Why the Moon Knight finale underwhelmed me

So, like, Ammit growing larger and larger was due to her eating souls, right? But then Khonshu just appears and he's that giant as well. So, like, how? Does their size really matter? 

Okay, so what was the point of the giant monsters/gods fighting each other? Because it looks cool is the answer, because plot wise it really doesn't do anything. There's no stakes. We're not told or know what the consequences will be if giant Ammit does beat giant Khonshu. Plus, going back to the first paragraph here, their giant-ness doesn't really matter because they don't affect their environment or anything. And do people see them? If their fight had consequences or stakes the scene would be a lot better because it would actually matter, instead of just being there to look cool.

To fix it there should have been some sort of stakes attached. Like, a time limit before Ammit becomes too powerful to be stopped, based on the number of souls she collects. Which, once again, was really weird. So Harrow gets the Ammit statue, but then just waits to break it open? And then after Ammit is released, what then? We know it's bad, but why? We don't really get to see the consequences of it besides some of Harrow's followers run around Cairo grabbing people's arms and judging them? Could that not have happened before? Won't it take weeks and weeks just to get to every person in that one city, much less the world? 

This stuff isn't explained. It's not like they didn't have time to explain it; episode six was the shortest. The reason I don't think episode six works is because the stakes and consequences and time pressure are not very well established to the audience. Or they don't make sense (like Harrow's followers having to run around the entire city grabbing everyone's arms). As a result, there's a bunch of cool action, but all the build up just falls flat. (Oh no! They'll release Ammit! That means, uh, that bad things will happen, uh, faster ? ? ?)

As one person online stated, and I agree with, the post-credits scene was the best part of the whole episode and overshadows the episode itself. I liked that part.

And before the credits Marc/Steven just wakes up in bed and I'm like, uh, where's his wife? Why is his leg still tied to the bed? But mostly the where's Layla question. That bugged me.

So that's my opinion. Good action scenes, cool characters, I like how Harrow was all bad-a at the end, and Layla getting powers was kinda cool but nothing was really built out of that, and the stakes and time constraints weren't well established, so there really wasn't any tension. 

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

Found one book from our childhood, looking for another

I finally found it! After all these years! The scroll of truth! Posting your political opinions on Facebook doesn't change anyone's mind. Nyehhh! 

But in all actuality, I did finally find it after all these years of searching.  Eric made a blog post a while ago with things from our/his childhood that he fuzzily remembers but couldn't quite pin down. LINK to that blog post. The #6 entry is as follows: Mid-to-late ‘90s-early-to-mid ‘00s. It was like a Usborne puzzle book, full-page full-color illustrations each spread containing its own puzzle, kind of deal, though I remember it being significantly fancier and more difficult. It was separated into different sections/periods in which the story takes place; there was a medieval period, an Underground Railroad period, a future period with aliens, etc. I remember one chapter in the Underground Railroad section was named Midnight Rendezvous, because I had no idea what a rendezvous was or how it was pronounced. At the end it turned out that all the sections interconnected to tell a single story, and one artifact from one time period turned out to be a macguffin from a different time period under a different name, that kind of thing.

Well, I was also really curious because I too remember this one. Every so often I would try to find it and search it up online, with no hits. Until last week.

That's right my friends, I finally found it. It is called the Usborne Book of Superpuzzles. (The Midnight Rendezvous puzzle is on page 100 btw.)

I can now check that off the list. 

I tried looking for the other ones on Eric's list, but haven't been able to locate any more.

Here's a book from my childhood that I want to find: It was a children's book that was all black and white illustrations, reminds me of Chris Van Allsburg illustrations. It was a Halloween book about some trick or treaters that went into an old house and it was bigger inside and one page there was a door on a small island in the middle of a giant ocean and the door was non-Euclidean because if you looked at the backside it was normal but if you looked through the frontside a giant staircase rose up. And the kids at the end eventually meet with the real monsters that were running the place and they hung out and laughed and watched as other kids entered into the house before they left. Anyone know what book this is? I've been trying to find it but can't.