Secret Invasion: Episodes 4 - 6 ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2025-03-08 16:00:12 +0000 UTCAnd here's the last half of the show! (No judging from me if you only watch the review at the end 😏) I do think that this series suffered from a lot of the same criticisms that I've had about some of the other series that have been done for these phases. Ultimately, I just wish this had been better than it was. [Direct link here.]
Up next is Loki Season 2, which I am very excited for!
Please enjoy!
✦ KL
Comments
Same way Captain America used his perfectly without training.
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2025-03-10 23:14:16 +0000 UTCThis is the last of the Marvel shows that, I believe, doesn't have a proper showrunner. They ran all of their shows up until this point as committees, and they realized that wasn't working (Wandavision and Loki as the possible exceptions). This show has a lot of interesting things in it: Nick Fury, Skrulls etc., but comes out as a bland paste rather than the dynamic flavorful show it should have been. This is, for me, among the weakest offerings Marvel has made. Agatha and now Daredevil: Born Again are the first shows with showrunners, and it shows. Note: The Netflix shows and AOS had proper showrunners as did the various Fox produced mutant shows like The Gifted and Legion. It was the Marvel studio shows that did not up until recently.
Nicholas Bielik
2025-03-09 00:49:10 +0000 UTCHere is a interesting detail about the location of the DNA Fury took from the Avengers battle. He hid it at his fake gravestone. In AOS he also hid the project Tahiti files in Coulson's grave so a similar connection there. Project Tahiti and the program in this series are very similar. The use of DNA of a kree to help Coulson may have inspired Fury to collect more DNA to use when he needed it.
Christopher simeon
2025-03-08 20:08:33 +0000 UTCHaha no offense taken at all!
kaiielle
2025-03-08 20:00:01 +0000 UTCSo I gotta admit I skipped your reactions to this and just went straight to your review. 😅 And you hit the nail on the head with your thoughts there. Really the reason I didn't want to sit through the entire reactions is just 'cause the show is boring AF, interspersed with dumb or frustrating writing decisions. I like "hanging out" with you and watching along with your reactions. But even your bored reaction can't make a boring show any less boring, no offense. 😂🤣 That final battle makes absolutely no damn logical sense, I cannot believe how Feige let that go past him. Genuinely, the vast majority of the abilities they use in that battle are either based on magic, weaponry/equipment, or some outside energy force like Quantum energy (Ghost), Tesseract energy (Cpt. Marvel) or Gamma radiation (Hulk). How would DNA give you any of that? And like you mentioned, even for the innate powers, how can they just immediately use them perfectly without training?
Onno Smits
2025-03-08 19:45:47 +0000 UTCGoing to do a thought dump before watching the review (as I won't be home for a few hours I), so apologies if you cover some of this (which I feel is likely based on your post). Also, apologies if this posts twice - Patreon app is messing about. Overall, Secret Invasion was just bad: story wasn't great; multiple unnecessary deaths - Maria Hill and Talos in particular; pointless 'cliff-hangers' that were obviously not going to stick; bland characters (with a couple of exceptions) that don't feel worth caring about; a general lack of attention to the kinds of little details that they used to care about - something I noticed immediately during the flashbacks in London was that they didn't bother correcting the skyline to be correct for the time frame, which they did for Avengers tower in NY for example; and *yet another* "oh, we need a big CGI fight in the finale" to round things off. There were a couple of things I liked - the relationship between Talos and Fury was great, but then they killed Talos off, so... (actually, were there as many as two things I liked? 🤔) For the majority of the show, it didn't feel like there were any stakes. Virtually no attempts at creating tension/paranoia about who might be a Skrull, in fact quite the opposite - seemed like plenty of people already somehow *knew* everyone who had and hadn't been replaced. AoS did this *much* better during *just* 1x17! All in all, it left me more and more convinced that no-one in Marvel Studios actually knows how to write TV series - I don't think any of the Disney+ shows that I've seen have come close to what Marvel Television were able to create. Admittedly I haven't seen much of the MCU post Phase 3, but I definitely get a vibe from the MCU now that the comics are 'The Best Thing EverTM' and must be treated as gospel rather than inspiration, no matter how stupid and nonsensical the aspects and storylines they're now 'adapting' are. It seems there's no longer any allowance for keeping things plausible (or at least consistent) within the framework that had been set up over the first three phases.
Sean Ellingham
2025-03-08 16:54:20 +0000 UTCThere were some really good actors in this show. Wish they were given something better to do. Also excited for Loki next.
Joe
2025-03-08 16:30:16 +0000 UTCI'm way behind on reactions, but I will say that a common complaint is that Agents of SHIELD did Secret Invasion better than Secret Invasion did (several times).
Adam Nelson
2025-03-08 16:18:26 +0000 UTC
