Secret Invasion is the latest (ninth) Marvel Studios television miniseries on Disney+, based on the Marvel Comics storyline of the same name. It follows Nick Fury and his allies, who attempt to thwart a Skrull invasion of Earth. Talos uncovers a conspiracy by a group of renegade Skrulls led by Gravik to gain control of Earth by assuming positions of power across the world, recruiting Nick Fury to stop it and save humanity.
It's not a bad show so far. Gotta keep watching before I can give a better opinion. Once all six episodes are out I'll do a full review of the series. If something big happens in episode 3 I'll do a midseason review.
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Secret Invasion
(Episode Premiere Review)
Normally we don't do episode reviews for TV Shows but since the media has been talking so poorly, I wanted to try and give a more honest & less hivemind review since everyone is calling it slow and such.
My Thoughts: So like a standard Marvel Disney Plus show so far. The first episode gives you the bare minimum of everything and a lot of questions that were semi-answered but won't fully be answered til episode 3 (usually something important happens in the third episode out of six) or 4.
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-Where did all the Skrulls come from? Didn't Captain Marvel fly them all into outer space to find them a new home at the end of her movie? I'm aware of them from Far From Home & Wandavision but I thought some came back to help Fury build an alliance between the two worlds. Did Carol bring them all back to Earth at some point? Or were there only a few on Earth and they just been popping Lil Skrulls left and right? Is Gravik the "missing Skrull" from Captain Marvel and pulled a Norman Osborn on Talos' wife years ago? Anyway, enough rambling...
-I don't like the intro opening. Total waste of audience time and Disney money.
-Everett Ross being a Skrull. How long has he been a Skrull? Was he a Skrull in Wakanda Forever or after? I assume we'll find out later.
-Sorry for the negativity but I gotta keep it real. I still dislike Rodney. I have no respect for him because he's a straight-up Uncle Tom in the MCU. He's quick to turn his back on his friends and comrades for the government knowing how corrupt they are. I still wish he had died in Civil War. He has no loyalty to the people who have his back.
-The whole transformation in and out of sight is stupid (and possibly scary) because you're surrounded by people and no one else saw you transform. It's possibly scary because no one notices nor cares could mean the whole townspeople are Skrulls.
-That ending 😭😭😭
-Lastly is one of The Avengers still a Skrull? Years ago (I think before Civil War) Feige said one of them has been a Skrull since the first Avengers film. I'm not sure if Feige reneged on that as he did on everything else.
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Episode Story: In Moscow, Talos pursues Everett K. Ross for killing C.I.A. Agent Prescod, who theorized Skrull rebels are plotting to start a war between Russia and the United States. Maria Hill arrives to extract Ross, but discovers he is a Skrull and calls Nick Fury. Returning to Earth to meet with Talos, Fury learns Talos has been exiled from the Skrull Council and former ally Gravik has taken a leadership position with the rebels. Fury is kidnapped by MI6 agents and taken to meet his old acquaintance, Sonya Falsworth. He proposes an alliance to stop Gravik, but she refuses. Using a bug to eavesdrop on her and the Prime Minister, Fury, Hill, and Talos locate another rebel, Vasily Poprishchin, but Fury kills Poprishchin after he whoops Talos's ass. Talos reunites with his daughter G'iah, who acquired dirty bombs for the rebels. After he claims Gravik killed her mother, Soren, G'iah reveals the rebels' plan to attack Vosstaniya Square on Unity Day (November 4th) and marks the bombs' locations. However, Fury, Hill, and Talos discover the locations are decoys before Gravik detonates the bombs.