"Secret Invasion" How Did This Pass?

 


    Can someone genuinely explain to me what was the purpose of this film? I feel like the entire set up could have easily been an hour spinoff that would have had more emotional gravity than whatever this six episode mini-series is. I mean it's not offensive, it's just unoffensive, and that's been the issue with Marvel recently. Like, I can't legitimately remember any moment from this TV show, or any meaningful way it changed any of the characters included.

    Like, the premise is quite literally that Skrulls are living among humans, but then you learn that they pretty much just act like how the humans do, and the only one really doing anything is the Rhodey Skrull, who just ends up putting a giant target on the back of the Skrulls. What is the point of them being shapeshifters? You learn nothing about their struggle, just big shows of power that ultimately amount to nothing, it's genuinely pathetic. How can you set up this big bad villain, only to have them do absolutely nothing. in the end. I mean Gravik is only there for a fight scene in the final episode, which is a messy cgi fest with two indiscernible "super skrulls".

    I mean pretty much the only part of the show I enjoyed was Nick Fury, and even then I thought his character was done so so poorly. I mean it was basically an excuse to show off Samuel L. Jackson, and while I do love him, his character undergoes absolutely no change, and in fact the most interesting piece of info fans learn about him is that he has a skrull wife. Like I kid you not you hear that he's washed, and that he's been away, and you only learn why at the very end. He felt helpless, and he was relieved to actually be free, which explains absolutely nothing and these two interesting philosophies are abandoned as soon as they are introduced in favour of "yeah, Rhodey's a skrull, isn't that scary?"

    If I'm being honest the show fails to introduce or set up anything. How hard is it for them to say in the first 10 minutes of a movie "we are at war against the skrulls" because all that's happened is that there's some mass paranoia. None of the characters are even going to show up again, Gravik is dead, so Gi'ah is there and overpowered, Fury is once again off planet, what was the point of this damn show. I mean I barely gave it the attention it deserved so I don't feel too bad, but gosh this show was genuinely such a giant load of nothing.

Final Score: 30/100

    It isn't actually as bad as other 30's, but it just wasted so much of my time it deserves a score that much. Everything felt lifeless, like the only scene that almost made me say something was the final scene of Gravik where he begins yelling at the fake fury. Surely this has to be a money laundering scheme who actually greenlights any of these projects anymore Kevin Feige is hilariously washed he needs to take a big step back.


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