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Okay, gosh. Hello. Hello, South by. My name is Jason. This is Rose Knight. Welcome to X-ray Vision, the Crooked podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, pop culture. We're here live at South by Southwest.

Yeah. I've got so much coffee in my bloodstream right now. And we're going to talk about a bunch of MCU stuff. We're here to talk about multiverse and then we're here to answer some questions and listener questions, audience questions and stuff like that. Rosie, how are you? How is your Austin experience been this far? It's been lovely. This is my first time in Austin, my first time at South by.

I have a lot of green tea streaming through my veins. We're heavily armed now. It's wonderful to be here. Okay, let's talk about let's go to the news previously on. Should we play the trailer first? Or should we just talk about it first? Let's do play it first. Okay, let's play. Can we play the latest trailer of Disney plus's Moon Knight series? And I'm going to watch it as we play it. Thanks, Chris. Thank you.

Sounds dramatic. The fun of Moon Knight is getting introduced to a new superhero in a new world. It's a real legitimate character study. I can't tell the difference between my waking eyes and dreams.

Moon Knight is a spectacular character. It's got an incredibly unique visual look. Our job was to kind of put a lens on the things that had the most dramatic juice and ultimately take the mental health aspect incredibly seriously.

I am Steven. The way we're tackling the story, we learn about Steven and then learn about Mark. What's wrong with you, Mark?

Why did you call me Mark? And they're the same person.

Ethan Hawk, one of the elite hat guys. Yeah, always, always has a brilliant hat of our times. So Disney recently shared a press release for this series, Moon Knight, in which they stress that they're going to make sure to

accurately and responsibly depict dissociative identity disorder, which we've been saying is important. That's important to do.

It's really important to do. I'm very interested that they are sticking with the use of this terminology. I have had some very interesting conversations with people who have DID.

And it is a very specific mental health syndrome that is very much based in your childhood and the trauma you generated by trauma generated by traumatic childhood.

So I will be interested to see the route they go. I am glad that they want to treat it respectfully.

They have explored it recently in the comics as like explore the events that created. Yeah, marks DID. He witnessed something terrible. And this caused his consciousness to be traumatized.

And this is the result of this. How this interacts with the supernatural aspects. I think will be that's really the key will be really important.

So this is also they've they keep saying this is a standalone series, which I think translates to we don't have Oscar Isaacs locked down for numerous movies.

So we'll be interesting to see how this interacts with the rest of MCU's stuff.

I like the the terminology of standalone is very loaded slash meaningless in the MCU. It could mean that they don't have a good contract. It could mean that they're not sure how it's going to be received.

But I kind of like it in the terms of the mental health aspect because if they really want to commit to exploring that in a meaningful way that brings a kind of representation we haven't seen before, then they don't need to worry about deeply connecting it to the rest of it.

But I also think this is we've talked about this a little bit, but definitely seems like an inroad for Marvel horror. Yes.

So Moon Knight's first appearance was in the 70s series werewolf by night starring the incredibly named Jack Russell who was was a werewolf the werewolf by night as they say.

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