Yeah, it’s been a good run, really. Of all the good things to potentially run its course, the MCU is definitely one with a lot less wasted potential than others.

I think this is less of a problem than you suspect. The original Skrulls were ‘handled’ by the Fantastic Four with hypnosis, when they were hypnotized by Reed Richards to become cows.

Best part of this show was Olivia Coleman. It’s not even a contest

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This show felt so cheap.

Unless they nerf her harder than anyone has ever nerfed anything or they pull some “the powers were only temporary” retcon, I genuinely don’t know how giving a brand new character no one has any attachment or investment in the combined powers of every single MCU hero AND villain doesn’t become a problem immediately.

Mar…

I wonder if Kevin Feige watches shows like this and actually thinks “this is good stuff!” or if he’s just phoning it in at this point. It’s hard to believe that the guy who engineered a decade’s worth of can’t-miss, smash hit films is signing off on this parade of blandly unremarkable MCU D+ series.

He gives a big old speech about how he was broken by having to kill one innocent person and the only way he can share his pain is to kill ALL of the innocent people and maybe a bunch of Skrulls?

The biggest sin this show committed was not ever justifying its own existence.

I hate the argument that MCU movies are just commercials for the next MCU movie, which is complete bullshit...but it’s sure seems true in this case. Secret Invasion only exists to set up Secret War, and there was nothing of note in this show…

Imagine if the whole story would have been about what happens after the presidents announcement. Spy stuff. Instead of... everything else we got.

I still hold that the show was actually written by AI and perhaps a very drunken editor. Some scenes almost felt like they lacked continuity. The performances were good and at times great. But there is no way on this earth that show was written by a human.

I watched the first 2 episodes, they didn’t grab me and I didn’t bother with the rest. Seems like this show is a big stinker. 

Marvel is increasingly showing this weird habit of taking really high-minded modern ideas and then sanitizing them so they’re toothless or demonizing them to the point that the ideas themselves are dangerous before throwing them away so no one can ever talk about them again. I think this has to be the worst, most…

The death of Maria Hill is even more pointless when you look at the role Vaara played.

Thank you for this write up. Now I don’t have to watch it. What a terrible disappointment.

The guy who came up with TAHITI as a fail safe for fallen Avengers ?

Marvel had a real opportunity here to break out of their box and lean into the obvious mystery/paranoia of a spy thriller. A chance to elevate themselves and the material above the normal. They ditched that and went back to the same tired well.

15 years ago I went back to the US to visit friends in Portland for a few months. It was a fun time for a lot of reasons, but the kid in me that started reading comics in the 70s and worked most of the 80's in a comic shop was over the moon about seeing Iron Man and Hulk on the big screen. The next 15 years were a…

Utter Shit Show . Fury was a waste .Who the fuck was this loser ? He sure wasn’t the Strategist 6 steps ahead of everyone we know.