m struggling a bit on how to reasonably respond to this. I mean, the argument is that Marc created a personality to take over to receive the beatings, but somehow Marc is still the one who remembers the horror of the beatings…

They snubbed Tatiana Maslany for the first few years of Orphan Black as well, and only reluctantly started nominating her after there was an outcry about it. But Marvel is so much more high profile than TGP or Orphan Black, so fingers crossed I guess?

There was nothing hilariously stupid about Steven asking Taweret to get a message to Layla. Taweret is a god, with an avatar, and that would be well within her abilities. She was just seeing that the gods’ laws were being broken and Steven naturally thought she may break her own rules in that moment and offered a…

It has been heavily implied that there is a third personality that is a lot more angry and brutal than Marc or Steven. Apparently in the comics there is a personality named Jake, so a lot of fans are assuming thats him.

I was thinking about this basically the whole episode after that scene, and the only thing that makes sense is Steven originally did not have full perception of his surroundings. So anytime his mom was abusive, Marc called in Steven who just blissfully coasted through it, unable to perceive what was truly happening.

This is my favorite episode so far. If Oscar Isaac is not nominated for an Emmy, my respect for that institution will reach a brand new bottom.

I hadn’t thought of the possibility that it was the third personality that killed her dad (maybe familiarity with the comics origin kept me from thinking of it?), and now I’m disappointed because that sounds pretty likely and now I won’t be surprised. lol

And Red Dwarf did it before Star Trek (“Back to Reality”, 1992, one of the most acclaimed episodes).

it's pretty clearly taking heavy influence from Jeff Lemire’s run on Moon Knight which used the mental hospital as a reason to get some truly powerful insights into Marc as a character. not to mention the whole cliffhanger into hospital reality felt very Legion. I’d say those are much clearer reference points here…

it’s obvious they never went to egypt in the first place for any of this.

didn’t even realize it was supposed to be a plot twist.. i just thought “ah, they are doing a legion/buffy/harry potter thing where this is the afterlife, false memory, illusion.. k carry on”

A lot of shows have used that trope.  I actually intentionally skip the Buffy episode because it has no bearing on the overall plot of the season.

Literally every 90s-era Star Trek show did an episode like that before Buffy.

I’m so fucking tired of those people. We can’t just enjoy a superhero thing or get real emotional catharsis from it during a time of death and grief and fear. We’re not supposed to like Hamilton anymore for some reason. Ted Lasso is bad, actually. If I ever created something that was generally enjoyed, I’d remove…

I never got the dismissive backlash to this line. Of course the sentiment has been said before, in different words. The beauty of art is that a lot of its messages are universal—not every piece of art has to touch everyone the same way.