Moon Knight finally tries to tell a different kind of Marvel story

polygon.com:

Surprise: Moon Knight is a story about gods. In its third episode, “The Friendly Type,” the series widens its scope considerably, bringing Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) and everyone in his head on a trip to Egypt, where, among other things, we find out that the Egyptian pantheon is real, and they all hate Khonshu.

It’s a turn increasingly common in a Marvel Cinematic Universe that’s starting to contemplate the divine, fromEternals’ exploration of its everlasting heroes’ relationship with their Celestial creators, to Shang-Chi’s hidden land of folkloric magic, and Loki’s continuity-worshiping time cops. As this phase of the MCU moves in directions beyond the Avengers, it’s exploring the idea of heroes and villains as avatars for otherworldly cosmic forces, agents in a divine chess match where the players are shrouded in mystery and frustratingly indirect.

That’s especially true when it comes to Moon Knight’s version of the Egyptian gods. Much like the Eternals, they’ve taken an oath of non-interference in human affairs. However, unlike the Eternals, they’re not even present on Earth, instead inhabiting a plane of existence known as the Othervoid. They’d be completely absent if not for their practice of choosing avatars — human stand-ins that observe the world for them — mostly to make sure their domains remain unperturbed and the true nature of the gods remain hidden. Therefore, it’s not unusual that Khonshu (voiced by F. Murray Abraham), the moon god, has chosen Marc Spector to do his work, but it is unusual that this work is so direct. However, when Spector — who is now in control, with occasional interference from Steven — is summoned to a tribunal by the other avatars, we learn that Khonshu is the other gods’