In Episode 3, the show replaced the opening track a second time, marking the first time a series has done this twice. Moon Knight, too, replaced the expected Marvel opener track in the premiere with “A Man Without Love” by Engelbert Humperdinck, marking one of the few times a Disney+ series has strayed from the typical Marvel theme song. Black Widow opened with a cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” replacing the usual Marvel fanfare Eternals played Pink Floyd’s “Time” from the Dark Side of the Moon album over the opening credits. It’s not the first time Marvel has leaned into classic rock in the past year. Moon Knight’s first episode starts with a cold open set to a lesser-known classic rock track from the early 1980s and follows it up with a pop ballad clearly from the pre-Beatles era of rock and roll. Warning: Minor spoilers for Moon Knight follow. Even the songs on Moon Knight’s Season 1 soundtrack help blend American and Middle Eastern cultures with bangers from both. (The other two, both The Guardians of the Galaxy films, were ensembles headed up by, you guessed it, a white straight man.) Phase 4 is working to correct this both on the big and small screen, such as with Moon Knight, a Middle East-set story starring Oscar Isaac, who is of Latin American descent. The series of big-screen films started out playing it safe, with white, straight, male superheroes starring for 15 of its first 17 films. Every two weeks, we have to look in the opposite direction to see the Moon, and the ground beneath our feet is then tilted the opposite way as well.Kevin Feige, CEO of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has made it clear he’s aware that MCU has a diversity problem. The tilted ramp works the same as the tilted “platform” of the Earth beneath our feet. If you turn around, the horizon appears to tilt the opposite way. In front of you, the horizon looks higher on the right and lower on the left. Earth has a tilt of 23.5 degrees on its axis, which means that when we observe the Moon from Earth, it’s a little like we’re standing sideways on a ramp. The tilt of the Moon’s orbit contributes to this, but it’s mostly due to the tilt of our Earth. We call this motion “libration in latitude.”įinally, the Moon appears to tilt back and forth like a metronome. The 5 degree tilt of the Moon’s orbit also causes it to appear to nod, as though it were saying “yes.” The tilt sometimes brings the Moon above Earth’s northern hemisphere, and sometimes below Earth’s southern hemisphere, allowing us to see slightly more of the northern or southern hemispheres of the Moon. We call this motion “libration in longitude.” When the Moon is farthest from Earth and orbiting at its slowest, its rotation gets a little ahead, and we see a bit more of its western side. When the Moon is at its closest to Earth and moving most quickly along its orbital path, the Moon itself doesn’t rotate quite fast enough to keep entirely the same side facing us, and we get to see a little more of the eastern side of the Moon. The Moon’s rate of rotation around its own axis, though, always stays the same. Because the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular, its distance from Earth and its speed in orbit both change slightly throughout the month.
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