Main cast: Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Gravik), Charlayne Woodard (Priscilla), Killian Scott (Pagon), Dermot Mulroney (President Ritson), Christopher McDonald (Chris Stearns), Katie Finneran (Rosa), Emilia Clarke (G’iah), Olivia Colman (Sonya Falsworth), and Don Cheadle (James Rhodes/War Machine)
Director: Ali Selim
So, in the last few days before I sit down to write this review, show director Ali Selim told everyone that this show was entirely put together in the editing room. There was no proper story before shooting, scripts were always changed last minute, and the actors improvised a considerable number of their scenes as a result.
Gee, why am I not surprised? Now that Home wraps things up, Secret Invasion has zero plot movement, zero character development, and zero purpose aside from filling up a slot in the Disney+ catalog.
Oh, there are some spoilers here, but come on, there are more people watching reruns of 30-year old sitcoms than this show, so I don’t think I’d be breaking many people’s hearts by revealing them. What can I say? This one apparently is toe to toe against the green Abomination Rex to be the lowest rated MCU show on Disney+ to date, and that’s before we see the next train wreck coming out from the single-digit creativity bog of the diversity hires recruited for the MCU.
So, anyway, Mr Selim’s claims that there is no proper script rings true because this episode wraps crap up like bored and tired staff at McDonald’s one hour before closing flinging together Big Macs with all the vehemence they can muster.
Nick Fury doesn’t do anything the whole season, and he does just as much here. What’s the point of even having him here? Talos could have easily been the main protagonist.
Why isn’t Nick bringing together the rest of the superheroes against the Skrulls wanting to take over the world again? Well, aside from budget and how people will run faster and scream louder in the opposite direction if they threw in the current MCU roster, that is, there’s really no good reason.
This means, yay, G’iah gets to DNA up herself and now she has the powers of every Avenger out there as well as Thanos and god knows who else and no, I am not joking. How I wish I am!
Anyway, she’s now the most powerful being in the universe! She even gets to beat down Gravik like that, because this show ultimately is all about her, yay.
Of course, Gravik is useless because after posturing and scowling all season, he goes down like a wimp because nobody can beat an overpowered strong woman in Disney-verse these days, and every woman is an overpowered Mary Sue because a woman can only be strong if she had been handed everything and her opponents whittled down to imbecile tier—easy mode, in other words, because that’s how Disney views women these days.
So, what have we witnessed in this season?
The bad Skrulls want to take over Earth and… wait, by the end of this episode, they’re still planning to do that. Guess I’ll have to wait to see the G’iah, Super-est Skrull-est Skrull Ever show to find out, should I sustain enough brain damage to be eager to do so.
Nick came back to Earth, weary and confused and tired, and he leaves Earth again by the end of this episode as a weary, confused, and tired old man, presumably on his way to the retirement home in space. What’s the point of him being here in the first place?
Oh, and they find and rescue Rhodey, so the true casualties of this series are Maria Hill—I hope the five people that cared would heal—and Talos. Then again, we are in the multiverse zone, baby, so who’s to say they won’t just pull some versions of these two out of some gaping rectum of a magic portal when they need to?
It’s now very clear that the present day MCU is wish-fulfillment fan fiction by supposed adults using their job as therapy couches and an outlet for their revenge fantasies.
If the Hollywood writer’s strike at the moment will keep them away from “working” and force studios to cancel their current half-done work, yes, then I support that strike 900%! Keep it going for as long as possible, please!
Secret Invasion is a pointless, utter waste of time that assassinates the hell out of Nick Fury, grinding his cool factor into a soggy pulp, and the whole thing exists just to let Emilia Clarke play the most-est, best-est ever-est strong female in the whole galaxy.
Wait, isn’t Captain Marvel supposed to be the most easy mode Sue awesome strong independent woman in the MCU? Did Brie Larson fall out of favor or something?
Hmm, so who will win in a cage match to the death? She or Emilia Clarke?
Ah, who cares. Whoever wins doesn’t matter, as viewers of the death throes phase of the MCU will always remain the losers.
