I think Brendan Jeffers should get a shout here as the doomed Ensign Inman. His two scenes with Babs Olusanmokun were highlights for me.

And hey, Cliff Howard sighting! 

It’s anger that makes him hulk, not chugging red bull.

Germain’s right — there’s only one way to stop somebody with G’iah’s level of power:

I think there’s room there to give Rhodey a story that’s really his — the man unstuck in time, in a sense. Doubly so given the ramifications of the Blip. But that would mean having more confidence in Marvel than I’m willing to summon at this point.

The feeling that’s stuck with me about this episode was how rushed it felt — like that last flurry of writing when you had to hand in an essay at school. Get as many points in as you can and hand it in at the bell.

I’m glad Kingsley Ben-Adir got to go into more of Gravik’s motivations (such as they were), but the final…

I can see the Kree-Skrull stuff being mentioned in The Marvels, what with Fury back on the station by then.

with the help of Sonya, who is apparently just a straight-up good guy despite all of the mean stuff she seemed to be doing earlier.

FWIW Mejia is claiming that the city found no “significant” damage

Trailer looks good; Really the biggest reason I’m sticking it out with Secret Invasion is to see what kind of deal Fury cuts besides retaining his job on the station in time for these events. 

You may not get all of her powers, but presumably whoever’s using it is hoping to be able to shoot energy out of their hands. Or at least to be better at karaoke. 

To me the implication was that Thanos chose that as a retreat/retirement gift to himself once “the work was done.” But now that you mention it him running afoul of the local HOA is a missed opportunity for banter. 

This new ‘driver immediately reminded me a little of the one Eleven used, at least going by the replica I own:

I would’ve preferred if the gravestone showed a flight of various DNA samples in shot glasses, like you get at urbane craft beer joints. 

I don’t think it’s a show-turning revelation, but it is fair to point out that it’s maybe the first instance of Fury visibly tapping resources outside of his immediate circle of friends in this story, contrary to everybody believing he’s utterly washed. But I have to be honest, this response is disappointing; this…

I can’t say I hate it. But I can say, as somebody who’s enjoyed the MCU up to this point, it’s falling short for me and not because it’s not “realistic.” Thus far it’s a weird fit for where the MCU is at this point post-Blip; the spy caper, to me, is actually less interesting than the hidden history of Earth’s Skrull…

I feel like as a whole, the series might have been better off if it had started with Gravik searching for the Harvest. A flashback to the collection would’ve helped establish his motives better before going into his issues with Fury. 

Gravik calls Fury as he’s heading onto a private plane, which is being flown by… his brother? Possibly? What the fuck?? Why?? What’s happening?? No answer, again!

Olivia Colman seems to be the only person on this show having fun, so I’m glad for that at least. 

Yeah, I have to say I wasn’t annoyed by the Illuminati getting taken out — I wasn’t happy about it, but it made sense in showing the hubris of that particular group. It didn’t do anything to diminish Atwell’s What If run, either.

This story should open with Cyclops coming to a podium and announcing that the X-Men have acquired Kamala in exchange for the rights to whoever got the least votes in the last team election.