r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Mar 30 '22

Discussion Thread Moon Knight S01E01 - Discussion Thread

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Now let's see what the hell that fish was about.

EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E01: The Goldfish Problem Mohamed Diab Jeremy Slater March 30th, 2022 on Disney+ 47 min None

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers Mar 30 '22

Poor Steven. My heart broke for him at the steak restaurant. His face just screams "oh god I ruined another thing in my life, stupid stupid."

And I always expect waiters or retail people to be comically shitty in media so it's nice the waiter was nice.

Also Steven is the guy excited for the Avatar sequels apparently. Maybe he'll find time to watch Avatar the anime too.

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u/CubedSquare95 Mar 31 '22 edited Apr 02 '22

The best/worst part is because he is a vegan and doesn’t understand meat, he unintentionally ordered the most expensive cut of burnt steak you could order.

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u/Jajanken- Apr 02 '22

That actually hurt me lmao

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u/CubedSquare95 Apr 02 '22

I promise those chefs were talking mad shit about him too lmao! A well done filet mignon… the disrespect. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just went medium well and assume the customer didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about (which would be true hahaha)

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u/drrhrrdrr Apr 03 '22

It's likely a cut someone returned to the kitchen and they just put it back on to cook for... a while.

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u/yolotheunwisewolf Apr 03 '22

Yup noticed that, the reality of how he ruined the food completely for that price just felt as heartbreaking as the scene itself.

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u/ImAHardWorkingLoser Apr 01 '22

Could you please explain that bit about the steak? We don't eat that, where I'm from

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u/CubedSquare95 Apr 01 '22 edited Apr 01 '22

He ordered a center cut filet, or a filet mignon, which is the leanest and most delicate cut of steak you can order. So it’s the most expensive cut as well. Then when asked how he wanted it done, you have a gradient from least to most cooked, going from rare, med rare, med, med well, and well done. Rare is close to raw and well done is close to burning all the juices out. The rarer the more juicy, and people have their preferences. But the idea that you would get a filet mignon, the most expensive and leanest cut, and get it well done, is sacrilege because you are burning and drying out everything that makes a cut of steak like that so desired. So he ordered the chef to burn the most expensive steak they have and serve it up.

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u/GaeasCradles Apr 03 '22

Just want to add that HE didn't order it well done. The waiter decided to give him well done. He was babbling and just said "good, very good" which is incoherent, the waiter said "...I'll put you down for well done". Any waiter worth his salt when would at most give him a medium.

Well done fillet is like chewing fibrous jerky.

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u/OedipusIsComplex Apr 04 '22

That waiter is among the most sinister characters we've come across in the MCU.

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u/scaredandconfussled Apr 05 '22

People get real uppity if you don't eat steak the way they like it

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u/Antrikshy Mar 31 '22

Was he established as a vegan in this episode or are you talking about the comics or Oscar Isaac himself?

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u/RarBlack Mar 31 '22

He was established as one , when he finds out he has a date his manger ( I assume she is his manager) says why is a vegan taking the woman out to a steak house

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u/totokekedile Kilgrave Mar 31 '22

Right after the woman tells him they have a date scheduled, his boss questions why Steven, supposedly a vegan, would ask someone out to a steakhouse.

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u/JonathanL73 Weekly Wongers Mar 30 '22

Poor Steven. My heart broke for him at the steak restaurant. His face just screams "oh god I ruined another thing in my life, stupid stupid."

Lol Steven is very relatable to me in that moment

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u/MiloReyes-97 Mar 30 '22

"oh god I ruined another thing in my life, stupid stupid

Fuck me man don't make me relatable to me 🥲

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u/Double___Dragon Mar 31 '22

Not an anime. /s

And he did reference the show! I was laughing so I barely heard it myself lol

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u/Stevenerf Winter Soldier Mar 30 '22

The waiter was comically shitty. "Well done, sir" is not a response to a, "good steak"

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers Mar 30 '22

Look it's closing, he has to pick a steak for a dude who clearly knows nothing about steak, and doesn't want him going "oh my steak looks like it's not cooked enough. Can I get another?"

He is doing his best.

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u/Stevenerf Winter Soldier Mar 30 '22

Yea a well done steak ordered during closing is a quick way to get a line cook to go full Moon Knight on the guests and wait staff

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Weekly Wongers Mar 30 '22

Line cooks out there, I'm curious if the cook time between a well done and a rare steak would make a difference to you.

I'm actually curious now.

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u/illadelphia_ Mar 30 '22

I mean there is a difference but it’s more so just an extra slap in the face after the sound of the ticket machine 5 minutes before close already almost gave me an aneurysm.

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u/WOAHdude0197 Mar 31 '22

Will smith cooks in your kitchen?

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u/beardsbeerbattleaxes Mar 31 '22

Restaurants are known to give customers the worst cuts of meat for folks who order it well done.

It's a waste

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u/giggling_hero Mar 30 '22

You butterfly and throw it in the fryer.

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u/interfail Mar 30 '22

I assume the waiter organised it all in plenty of time.

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u/damn_jexy Ant-Man Mar 31 '22

Here is your ketchup to go with well done steak.

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u/hascogrande Mar 31 '22

Yeah, might as well have brought out ketchup as well

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u/alldogsaremen Mar 31 '22

I don’t know how nice the waiter was. He gave Steven a center cut filet mignon cooked WELL DONE. He’s the true villain of the show.

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u/beardsbeerbattleaxes Mar 31 '22

All I could think was who the fuck wrote this scene?!

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u/etherside Mar 31 '22

Someone that understands what it is like to deal with customers

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Bro. Service people arent out to fuck you over.

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u/etherside Apr 02 '22

I didn’t say they were. The waiter recognized that the customer wouldn’t appreciate a medium rare steak, and would probably return anything that was “raw” looking to the now closed kitchen. And since the customer clearly didn’t care and didn’t know what they want, well done was the safest bet.

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u/Tom_Brokaw_is_a_Punk Mar 31 '22

so it's nice the waiter was nice.

The waiter brought him the most expensive steak they had well done. He was the biggest asshole of the episode.

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u/beardsbeerbattleaxes Mar 31 '22

He should be asked politely but firmly to leave

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u/iceman0c Mar 31 '22

Lol my thoughts exactly

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u/Venom1462 Daredevil Mar 31 '22

It was nice hearing a Last Airbender reference in the mcu but "anime" ouch that hurt.

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u/beardsbeerbattleaxes Mar 31 '22

The waiter was an absolute monster, he recommended the steak WELL DONE!

If I was his boss and heard that go down I'd ask him politely but firmly to leave.

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u/etherside Mar 31 '22

He didn’t recommend it. He recognized that the man in front of him knew nothing of steak and would probably not appreciate anything that looked “raw”.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Yea man everyone in this thread is taking it from the perspective of a person that eats steak or meat. He doesn't eat meat and maybe even told the waiter that with some small talk or whatever. Waiter did him a solid, a vegan is absolutely going to be grossed out by a "bloody" steak. And at least a well-done filet will still be tender albeit not good for a steak eater.

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u/etherside Mar 31 '22

I’m also positive that they wrote this scene specifically to piss off steak people. Drives up the viewer engagement online

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u/sconeperson Apr 02 '22

Steakhouses very typically have more than steak so it’s weird. Made me think this was all his imagination or something

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Which is weird because service people are shat on all the time.