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All hope for humanity rests on Fury's shoulders.
EPISODE RELEASE DATE RUNTIME CREDITS SCENE?
S01E06: Home July 26th, 2023 on Disney+ 37m None
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[-] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They wasted the Secret Invasion on this crap. We could have had a really cool mystery series that culminated into something grand, but instead they ran out of budget cuz they just wanted another mirror match CGI fight.

[-] scops@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So, can we talk about how the show just injected an incredibly overpowered character into the MCU in the last half of an episode of a series that not many people are watching?

Or how Fury's plan was to give the uber-mcguffin to someone else to give to the bad guy in the hopes that she could get super powered along with him and proceed to kill him on equal footing?

I wanted to like this show, but damn. Fury was a way better character before this started.

[-] Godric@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

:(

At least Olivia Coleman was a highlight

[-] thisisdee@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

She's amazing. Wasted on a mediocre show but hopefully we see her again soon.

[-] Tillyrblue@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

This was the first Marvel show that I disliked. Everything was so uninteresting and poorly done. That final Super Skrull battle was one of the worst fights in the MCU. They should’ve never compared this to Winter Soldier because it was far from it. Only good thing I can say about this show is how Sam Jackson managed to have a few good acting scenes with terrible scripts.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The bones of it were good. It was just so, so underbaked and half-assed. Like everything else, that big fight could have been great with just a few adjustments. Imagine if G'iah found him in the facility and secretly freed him, and he calls in the suit to even the odds just as Gravik looks about to win? Instead it's a quick battle with no well-defined stakes, that nobody sees.

The reveal that Ritson is a genocidal douche canoe could have been dropped earlier, giving Fury some conflict in whether he actually wants to save him or help him.

The confrontation between Gravik and Fury was really compelling, but again, it happened far too late to make any difference. Almost everything in this episode should have happened in episode 1, and then we could be playing out the consequences of it. Instead it's five episodes of buildup to a nothingburger, with the implications of major consequences we don't get to see until - when? The Marvels? Unlikely. Brave New World? Maybe, but then why bother with this series at all? Just for a prologue to a big movie? What's the actual story here?

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

G'iah's greatest superpower is her ability to regenerate that amazing leather jacket after she's shredded the sleeves with her Hulk/Drax/Corvus/Groot arms.

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Haha. Also, seems like those relieved from pods have somehow grown anti-radiation powers?

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe the Skrulls have some way of blocking the radiation. It wouldn't do for their victims to melt just when they needed to do a mental download to maintain their cover.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 0 points 1 year ago

This show was underwhelming.

[-] Wooly@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I never got passed ep 2 but this doesn't fill me with confidence in watching the rest. Why does everything marvel make now have to be a big nothing burger?

[-] Ducks@ducks.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Marvel has been really missing the mark on their television shows and many of the recent movies. They really need to take some time and reevaluate before damaging the brand. I don't believe in super hero fatigue but I do believe in bad content fatigue.

[-] thisisdee@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The show feels like it's...half done. Like the Secret Invasion is basically just about 1 Skrull who wants war? It's supposed to be invasion in our whole lives right? How about all the Skrulls who've been in society and high in government? Was that not the invasion that we were supposed to watch? Who cares about this Gravik guy really...

I don't understand Ritson's response at the end. War...against aliens on earth? Shouldn't people be somewhat comfortable by now with aliens on earth? Are they gonna try to kill Thor next time he's on earth? And he says "we know how to find you" even though they really don't? The only thing that I thought might make sense is if he's also a Skrull somehow but is he just another dumbass human president? And Fury fucks off back to space when the war is started by humans now? As long as it's not a Skrull starting it I guess a war is fine...

[-] canthidium@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Well that was...something. Felt so rushed. That super Skrull fight was just a mess. Why is there never any Secret Service or any staff besides Rhodey around the president? He seems like he could be killed any time. And I guess Secret Wars is kicked off because the president said he will kill every Skrull. Like, that's it? This is how Secret Wars gets started? Just feels silly and basic. At this point I'm only watching these shows so I know the setup for the upcoming movies. Very underwhelming and disappointing.

[-] MHPengwingz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That was a complete waste of time and I'm pretty sure there's a better way to set the world on fire. This was the one series that I was looking forward to and I must say was truly a disappointment. The last two episodes should've been released as one, though not sure it would've been better. The writing was lazy throughout and all over the place, I mean who the hell leaves cliffhangers using a death of a major character almost every episode? Who the hell at Marvel Studios vetted the scripts?

How does this tie into the Multiverse?!!

The only positive is Sonya Falsworth, and I'm just praying some other show or film will come along to use this character properly.

[-] Catpocalypse@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Just finished up and I liked the spy thriller premise but it does rank lowest in my D+ series ranking. The entire thing feels like a setup, but for... (fill in the blank with not a waste of time at some point in the future please)?

Ritson's response is painfully USian, so it tracked for me, but it's like globally, aliens aren't a new concept so... Why?

So daft that you can't somehow differentiate between good aliens and bad aliens and given that the globe is already dealing with the blip fallout and repatriation efforts a million seems like such a miniscule number, so, who cares?

G'iah as super-super-super powered individual seems too much to me, even as I was accepting that Gravik had cracked the ability to get some powers, it still wasn't an end all be all issue. Now you've introduced some potential meta-threat that's just tacked on the end of one of the weaker D+ series and for what? Like what is going to be done with this character or is she just going to be shuffled off and sidelined?

I don't like the way that the series just did away with established characters (Hill especially, Talos because wholesome AF, liked him) so casually, though. Like the deaths felt they lacked any real weight to them. They felt like just things.

I do like Varra. So, so much I like her. I doubt she'll ever show up again but for what it's worth, I like her.

I feel for the Skull plight. I just wish that they'd gotten better than this. Surely there is more to it than Gravik vs. Talos/Fury.

Maybe whatever it's setting up will make it something I want to watch again in the future, but for now, sadly, one watch was enough.

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